The Security box, podcast 245: Spain and their DDoS issues as well as news, notes and the landscape

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Welcome to the security box, podcast 245. We ope that you have enjoyed your 4th of July holiday and we're glad to be back on the airwaves.

On this program, we're going to cover the news, the notes and the landscape since we have been away as well as any thoughts from anyone who may be joining us during the live taping.

We also have trivia as well, and we'll be sure to get the trivia to the list for those who want to participate through that method.

Files we'll be adding will include: a discussion on CSAM, otherwise known as child sexual abuse material, a joke I found on Mastodon that is not tech related, we'll read something that was found from DevaOnBreaches that is true today more than ever, and of course our topic being Spain and their DDOS being increased over 100 percent!

The blog will have links to topics as usual.

As I'm going through Mastodon, I find the following boosted toot.

Alex Chapman: Boosting mattcurtis (mattcurtis): trump mobile is the worst type of phone plan you can ask for, first you pay $61.00 for the sim, and then, you use your data up? your phone data gets shut off completely, want proof?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtSo7dASg0

Here">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtSo7dASg0">Here is the link to the 30 minute video if you want to watch. This came in after we got the intro together, just take a look if you're interested in this service.

The blog post this time is DDOS">https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2025/05/07/ddos-attackers-targeting-spain/">DDOS attackers targeting spain and this is quite interesting. This is research from Group IB, who we've talked about on this podcast before. As I indicated in the intro created for this podcast, its well over 100 percent. In fact, its up quite a lot. The full article is titled DDoS">https://cybernews.com/security/moscow-aligned-hackers-drive-ddos-attacks-surge-in-europe/">DDoS attacks surge by 88% in March, Spain emerges as top target if you'd like to read it. It'll be helping us with this discussion.

We hope you enjoy!