Cyberespionage and used car salesmen. Email extortion through embarrassment, not encryption. The personal is the professional. And a look back at Patch Tuesday.

Cyberespionage and used car salesmen. Email extortion through embarrassment, not encryption. The personal is the professional. And a look back at Patch Tuesday.

A Chinese threat actor hits US organizations with a Microsoft cloud exploit. Open source tools allow threat actors to exploit a loophole in Microsoft’s kernel driver authentication procedures. A RomCom update. Beamer phishbait, email extortion attacks and digital blackmail. A new report concludes companies allowing personal employee devices onto their network are opening themselves to attack. Tim Starks from the Washington Post looks at Microsoft’s recent woes. Our guest is Eyal Benishti from IRONSCALES with insights on business email compromise. And a July Patch Tuesday retrospective.   Read More 

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