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Our lead story for the podcast talked about an application that was made available through Europ’s new app store that Apple has to allow to comply with the law. Some comments were made through Mastodon without mentioning any names, but we thank you for your comments. It did spark discussion with the crew that showed up on TeamTalk for this show.
Besides this, we’ve got other news, notes and landscape things, and our topic that had the moron of the podcast award last time.
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| Podcast number | Date of broadcast | Annotated Show notes |
|---|---|---|
| podcast 225 (168.2mb) | February 5, 2025 | Welcome to the security box, podcast 225. On this program, we’re going to talk about a company that earned our stupid fuck award for January. We’ll also cover the news, notes, landscape and more. |
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Welcome to the security box, podcast 225. On this program, we’re going to talk about a company that earned our stupid fuck award for January. We’ll also cover the news, notes, landscape and more.
Newsy items
- Not that we care, but Microsoft Defender is disabling VPN. Microsoft kills of Defender Privacy protection VPN services for more.
- Deep Seek is being abused, not much of a surprise here, but worth looking at. Should this not be surprising, DeepSeek now being abused for more.
- Gemini and other tools are being abused, and some have been abused more than others. Enter the AI aspect of these tools and we’ve penned an article titled Gemini AI tools are being abused … so are others if you want to read it.
- Globe Life is yet another breach with yet another update. Globe life confirms breach after investigation, 850k more affected if you wish.
- Meta is in Chaos mode, it seems should not be surprising to some, maybe surprising to others. You decide.
- Tata tech hit with ransomware
- You’ve got to be kidding me … another two databases open but now closed? if you’ve not read it already.
Who got charged this podcast?
- A Canadian Man got charged this month with pilfering $65m in Crypto. Our blog post Canadian man charged with stealing $65m using crypto exploits has the entire details.
Who got our stupid fuck award in January we’re talking about now?
We mentioned this as part of podcast 224, but it became our topic. Its the Krebs On Security article MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years which really is stupid. We’ll stop to explain some things on the way, and we hope this leads to some great conversations.
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