Fancy Bear bogus sites taken down. Some in the US Congress think they want hack-back laws. Cyber and sanctions. Operation Red Signature. Doxing Chinese Intelligence. Buggy medical devices.

In today's podcast, we hear that Microsoft has sprung its bear trap, again, and caught Fancy Bear. This time the targets are more to the right than the left. The US Senate holds hearings on cybersecurity—hacking back is expected to be on the table. The UK wants more sanctions on Russia. US Senators are looking into reducing sanctions' collateral economic damage. Operation Red Signature pokes at South Korean supply chains. Intrusion Truth doxes Chinese intelligence officers. Medical device bugs. Rick Howard from Palo Alto Networks with tips buying cybersecurity products. Guest is Travis Rosiek from BluVector on fileless attacks. 

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/August/CyberWire_2018_08_21.html

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