Closed Network Privacy Podcast

Episode 37 - Collect It All, So We Can Know It All

Closed Network Privacy Podcast

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Closed Network podcast Episode 37 -Surveillance, KYC, Data Breaches and Shennanigans

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Thomas Drake - NSA Whistleblower

Exposing the NSA’s Mass Surveillance of Americans | Cyberwar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVm62oEyWA

News:

- Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional

Continued fallout from Snowflake hack - The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/2024-in-data-breaches-1-billion-stolen-records-and-rising/?guccounter=1

Google Breaks Promise to Block Third-Party Cookies

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies

Switching from Windows to Linux

https://ente.io/articles/switch-to-linux/

IT'S FOSS !

Open source tools to boost your productivity

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/11/a-not-quite-definitive-guide-to-open-source-alternative-software/

RockYou2024: 10 billion passwords leaked in the largest compilation of all time

https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2024-largest-password-compilation-leak/

F*ck FireFox

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5871895/mozilla-firefox-goes-anti-privacy-pro-advertising

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

https://stackdiary.com/signal-under-fire-for-storing-encryption-keys-in-plaintext/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-downplays-encryption-key-flaw-fixes-it-after-x-drama/

GrapheneOS Duress PIN/Password

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

ChatGPT for Mac app flaw left users' chat history exposed

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/chatgpt-mac-app-flaw-left-users-history-exposed/

Windows Recall Remains Insecure, Researcher Says; Google Developing Similar Feature

Latest Windows Recall preview remains vulnerable to cyberattacks, researcher says; Google plans similar feature for Pixel 9 devices.

https://thecyberexpress.com/windows-recall-preview-remains-insecure/

Telecom Act Partially Notified: Govt to Get More Powers to Intercept and Stop Messages

https://thewire.in/government/telecom-act-notified-partially-govt-to-get-more-powers-to-intercept-and-stop-messages

On a brand new installation of Kali Linux, you can find the RockYou password list under: /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz

To extract this list: gzip -d rockyou.txt.gz

When the file is finished extracting, we should end up with: rockyou.txt

https://www.sevenlayers.com/index.php/202-pentesting-101-passwords-and-wordlists

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