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Security 270 – Good Police Work

We cover two recent stories on what we call “Good Police Work.” Without breaking encryption, the police find ways to catch criminals.

How the FBI Tricked Criminals into Using its Messaging App

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside

Security -269 – Cookie Law

We go on a rant about cookies, and the cookie laws.

Countries are talking about simplifying the law to create “acceptable cookie levels” in browsers, this means you’ll need to set this for every device and every browser.

Banner Blindness
User Training

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058

Security 268 – Patents

In this episode we discuss patents. We focus on patent trolls and software patents.

https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll/transcript?language=en#t-279192

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

Security 267 – Gas Line Ransomware

In this episode we discuss the Colonial Gas Pipeline ransomware attack. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/

Security 266 – Signal Found Something

Our two main stories is how Signal found a Cellebrite hardware analyzer. Then they say they found a bunch of vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/