Fancy Bear in Czech government systems. Watering hole attacks. Quora breached. Marriott breach follow-up. Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw. Scams kicked out of Apple’s App Store.

In today’s podcast we hear how Fancy Bears and free-range catphish have been disporting themselves in the Czech Republic. China reported to have used watering hole attacks to gain entry into Australian institutions. Quora suffers a data breach. Marriott’s breach response earns mediocre marks. A Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw is found and patched. Two scammy apps are ejected from Apple’s App Store. An object lesson in the difficulty of controlling fake news—or at least fake op-eds.  Jonathan Katz from UMD on SSD drive encryption security woes. Guest is Brian Egenrieder from SyncDog on the challenges of commingling work and personal mobile devices.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_12_04.html

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