inThirty.net

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.

Another back to basics episode about VPNs, but with a new contender.
Wireguard is awesome. Like straight up fast, secure, and awesome.

https://www.wireguard.com/

https://pivpn.io

In this episode we talk about antivirus, and the lack of need for it. That is correct, we are saying to ditch commercial antivirus and use the built in offerings.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/01/30/severe-perfect-100-microsoft-flaw-confirmed-this-is-a-cloud-security-nightmare/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/ajit-pai-carrier-sales-of-phone-location-data-is-illegal-fcc-plans-punishment/

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/04/google-photos-bug-videos/

https://mobile.twitter.com/aphyr/status/1133484519942774784

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation

https://blog.avast.com/a-message-from-ceo-ondrej-vlcek

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