Scattered reports of blood clots have sparked curbs across Europe, even though the jab is almost certainly safe. We take a hard look at the risks in relative terms. After Canada arrested a Huawei executive in 2018, China detained two Canadians—we examine the hostage diplomacy still playing out. And how “non-fungible tokens” may benefit digital artists of all sorts. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
Every March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated. Everyone wears a lot of green, there are parades, shamrocks, and a whole lot of drinking.
But who exactly was St. Patrick? Why do we celebrate his day? And what does any of this have to do with shamrocks, drinking, and wearing green?
Learn more about St. Patrick’s Day and why we celebrate it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Stimulus bill? Check. Vaccines? Coming. Now comes the biggest tax hike in 30 years. Volkwagen has whipped several remedies for range anxiety. And GoPro’s stock has tripled in 6 months because the latest GoPro product is anti-GoPro.
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed crucial gaps in the public health system, including the government’s inability to gather data quickly and accurately. After a year of lockdowns and isolation, a return to life resembling normalcy is in sight, but how will we know when we get there?
Guests: Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project, and staff writer at The Atlantic.
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Submarines can descend thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, but to do so, they have to deal with an enormous amount of pressure. In this episode, engineer and pilot Bruce Strickrott of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution explains some of the fundamental engineering principles that allow submarines to dive so deep without imploding under the pressure.
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Scientists have scientific reason and use the scientific method. Humanists have... Emotion? Close reading? Not so, argues Eric Hayot in
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan (Columbia UP, 2021). Contrary to popular belief, the humanities involve both reasoning and methods. Humanist reason, Hayot shows, is philosophically and historically grounded and applicable to almost every discipline. Part history of philosophy, part methods handbook, and part manifesto, Humanist Reason will change the way we advocate for the humanities in the twenty-first century.
Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine. She teaches and writes about health behavior in historical context.
Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter for The New York Times, joins Dr. Bob to close out our three-part series marking one year of the pandemic. They discuss how journalism had to adapt to cover COVID-19, what she’s hearing from experts about a possible fourth wave, and what lessons she’s taking with her for the next pandemic. Plus, an Andy update from Lana! Be sure to check out the other two episodes in this series with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
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If you use email, there is a good chance you’re familiar with email scams. Who hasn’t gotten a shady chain letter or suspicious offer in their inbox? Cybercriminals have been using email to spread malware for decades and today’s methods are more sophisticated than ever. In order to stop these attacks from ever hitting our inboxes in the first place, threat analysts have to always be one step ahead of these cybercriminals, deploying advanced and ever-evolving tactics to stop them.
On today’s podcast, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla are joined by Elif Kaya, a Threat Analyst at Microsoft. Elif speaks with us about attacker email infrastructure. We learn what it is, how it’s used, and how her team is combating it. She explains how the intelligence her team gathers is helping to predict how a domain is going to be used, even before any malicious email campaigns begin. It’s a fascinating conversation that dives deep into Elif’s research and her unique perspective on combating cybercrime.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The meaning of the terms “RandomU” and “StrangeU”
The research and techniques used when gathering intelligence on attacker email structure
How sophisticated malware campaigns evade machine learning, phish filters, and other automated technology
The history behind service infrastructure, the Netcurs takedown, Agent Tesla, Diamond Fox, Dridox, and more
Some Questions We Ask:
What is attacker email infrastructure and how is it used by cybercriminals?
How does gaining intelligence on email infrastructures help us improve protection against malware campaigns?
What is the difference between “attacker-owned infrastructure” and “compromised infrastructure”?
Why wasn’t machine learning or unsupervised learning a technique used when gathering intelligence on attacker email campaigns?
What should organizations do to protect themselves? What solutions should they have in place?
