This week on Hacker And The Fed a Danish cloud provider loses all of their customer's data, a hacker in custody continues hacking through a fire stick, there are two great write ups about a zero day vulnerability and HTML smuggling, cyber security entry jobs should be just that, entry into the industry, and we answer listener questions that include an ongoing dialogue with an active hacker about becoming a white hat.
Links from the episode:
Criminals Go Full Viking on CloudNordic, Wipe All Servers and Customer Data
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/08/23/ransomware_wipes_cloudnordic/
 
GTA 6 Hacker Found to be Teen with Amazon Fire Stick in Small Town Hotel Room
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/26/gta-6-hacker-found-to-be-teen-with-amazon-fire-stick-in-small-town-hotel-room/
 
Traders' Dollars in Danger: Zero-Day Vulnerability in WinRAR Exploited by Cybercriminals to Target Traders
https://www.group-ib.com/blog/cve-2023-38831-winrar-zero-day/
 
HTML Smuggling Leads to Domain Wide Ransomware
https://thedfirreport.com/2023/08/28/html-smuggling-leads-to-domain-wide-ransomware/
 
Cybersecurity Hiring Gap: Time to Rethink Who Can Contribute
https://www.csoonline.com/article/649166/cybersecurity-hiring-gap-time-to-rethink-who-can-contribute.html

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