As a teacher who had to move to distance learning, I can’t tell you how awesome office 365 is. While I thought Google was doing it right, Microsoft secretly has hit it out of the park. This is not an ad for office 365, but we do talk about how awesome it has become.
Topics are going to get slow until even the hackers venture to do things. We decided to talk about things we can do while riding out the virus.
Microsoft support database leak: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/microsoft-customer-service-data-leak/
Lastpass is having issues: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-mistakenly-removes-extension-from-chrome-store-causes-outage/
Does Apple Encrypt Backups (No, but listen):
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
Android encryption:
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-have-your-back-by.html
We talk about a few nasty bugs. One in Citrix, one in firefox that are being actively exploited. We then talk about how easy it is to be SIM jacked
SIM swap attack: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/14/princeton-sim-swap-hijacking-phone-numbers-paper/