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Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 176. This podcast is mainly going to be an open forum, but we will have some topics coming. We might have some morons, some things to ponder, and whatever is on the minds of those that come on live.

This is not meant to be exhaustive, but the following blog posts may be talked about in no particular order. Some may be talked about but not listed here, so check the blog for complete details.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

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Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 175. I've been out sick, and now we're back to bring you what we wanted to bring you this past week. We've got news, notes, the landscape, two morons, things to ponder and a topic dealing with dark web threats targeting the airline industry. Thanks so much for listening and make it a great day!

We have to start with the moron who thought it would be a good idea that a database be left wide open for people to peruse the data. This database is a Mongo DB database, its similar to SQL where data is held and can be gotten at when needed. While this is a real estate app, this was definitely not done with security in mind.

If we've not had enough with Chat GPT, this aught to stand your hair right up. This data breaches article talks about how Chat GPT was made to give out ransomware software and now 4 are arrested. This aught to get more interesting.

Carrying over some items that we just will run as part of this week's program, we've got some doozies. We'll blog anything we didn't yack about as I continue to recover.

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Our topic this week comes to us from Phishlabs. Dark Web Threats Targeting the Airline Industry is the article and we'll step through this one. Hope you'll find it of interest as everyone travels.

Welcome to podcast 174. On this podcast, we're just traversing the landscape and some of our longer posts and things that caught our attention. In most ways, this isn't complete, but just some. Terry, Nick and I take you along for the ride. Enjoy!

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Our Internet Radio stations that carry us include Blue Streak Radio and International Friends Radio Network. The program is also carried live through the Independent Channel which is part of 98.6 the mix, KKMX, International. If you want to carry us, please use the Jared Rimer Network site to do that and let me know about your station. Please allow 3-4 hours for airplay, although we try to go 3 hours for this program. Thanks so much!

Hello folks, welcome to podcast 173. This is going to be the last podcast of the year as it comes to live programming. Don't worry, we'll continue to blog things of importance, and I'll look through our podcast notations for some good things and put out a final podcast of the year. Our next live program will be on January 3, 2024. On this edition of the program, we'll have our news and notes segments, the moron, two things to ponder which are extended versions and of course our topic dealing with the HHS and their fine on an agency who got breached.

We have two things to ponder segments and both are extended versions and information packed. The first one is being cross posted through this podcast and our Security Hour which may air it any time it wishes. The segment talks about 1 in 4 people falling for scams and getting in to trouble. Besides falling for scams, there is one thing most people don't do and it'll shock you. Read More on the tech blog with the blog post titled 1 in 4 fall for scams to learn what is going on and what is recommended. The second talks about a very interesting email I got and how it could actually fool someone. At recording time, the domain was unreachable, although the group was given a different file which could not be resurrected for airplay here. Here is the blog post titled Did you think you were going to get me? You’ve got to try harder if you wish to read it. It too, will be crossposted, but I didn't mention that here.

Our set of morons are completely interesting. They thought they'd steal a car, taking everything from one person, but yet doing something that they weren't expecting. These guys were expecting an Iphone, found an Android and handed it back. They still took the car and possibly other items. Read the blog post with the accompanying article. You won't believe this one. Or will you?

You must be kidding me, right? Lots of breaches, ransomware cases and the like yet the HHS doesn't do much to enforce anything in my opinion. We have several articles on the HHS settling in certain cases like the Ransomware we're talking about today, or the HIPPA violations in another case, but most of the time its unchecked.

This week, HHS announces settlement on ransomware case is our article. It is a good start, but as we've said, there have been a lot more. Let us know what you think.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Hello folks, welcome to the Security Box, podcast 172. On this podcast, we've got two different morons, a look at the landscape, a few things to ponder and our topic dealing with the Q3 report on the landscape which includes QBot and other variants out there causing havoc.

For things to ponder, check the blog.

These are the morons of the podcast.

On this week's program, the Q3 Payload report is going to be the topic. Looks like QBot is still at the top, even though they were dismantled. This was quite interesting. There are two different Rats that are part of the problem now, and these aren't rodants. These are Trojans. In this terminology, Rat stands for Remote Access Trojan. Phishlabs has this article and its titled Q3 Payload Report and you should read it in full if you wish to do so. You'll thank us later.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Our Internet Radio stations that carry us include Blue Streak Radio and International Friends Radio Network. The program is also carried live through the Independent Channel which is part of 98.6 the mix, KKMX, International. If you want to carry us, please use the Jared Rimer Network site to do that and let me know about your station. Please allow 3-4 hours for airplay, although we try to go 3 hours for this program. Thanks so much!

Welcome to the Security box, podcast 171. We hope that each and every one of you have had a happy Thanksgiving and have recharged your batteries. On this edition, we're making it official and am bringing back the things to ponder. We'll explain what we're going to do and we put it in practice last podcast. If these things to ponder have blog posts, we'll link them from right within the program's show notes so you can read what we're talking about. We'll also have news, notes, any moron of the podcast and our topic talking about URL shorteners and a recent trend with them. We hope you enjoy the show as much as we have bringing the show for you!

For full notations, please see The Blog as we'll link to other things we don't have room here to cover.

According to a recent article from Brian Krebs, the most prolific domain now that has a URL shortening service that pumps out scams, phishing and just all around bad is the TLD that belongs to the United States. Read my thoughts and find a link to the article right here. The Top level domain for the United States now harbors malicious URL shortening service is the article title, and I hope you give it a gander.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Our Internet Radio stations that carry us include Blue Streak Radio and International Friends Radio Network. The program is also carried live through the Independent Channel which is part of 98.6 the mix, KKMX, International. If you want to carry us, please use the Jared Rimer Network site to do that and let me know about your station. Please allow 3-4 hours for airplay, although we try to go 3 hours for this program. Thanks so much!

Hello folks, welcome to the podcast. We're talking about password managers in a big way today. Links to the major managers are given. Its not a complete list, and there may be others I'm not aware of that may be trusted or we don't know much about. We bring back things to ponder in a different way and you'll get a taste of this in this podcast. I hope you enjoy the program as much as we have bringing it together for you. Happy holidays from all of us at the JRN!

Today, we've got two for you and they're both blog posts.

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Below, please find the list of managers we talked about. Again, this isn't a complete list. Make sure you listen to the first segment which explains why we decided to put this podcast together.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Our Internet Radio stations that carry us include Blue Streak Radio and International Friends Radio Network. The program is also carried live through the Independent Channel which is part of 98.6 the mix, KKMX, International. If you want to carry us, please use the Jared Rimer Network site to do that and let me know about your station. Please allow 3-4 hours for airplay, although we try to go 3 hours for this program. Thanks so much!

Hello folks, welcome to TSB podcast 169. On this program, we're going to talk about Generation Z and an article I found that delbt with their privacy concerns. We may also have a moron, news, notes and more.

Temu is now getting sued, Kim Komando called this one is the blog post leading to our moron. We even have an up-to-date minute on Temu too.

Our topic this week comes from the Malwarebytes blog. My blog post What does Generation Z think about privacy? has thoughts and leads directly to the article by David. Let's see what you think.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Our Internet Radio stations that carry us include Blue Streak Radio and International Friends Radio Network. The program is also carried live through the Independent Channel which is part of 98.6 the mix, KKMX, International. If you want to carry us, please use the Jared Rimer Network site to do that and let me know about your station. Please allow 3-4 hours for airplay, although we try to go 3 hours for this program. Thanks so much!

Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 168. On this program, we'll see if we've got any morons, a service that is a phishing service, news, notes and more.

If this isn't a moron, I don't know what is. The blog post is titled Tech CEO sentenced to IP addressing scheme which is coming from our blog. It leads to the article we spotted talking about this guy. We may have talked about Micfo LLC before, but this is probably the end of this. Problem: the JRN thinks that 5 years isn't going to be enough and isn't a harsh sentence for the crime. Please sound off if you believe that this is the case.

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If you are prone to email scams, you might want to pay attention to this. One of my MENVI staff was smart enough to contact me to ask if they needed to do what the action in the email indicated. The bad news is that the site truly wasn't MENVI's, it looked nasty and never redirected as I thought it might. An email pretending to come from Cpanel, isn’t cpanel … can you smell trouble? has the complete details of this one. Sound off if you've seen something similar to this and whether you fell for it or not. Its OK if you did. There should be no shame!

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Solar Winds is getting sued. Seems as though they were never as secure as they should have been, and the CEO among others are getting sued. We thought that something was wrong, seeing how we later found out about how that compromise was completely done. Whether they were compromised by Russia or not isn't the point of the lawsuit, says the article, but boy ... this is probably as bad as you get when it comes to a supply chain attack. Here is the blog post titled SEC sues Solar Winds for fraud, says they are secure and the charges are baseless for your perusal. It can't get any better than this, can it?

Today, we are going to have a very interesting topic that might be known later as a threat. This comes from our friends at Phishlabs. The article is titled Threat Actor Profile: Strox Phishing-as-a-Service and it was a good one. We'll break this down, as phishing as a service now takes hold.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

Hello folks, welcome to another technology podcast. On this podcast, we're going to listen to a story on how someone who is blind was looking for something and how he got taken for $1,000. It isn't as simple as it could be, seeing how he used the Twitter web site and we know how that could be since Twitter, know known as X, got rid of their accessibility team.

Back in August, I blogged This is a true story of a blind man losing to a scam … this is a must read which links to a Wired article. The podcast you're about to hear comes from Discarded, a proofpoint podcast. It aired in October of this yeqar and I recently listened to it.

For those who are Apple, here's a link to the podcast. DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research TrenchesProofpoint

The podcast is also available through Overcast if you use that.

I hope people find this story of interest, and thanks so much for listening! We'll see you next time.