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Russia is the hot topic right now, and with good reason. On this podcast, we'll talk a little bit about what we've learned, talk about the scams, recommend books and more. Here are the complete show notes for this week's podcast.

Welcome to podcast 84 of the security box. This time, let's discuss Russia's involvement in pure problems. Now, they have decided to go to war, and its against Ukraine. They've been known to do DDOS attacks, ransomware attacks, spreading information that is not true or partially true or even completely false, denying many different things through the years ike the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and even more may be in the pipeline.

Below, please find links to some of the recent blog posts that I've done since the war started. In no way am I linking to everything, but you need to understand what's going on so you can make the most informed decision on your needs based on what is actually happening.

The war starts with DDOS attacks against Ukraine, this is the beginning of things

I put the link to the video last, because while informative, we know that things are changing rapidly. I put McDonalds first because it was the last we posted and most viewed on linkedin. It got a retweet in France according to a comment.

What should you read? There are several books you can definitely read.

All of these books are written by Mark Russinovich , someone who works at Microsoft. To learn more about Mark, the various books he's written including those I've linked in these notes, please visit zero day the book which is his web site. All books linked from his site I've read, zero day may be more of what we're dealing with possibly right now. Some books may be available through NLS's bard and Amazon as well as Apple Books.

Hello folks,

This is Jared here, and its time for another Security Box. In this almost three hour program, we cover the olden days of Spam and what someone was seeing during our live program.

Besides that, we've got Trick Bot and Sim Swapping as our two main topics.

Here are the show notes with links, and we'll be back on another show!

Hello folks, welcome to podcast 83.

Let's start with something that came to my attention on Monday. Let's recap a little bit about Sim Swapping.

This actually came up on Monday when someone who comes to assist me was saying to me that someone they knew had their phone cloned. They told me that T-Mobile, the company they were with, told them the phone was cloned.

As we know, T-Mobile was breached, and I don't know about you, but I definitely don't trust them. Remember the following?

Remember too, that Podcast 47 covered this in news notes and comments came in too. So there is plenty I covered.

Please also read SIM swap scam from Wikipedia.

As our main topic, I want to catch people up on what is going on with Trick Bot. The article TrickBot developers continue to refine the malware's sneakiness and power from Cyberscoop will be used in this discussion.

The public on Clubhouse got in to a Spam discussion with one talking about the spam messages they were getting. While educational, we did some good laughs in this program and we thank everyone for participating on clubhouse's platform. Tunes were also played during the program.

We thank you so much for listening and make it a great day!

I ended up falling sick, sorry for the delayed release of Wednesdays program. I'll be fine and have already started the process of getting medicated.

This past Wednesday, we had several people on Clubhouse and we talked about Windows Update and a bunch of other stuff too. Here are the show notes.

Hello everyone! Welcome to podcast 82 of the Security Box. This week, we'll catch up on Windows Update, and we will also cover a lot of other stuff from the blog as well. We'll also see what else the listenership and participents in Clubhouse want to talk about.

What happened in Windows Update? Our good buddy Brian Krebs from Krebs on Security has the full details. Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2022 Edition is the article. Lots of linked material that we links to some CVE numbers if you're interested.

Title: Fake Investor does not go away, Fake investor is back and still the same

Hello folks, welcome to podcast 81 of the Security Box! It seems like its time for an update on a very interesting character isn't it? Its time for another update on the fake investor we've covered since podcast 10. I know that I've linked somewhere on the blog all of the podcasts we've covered John Bernard, and this is going to be one of those podcasts.

What has he done lately? This article titled Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams from Krebs on Security has the entire details on what he has been up to now and a reminder of his past.

Besides all of this, we'll step through the news that has been posted to the TSB list as well as on our blog.

We also had a new person come in and aask some stuff they've heard and we debunk the myths and facts of everything.

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I hope you enjoy the program as much as I am bringing it to you! Its going to be a great show.

Welcome to podcast 80 of the Security box. On this edition, let's talk about Wordpress. While it is a good platform for people to use for web sites and even blogging as I do, it can come with risks we need to be aware of.

Part of those risks include keeping it up to date and of course the plug ins you install.

A lot of plugins can be found through the install section of your plug ins management facility, but you can also install plugins manually.

The article we're going to cover today comes to us from Ars Technica and was sent by our godd friend, Michael. Supply chain attack used legitimate WordPress add-ons to backdoor sites is the article. I hope that you find the discussion of interest, and if you saw the write up, you found it of value.

We'll also touch on other things blogged as well as ask any audience members what they learned and/or read during our discussion today.

Remember, you can always contact me through the tech blog or even through the show's contact info as well. Thanks so much for listening, and make it a great day!

Welcome to the security box, podcast 79. I probably am not surprised really about what we're going to talk about, and it was talked about on Throwback Saturday Night's security segment. Now, we're going to take our time on it, because I feel we need to.

What are we talking about you might ask? Toronto lab finds security vulnerabilities, censorship framework in Olympic app is an article talking about the olympics and a new app the IOC basically says is completely safe to use. Researchers are saying differently, and one major problem that two of us see brings this to full circle.

I'd like to thank DJ Terry of The Mix for calling and asking about this after he heard very little on his news channel. With the games so close away now, this is the perfect time for someone to take advantage and do something they think is a good idea to do in their mind.

Thanks for listening whether live or through the podcast or replay, and we'll catch up with you very soon!

The Security box, podcast 78: Windows Update includes a Wormable Flaw

Welcome to podcast 78 of the Security Box. As we do typically on the podcast, we spend some time catching people up on what has been going on in Redmond, Washington with Windows Update.

We've only got one article, however, News of the week for January 14th has the other article.

‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday comes to us from Krebs on Security, and it covers this huge problem and others across Redmond and others too.

Please feel free to send your messages, topics and the like for consideration. Thanks for listening!

I realized I said podcast 75 at some point in my audio, this is podcast 77. Too late for me to change it however.

Below is the notations which include a link to today's program.

We return to a Wednesday schedule next week.

Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 77. Google fixes nightmare Android bug that stopped user from calling 911 is our main topic of today's program, but I also cover other tech and other odds and ends too. We did have one guest available to chat with us, and we thank them for coming. We hope you enjoy the program and the few tracks at the end, and thanks so much for listening!

Welcome to the Security box, podcast 76. On this podcast, we're going to talk about advertisers who are sucking up student data, even though legal action was taken. We'll also have comments and news items from the public if any, maybe some other topics if it turns in to one, and we'll see what else comes up.

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Besides the hour plus discussion we had, we've got music too for the holiday. Hope you have a happy holiday season. No TSB next week unless something breaks, see you in 2022!

Welcome to the Security Box, podcast 75. On this edition of the podcast, come with me as we do a little predicting for 2022 with a Trend Micro article titled Pushing Forward: Key Takeaways From Trend Micro’s Security Predictions for 2022. We'll also have thoughts on recent news read, and its been decided that the full news notes segment will be no more in favor of topics that need discussion. This doesn't mean that we won't cover news, but we'll cover it a little differently.

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