{"id":18993,"date":"2021-10-21T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-224\/18993\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:18:13","slug":"transatlantic-cable-podcast-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-224\/18993\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 224"},"content":{"rendered":"

To open the 224th<\/sup> episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable<\/em> podcast<\/a>, Ahmed, Dave, and I discuss the targeting of researchers by some state-backed hackers.<\/p>\n

We first mentioned this story a few months back, but this week we\u2019re rekindling the debate on researchers being targeted after Twitter banned some phishing accounts. From there, we head into our first quiz \u2014 spoiler alert, Dave and I fall victim to Ahmed\u2019s trickery.<\/p>\n

We then welcome Maria Namestnikova, head of GReAT Russia, to discuss how parents can educate their kids on using social media securely.<\/p>\n

From there, we move on to some REvil weirdness. The gang has seen the keys for its Tor sites stolen and some signs of instability. It\u2019s since gone offline \u2014 again!<\/p>\n

For our third story, we stay with ransomware, for which US financial institutions report having paid about $600 million in the first six months of 2020.<\/p>\n

Then, it\u2019s on to another quiz. We just can\u2019t get enough.<\/p>\n

The next item on the docket is a teaser to a podcast coming this weekend with Allison Pytlak of the Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) to discuss the need for more gender diversity in infosec. To close out our podcast, we discuss a Wales school system that is enabling facial recognition for kids buying lunch.<\/p>\n

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