NewsJacker August 2018: Black Hat, Smart City Vulnerabilities, Election Security, and Nation States

The August Episode of NewsJacker is here!

In this month's NewsJacker episode, Mike covers the InfoSec news you need to know.

Intro & Company News

• CI Security Director of Offensive Security Training at DEFCON*
• The Proposal for the “Space Force”
• CI Security Is Growing, with 53 FTEs and Counting…

Security

• Black Hat 2018: Widespread Critical Flaws Found in Smart-City Gear
• Researcher Finds Hundreds of Planes Exposed to Remote Attacks
• Active Campaign Exploits Critical Apache Struts 2 Flaw in the Wild

Privacy, Surveillance (and Elections)

• Facebook Takes Down Pages Suspected in Election Influence Campaign
• Doctored Videos Could Send Fake News Crisis into Overdrive, Lawmakers Warn

Government/Military

• New DHS Center to Address Cyber Gaps
• U.S. Charges North Korean Operative in Conspiracy to Hack Sony Pictures, Banks
• International Telegram Traffic Took a Detour through Iran with BGP Injected Route 

Bonus: Mike's View

• How Nation States’ Invasive Policies on PII and Surveillance Will Likely Impact International Treaties, Network Traffic, and Commerce in the Future

*Jeremy Johnson’s DEFCON26 Weapons Training for the Empire course materials are available to download for free on GitHub.