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Sans News Bites returns with episode 25: Covering the newsletter for November 14, 2025

November 16, 2025·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

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Jared returns to SANS News Bites with the November 14, 2025 newsletter, recorded on November 15. He says the attempt to restart the show at the beginning of October did not really stick, so he is staying current instead of trying to work through a backlog of older newsletters. He also notes that each read-through takes time because the newsletter has to be prepared carefully in Braille. He mentions a small correction from another program as a lived-and-learned reminder, and points listeners to the SANS newsletter archive and the show notes if they want to follow the issue along. He says he is feeling much better, though the cough is still hanging around. The first major story he lands on is Google’s lawsuit over Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service kit. The complaint targets 25 unnamed defendants believed to be based in China, and the kit is described as being offered by subscription in both SMS and e-commerce versions, with hundreds of templates for fraudulent websites that mimic legitimate pages. That story gets the expected reaction: this is the kind of scheme that deserves scrutiny, not admiration. From there he turns to breach-notification rules and gets blunt about the timing. His view is that when enough is known to understand what happened, people should be told, especially in critical sectors, because waiting six months or a year defeats the point of notice. He does not pretend anyone can guarantee perfection. What matters, in his telling, is doing the responsible thing as soon as the facts are solid enough, rather than hiding behind delay when there is already enough evidence to act. The show keeps its usual listener line open. He repeats the email, text, WhatsApp, and comment-line options, and he invites people to weigh in if they want their voice heard on the cast. Support also gets a mention. Jared reminds listeners that donations are available through his site and says the podcast remains commercial free, sponsored by the Jared Reimer Network. Weather issues never stay far away. He talks about alerts, burn areas, and the need to keep monitoring conditions in case evacuations become necessary, which gives the episode a very local, very immediate edge. He closes by pointing to the next scheduled newsletter on Tuesday the 18th. By the end, the episode feels like a security bulletin read aloud by someone who knows the material, knows his audience, and is willing to slow down long enough for the details to land.

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A homespun security-news read that turns phishing, breaches, and policy into something worth tracking.

Sans News Bites works as a steady pass through the November 14, 2025 newsletter, and its main strength is Jared's habit of translating the material instead of simply reciting it.

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Catch the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service lawsuit and the breach-notification debate in one annotated SANS news update.

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