Notes on patching. Foreshadow speculative execution vulnerability. Influence operations. The FBI's new cyber chief. Are stickers a temptation to thieves, hackers, and customs officers?

In today's podcast we hear some Patch Tuesday notes—both Microsoft and Adobe were busy yesterday. Foreshadow, a new speculative execution vulnerability, is reported. Malaysia gets attention from Chinese espionage services. Competition for jihadist mindshare. Influence operations as marketing. The US FBI gets a new cyber boss. The Kremlin thinks the BBC is biased in the crypto-wars. And laptop stickers: are they good, bad, or ugly? Zulfikar Ramzan from RSA on SOCs and IoT. Guest is Dimitris Maniatis from Upstream on Android ad fraud malware. For links to all of today's stories check out the CyberWire daily briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/August/CyberWire_2018_08_15.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices