Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Ticketmaster Hacked Competitor to Steal Data and Analytics, Fined Millions

From SecureWorld.  What’s that saying in business? “If you can’t beat ’em… hack ’em.” Newly released court documents show that some executives and employees at Ticketmaster did exactly that. What were they targeting? Access to a competitor’s proprietary data and analytics relating to concert ticket pre-sales. Ticketmaster ...

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JAN
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artificial intellegence, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, law and policy, multi-factor authentication, News and politics, robotics, Weekend Update

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Changes to Publication Schedule

I have been writing and publishing articles here in this web log since October 26, 2006.  At first articles appeared sporadically, but as I found my focus and found my voice, I began to publish articles more frequently.  For several years I have been writing about three articles per week, publishing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  I added a cybersecurity news round-up I call Weekend Update that appears on Saturday, ...

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DEC
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News and politics

Sunday Funnies – Zero Dark Friday

As reported here, the Political Correctness Police have turned their gaze in the direction of InfoTech and CyberSec, replacing terms like Black List and White List with racially neutral terms such as Deny List and Allow List, and White Hat Hackers and Black Hat Hackers with Authorized Hackers and Unauthorized Hackers.  How long before Retail feels the heat for Black Friday?  My proposed replacement is in the title.  And here are some gift ideas for the hard to shop for:  ...

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NOV
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News and politics, Sunday Funnies

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Trump Campaign Site Hacked – What We Know & Lessons Learned

This entry was posted on October 27, 2020 by Mark Maunder

On October 27, 2020 at approximately 4:50pm Mountain Time, Donald Trump’s campaign website, www.donaldjtrump.com, was defaced. The attackers left a message claiming they had compromising information on President Trump. The ...

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OCT
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artificial intellegence, News and politics, robotics, social engineering, Software vulnerability, Weekend Update

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When Encryption Is A Crime Only Criminals Will Have Encryption

As we enter the silly season of another Presidential Election, and possibly because of a psychological condition that I am calling COVID Mania*, the government is once again making boneheaded moves to introduce and pass legislation that would allow the federal government and law enforcement agencies easier access to encrypted messages from criminal sources.  This issue comes up every five to ten years.  It seems that agencies such as the ...

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OCT
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cybersecurity, encryption, law and policy, News and politics, NSA

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

September Special Events

September is a busy time for me, there are a wedding anniversary, and three birthdays in my family in the first week.  Then there are a panoply of other special events.  At least they are special enough to be recognized in this weblog.  Here they are.  Please celebrate responsibly.  Or not.  But have some fun, we all ...

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SEP
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careers, certification, cybersecurity, education, News and politics, ransomware, training, Windows 10

Debunking the “Three Number New Cases” Meme

There is a meme going around that is amazing and suspicious.  Basically, if you open Google and search on ANY 3 digit number plus the words “new cases” (246 new cases, for example) Google will always be able to find a search result. I’ve seen this on Facebook, and tried it out myself, and it appears to work every time.  This is a little weird.  Now I’ve searched YouTube for this and similar videos.  This one is 5 minutes 18 ...

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SEP
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News and politics

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