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I read this article A US official explains why the White House decided not to ban ransomware payments from Cyberscoop which sparked some discussion on…

Here is the link for Sans News Bites for August 6, 2021. There are several things that are in here, including one in the topic…

Google Play Protect, the Android built-in malware defense system, has failed the real-world tests of antivirus testing lab AV-TEST after detecting just over two thirds…

We’ve not done news notes from Trend Micro in awhile, and saw this one. Its for July 30th and we see news about Black Matter…

Researchers used infrared photos and third-party hardware to best facial-recognition tech. Source: Hackers got past Windows Hello by tricking a webcam This is a quoted…

Besides the one I blogged about from Ars Technica that Michael sent, I can’t forget Federal agencies are failing to protect sensitive data, Senate report…

Michael sent this our way to the Security Box email list, its quite interesting. Several agencies are C’s and D’s. This is supposed to be…

Hello all, Some time ago, I was sent an article titled Just How Many Smartphones Are There in the World? by somebody by the name…

Back in 2017 I wrote about Android’s accessibility being used abusively to get malware on your Android phone. Now, some years later, Michael in Tennessee…

This may be important if you havent read this already. I don’t use any of this software that is listed in the article, but there…

Lots of interesting things here, Michael in Tennessee sent me this one, and looks like the open source industry needs to take notice. Expect to…

I did the show notes for this article titled PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk and I have been trying to figure out how to write…

Here is Sans News Bites for July 30, 2021. Guess I should look at WordPress and see if I need to give it a nudge…

This Newsletter covers quite a number of things including IOS 14.7.1, Windows has another problem mainly in server versions, the No More Ransomware project and…

Another item that was covered in news notes delbt with a fraud family ring. This is a very interesting story because one of the suspects…

We don’t know exactly how Kaseya got their decryption key, but they better count themselves lucky. In fact, Revil from what we can tell and…

Hello folks, While the podcast is out now, and show notes are up as well, I still want to write about the items I have…