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Weekend Update

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

Mark Twain and the Affordable Pocket Watch

Timepieces were once the exclusive preserve of the wealthy, but transcontinental railroads, Mark Twain, and the Ingersoll brothers made timekeeping affordable for everyone with the One Dollar Watch. Now just one more thing the smartphone killed off. From the Smithsonian.

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Free and Open Source Apps for Android

The problem with smartphone apps is that they cannot be trusted. Sure that new game is fun, but what about all the ads? Did you know that ads can contain malicious links? And what about all the apps that include location in their permissions? Wouldn’t it be great if there was an alternative?

F-Droid is a platform for free ...

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Android, cybersecurity, smartphones

FOSS, free and open source

Is Drug Kingpin Paul Le Roux the Inventor of Bit-Coin?

Paul Calder Le Roux, a brilliant South African software programmer who ran the most successful and largely legal opioid marketing networks called RX Limited, and morphed into running a huge illegal international drugs and arms dealing empire that has ever been seen. Since his arrest in 2012, he has been spending time in the custody of the DEA, ...

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Computers and Internet, crypto-currency, encryption, law and policy, News and politics

Public Key Encryption Explained

One of the more difficult cybersecurity concepts to understand is Public Key Encryption and how public keys, private keys, symmetrical encryption and asymmetrical encryption all work together. This infographic I found on Facebook does and excellent job explaining how this works.

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, encryption, privacy, Security

Sunday Funnies – The End for Mad Magazine

Read this throughout my teens, and it will be sorely missed.

Last Laugh: ‘MAD’ Magazine Will Soon Disappear From Newsstands
The iconic satire publication plans to reprint archival material with new covers, but will stop publishing new issues

From the Smithsonian Magazine

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Weekend Update

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

Don’t fall for fake Equifax settlement sites, warns FTC

Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Releases Advisory on Fileless Malware

Original release date: July 18, 2019

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Astaroth, fileless malware, firefox, Mozilla, US Coat Guard

Beware of Scammers Exploiting Recent Events

It seems that every new event brings out a crop of scammers ready to exploit the gullible. Several recent scams are using the Equifax breach settlement, and the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton to extract money from or deliver malware to their victims.

First, from KnowBe4, we have the details of several scams taking advantage of people attempting to get the $125 settlement payment they may be owed as a result of the Equifax ...

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cybersecurity, News and politics, Phishing, social engineering

Equifax breach

Federal Trade Commission Fines Equifax and Facebook

Hot on the heals on each other, Equifax and Facebook have each settled for large fines in unrelated privacy and data breach cases. All I can say is “about time” and “is that all?”

The FTC has fined Facebook $5 billion for data misuse and other issues related to Cambridge Analytica, the European GDPR, the last US Presidential Elections, and the Brexit campaign. ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Facebook, law and policy

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Guest Post – Accreditation vs. Certification vs. Registration in the ISO world

Things with ISO standards can get really complicated: there are many ISO management standards – the most popular ones are ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, etc. – and there are a multitude of ways to get accredited/certified/registered related to those standards. But, that’s not all – there is a difference if you want to certify your company, or if you want to certify as an individual.