This week on the Security box
This week, we’re not going to be on one particular topic as we’re going to…
Year: 2023
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This is the best news ever … exposure notifications now turned off
I’ve never been a big fan of the Pandemic. I know tons of folk weren’t…
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Toyota’s Japan division suffers an exposure that lasted 10 plus years
Roiters is reporting that a 10-year-oold human error that was recently discovered affected folks in…
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Prison sentence of 6 years for insider who stole gigs of data
We covered the Ubiquity incident as well as Security Now and others. Nick Sharp, pleaded…
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While minimal, Discord suffers third party support data breach
A new follower of mine on Mastodon is bringing us something they found through Bleeping…
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Ars Technica says: Google pays $8 million to Texas
False advertising I think is a big problem. Each and every phone carrior is now…
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Linda Yaccarino will be the new CEO of twitter
According to the BBC, Linda Yaccarino is now the new CEO and will apparently start…
This week on Throwback Saturday night: things to look for in email messages
Hello everyone, here we are again with another episode of Throwback Saturday Night. The show…
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Here’s a great article about removing yourself from the Internet
This Apple Insider article is quite interesting. How to remove yourself from the internet in…
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Meta’s platforms are blamed for 80% of scams
A U.K. leading bank is warning that 80% of scams are coming from Meta’s platforms…
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Black Basta, part of the Fin7 group, is back and hit something bigger than capita
If we thought Capita was bad, this must be worse. This company’s name is ABB,…
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The Earn it act seems to be back, may die … again
I remember hearing about this supposed act, which claims to allow for encryption, but send…
Firefox 113 brings better accessibility to screen readers
This is an interesting find, as I didn’t even know I was running 113,. I…
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Andy Greenberg writes, Twitter’s encrypted direct messaging feature is half baked if baked at all
Matthew Green and others are praising Twitter for the first effort on encrypting direct messaging.…
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George Santos arrested, pleads not guilty
I spotted this yesterday on Mastodon from Brian Krebs. Its a CNN article about George…
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Dan Goodin has a good one here
In a multi-page article How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned…
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Prince Harry taking the press to court, bunches of stuff too
The BBC is reporting that MGN, a newspaper organization has done some illegal work. Apparently,…
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Change in DM replies, encrypted messaging coming, more
Lots of Twitter news, but probably nothing we want. They’re allowing encrypted messaging coming soon,…
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Android Police says: No add blockers for YouTube
There is a very interesting article from Android Police that is very interesting. While not…
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The Security Box, podcast 143: Let’s discuss the relationship between Ransomware and Phishing
Hello everyone, Welcome to the security box. I was alone, although Nick was listening to…