This is part 1 of the personal security series where we talk about how to protect yourself from identity theft, financial theft, and general hacking/account takeover.

Check out Michael Bazzell’s website at https://inteltechniques.com/links.html for great information on credit freezes, opt outs, and other privacy tips and tricks.

Snowflake “breach”, OpenAI’s new board member, and Secure Browsers.

Back to the Podcast grind with some of my hot takes about AI, skills shortage, and risk.

Cyber:

Microsoft’s new Recall “feature”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c

Cyber:

https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/online-trackers-increasingly-switching.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-russia-sanctions-solarwinds-hacks/2021/02/23/b77039d6-71fa-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/judge-approves-650m-settlement-for-facebook-users-in-privacy-biometrics-lawsuit/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&taid=603d04f67bab02000131032b&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-takes-on-google-with-privacy-focused-search-engine/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-exchange-zero-day-attacks-30000-servers-hit-already-says-report/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&taid=60468949452dcf0001ff9356&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you-plant-your-flag/

Crypto:

Cyber:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/following-oldsmar-attack-fbi-warns-about-using-teamviewer-and-windows-7/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/facebook-strikes-back-against-apple-ios-14-idfa-privacy-change.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-privacy-tool-lets-you-choose-which-apps-can-see-and-share-your-data-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-cryptocurrency-exchange-buyucoin-hacked-data-users-leaked/

Crypto:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/avoid-hosted-crypto-wallets-at-all-costs-warns-elon-musk

https://news.bitcoin.com/un-north-korea-stockpiles-316-million-cryptocurrencies-cyberattacks/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-ibm-among-those-supporting-the-hedera-token-service-launch/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tesla-allocates-7-7-of-gross-cash-to-bitcoin

Cyber:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-publish-thousands-of-files-after-government-agency-refuses-to-pay-ransom/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-warns-against-using-doh-inside-enterprise-networks/

Crypto:

https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-cryptocurrency-exchange-buyucoin-hacked-data-users-leaked/

Cyber:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/third-malware-strain-discovered-in-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fireeye-confirm-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack

Cyber Security:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

https://cointelegraph.com/news/unknown-cybercrime-gang-holds-thousands-of-databases-for-ransom

Privacy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/06/25/apple-ios-14-is-facebook-and-googles-worst-nightmare-coming-true/#61fec5d54335

Cyber Security:

https://brave.com/google-internal-data-free-for-all/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-alert-zoom-client-can-leak-your-network-login-credentials/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/phish-of-godaddy-employee-jeopardized-escrow-com-among-others/

https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/draytek-network-hacking.html

https://www.grahamcluley.com/security-firm-five-billion-records-exposed-unsecured-database/

https://www.securityweek.com/flaw-password-managers-allowed-apps-steal-credentials

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-professor-says-edge-is-the-worst-for-privacy-microsoft-isnt-happy/

Cryptocurrency:

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-blows-past-7k-in-sudden-14-jump

https://cointelegraph.com/news/april-fools-sees-toilet-paper-token-in-short-supply-on-coinmarketcap

Stay safe and healthy out there.

Cyber:

https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/patch-wormable-smb-vulnerability.html

https://github.com/preempt/ntlm-scanner

https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-to-generate-random-browser-fingerprints-to-preserve-user-privacy/

Crypto: