Episode 32 - Apple Announcement, BlackMatter Victims Get Free Decryption Key, Darkside Cashing Out and Shutting Down, Hackers Target M&A Activity, Use...

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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Apple's MacBook Event

• https://www.techradar.com/news/live/apple-event-october-2021-live-blog

Emsisoft has been secretly helping victims of BlackMatter

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackmatter-ransomware-victims-quietly-helped-using-secret-decryptor/

• https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/index.html

Darkside ransomware crew cashes out $7M USD of Bitcoin, fearing government crackdown

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/darkside-ransomware-rushes-to-cash-out-7-million-in-bitcoin/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOZokqiPaA

Hackers increasingly targeting mergers and acquisitions as a way to get into larger organizations

• https://blog.knowbe4.com/warning-cybercriminals-target-organizations-going-through-ma-activity

• https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/mergers-acqisitions/us-mergers-acquistions-trends-survey-the-future-m-a.pdf

Most useless thing learned in school

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmmOdnljG4

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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