Month: June 2021

According to an article which is backdated close to mid-june, although not quite mid-june, I read about misinformation problems on Facebook especially in Spanish. While…

A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced Andrii Kolpakov, a Ukrainian national, to seven years in prison for his role in the FIN7 gang. Kolpakov, 33,…

Cyberscoop reports last week that big tech man John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish jail awaiting extradition back to Tenessee where he faced…

What important work this is! We need to find a way to patch the ATM’s as quickly as possible. I liked this article, and it…

OK, so this was in the headlines in Sans News Bites for Friday, and now it is time to find the article that talks about…

Come On Down! Grand Theft Auto is the next victim in the video game for mining crypto currency! I was trying to come up with…

I read this week in Security News pretty much on time, which means I must be doing better than I was last week. The news…

I’m not going to cover this in news notes because there’s a lot here, but Krebs On Security has been covering skimming and other aspects…

In Sans News Bites, there is a headline about something called Mybook. No, we’re not talking about Facebook, Myspace, MyTelespace, or anything like that. Sans…

In our featured topic for this coming podcast, we explore this article by Phishlabs that talks about free VS paid services as part of their…

Here is the link to Sans News Bites for June 25th 2021. It covers quite a lot, and some may even apply to you. We…

Hello Folks, Last Weekend was a little rough on me, so I didn’t do a lot of reading this past week. I did see “thi…

Apparently, this is not the first go around for a company or entity caled Rock You. This lastpass article titled RockYou2021 Breach: How to Keep…

I recently read an article mentioning that Reality Winner is now out due to good behavior. She was arrested after leaks of documents became known,…

I read an article ta;lking about another gang that disappeared, although this time, they disappeared mysteriously. The article Burgeoning ransomware gang Avaddon appears to shut…

Hello folks, saw an article I read Insurer Chubb paid $65,000 to help a city unlock ransomware in 2018. A second hack was more expensive.…

Its very interesting how stories like this one come about. Krebs on Security gives us this one, and I found it quite interesting how this…

Hello folks, Continuing to try and blog on these items we’re not going to get to in our news notes this week, EA Sports apparently…