Scraped data found gurgling around in an unsecured third-party database. Ransomware and election security. Spy in your pocket? (Probably not.) Guilty plea in the Satori case.

A database scraped from Facebook in the bad old days before last year’s reforms holds informaiton about 419 million users. The ransomware threat to election security. Notes from the Billington CyberSecurity Summit. Is your phone reporting back to Mountain View or Cupertino? Probably not, at least not in the way the Twitterverse would have you believe. And the Feds get a guilty plea in the case of the Satori botnet. Awais Rashid from Bristol University on the notion of bystander privacy. Carole Theriault speaks with Dov Goldman, Director of Risk and Compliance at Panorays on the most noteworthy third-party breaches of 2019 so far. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/September/CyberWire_2019_09_05.html Support our show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices