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with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, and @sambowne

Aug 11, 2020

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

Popular Notepad++ text editor banned in China Former CIA officer charged with spying for China Please stop hard-wiring AWS credentials in your code. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

Microsoft will bid farewell to Internet Explorer and legacy Edge in 2021 Google Chrome will try to stop you from typing into risky text boxes Google says Australians could lose free search services

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

How Malicious Tor Relays are Exploiting Users in 2020 (Part I) NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub Call Me Maybe: Ea­ves­drop­ping En­cryp­ted LTE Calls With Re­VoL­TE

Sam Bowne @sambowne

Colleges' best-laid coronavirus plans quickly come undone COVID-19 will hit colleges when students arrive for fall semester. So why open at all? Money is a factor. Scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer Scammers Conned Diners at The Ritz So They Could Buy Stuff at Argos