The Security box, podcast 124: Ransomware reaches a billion dollars

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Welcome to the Security box, podcast 124. On this podcast, we've got news coming out of Security Now about another root Certificate company that is no more. We've got news and notes from around the landscape, and Ransomware payments have hit at least a billion dollars. All this, including questions, comments and other miscellanious activity on today's show.

Trust Core

Security Now podcast 900 is full of questions. One of which for this podcast talks about another trust certificate authority that isn't. The apparent company is called Trust Core. This reminds me of the Hong Kong post office and why they were a trusted certificate authority. We've never covered certificate authorities and maybe we need to. Let's just say that they intercepted traffic and installed malware.

EUFY not telling the truth

I don't have any articles, but SN 900 covered this and I saw a notice from Malware Bytes. They say that footage from their cameras are not send to the cloud, but an Ars Technica article mentioned by Stieve indicates otherwise. The company Anker (not to be confused with Anchor) says this is not the case.

Ransomware costing a billion dollars

Ransomware costs top $1 billion as White House inks new threat-sharing initiative is a Cyberscoop article and our main topic. If we can share intelligence, maybe we can better defend against these problems and maybe Ransomware can be slowed down. We'll see how it goes.