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Breaking! An Apparent Megabreach at twitter? More to come
I saw a tweet from Steve Gibson from Security now about a potential incident that…
Month: July 2020
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Google bans stalkerware in their add networks
In a recent article I’ve read, its being reported that Google is getting rid of…
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The Security Box, podcast 1: Introduction to Security topics and some items
As part of this podcast, we talk about some of the terms used such as…
A new show being added to this podcast
Starting at 11 am PT, 2 PM ET, I’m debuting a hshow as part of…
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Its Windows Update time, its bad this time
There are three articles dealing with Windows Update on my desk today. Cyberscoop talks at…
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Let’s cover news on arrests, charges, and the like
Besides the Russian Hacker being found guilty for the most part in a bazarre case,…
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We have an update on a prior story on a Russian Hacker who was found guilty
In an earlier blog post I talked about and linked to a Cyberscoop post about…
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Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked, who is this company?
I saw two retweets of this article I’m using the title of for this blog…
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This is interesting, a study of k-12 and college breaches by the numbers
In a relatively short piece I found on twitter, the number of breaches effecting school…
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There is doubt in evidence in a case of an alleged Linked in and dropbox hacker
Judge William Alsup may not be familiar to most people. His name is familiar to…
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Mage Cart is still out there, taking lots of more data
Hello everyone, welcome to another blog post here on the blog. On this blog post,…
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Blue Leaks, this is as bad as it gets
I was doing some reading yesterday and when you see two articles covering one topic,…
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Any time the government comes up with a bill, critics say something for good reason
Cyberscoop is well known for goveernment coverage on how bad their security is. In this…
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Tech podcast 346: Transit App, Capital One, Trust No One, and Everify
Hello everyone! Its been well over a month since I last did a technology podcast,…
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European police crack phone network, should we be concerned?
Law enforcement agencies in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on Thursday announced hundreds…
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Criminals don’t need PR, especially when it comes to ransomware
I’ve been contemplating this article for some time now, and I’ve read this article we’re…
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Another government problem with a feature that doesn’t even work
I recently read an article about a web site called everify. It is supposedly a…
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Spam likely, this is the first I’ve seen this
I was on a phone call this morning, and i was getting an inbound call…
What is the state of Antivirus today? Is it about dead?
I read an email now twice, and it made me think the first time about…
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This week in Security News, news ending July 3, 2020
I’ve been so far behind, so lets give you some current news in regards to…