PEBCAK Podcast: Information Security News by Some All Around Good People

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
College textbooks are a huge scamhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/pajze9/people-are-finally-fighting-back-against-the-college-textbook-industrys-scamhttps://www.postandcourier.com/news/textbook-scam-alleged-in-federal-lawsuit-against-scs-biggest-technical-college/article_d266c94a-262e-11e9-a6dd-ab6ac37fa3d1.htmlEmotet botnet is back!https://therecord.media/emotet-botnet-returns-after-law-enforcement-mass-uninstall-operation/https://www.zdnet.com/article/emotet-once-the-worlds-most-dangerous-malware-is-back/What's a Meta? Mark Zuckerburg wants us all in the Metaversehttps://venturebeat.com/2021/11/21/the-metaverse-will-make-your-meetings-worse/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/19/into_the_metaverse_146762.htmlNFTs explained, from The Matrix to Bored Apeshttps://nftplazas.com/what-are-nfts/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-nft-sneakers-could-coming-181755561.htmlHappy Thanksgiving!https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/60-things-thankful-for-life.htmlhttps://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgivingDad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcast
PEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”Visit Costa Rica!https://www.visitcostarica.com/enhttps://www.lonelyplanet.com/costa-ricaThe rise of ransomware's quadruple extortionhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/conti-ransom-gang-starts-selling-access-to-victims/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-hellokitty-ransomware-adds-ddos-attacks-to-extortion-tactics/US Government misses critical deadline to implement encryption and multi-factor authenticationhttps://www.cyberscoop.com/mfa-encryption-executive-order/https://www.cyberscoop.com/cyber-executive-order-biden-pipeline-russia-china/US Commerce Department sanctions NSO Group and other spyware makershttps://www.cyberscoop.com/commerce-department-blacklists-controversial-spyware-company-nso-group/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/commerce-dept-sanctions-nso-group-positive-technologies-and-more-for-selling-spyware-and-hacking-tools/CNN publishes misleading article about ending world hunger; Elon Musk trolls them back.https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-elon-musk-world-hunger-response/http://mickebeling.com/https://www.charitynavigator.org/Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
Three major credit bureaus sell your informationhttps://www.lendingtree.com/credit-repair/what-is-a-trigger-lead/https://www.banks.com/articles/credit/credit-score/credit-bureau/Exploit brokers paying top dollar for VPN zero dayshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zerodium-wants-zero-day-exploits-for-windows-vpn-clients/https://www.securityweek.com/zerodium-buying-zero-day-exploits-targeting-vpn-softwareMicrosoft stops world's largest DDoS attacks while VOIP providers continue to sufferhttps://therecord.media/microsoft-said-it-mitigated-a-2-4-tbps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever/https://therecord.media/industry-group-warns-of-coordinated-ddos-extortion-campaign-against-voip-providers/Deep fake voice convinces company to wire $35 million to criminalshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-bank-fraud-uses-deep-fake-voice-tech-to-steal-millions/https://lifars.com/2019/09/forget-bec-fraudsters-deepfake-ceos-voice-to-trick-manager-into-transferring-money/Visit Costa Rica!https://www.visitcostarica.com/enhttps://www.lonelyplanet.com/costa-ricaDad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
Apple's MacBook Eventhttps://www.techradar.com/news/live/apple-event-october-2021-live-blogEmsisoft has been secretly helping victims of BlackMatterhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackmatter-ransomware-victims-quietly-helped-using-secret-decryptor/https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/index.htmlDarkside ransomware crew cashes out $7M USD of Bitcoin, fearing government crackdownhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/darkside-ransomware-rushes-to-cash-out-7-million-in-bitcoin/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOZokqiPaAHackers increasingly targeting mergers and acquisitions as a way to get into larger organizationshttps://blog.knowbe4.com/warning-cybercriminals-target-organizations-going-through-ma-activityhttps://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/mergers-acqisitions/us-mergers-acquistions-trends-survey-the-future-m-a.pdfMost useless thing learned in schoolhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmmOdnljG4Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's very special Halloween episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
The Purgehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/plotsummaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_0aLWOa8ENavy engineer caught selling secrets to alleged foreign agenthttps://www.cyberscoop.com/navy-nuclear-spy-espionage-charges/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21082100/toebbe-complaint.pdf https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/did-pepsi-really-have-a-navy/31 nations plus The EU meet to clamp down on ransomwarehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-links-52-billion-worth-of-bitcoin-transactions-to-ransomware/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-and-china-left-out-of-global-anti-ransomware-meetings/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/governments-worldwide-to-crack-down-on-ransomware-payment-channels/Major hack and data breach against Amazon-owned Twitchhttps://therecord.media/twitch-says-no-user-passwords-or-cards-numbers-were-exposed-in-major-hack/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-game-streaming-service-twitch-suffers-major-data-breach-rcna2651https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitch-downplays-this-months-hack-says-it-had-minimal-impact/Canon disables scan functionality if ink cartridges are emptyhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/canon-sued-for-disabling-scanner-when-printers-run-out-of-ink/Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcast
PEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”The Dutch say military operations are on the table to respond to ransomware attackshttps://therecord.media/netherlands-can-use-intelligence-or-armed-forces-to-respond-to-ransomware-attacks/https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dutch-insider-deployed-stuxnetRansomware gangs threaten to wipe data and release files if negotiators are hired or chats leakedhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-threatens-to-wipe-decryption-key-if-negotiator-hired/https://www.cyberscoop.com/blackmatter-trolls-new-cooperative-ransomware/https://therecord.media/conti-gang-threatens-to-dump-victim-data-if-ransom-negotiations-leak-to-reporters/One-time passcode interception is easier than ever with Telegram botshttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/the-rise-of-one-time-password-interception-bots/https://breakdev.org/evilginx-advanced-phishing-with-two-factor-authentication-bypass/Which hosts are upgrading to Windows 11?https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/amd-warns-of-up-to-15-percent-windows-11-performance-decrease/https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-file-explorer-memory-leak-bug/Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/Jasmin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasminp/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got three amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
Facebook goes offline for more than 7 hourshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/Apple AirTag vulnerable to cross-site scripting attackhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/apple-airtag-bug-enables-good-samaritan-attack/https://www.datadoctors.com/help/kenscolumns/22367-Sniffing-Out-Evil-QR-Codes/An infant in 2019 is believed to be the first death caused by a ransomware attackhttps://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hospital-ransomware-attack-led-infants-death-lawsuit-allegeshttps://www.chrislouie.net/blog/2020/9/20/grim-milestone-worlds-first-death-from-ransomwareIT Administrator caught mining cryptocurrency using public powerhttps://www.longislandpress.com/2021/09/08/suffolk-it-supervisor-arrested-for-allegedly-mining-bitcoin-at-county-offices/ https://www.chrislouie.net/blog/2019/9/3/skynet-closer-than-you-think-protecting-users-and-humanity-against-themselvesDad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcast
PEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”FBI had Kaseya Ransomware decryption key for three weeks before releasing ithttps://www.csoonline.com/article/3633667/yes-the-fbi-held-back-revil-ransomware-keys.htmlhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bipartisan-criticism-grows-over-the-fbi-delaying-aid-to-kaseya-victims/ar-AAOXjMkAtlassian discloses and patches a no-auth, remote code execution vulnerabilityhttps://therecord.media/confluence-enterprise-servers-targeted-with-recent-vulnerability/ https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vmware-denies-allegations-it-leaked-confluence-rce-exploitFormer NSA operatives fined $1.7 million for developing exploits for the UAE governmenthttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-us-intel-operatives-to-pay-16m-for-hacking-for-foreign-govt/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/Hard drive SSD manufacturers caught using cheaper components without notifying public or reviewershttps://www.extremetech.com/computing/325824-buyer-beware-crucial-swaps-p2-ssds-tlc-nand-for-slower-inferior-qlc-chips https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326377-samsung-is-the-latest-ssd-manufacturer-cheating-its-customershttps://www.extremetech.com/computing/326200-western-digital-caught-bait-and-switching-customers-with-slow-ssdsDad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got three amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
Ducati bank error leads to ransomware discoveryhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/customer-care-giant-ttec-hit-by-ransomware/https://www.zdnet.com/article/ttec-hit-with-ransomware-attack-hampering-work-for-major-clients/Vulnerability in UPS.com's website causes it to server malwarehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-campaign-uses-upscom-xss-vuln-to-distribute-malware/https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/The role of botnets in influence campaigns and clickfraudhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-botnet-used-in-youtube-ad-fraud-scheme/https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/labs/inside-the-million-machine-clickfraud-botnetDad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/Paul - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbrettle/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got three amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcastPEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
Chinese and Russian hackers arrestedhttps://therecord.media/trickbot-gang-member-arrested-after-getting-stuck-in-south-korea-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/ https://therecord.media/mozi-botnet-authors-arrested-in-china/ProtonMail forced to log and hand over user's IP addresshttps://therecord.media/protonmail-forced-to-collect-an-activists-ip-address-in-police-investigation/https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/pil6xi/climate_activist_arrested_after_protonmail/hbqha63/Apple announces iPhone 13 and patches critical Zero-Day in iOS 14https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/apple-fixes-imessage-zero-day-exploited-by-pegasus-spyware/https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/apple-ios-14-8-pegasus-security-fix-iphone-owners-urged-to-update-immediately/ https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691257/richard-prince-instagram-photos-copyright-law-fair-usehttps://www.tiktok.com/@catjesse/video/6881830571832659206Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!Find the hosts on LinkedIn:Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/Matt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/disher/