Check Point Checkmates Cyber Security Podcasts

The second episode of the CheckMates GO Podcast is out.Joining Oded Awaskar is Yoav Arad Pinkas and Hadar Wiesen, a security analyst in the Managed Security Service teamIn this episode we cover the following topics:The Georgia Institute of technology suffered a data breach, which exposed the personal information of both faculty and students.ShadowHammer – A supply chain hack of Asus which led to the installation of backdoors in numerous computers.The emergency tornado alarm system in Texas was compromised, creating panic amongst residents.Check Point researchers have discovered a vulnerability in one of Xiamoi’s built-in security applications that could allow an attacker to remotely hack the phone.You may read the full Xiaomi research in the cp<r> blog.Both of the Threat Intelligence Reports are located here and here.