TSB 225: Mastercard and its stupidity
Jared's Technology Podcast Network · Jared Rimer
February 5, 20253h 3mExplicit
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (content.rss.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Welcome to the security box, podcast 225. On this program, we're going to talk about a company that earned our stupid fuck award for January. We'll also cover the news, notes, landscape and more.
Newsy items
- Not that we care, but Microsoft Defender is disabling VPN. Microsoft kills of Defender Privacy protection VPN services for more.
- Deep Seek is being abused, not much of a surprise here, but worth looking at. Should this not be surprising, DeepSeek now being abused for more.
- Gemini and other tools are being abused, and some have been abused more than others. Enter the AI aspect of these tools and we've penned an article titled Gemini AI tools are being abused … so are others if you want to read it.
- Globe Life is yet another breach with yet another update. Globe life confirms breach after investigation, 850k more affected if you wish.
- Meta is in Chaos mode, it seems should not be surprising to some, maybe surprising to others. You decide.
- Tata tech hit with ransomware
- You’ve got to be kidding me … another two databases open but now closed? if you've not read it already.
- A Canadian Man got charged this month with pilfering $65m in Crypto. Our blog post Canadian man charged with stealing $65m using crypto exploits has the entire details.