Security News This Week: Hackers Hit The Oatmeal, and It Wasn't Funny
Security News This Week: Hackers Hit The Oatmeal, and It Wasn't Funny
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 3, 20186m 18s
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Show Notes
It may be the end of August, that time when a sticky malaise settles in, but hackers can wreak havoc even during summer vacation. Which is why WIRED’s security writers keep covering the news. Like this story of how Iran set up a global propaganda campaign targeting social media. Issie Lapowski lays out everything we know about the country's 2018 propaganda machine, like how they used fake profile photos to catfish targets, and they had a real thing for Bernie Sanders.
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