Do we really need a federal data agency to regulate social media companies? Watch out for Squirrelwaffle and Qakbot malspam attacks, and ransomware hits a major candymaker ahead of Halloween (is nothing sacred anymore?!) ** Links mentioned on the...
Details on the F12 “hacking” incident of the Missouri state education website and the foolish response from the Missouri governor, Over 30 countries (except China and Russia) meet to fight ransomware globally, and the FBI’s warning...
Clickbait news about the rise of “killware”, Details on 1Password’s new feature to securely share passwords with others, and a new study by university researchers in the UK shows how Android phones snoop on their users. ** Links...
Co-host Scott Wright presents a new framework to help people to become “security champions” in their organization, a discussion about the great Facebook outage of 2021, and details on the Twitch data breach exposing source code and...
Will Apple AirTag’s replace malicious payload USB drops? Details on Private Relay and Hide My Email features included with iCloud+, and a fun discussion about Amazon’s Astro robot and the Ring camera drone! ** Links mentioned on the show...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month so in this episode we discuss multi-factor authentication and the use of authenticator apps. Multi-factor authentication is one of the most important things that you can enable to secure your online accounts...
Microsoft will now allow you to login to your accounts without a password, Facebook releases its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses, and a conversation about the security.txt “Internet standard” and if this will help or hinder a...
The latest on the iMessage Zero-Click exploit that affects Apple iOS, MacOS and WatchOS devices (update your Apple devices now!), the names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been dumped online, and details on over 60 million...
Details on the controversy over encrypted email service ProtonMail handing over a user’s IP address to the Swiss police, how a fake bot disinformation campaign went viral on Twitter, and are we ready to welcome our correctional facility robot...
This week Rafal Los, host of the Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast, joins us to talk about election fraud claims vs facts, the recent packet capture controversy, tribalism, and the challenges with election security. Note: this is not a political...