Technology podcast 333: January 6, 2020

Welcome to the first podcast of 2020, podcast 333. Below, please find a list of items and links where applicable as the topics of the podcast are listed below. <ul title="what is in the podcast"> <li> Breaches galore, the epidemic of whats happened in the last decade. Are we really looking for more trouble, or will it slow down? </li> <li> Freshbooks: thank you so much for giving me a great reason for talking about you today. On this podcast, I talk about how I had to reinstall the Freshbooks app, and how easy it was to reauthenticate with my account. I was afraid that I was needing to grab my 20 character password and paste in the password field. Not anymore! </li> <li> <a href="http://twit.tv">Twit.tv </a> has a new sponsor on their list that spomnsors segments on Security Now. Sadly, I can't take advantage of it at this time, but it looks like something we could've and should've had many years ago. Learn about <a href="http://www.privacy.com">privacy.com </a> and see if it will meet your needs. </li> <li> Michael in Indiana and I talked about software and reminisced about the old days of how downloading the wrong software wasn't fatal, but just a havoc. Today, this isn't the case. I mention Stuxnet as an example of software that was developed and it did some real world damage. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196">Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon: by Kim Zetter </a> is the name of the book and its author. I read this through Kindle and I may have talked about this on my podcast when I did. If this is the first actual weapon that destroyed data and things that were going on, is something else being developed we yet don't know about? </li> </ul> As usual, our contact information is at the end of the program, and I hope you enjoy this first podcast. I'll be back on another edition very soon. Thanks so much for listening to this 71 minute program!