The Security box, episode 7

Welcome to podcast 7 of the Security Box. This week, let's peruse some topics, I'll link to some articles, and you can comment as usual. News, Notes, and much more. Thanks for listening! <ul title="Articles of interest"> <li> Election officials have been warned about Typosquatting domains and how they can be used to bring trouble to their particular candidate. Typosquatting is a big problem, and in a future podcast, we'll look in to what this is. In an article entitled <a href="https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-bulletin-typosquatting-2020-election-officials/">Feds warn election officials of potentially malicious ‘typosquatting’ websites </a> you'll learn what is the danger in the election scheme of things. </li> <li> I think its time to really bring out a topic. How many people heard of the dark web? 11.6 billion records have been breached and are on the dark web since 2005 according to this article by Lastpass. Is this something we should be concerned with as a whole, or do you think it isn't a big deal? This can only get worse, and the box wants to hear what you think of this. Each year, more companies are breached than ever before and it is definitely a problem I think. There is a way you can scan the dark web for any type of data like an Email address, but is this enough? Lastpass has the capability of doing this for you. <a href="https://blog.lastpass.com/2020/08/what-are-dark-web-scans/">The article What are dark web scans? </a> goes in to more details on how this is done. </li> News: <ul title="news"> <li> Looks like Experian can't keep their mouth shut. According to a Cyberscoop article, 24 million South Africans are now at risk because someone potentially opened their mouth. They said the employee was tricked in to disclosing information on a unknown number of people, but the number seems to be a whopping 24 million. <a href="https://www.cyberscoop.com/experian-south-africa-breach-sabric/">No hacking needed: Someone duped Experian into handing over data in breach affecting 24 million South Africans </a> i