Your Car’s Data Might Be For Sale, a New Malware Payload Vector Using DNS, and Listener Questions

This week on Hacker And The Fed your car may be collecting up to 25 GB per hour of data about you and a new malware payload vector is using DNS, what is “encryptionless ransomware”. We also answer listener questions about a variety of topics, including how to prepare for a cybersecurity career in the US government, banking security, and hack-backs.

Links from the episode:
How Your New Car Tracks You
https://www.wired.com/story/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford/
 
DNS TXT Records Can Be Used by Hackers to Execute Malware
https://cybersecuritynews.com/dns-txt-records-to-execute-malware/?amp

Encryption-less ransomware: Warning issued over emerging attack method for threat actors
https://www.itpro.com/security/ransomware/encryption-less-ransomware-warning-issued-over-emerging-attack-method-for-threat-actors
 
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