The yearly month-long AudioMo Challenge seems to be as good a time as any to try and find my podcasting groove. I'm doing that on an alternate podcast feed. Links below.

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e see several "artisanal" podcasts I subscribe to have taken a break. I feel like it's time for me to do it, too. Doing a regular podcast, even one like this, takes effort.

Samsung is apparently requiring "personal information" to obtain software updates. What responsibility do vendors have to provide updates, and at what cost?

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Via a message board, here's one reason to not buy from @samsung Why do I need to give personal info to them?

Bots have been a problem on eBay forever insofar as auctions are voncerned, sniping and/or driving up prices. Guess I shouldn't be shocked people are also using bots to buy rate shoes…and resell them at a huge profit!

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Sneaker Bots – Stealing Your New Shoes – PerimeterX Blog

Apparently some so-called next generation endpoint products were cheating, using VirusTotal to supplement their catch rates. Those vendors, who aren't contributing their engines to VirusTotal, have been cut off from using VirusTotal.

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A bomb just dropped in endpoint security… and I’m not sure anyone noticed – Alex Eckelberry

VirusTotal Blog: Maintaining a healthy community

Intel Security at RSA Conference: 'Competition Is Holding Us Back' - Fortune

I post a lit if stuff on social media. It occasionally comes back to me, this time in a good way.

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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 1108: It Will Come Back To You

It shocks me that Windows XP is "still alive" in some form until 2019. Of course, there are plenty of other things you have in your environment that you can't patch...

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Malware and non-malware ways for ATM jackpotting. Extended cut - Securelist

Windows XP Embedded Supported for Two or More Years -- Redmondmag.com

How can an organization be so unaware of what security tools they have they need someone's help to discover what they have? With more and more infrastructure moving to the cloud, how can they be?

Yet another new social media tool has been launched, called Talkshow. It's like Periscope but in SMS. Texting in public.

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Talkshow is texting in public. — Talkshow — Medium

Talkshow: We keep reinventing the wheel

Talkshow: I did it anyway because I'm dumb

Man in the middle attacks aren't new. Especially on the phone network, which has only gotten easier has more of it has become wireless.

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Hackers spied on a US Congressman’s communication abusing the SS7 protocol —Security Affairs “Security experts eavesdropped and geographic tracked a US Congressman only using his phone number by abusing the SS7 protocol.”