Podcast Episode 34: Capital One Data Breach Impacts over 100M Customers and Other News

This week we talk about the Capital One breach affecting over 100 million customers and some important takeaway lessons from that case. We also look at news with the the Equifax settlement, a spearphishing campaign targeting ProtonMail users, the conclusion to Marcus Hutchins’ legal woes, and Facebook’s $5 billion fine and new regulation from the FTC, amongst other stories.

Here are timestamps in case you would like to jump around:
1:20 WordCamp Asia & WordCamp US
3:36 Capital One Breach
14:19 Equifax settlement news
18:00 ProtonMail spearphishing
21:08 Marcus Hutchins case
25:01 Facebook fined by FTC
31:27 Ransomware affecting Georgia police car laptops
33:08 Los Angeles police data breach
36:48 Comodo exposed credentials
39:34 Siri recording sensitive moments
44:04 Anonymizing data doesn’t protect privacy

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This week in the news we cover:

• WordCamp Asia will take place February 21-23, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand.
• WordCamp US speakers are being announced slowly in preparation for the event in St. Louis, MO November 1-2, 2019.
• Capital One says breach hit over 100 million individuals, and a suspect is in custody.
• Equifax is offering $125 to individuals affected by their 2017 breach, but there are some caveats.
• A highly targeted spear phishing attack is going after journalists using Protonmail.
• Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who stopped the WannaCry malware outbreak, has been spared US jail sentence over accusations of creating the Kronos banking trojan and UPAS kit.
• The US Federal Trade Commission imposes $5 billion penalty and new privacy restrictions on Facebook.
• Ransomware infection takes some police car laptops offline in Georgia.
• A breach at Los Angeles personnel department affects thousands of Los Angeles police officers and applicants.
• Credentials stored on GitHub led to breach of Comodo internal files.
• Apple voice assistant Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments and other intimate moments.
• Anonymizing personal data isn’t enough to keep your identify safe.

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