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One of the most interesting laws in Europe is due to come into effect next month and is the GDPR, the European Information Protection Act. The law, which was approved in 2016, allowed organizations two years of preparation, and it seems that not all of them will be ready on time.

In this program I talk about the new regulation in general and what it says. For the first time, Europe tells the organizations that they will have to pay a lot of money for breaches or leakage of customer information because it is a violation of their agreement with the customer.

You are invited to listen, leave a comment and of course share.

Hello again, thanks for joining Simple Security. After almost one month, we’re back with a new episode. The topic today is backdoors, and their uses. While they’re actually intended for IT administrators, companies exploit the backdoor for spying on users and collecting data that can help the company to make more money.

Listen to the episode and leave comment below or tweet me at @SimpleBerryRoy if you want to me to talk about what you want. Oh, and one more thing, I got a voice note.

This week it is a great time to talk about privacy with the current Facebook scandal with Cambridge Analytica.

What is privacy for you as user? It can be different between users. Every one has different limits of sharing and how much data you are willing to give up to get the newest tech products or services.

Listen to my podcast and share your thoughts with me here in the comments or voice notes on BBM, My BBM PIN is ROYSHP. I will share your notes in my next podcast.

And don’t forget to listen to Brad’s Podcast.

I like to call it the marketing of security. Every messaging platform is proud to announce their use of End to End Encryption (E2EE). While its good for the end user, the companies who use this security feature not telling everything.

There is one big weakness to E2EE, and it is major, When one of the devices that use E2EE is compromised, E2EE is actually useless. The attacker can read what ever he wants before any encryption been made. That’s why this solution is good, but it is good for marketing more.

Users love to hear about how no one can attack their messages in the middle of the transfer, but they think that it’s also protecting them from attackers who hack their devices.

End to End encryption is good when the messages are in transit between protected machines.

Listen to my latest episode.

One of the most popular attacks in the cyber world are ransom attacks. The largest recent attacks and the most famous are ransom attacks. You all remember WannaCry or Jigsaw, and in Germany no one will forget the Hitler Attack.

As the world of technology advances, the attackers requests are no longer for money, well, yes for money, but not the kind that someone can trace. Hackers want Bitcoins or any other crypto currency, because of it’s nature, it’s difficult if not impossible for law enforcement to trace.

Listen to my fourth episode about ransomware, and leave any comments below.

When we talk about security we always talk about the bad things that can happen, in this episode I want to talk about those who make things happen. Hackers, we have few types of hackers, or crackers. A few of them are bad and there are those that do good things for no personal gain.

Listen as I explain what the difference is between White, Black, Gray and Red hat hackers. The only thing that common is that they have hats.

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Nobody wants to be scammed. Yet it happens to so many. Odds are, it’s already happened to you, or someone you know. Phishing is a scam that a lot of people are falling for. It can come in the form of an SMS message, or an email from your carrier, or bank, or even friend. It can even be a chance to win a “Dream Vacation”, or another wonderful gift, but in the end it’s a fake, and someone just managed to inject malware into your PC or smartphone.

On my second episode I’m talking about Phishing, what kind of phishing we can look for and how to check emails before we click on them or any URL that we have inside them.

Listen to the second episode of Simple Security and comment below.

After I finished my last series of podcasts, “Why BlackBerry Isn’t Dead Yet”, I thought what can I bring for my next series of podcasts? I realized that now we speak security all day, and malware and breaches are top stories. I will attempt to simplify security, because most of us don’t realize what everything means.

In my first pilot episode, I speak of “HTTP vs HTTPS”. It’s basic and and it’s good to start with the basics.

Enjoy and please leave comments, because its important to me.