Episode 18 - Dark VCs Finance Cyber Crime, Man Sells Kidney for iPhone, Facebook Catches a Predator, Poor Financial Decisions

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.”

 

Apple replaces defective Airpods Pros

• https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-issues

 

Dark venture capital money funds the next generation of cyber crime

• https://blog.knowbe4.com/cyberheistnews-vol-11-27-eye-opener-theyre-here...the-ransomware-ecosystem-now-has-criminal-vc-investors
• https://www.chrislouie.net/blog/2019/10/20/ransomware-as-a-service-a-race-to-the-bottom

 

Man in China sells a kidney to pay for an iPhone and iPad

• https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/chinese-man-who-sold-kidney-to-buy-iphone-now-bedridden-for-life-278934-2020-11-17
• https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up

 

Facebook uses zero-day exploit to catch a predator

• https://www.engadget.com/buster-hernandez-sentenced-to-prision-180445812.html
• https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.insd.77308/gov.uscourts.insd.77308.131.0.pdf

 

Bad financial decisions

• https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/auto-loan-refinancing-scams
• https://www.realcartips.com/carloans/020-how-dealers-make-money-on-car-loans.shtml

 

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

 

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