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Large carriers deploy STIR/SHAKEN. Small carriers, old landlines are still problems. Source: US hits anti-robocall milestone but annoying calls won’t stop any time soon This…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed seven new charges against Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer accused of hacking Capital…

There are two researchers named Radek Domanski and Pedro Ribeiro featured in an article by Krebs called Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users.…

According to an article titled International cops seize DoubleVPN, a service allegedly meant to shield ransomware attacks from investigators read this past week, Cops seized…

TLD’s are how the internet works. In a great article we’re going to talk about as part of our first topic, Phishlabs has some great…

Michael in Tennessee read out loud this article titled These Android apps appear normal but steal your Facebook password; uninstall them immediately from Phone Arena…

I was afraid this was mybook and what we covered last podcast, and I was right. Shaun, our other admin sent me this and I’m…

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…