Month: August 2020
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The Security Box, podcast 5: Phishing and its various forms
Phishing and its various forms are covered. I didn’t cover it all, just the more…
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Sans Institute gets breached, investigation in progress
This morning, we’re learning about the Sans Institute, an edducation portal for cybersecurity professionals and…
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Patch Tuesday, I’ve been rebooted
This morning, I went ahead nd rebooted before the Security Box, as the computer indicated…
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Looking for a job? Not so fast according to North Korea
The Koreas are at it. First we had South Korea getting Tik Tok in to…
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A scammer threatens to put data online unless paid
On the 20th of July, I read a very interesting article about a scammer that…
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Here’s some very interesting phone stuff to chew on
Recently, I covered for one of our technology shows and mentioned bluetooth as part of…
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Phony covid and unemployment claims to boot
I’ve been sitting on stuff, and its time to try and catch up. We know…
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This week in security news, news ending August 8, 2020
I’m a little bit late with this one but this week in security news for…
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a twitter update worth reading: there’s more to the masterminds than we once knew
One week ago, one of my twitter followers posted a story they read through Wired…
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Finally a line on election security? Maybe this is the beginning of cleaning this up
The blog and its various itterations have talked about election security. We know that 2016…
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The Security box, episode 4 notes reissued
I found and corrected some formatting and Hopefully Shaun’s last name spelling based on a…
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More Zoom issues, settings not set correctly, judge terminates proceedings and the meeting
Yesterday, I was alerted to an article from Krebs on Security that talks about the…
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The Security Box, podcast 4: News, Notes, CGFAA, breaches and more
Ok a little over than three hours, we cover quite a number of things. Below,…
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Twitter prepared to pay a large amount of money
Many years ago, Twitter said that they would use mobile phone numbers as part of…
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Yet Another booting problem found by researchers
In the Security Now podcast taped on August 4th, 2020: you will learn about yet…
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Don’t make mistakes like the Twitter employees did
While looking for tik tok specific things, CNET has an article Protect yourself from phishing…
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Tiktok, its fun for you, not for lawmakers
I’ve been asked about what is going on in Tik Tok land. this CNET article…
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Technology podcast, podcast 349: Firefox and Jaws, Twitter, B2k, and a whole lot more
We’ve got a lot here on today’s edition of the tech podcast which is now…
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What do you think about when you charge your credit or debit card?
The blog title is asking a question. What do you think about when you charge…