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🎙️ Free, ungated access to all 200+ episodes of “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: https://bit.ly/505-updates. ♻️ You’re welcome to repost if your followers will find this of value. Segments in this Episode Data Breach Victim Gets Fined In Court 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗  A data breach victim suffered additional emotional toll when she was charged by the courts and fined $1....

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Full episode available on your favorite podcast platform: https://bit.ly/505-updates 📌 From Sourced Network Productions in Washington, DC, it's 5:05. I'm Hillary Coover. Today is Monday, August 21st, 2023. Here's the full story behind today's cyber security and open source headlines 
 Chrome to Get Quantum Resistant Encryption and Other Security Features 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ Google...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/505-updates 📌 LinkedIn Account Takeover Campaign 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ Security Research Company, Cyberint, has observed an ongoing and successful hacking campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts. This has resulted in victims being pressured into paying to regain control of their account or facing permanent deletio...

Full episode available on your favorite podcast platform: /bit.ly/505-updates📌 Cybercrime Forums Selling Personal Information of Hackers 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗  Info-stealing malware does not discriminate when stealing personal information. Hackers are humans too, and some of them fell prey and installed info-stealing malware. Follow up to AI Red Team Hacking at Defcon 🇺🇸 Katy Craig,...

200 episodes available for free on your favorite podcast platform: /bit.ly/505-updates📌 August 16, 2023, Episode #208 - Wednesday How Leaky is your VPN? 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2023-tunnelcrack.pdf https://github.com/vanhoefm/vpnleaks https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/tunnelcrack_vpn/ Microsoft stops renewing licenses for Russian companies 🇺🇸...

August 15, 2023, Episode #207 - Tuesday Full episode available on your favorite podcast platform: /bit.ly/505-updates📌 Edwin Kwan: Popular Open Source Software Breaks Users' Trust Popular open source software, Moq, has broken user trust by quietly making changes that collect user email addresses. The popular software has been downloaded over 476 million times. 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ h...

Full episode available on your favorite podcast platform: /bit.ly/505-updates📌 Edwin Kwan: The LF Open Source Maintainers Report 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-source-maintainers Linux Foundation research found that our technology infrastructure relies heavily on a few hundred open source projects. The maintainers of those projects bear a tremendo...

Kadi McKean: Veilid launch with Paul Miller at BlackHat 2023 🇺🇸 Kadi McKean, Alexandria, Virginia ↗ Guest speaker: Paul Miller, Sr. Manager at VmWare Carbon Black ​​ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulm3319/ Veilid Cult of the Dead Cow Launches Encryption Protocol Veilid https://twitter.com/VeilidNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor   Edwin Kwan: Company using Keystroke...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/505-updates 📌 Today's Cybersecurity Briefing: Marcel Brown: August 10th, 1966. The first lunar orbiter, creatively named Lunar Orbiter I, is launched. Its primary mission is to photograph potential landing sites for future Apollo missions. Edwin Kwan: How are malicious apps getting past Google's Play Store's review process...

Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms:  bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms   Edwin Kwan: Highly Accurate Acoustic Keylogger Attack 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ Academic researchers from British universities have developed a deep learning side channel attack that can be used to steal data from keyboard strokes that are recorded using a microp...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Edwin Kwan: Frequently Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2022 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ A number of cybersecurity agencies have co-authored a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2022. The advisory provides details on CVEs routinely a...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Edwin Kwan: Tax Refund Scams costing Australian Tax Office Over Half a Billion Dollars 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ Cyber criminals have scammed the Australian Tax Office of more than half a billion dollars. They have done so by exploiting a weakness in the identification...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Today is August 4th and it's our 200th episode at "It's 5:05". So we have something special planned. This is Executive Producer, Mark Miller. In addition to our regular format, we are extending the show today to include "The Story of the Week", where four of our journalists exam...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Marcel Brown: This Day, August  3 in Tech History 🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗ August 3rd, 1977. Radio Shack introduces their first computer, the TRS80. Originally forecasting sales of just 3000 to 5,000 per year, the TRS80 sold over 10,000 units in the first mont...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Marcel Brown: This Day, August  2 in Tech History 🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗ August 2nd, 1873. The Clay Street Railroad begins operation, making it the first cable car in San Francisco's now famous cable car system. And for many of us growing up in the 1980's, c...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Marcel Brown: This Day, August  1 in Tech History 🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗ August 1st, 1981. MTV, presumably standing for "Music Television," launches on cable TV. As most people know, after the introduction sequence, the first video played was "Video Killed t...

🎙️ Free access to “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: bit.ly/its505-free-access-on-all-podcast-platforms 📌 Easy to Exploit Vulnerabilities Affecting 40% of Ubuntu Systems 🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗ 40% of Ubuntu cloud workloads are affected by two easy-to-exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Ubuntu has an approximate user base of over 40 million. CRA Moves Into Negot...