Mostly Security

Jon King and Eric Wuehler

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

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446 episodes
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Jun 7, 2025 · 29 min
391: Potentially Being the Operative Word
Graduation and Spring Cleaning. Solar Power systems on the internet. Oregon bans the sale of user's (precise) location data. IRS Direct File both in limbo and on GitHub. A Japanese company sets itself up for "third times a charm" landing on the moon and a brain-computer interface is tested on humans. 0:00 - Introduction 10:53 - Solar Power Exposed 13:56 - Geolocation Sale Ban 16:00 - IRS Direct File 22:58 - Ispace, Take Two 25:20 - Neurotech Implant
May 31, 2025 · 38 min
390: Scammer's Paradise
Springtime work and bathroom 'renovations'. Why prompts are the new IOCs and a tool to detect malicious prompts, a guilty plea in the PowerSchool breach from last year, and sanctions against a Philippines based company involved in pig butchering scams. For fun we have the Tianwen-2 launch to collect asteroid samples, and a desktop UV printer on kickstarter that looks amazing. 0:00 - Introduction 14:59 - Prompt IOCs 17:04 - Prompt Pattern Matching 18:56 - PowerSchool Breach Solved 22:22 - Funnull Sanctioned 27:42 - Asteroid Pair 30:47 - Eufy Make E1
May 24, 2025 · 30 min
389: Spider Overlords
Eric solves a printing problem with money, Jon follows a band and gardens. Google uses ART to attack Gemini, o2 fixes an oopsie, genetically modified spiders produce red fluorescent silk, and Harvard's copy of the Magna Carta isn't what they originally thought. 0:00 - Introduction 9:56 - Attacking Gemini 14:36 - o2 Data Leak 21:28 - Gene Edited Spiders 25:02 - Magna Carta Find
May 17, 2025 · 29 min
388: Notoriously Difficult
Mother's Day door painting and flower planting. The damages for the NSO hack of WhatsApp (6 years ago!) are now in, how passkeys work, and the breach of the Signal Clone in widespread use by the US Government. A Soviet satellite launched more than 50 years ago crashes back to earth (Finally?!), and livestreaming a volcano off the Oregon coast. 0:00 - Introduction 9:15 - Punitive Damages 12:45 - Path for Passkeys 18:29 - Telemessage Breach 22:06 - 50 Year Long Crash 25:09 - Volcano Livestream
May 9, 2025 · 25 min
387: All The Phalanges
Eric and Jon both had very boring* weekends. Reckless Rabbits and Scattered Spiders discussed along with xAI private keys. Amazon achieves space pinecone and astrophysicists track down the origin of heavy metals (well, some of them, at least). 0:00 - Introduction 7:04 - Reckless Rabbit 10:56 - Scattered Spider 13:53 - xAI Private Keys 17:54 - Kuiper Satellites 20:43 - Heavy Metals
May 3, 2025 · 36 min
386: Prompt Kiddies
Jon mows and auctions, Eric's thinking of game development. Misuses of Claude, World Passkey Day, and the FBI's IC3 report of scam impact in 2024. For fun we have the 'blank slate' -- a small EV truck coming soon, and making geometry dash with redstone in vanilla minecraft. 0:00 - Introduction 10:51 - Claude Misuse 15:48 - World Passkey Day 19:54 - 2024 IC3 Report 27:36 - Blank Slate 32:30 - Turing Complete Redstone
Apr 26, 2025 · 34 min
385: Dairy Adjacent
Eric makes it home and tries smoking a ham. Jon gets into his front door and the bees are good. Record breaking botnets. Cybersecurity reports. Peep origins. Extraterrestrial life. 0:00 - Introduction 7:38 - Record Breaking Botnet 11:23 - Cybersecurity Report 22:46 - Peep Origins 30:12 - Extraterrestrial Life
Apr 19, 2025 · 29 min
384: Farm Macgyver
Jon farms and Eric drives. Apple case in the UK won't be secret, don't blow up systems on your way out the door, and CVE gets a new maintainer. Ramp meters proven to work, and who doesn't need a little carrot cake in their life? 0:00 - Intro 7:40 - Sunlight, Please? 9:23 - (Bad) Mic Drop 13:12 - To CVE or not to CVE 19:55 - Ramp Meters FTW 24:57 - Carrot Cake
Apr 11, 2025 · 27 min
383: Very Much Bombastic
Jon and Eric mull over a new podcast idea, Door Talk. Eric looks forward to a drive and Jon has bees, seedlings, and fond memories of an Explorer. AI is making password hacking easier while Patch Tuesday slides through with plenty of folks riding side-saddle. Question: Is bringing back extinct species a Good Thing? 0:00 - Introduction 9:59 - Go for Passkeys 13:21 - Patch Tuesday and Friends 18:40 - Extinct Species Debate 23:31 - Dire Wolves are Back!
Apr 5, 2025 · 37 min
382: Strong Sitting Muscles
Jon returns from spring break, and Eric's getting (house) improvements done. Bezos' Kuiper project has to launch a lot of satellites in the next year, Wikimedia's bot problem and AI data poisoning projects, is there actually a Signal vulnerability, and 23 and Me's bankruptcy declaration. For fun we have the Artemis 2 patch reveal, and a (RISC-V compatible!) computer built inside the game Terraria. 0:00 - Intro 12:58 - Kuiper Launch 15:26 - Data Poisoning Projects 21:54 - It's not Signal's Problem 25:57 - Change Your Genetic Data 31:30 - AII Patch Reveal 33:31 - Computerraria
Mar 28, 2025 · 47 sec
381: Hi! ...aaaand we're done
When is a podcast not a podcast? Eric answers that question.
Mar 22, 2025 · 36 min
380: Get Myspaced
Eric and Jon do #notMuch over the weekend; Apple's hearing over ADP begins, AI Search (referrals) are growing rapidly, Apple will support e2ee RCS (blue+green=teal?), and now (not?) to roll back CISA firings. Eric enjoys Real (Tasty) Ramen, and maybe we can regrow our teeth in a couple years. 0:00 - Intro 8:05 - Closed Door Tribunal 10:05 - AI Search Explodes 14:48 - Teal Bubbles? 19:18 - Insecure Unfiring 24:59 - (Not Top) Ramen 28:58 - New Teeth for You
Mar 14, 2025 · 29 min
379: Backhanded Compliment
Jon takes care of bees and Eric finds AI fun in his spam folder. Apple declines to comment while hackers launder more crypto. Beware of Trump-themed cryptocurrency scams and knock-off Android TV boxes. Eric drops another reservation fee on an "ugly" vehicle while Jon makes swords. For middleschoolers. What could possibly go wrong. 0:00 - Introduction 9:32 - Apple Declines to Comment 11:26 - Laundering Crypto 13:19 - TRUMP-coin scam 15:53 - Android TV Badbox 2.0 21:07 - Looks better than a Cybertruck 25:01 - Jon Makes Swords
Mar 8, 2025 · 38 min
378: Tidyification
Eric tidies and Jon may have two hives. A US Army soldier is arrested in relation to the AT&T breach last year, scam compounds are using Starlink, and a huge info stealer dump loaded into HIBP. For fun we have the next step in cloning a mammoth ... gene edited mice, and potential genetic factors in how Greenland sharks live for more than 400 years. 0:00 - Intro 9:07 - Followup 14:27 - Scam Compounds + Starlink 20:32 - 23 Billion Rows 29:09 - Woolly Mammoth Mouse 32:38 - Greenland Sharks
Mar 1, 2025 · 31 min
377: Competitive Puzzling
Eric finishes a magic puzzle and Jon checks in on his bees. GitHub hosts GitVenom while a TraderTraitor "borrows" more cryptocurrency. Apple drops its Advanced Data Protection in the UK but not because it wanted to. Eric finds fun things to print and Jon watches Gaia disappear. 0:00 - Introduction 11:12 - GitVenom 15:54 - TraderTraitor 18:59 - Apple ADP in the UK 23:38 - 3D Printing NASA 26:00 - Gaia is Done
Feb 22, 2025 · 34 min
376: Rebooting Works
Eric on the road, Captain America, Power Drama, and Civ7 impressions. Do we need an American Salt Typhoon? Does Argentina need to pump & dump crypto? Maybe we should all eat some frozen custard and make sure to recycle (our car batteries). 0:00 - Intro 14:29 - Hack Back? 19:53 - Meme Coin Drama 24:27 - Frozen Custard 27:32 - Units Matter
Feb 15, 2025 · 9 min
375: It May Be Fun To Play
Eric is on a roadtrip, Jon watched the Super Bowl. Mozilla is still using a partner not aligned to their values. Google updated their AI principles. Mandiant posts about Cybercrime. Its always DNS, oops, I mean S3 Buckets. Neutrino detection is a thing and Civilization VII is out! 0:00 - Introduction 8:38 - Mozilla Win-Win 10:41 - Google's Updated AI Principles 11:37 - Mandiant Blog Post 16:37 - S3 Buckets 20:47 - Energetic Neutrinos 23:45 - Civ VII is Out!
Feb 8, 2025 · 37 min
374: Magic Piece
Eric has a mysteriously good interaction with Government, and Jon says goodbye to the Explorer. The US Copyright Agency publishes reports about AI and copyright, and Google publishes a report about misuse of Gemini by bad actors. For fun we have the Magic Puzzle Company and the benefits (for Astrolab) and consequences of having Astrobotic's first moon landing fail last year. 0:00 - Intro 12:19 - No Copyright for You (AI) 17:03 - Gemini Misuse 25:55 - Magic Puzzles 30:18 - Astrobotic + Astrolab
Feb 1, 2025 · 32 min
373: All The Things
Eric has no memory while Jon recounts his iPad replacement travails. DeepSeek garners unwanted attention while Change Healthcare leaks your data. The Bennu asteroid reveals the building blocks of life (aka carbon) and Endurance's history is explored. 0:00 - Introduction 14:14 - DeepSeek Attention 18:00 - Change Healthcare Breach 21:54 - Bennu Asteroid Results 27:26 - Haunting Endurance Photos
Jan 25, 2025 · 39 min
372: Bee In My Bonnet
Eric tidies the nest and Jon putters about. Stackoverflow down to 2009 question volume and Texas sues Allstate for their data collection and use practices. Hubble's 10 year compilation of the Andromeda galaxy, and regenerative agriculture restoring arid lands in Africa. 0:00 - Intro 12:19 - Stack Overflow Decline 21:08 - (Illegal?) Insurance Analytics 30:48 - Megapixel Andromeda 34:24 - Regenerative Agriculture