Month: August 2020
Phishing and its various forms are covered. I didn’t cover it all, just the more familiar ones. Links are given, and we do play some…
Leave a CommentThis morning, I went ahead nd rebooted before the Security Box, as the computer indicated it had updates to install. I read the article on…
Leave a CommentThe Koreas are at it. First we had South Korea getting Tik Tok in to some trouble, and now we have North Korea in the…
Leave a CommentOn the 20th of July, I read a very interesting article about a scammer that decided that it would be a good idea to ask…
Leave a CommentRecently, I covered for one of our technology shows and mentioned bluetooth as part of a permission base that an app for Donald Trump had…
Leave a CommentI’ve been sitting on stuff, and its time to try and catch up. We know that thieves have been taking advantage of our situation of…
Leave a CommentI’m a little bit late with this one but this week in security news for this past week has some very inteeresting things in it.…
Leave a CommentOne week ago, one of my twitter followers posted a story they read through Wired talking about how the masterminds were caught in the twitter…
Leave a CommentThe blog and its various itterations have talked about election security. We know that 2016 was mettled with, and this year has the potential of…
Continue readingFinally a line on election security? Maybe this is the beginning of cleaning this up
Leave a Comment I found and corrected some formatting and Hopefully Shaun’s last name spelling based on a comment on a prior post. Here are the corrected notes.…
Leave a CommentYesterday, I was alerted to an article from Krebs on Security that talks about the teenager in Florida that is part of the attempted hack…
Leave a CommentOk a little over than three hours, we cover quite a number of things. Below, please find the show notes, and remember to go to…
Leave a CommentMany years ago, Twitter said that they would use mobile phone numbers as part of two-factor and making sure we can get in to our…
Leave a CommentIn the Security Now podcast taped on August 4th, 2020: you will learn about yet another booting issue or yet, a booting problem similar to…
1 CommentWhile looking for tik tok specific things, CNET has an article Protect yourself from phishing scams so you don’t fall prey to the next Twitter…
1 CommentI’ve been asked about what is going on in Tik Tok land. this CNET article entitled: TikTok: For you, it’s fun, but for Trump and…
1 CommentWe’ve got a lot here on today’s edition of the tech podcast which is now on the RSS feed. The entire show notes are below,…
2 CommentsThe blog title is asking a question. What do you think about when you charge something to your credit or debit card? Thinking about whether…
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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 people interested in the field like myself got breached. Since…