Episode 7 - Public-Private Partnership Takes on Ransomware, Facebook’s Scumbag Move to Enable Ads, Novel Phishing Techniques, Return of Microsoft Zune

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)

PEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”

 

A new public/private partnership is tackling the problem of stopping the scourge of ransomware

• https://www.wired.com/story/ransomware-task-force-proposal/
• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/task-force-seeks-to-disrupt-ransomware-payments/

 

Facebook and Instagram threaten to start charging for their app unless users enable cross-app tracking

• https://www.imore.com/facebook-and-instagram-threaten-charge-access-ios-145-unless-you-give-it-your-data
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/zuckerberg-outlines-how-facebook-will-thrive-after-apple-privacy-change/ar-BB1g9vbh

 

Attackers are getting creative to trick e-mail security gateways into letting phishing e-mails through

• https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/phishing/scammers-imitate-windows-logo-with-html-tables-to-slip-through-email-gateways/
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/behold-the-facebook-phishing-scam-that-could-dupe-even-vigilant-users/

 

"The Next Big Thing" that totally flopped

• https://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-failures-google-flops
• https://guttulus.com/what-happened-to-microsoft-zune-10-marketing-lessons/
• https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower.html

 

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

 

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