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Hello folks, welcome to podcast 160. On this week's edition, we'll reveal the sudden absence of TSB, we'll have news and notes from around the landscape that folks may have read, and aa very interesting topic that deals with Freenom and the phishing landscape. Apparently, Facebook is in this too. Of course, we'll have any questions answered that people have too. Thanks for your support of TSB and thanks so much for listening!

The sudden departure of TSB was not one the JRN was necessarily prepared for. While we have from time to time rescheduled TSB, and/or took specific holidays off like the Christmas break, Thanksgiving week, and possibly others, this was so sudden.

While working on TSB's release and catching up its EMHS page we got a message on Dice World. While that wasn't out of the ordinary, as I have gotten messages on Dice World before, the source and what the message contained was one of shock and grave concern.

The short version is that the JRN's MENVI helper, Janet Quam, passed away on the 30th of the month of August. While I have been told numerous things, a letter which I published on September 10th goes in to what Janet did with the network from various podcasts which don't exist anymore, to tech skills and a willingness to learn.

There was no health related stuff discussed except to state that we were aware of health concerns. To read the letter, please read the blog post titled A death across the network, here’s a letter.

It links to a Youtube copy of the funeral. MENVI's links page also has a link to the Obituary. We thank you for your support! A song appropriate will be played at the end of the program when we play music.

Our topic comes to us today from an article which was published to Krebs on Security on 5/31. Its titled Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom. As we've talked about on Throwback, we've now got other issues because of this suit, and other top level domains that are now taking what the free domains did. We'll make sure to bring this up.

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.

Welcome to the security box, podcast 159. On this podcast, we're going to have a two-part article discussion dealing with fraudulent activity when it comes to retail and the dark web. This came to us via Phishlabs. Besides that, we may have some stupid fucks to talk about, the landscape as usual, and your comments and questions if any.

I found an article I posted to the blog on August 30th that talks about the U.K. wanting to ban IOS updates unless its approved. Like that's going to solve anything except problems for us useers who may either travel to the UK or live there. Here's the blog post I wrote that posted before the show. Good job, UK government for earning the stupid fuck award.

This is a two part article coming to us from Phishlabs.

Welcome to podcast 158 of the Security Box. On today's podcast, we've got at least one moron, we've got an interesting topic that deals with Facebook getting fined, again, and of course we'll cover the landscape and what has been read and blogged as of late.

The article we're going to take from is an article we posted back in May. The title of this article is What the record-breaking $1.3 billion Meta fine means for the US-EU clash over spying programs and it comes from Cyberscoop.

I guess we'll have to see what happens with this, as I don't think we'll be done with this yet. If there are any updates, we'll be posting these updates to our list and blog where applicable.

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.

Welcome to the security box, podcast 157. This week, we ay be talking about a very interesting topic coming out of connecticut which might or might be a moron. We'll talk about other news and notes from the landscape, and yes, today's topic is on ransomware groups and one which says you should pay the money to charity instead of the group itself.

We are going to link to the stories that deal with our moron(s) of the podcast.

Florida Healthy Kids is a very interesting story, mainly because of who they are partnering with. I guess we'll see what happens with them.

Today's topic comes to us from Cyberscoop way back in May. I've not seen another group do this, and I think its a one of a kind deal. I wish I were on that charity list, although I don't take crypto, but proof of donation would all that it would be.

Today's article is titled A different kind of ransomware demand: Donate to charity to get your data back which should be read just the same. If someone you know was hit by this group, did they get their files back?

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. This is program number 156. On this episode of the program, we're going to talk about a very interesting article that was published back in April on what we've learned about stopping Russia's hackers since the war has started. Also, this program will have news, notes, the landscape and much more.

The following two articles are related and one may have more than the other. Is possible sentencing guidelines enough that fit the crimes?

This is an April article titled What we know about Russian hackers — and how to stop them — after a year of cyberwar in Ukraine coming to us from Cyberscoop.

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.

Welcome to the Security box, podcast 155. On this program, we've got an update to Age Verification which we've not seen any update since. This Verge article may be something that could be of interest if it turns out to be true. We'll also talk about the news and notes from the landscape and much more.

We've covered age verification through the years, and this blog post from May 2023 covers the Verge's article in which we're going to take from. This is their article titled Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block which I link to in my post. What do you guys think?

Hello folks, welcome to program 154. On this edition of the program, come with us for some news and notes, a recollection of someone who can change after making mistakes, and a topic talking about DDoS for hire services that have been shut down within recent times which could be a good thing.

Kevin Mitnick recently passed away on July 16, 2023. He did have an interesting career, a criminal in his early years to a security consultant after the fact.

Brian Krebs sent the news through on Mastodon, and we blogged about it on the same day ... July 20, 2023.

Below, please find the books Kevin wrote. Note that the blog post does mention these and what is available also on BARD. I attended one of his webinars that KnowBe4 put on and it was excellent!

We blogged about this on the blog, and now its time for it to be talked about. This is a Krebs on Security article titled Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services which I found was quite good. Let's see what you think and our contact info will be given throughout the program.

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. This is program 153 and on this edition of the program, we're going to talk about a potential new threat that we might need to learn about. We'll also have potential morons that has crossed our desk, news and notes from around the landscape and more.

Think I’m harping too much on checking your stuff? Here’s why you really should … this is a true story shouldbe read. It links to a file which will only be available for a limited time which has the story. This came from Cybercrime radio and thanks to DJ Terry for giving us a heads up on this one. Now people should be happy that I harp on making sure that you are as safe and secure as possible. Thank me later!

There's a difference between a data leak and a breach. A leak may in most parts be an accident, where a breach was intentional. My blog post Data Leak at Virus Total was only a subset, data removed has a link to the story. Let's just say that Google did everything as right as they could. Once notified, they removed said data an d launched an investigation on how the info got on the popular AntiVirus scanning application. You can't have it any other way. If a mistake happens, fix it as quickly as possible!

Our first moron today comes from a company called HikVision. This blog post titled: Use Hikvision cameras? You might want to be made aware of this goes in to the fact that this company just doesn't understand what might be going on with their network and their devices. Having QR codes to basicly log in to the camera yields very interesting results. Better read the accompanying article for more. You might want to be sitting down for this one.

Second: From Cyber Crime radio: Magaine: Bangladesh Data Leak Exposes 50M Citizens. This is the topic for their July 13th airing and this has to be a complete joke. We'll play this file as part of the program.

Move out the way … Bold Spy is right there with spy tools like Pegasus is the tech blog where you'll find commentary and an article that talks about something called Bold Spy. Its got tools that others are using and possibly more. Feel the threat yet?

Did you read Think I’m harping too much on checking your stuff? Here’s why you really should … this is a true story yet? As an extra, we play the audio podcast from CyberCrime Radio which sparked the blog post. This is of course within the last music set. Listen to the Cybercrime Radio piece, it really hit home on why this accompanying blog post was written.

On this podcast, a great video that was posted to Mastodon talking about what's coming to Android in 2023. But then I have questions dealin with the abuse of accessibility tools. Using Yellow Camera as an example, are these changes meant that people might be safer if they make a mistake? Contact info at the end. Thanks for listening!

On this edition of the program, we've got an open forum of topics. Lots of them have been covered through the years while others have been covered on the blog or TSB's email list. We hope that you enjoy the program as much as we put this together for you. See you next time!