Picturing the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for August 17th 2021

If the single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it and the “camera is a license to explore” then let’s hit the motor drive because we’ve got a lot of scenery to cover!

We start with an appetite so large for taking pictures that consumer interest groups are now asking for receipts. We move on to dadada and password reuse, the inflationary pressure on phishing, and a suggestion that T-mobile might want to be a bit more polished in their breach news releases.

We end up with a demonstration of a solid backup and recovery process and a kid who is going back to church with his camera.

You’re going to love this week’s IT Privacy and Security update … frame, by frame!

"We start with a story about reinvention:
There’s been a lot of press lately about Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) groups disappearing.
The truth is, when you make as much money as they do, it’s hard to just walk away.
So here are this weeks RaaS Renames:

• Darkside has become BlackMatter
• DoppelPaymer is now known as Grief and
• Avaddon shall henceforth be known as Haron

How do we know? Much of the signature software in use by the new gangs is bit-for-bit the same as was used by their earlier alias."...

Find this week's full transcript at Discuss.daml.com