Everything Equifax, with some notes on German election vulnerabilities and an update on the Crackas With Attitude.

Today's podcast features all things Equifax, as the credit bureau deals with its breach (and the lawyers and Wall Street wind up to deal with the credit bureau). The Chaos Computer Club says it's found major flaws in German election software. Moscow seems to have done a lot of catphishing in social media during the last US campaign season. Best Buy boots Kaspersky security products from its big box stores. Dale Drew from Level 3 Communications with some sobering statistics on attack trends. And a Cracka with Attitude gets five years in Club Fed. Thanks for listening to the CyberWire. One of the ways you can support what we do is by visiting our sponsors. We read Recorded Future’s free intel daily, you might find it valuable, too. If you’d like to protect your endpoints against advanced threats, check out Cylance. JHUISI & partner COMPASS Cyber present Cyber Security Conference for Executives on September 19th in Baltimore. Register for the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices