Smashing Security podcast #288: Chiquita banana, dumb criminals, and detecting ring binders

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Students learn a valuable lesson when it comes to AI detecting guns on campus, SIM swappers are surprisingly stupid, and romance scammers get scammed by someone (or some thing?) calling themselves Chiquita Banana.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.

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Global companies say supply chain partners expose them to ransomware

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Global organizations say they are increasingly at risk of ransomware compromise via their extensive supply chains. 

Out of 2,958 IT decision makers across 26 countries in North and South America, Europe, and APAC, 79% believe their partners and customers are making their organization a more attractive ransomware target, according to the latest research by Trend Micro. 

Fifty-two percent of the global organizations surveyed say they have a supply chain partner that has been hit by ransomware. Supply chain and other partners include providers of IT hardware, software and services, open-source code repositories, and non-digital suppliers ranging from law firms and accountants to building maintenance providers. They make for a web of interdependent organizations. 

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