This week on Hacker And The Fed new cyber security labels proposed by the US government could help us buy our new devices, an employee exposes thousands of intelligence and defense employees, Google may be restricting internet access to some employees to reduce their cyber attack risk, a hacker infects his own computer, and Google says an Apple employee found a zero-day but didn't report it, and we answer listener questions about our phones getting searched and email encryption.
Links from the episode: 
White House teams with Amazon, Google and Qualcomm on cybersecurity labels for gadgets
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/us-cyber-trust-labels-will-help-consumers-pick-safer-smart-devices.html
 
Google exposes intelligence and defense employee names in VirusTotal leak
https://therecord.media/virustotal-user-email-addresses-leaked-google-military-intelligence
 
Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/google-restricting-internet-access-to-some-employees-for-security.html
 
Black Hat Hacker Exposes Real Identity After Infecting Own Computer With Malware
https://www.securityweek.com/black-hat-hacker-exposes-real-identity-after-infecting-own-computer-with-malware/
 
IT Security Analyst Jailed for Impersonating as a Hacker in Own Company
https://cybersecuritynews.com/it-security-analyst-jailed/
 
Google says Apple employee found a zero-day but did not report it
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/google-says-apple-employee-found-a-zero-day-but-did-not-report-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803537
 
Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate
https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/microsoft-cybersecurity-analyst
 
Cybersecurity Expert Kevin David Mitnick died
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
 
Listener Questions:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630439/apple-csam-neuralhash-collision-vulnerability-flaw-cryptography
 
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