Free Anti Virus and smart phone protection Software from Sophos

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools.aspx?cmp=30726

FREE Cybersecurity Law Casebook.

Thanks to Bobby Chesney,Professor at University of Texas at Austin for publishing this FREE Cybersecurity Law Casebook.
Who should use it: The book is designed to be valuable not just to beginners but also those who may have experience in one area but would like to see how their corner of the puzzle relates to the larger whole.
About this book: This is an interdisciplinary “eCasebook,” designed from the ground up to reflect the intertwined nature of the legal and policy questions associated with cybersecurity.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3547103

If you think any subdomain with "microsoft.com" is safe, think again

Researchers were able to grab more than 670 subdomains that had previously been used by Microsoft but subsequently FORGOTTEN about it.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/06/researcher-finds-670-microsoft-subdomains-vulnerable-to-takeover/

Ransomware Evolution #5 - Steal data from backups and delete it. We thought good backups are important (they still are) but, what happens when ransomware authors can gain control of the Backup Software

Evolution:
1. Encrypt local data
2. Worm
3. Threaten to expose sensitive pictures
4. Threaten to expose data (leading to breach)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-attackers-use-your-cloud-backups-against-you/

CCTV footage from a Fake Call Center involved in Tech support scams.

https://youtu.be/le71yVPh4uk

Must Watch - (Sad and touching,) How a 13 year old girl is cheated by a scammer from a Fake Call Center in India.

https://youtu.be/kFwt-_svg_0

Smart Speaker or Smart Snooper, maybe we whould call it "Smart Sneaker" - Forget big brother , your own pet electronics might be spying on you. Study estimates that activations of smart speakers when it wasn't you who uttered any wake word occur between 1.5 and 19 times a day. The average time of activation is 43 seconds.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-worry-alexa-and-friends-only-record-you-up-to-19-times-a-day/