Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion. VPNFilter tries to reconstitute itself. Ransomware and DDoS notes. USA Really seems to be latest in Russian disinformation.

In today's podcast we hear that Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion. VPNFilter seeks to reestablish itself. Financial Trojans are up and ransomware is down, but don't count the ransomware out, not yet. A get-decrypted-for-free card to Russian ransomware victims. The children of Mirai trouble an unhappy world. USA Really may be the latest incarnation of the Internet Research Agency, complete with rabid Florida squirrels, Wisconsin blood-suckers, and advice on Louisiana's secession. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs on using keyboard biometrics to detect mental disorders. 

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