On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Why integrity and availability are key to developing a COVID vaccine
• China closing the “cyber gap” with USA
• ASPI publishes research on TikTok, WeChat censorship
• Belarusian “news app” was tracking activists
• Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint, and this week’s sponsor guest is Proofpoint’s senior director of threat research Sherrod DeGrippo. She’ll be telling us about the emergence of some new mid-tier ransomware crews that are targeting people who speak Russian, which is kind of unusual.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Show notes

Ransomware takes down state-owned bank - Risky BusinessHow the government is keeping hackers from disrupting coronavirus vaccine researchChinese cyber power is neck-and-neck with US, Harvard research findsASPI finds TikTok censoring LGBTQ+ issues, Uighur crackdownGoogle removes Android app that was used to spy on Belarusian protesters | ZDNetJulian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition | WIREDChilean bank shuts down all branches following ransomware attack | ZDNetDDoS extortionists posing as cyberspies to run blackmail scam | The Daily SwigEuropean ISPs report mysterious wave of DDoS attacks | ZDNetService NSW confirms 186,000 customers’ data breached in cyber-attack | The Daily SwigCreepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene | WIREDPrivate Intel Firm Buys Location Data to Track People to their 'Doorstep'White House publishes a cyber-security rulebook for space systems | ZDNetVoatz urges Supreme Court to not protect ethical research from prosecutionNSA call records collection ruled illegal by US appeals court | TechCrunchFacebook explains how it will notify third-parties about bugs in their products | ZDNetCISA orders agencies to set up vulnerability disclosure programsA single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber | Ars TechnicaFormer IT director gets jail time for selling government's Cisco gear on eBay | ZDNetWarner Music discloses months-long web skimming incident | ZDNetA SonicWall cloud bug exposed corporate networks to hackers | TechCrunch