Microsoft has issued a warning to customers to apply the November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. This episode talks about the Active Directory vulnerabilities and why this escalated to send out a warning.

Source - Guide To Help Organizations Detect This Vulnerability - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/sam-name-impersonation/ba-p/3042699

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The Log4j, Log4Shell as it's known, is one of the most severe vulnerabilities with the broadest impact I've seen. This episode breaks down why this is the case and why you should take this seriously and without delay.

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This week's tools, tips and tricks episode talks about a great website for reference and security scanning, SpeedGuide.net.

Source - https://www.speedguide.net/scan.php

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The vulnerability with Log4j that was announced last week is the biggest and worst vulnerability in the wild up to this point. The reason is how widespread Java is and how easy it is to exploit it makes it so dangerous. This episode goes into the details.

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Apple released iOS 15.2 for iphones, ipads, watches and TV. This release enabled the Privacy Report and this episode talks about the information you can now see on what apps are accessing your data.

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Source - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/13/apple-releases-ios-15-2/

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a significant outage recently. This episode talks about the impact this outage had on some IoT devices and why you should think hard about using IoT for your critical home systems.

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This episode talks about another case of identity theft but the reason will shock you. Identity theft can be used for many reasons but not all of them are financially motivated.

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This week's tools, tips, and tricks talks about a site that can help you determine if a website is legitimate or potentially malicious.

Source - https://www.scamvoid.net/

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Vulnerability scanning is a critical security activity you should have in your organization at many levels. However, there is a critical aspect of this that the resources glaze over or don't talk about at all. This episode tells you what that missing component is.

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This episode is a follow-up from episode 955 where I talked about a mother-daughter hacking incident. The pair, allegedly, hacked into the school's systems to rig the homecoming queen voting so the daughter would win. The story took a bizarre turn, listen to see where it sits.

Episode 955 - https://securityinfive.com/episode-955-mother-daughter-duo-arrested-for-hacking-homecoming-queen-votes/

Update - https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-teen-emily-grover-was-accused-of-hacking-a-homecoming-queen-contest-and-faces-16-years-in-prison

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