Unsupervised Learning

Daniel Miessler

Unsupervised Learning is about ideas and trends in Cybersecurity, National Security, AI, Technology, and Culture—and how best to upgrade ourselves to be ready for what's coming.

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Jan 4, 2016 · 55 min
T1SP: Episode 23
[ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS ] News * [ ] Juniper backdoor; could have been found with diff; signs point to NSA * [ ] RCE on FireEye appliances * [ ] Hyatt got hacked; malware on POS * [ ] 45K drones registered with FAA within 2 days * [ ] Industry moving towards password-free logins; still single factor, now the factor is your device; although access to device could require factors * [ ] Microsoft will now tell you if your account has been targeted by government authorities * [ ] Tor announced it’s doing a bug bounty, looks like it’ll be internal * [ ] Steam had a DoS that revealed 34K user details * [ ] Linode has been suffering a massive DDoS on its datacenters, DNS infrastructure * [ ] Spy files found in North Korea’s Operating System Ideas, updates, and discussion * [ ] 3 things you should do every January * [ ] Web Scanner Series: Burp vs. Netsparker * [ ] When you’re interviewing, make sure you make it clear that you’re the asset too, not just them * [ ] Failing at the basics in intelligence and infosec * [ ] Why Trump is Winning * [ ] Sensitive data sent in URL over HTTPS * [ ] Difference between correlation and causation * [ ] Paul Graham’s REFRAGMENTATION post * [ ] The relationship between Relaxation, Fun, and Performance * [ ] Michael Coates makes the argument that false negatives are way better than false positives because false positives create unnecessary work for his team * [ ] Brainstorm questions, not solutions Tools and projects * [ ] BLUTO * [ ] Serpico * [ ] Firmware Extraction from Craig Smith * [ ] Vulnerability Database Resources * [ ] IoT Attack Surfaces Project * [ ] RobotsDisallowed Project * [ ] Nowhere.net (CyberPunk) * [ ] EyeWitness * [ ] REST Security Cheat Sheet * [ ] Censys.io * [ ] GithubDorks * [ ] InstaRecon (DNS lookups, whois, shodan, google dorks, etc) * [ ] twfactorauth.org Announcements * [ ] Speaking at OWASP Cali end of January * [ ] Currently working on an ICS / SCADA primer Miscellaneous * [ ] Need to check out the Benedict Evans blog * [ ] Serial Podcast / Making a Murderer on Netflix * [ ] If you know any Army veterans who are getting out and want to get into InfoSec, let me know * [ ] Twitter account: CISSP Googling * [ ] Sam Altman (Startup Playbook) [ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS ] Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 13, 2015 · 10 min
Security and Obscurity
[ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS ] In this episode I explore the topic of Security and Obscurity by reading my popular essay on the topic. Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 13, 2015 · 18 min
T1SP: Episode 21
[ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS ] Topics for this episode: News * [ ] Stringing Shodan to exploitation * [ ] Why you need to check HaveIBeenPwned * [ ] Another DELL root cert hacked * [ ] ISIS OPSEC advice (data privacy, tor, crytocat, telegram, proton mail, gps features on mobile devices, etc.) They also mention not to use instagram because Facebook has a poor privacy record. * [ ] Obama wants to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice * [ ] DHS giving companies free penetration tests * [ ] Issues in Honeywell gas detectors (path traversal and clear-text passwords) * [ ] UAE Bank declines to pay ransom, data released * [ ] Swift is open source * [ ] Amazon two-factor now available * [ ] Credit freeze vs. monitoring * [ ] Thousands of IoT devices sharing the same SSH keys * [ ] Many people predicting that 2016 is the year that Apple gets targeted by more attackers * [ ] Engine Immobilizers hackable over the internet Announcements * [ ] Speaking at OWASP Cali end of January * [ ] Currently working on an ICS / SCADA primer Productivity * [ ] Algorithmic learning [ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS ] Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. * It’s better to listen via iTunes or with the player embedded above, but you can also download the sound file directly. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 7, 2015 · 23 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 20
Topics for this episode: News and analysis * [ ] Ads using high frequency sound to communicate across devices. The ultrasonic pitches are embedded into TV commercials or are played when a user encounters an ad displayed in a computer browser. While the sound can’t be heard by the human ear, nearby tablets and smartphones can detect it. When they do, browser cookies can now pair a single user to multiple devices and keep track of what TV commercials the person sees, how long the person watches the ads, and whether the person acts on the ads by doing a Web search or buying a product. * [ ] Conficker in police body cameras (windows brute force tool) * [ ] Siri iOS data extraction. Tv reporter * [ ] The eye of Siri * [ ] Read top stories from the security news site * [ ] Expect to see concealed carry increase in the united states * [ ] Starwood hotels hit with POS malware * [ ] How to Deploy Splunk AD Monitoring in 437 Easy Steps * [ ] PCs being shipped with MiTM certs in them (supply chain security) * [ ] Java Deserialization flaws evidently affect more libraries * [ ] France looking at banning Tor, blocking public WiFi * [ ] Blackberry leaves Pakistan rather than provide backdoor * [ ] EFF launches bug disclosure program for Let’s Encrypt and HTTPS Everywhere * [ ] Flash is really on the way out Ideas and commentary * Personal Github Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. * It’s better to listen via iTunes or with the player embedded above, but you can also download the sound file directly. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 17, 2015 · 3 min
Corporations Don't Want Employees
Companies don't want employees, and they're doing their best to get rid of them. We should be getting ready for this. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 16, 2015 · 31 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 19
Topics for this episode: News and analysis * [ ] A couple of months into my job with IOActive * [ ] Paris Attacks: resilience vs. prevention * [ ] Updating the OWASP IoT Project (no longer the Top 10) It’s an umbrella project. * [ ] Adding to the IoT project the SCADA Top 10 List (read the list), and Nabil Ouchn is going to be project leader on that project * [ ] Pentagon farms coding to Russia * [ ] Crypto email service pays ransom, gets taken out anyway * [ ] Blackout Europe shows vulnerabilities in LTE. Forced leak of location within 2-KM radius. Were also able to block LTE and force 3G or 2G. * [ ] Onapsis talks SAP HANA vulnerabilities. They’re config issues, and aren’t patchable, and include: remote file writes, remote directory deletions, moving files to where they can be access remotely, remote command execution, and remote python execution. To fix, you have to upgrade to the latest version and reconfigure your system. Also two issues with the database that allow HTTP RCE and SQL RCE. * [ ] TPP : how did we even get an agreement that was secret in the first place. Forget the details. This should never be allowed to happen again * [ ] Linux ransomware now hitting websites (broken by Brian Krebs) * [ ] Linux.Encoder.1 has a predictable key for its ransomware, and a tool was released to decrypt victims’ systems. Good to know that even attackers make dumb encryption implementation mistakes. * [ ] Visio smart tracking turned on for 10 million users. Here was the pitch “revolutionary shift across all screens that brings measurability, relevancy and personalization to the consumer like never before!” * [ ] Ring-0 theory of devops: history of the o-ring. Small thing that everything else depends on. for serial tasks you need A players to have an A process. As you lower the whole thing tumbles down * [ ] The Chinese Great Cannon: so we know about the Great Firewall, now learn about the Great Cannon * [ ] Must read article: What ISIS Really Wants, by the Atlantic * [ ] Two must follows: Gunnar Peterson, and Benedict Evans. Gunnar is brilliant in security, and Benedict works for Adresesen Horowitz Updates and announcements * Hit me up at IOActive if you have any security consulting needs. Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. * It’s better to listen via iTunes or with the player embedded above, but you can also download the sound file directly. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 25, 2015 · 26 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 18
Topics for this episode: News and analysis * Sonar framework * Schneider Electric SCADA issues revealed at DEFCON * Ashley Madison hack, extortion will become more common, passwords added to SecLists * Hackers attack PR firm and manipulate stocks * Uber is quadrupling their security staff in 2015 * Android vulnerabilities lately Ideas and commentary * Business-based hacking: extortion-based hacking, ransomware, prediction-based hacking, PR releases, etc. Find the leverage, then execute the hack * My problem with threat intelligence * Optimal playlists for getting work done: baroque, no words, medium volume, 60 beats per minute * Ambient sound as two-factor, which goes to my idea of continuous authentication * How standardization and insurance will change security * Miller (mlr) is like sed, awk, join, cut, and sort, but for name:index data such as CSV * Participation in the OWASP IoT Project, Sasa Zdjelar is going to work on an IOT disposition project, Digicert is possibly working on a secure updates project, and we welcome others to add to the mix Updates and announcements * Vegas conferences: two talks, Blackhat Arsenal, DEFCON talk on IoT Attack Surface Areas, Caparser release * If you’re into IoT, be sure to check out Craig Smith’s podcast at IoT Weekly, and Bruce Sinclair’s IoT podcast as well * SecLists has been reorganized, go check it out * Kali Linux 2.0 is out: new kernel, based on debian, rolling release, go get it Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 19, 2015 · 18 min
Mr. Robot Episode 3 Review
[ NOTE: There are spoilers below, not just for this episode but for the show in general. ] Enough people have asked me to start doing reviews of Mr. Robot episodes that I’m going to have a go at it. The deciding factor was the fact that I had such a strong desire to write during the third episode. I’m going to start here with thoughts on the show in general, not just on episode 3. Mr. Robot in general The character The main protagonist is an interesting character. He is what the writer evidently wants to capture, or actually believes to be, the template for a true hacker, which is highly damaged. I am quite struck with the focus that is placed on how truly messed up he is. He has major drama with the way his father was killed. He largely hates society. He has deep personal depression. And he’s a user of narcotics. I’m left thinking along the lines of a Hemingway type of artist, where the best creativity (in this case hacking) comes from those wo are the most tortured internally. Painters, musicians, etc. We’re familiar with the template. This redeeming qualities, which the writers take equal efforts to highlight, are the desire to protect people, his love for the blonde girl, and a general but understated willingness to fight back against the soul-crushing force of our modern, consumerist society. I really enjoy how he is only actually going to see his psychiatrist because he’s trying to help her, and if she’s actually going to help him it’ll kind of be on accident. He deeply analyzes people and sees if they’re good, or weak, or in need of help, and then if they are he kind of hates them less because of this. And he is willing to use his superpowers to help them as a result, like when he pushed that guy out of his psychiatrist’s life. The tech Before going into the various problems, it must be said that the information security writing has been exemplary. I’d say definitely the best we’ve seen in either movies or “television” (whatever that is). That said, there are a number of missing links in the armor. On one of the first episodes, possibly the first, I noticed an IP address with a final octet in the 300’s. That’s just an editing miss, but it did take me out of the fantasy. In Episode 2, which I generally didn’t like, I was quite bothered by the destruction scene. Here’s what I think happened there. They wanted to do a destruction scene, they had it all rigged up, and they wrote the story so that he’d do a quick hack and then get spooked enough to do it. Then they show the infosec writer(s) the story component and they’re like, Um, no. There’s no way anyone of this skill level would be hacking from his actual IP address. And they’re like, Well, we need to do this scene. Most people will miss that, and the scene will be cool enough to make up for it. So the writer stomps out of the room mumbling about how they shouldn’t have hired him for authenticity if they were going to make such obvious mistakes, and they go with it. Who knows if that really happened, but that’s how I imagine it. Comments on modern society I also find the comments on modern society to be quite interesting. I think it’s a big part of the whole hacker feel. Hackers have always had this component to their mystique. Being counter-culture. Being underground. Fighting against the man. So the idea that everything is a conspiracy with the rich exploiting the poor, the strong exploiting the weak, and everything being about selling advertising and the dominance o... Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 12, 2015 · 25 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 17
Topics for this episode: Announcements * [ ] New desk, new mic setup News * [ ] SSL vuln spoofing issue, requires mitm * [ ] Sleepy puppy XSS Payload Management Framework * [ ] Troy Hunt on tech presentations * [ ] Stock market attacked and taken down. Anonymous warned about it beforehand * [ ] OPM goes to 21.5 million cards; director steps down * [ ] People need to get fired for this stuff; it’s the only way anyone will care enough to do anything * [ ] National Guard announces data breach Commentary * [ ] Mr. Robot * [ ] Splunk buys Caspida * [ ] Securing web session ids, by Eran Hammer Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 7, 2015 · 6 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 16
Topics for this episode: * [ ] Hacking Team Hacked, show which oppressive governments bought their software * [ ] No exploits for non-jailbroken iPhone * [ ] The FBI spent 775K on Hacking Team software * [ ] Citi creating a digital currency, called Citicoin * [ ] Clinton attacking China on hacking, “Said they’re trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move.” * [ ] Eric Holder suggests that Snowden had a positive impact, and that an agreement could be reached * [ ] Critical bug in node.js patched that could lead to DoS * [ ] MasterCard looking to do facial scanning to authenticate purchases * [ ] FBI is offering 4.3 million for help finding top hackers * [ ] A petition for Ellen Pao to leave Reddit has topped 150K signatures Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 29, 2015 · 14 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 15
Topics for this episode: * iOS flaw * The Chinese hacking campaign against the US * Breach at Recorded future * Hacking cars through key fobs * NSA/GCHQ hacking of people through security software * Snowden’s documents in the hands of the Chinese and Russians * Samsung re-enabling Windows Update * Mr. Robot * Blackhat/DEFCON Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2015 · 22 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 14
Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 12, 2015 · 42 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 13
Notes * The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 8, 2015 · 13 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 12
Play Podcast START CONTENT * Singtel buys Trustwave * Snowden does interview with John Oliver * CheckPoint buys Lacoon * Everyone’s trying to do everything, which gives the big people a major advantage * China melted GitHub * MiTM’d Baidu traffic and modified its analytics JavaScript to make constant requests to GitHub * They did it because GitHub was hosting two mirror repos for content that is banned in China * Also highlights the need for encryption, so that the JS couldn’t have been injected * Obama just came out and said that if you attack us, we’ll sanction you * How does that work exactly, when China makes everything we use? * Then we just found out Russia hacked us through the State Department issue * A major vulnerability was revealed in Inngate routers used in the US and Europe. * It allows attackers to browse and write to the root file system of the devices, changing configuration, distributing malware, etc. * Mostly used in US and European hotels * Attackers are compromising IRS accounts in large numbers. Claim yours to avoid it happening to you * Featuring Brooks Garrett * He’s a friend and co-worker going back 8 years * He’s the smartest IT guy I’ve ever known: sick programmer, Linux ninja, database, networking, everything. Full stack, real deal. * He’s a volunteer firefighter * He blogs at http://brooksgarrett.com: latest posts are Remote Streaming with Pi and MPD, Nagios SMS alerts with Amazon SNS, Cleaning Passwords from Logs, Fixing OhMyZSH prompts in PuTTY * His Twitter is @brooksgarrett * If you’re not following his stuff, you should be END CONTENT Notes * Intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 30, 2015 · 16 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 11
Play Podcast START CONTENT * Twitch, a game streaming service owned by Amazon, was hacked last week * Passwords, emails, usernames, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth * Amazon bought them last year for almost 1 billion dollars * Bar Mitzvah attack on TLS * Requires that you can sniff traffic * Basically an RC4 problem * Solution is to remove it from your supported algorithms * GitHub Has been hit by a massive DDoS attack * Apparently from China * CSRF vulnerability found in a wind turbine * Allowed you to pull usernames and passwords * Also allowed the password to be changed for the default user, which had admin access * CSRF vulnerability exposes Hilton customer accounts * There was an account rotation issue where you could gain access to their account as long as you could guess their 9-digit username * Snowden says IT workers now the targets of spies * They’re not going after their information, but to use them for access to networks * Premera hacked on same day as Blue Cross (January 29th) * Same story: encryption, know your network, etc. * Also same story: health data is harder to clean up from because it involves PII that cannot easily be changed * More speculation around these attacks is that they’re data gathering for larger attacks on government networks * Apple Acquires FoundationDB * Fast NoSQL database probably to be used for its increasing entry into the services market * Researchers use heat to breach air-gapped systems * Everyone knows that an airgap is the best defense * Ben-Gurion University came out with BitWhisper * Now bidirectional using malware on both systems that controlled heat creation and detection * Only 8-bits per hour * BioCatch, Zumigo, Alibaba release tools to identify users * I used to work with a technology called BioPass * Uses what you do with your mouse, scrolling, how you smile via selfie, compares habits, your current location, etc. Similar to existing fraud detection just with more data points * Really cool tech, needs to be used with the right authentication level * Korea investing 5B in IoT and Smart Cars * Bring Your Own IoT * Recording audio and video are getting increasingly easy * Sensitive meetings might become dead zones soon, and perhaps even sensitive work areas * Some people will say that we already have this risk, but they key is the ease with which it can be done END CONTENT Play Podcast Notes * I skipped a week due to travel in Asia. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 16, 2015 · 22 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 10
Play Podcast START CONTENT * There was another SQL Injection bug found in SEO by Yoast * It required admins to click a malicious link * Was patched quickly * It’s the plugins that make WordPress vulnerable * Attackers are targeting gamers for ransomware * Virlock is one version of ransomware that not only locks the screen, but infects files * It’s also polymorphic, so it changes itself every time it runs * TeslaCrypt goes after gamers, which seems super smart because they are often addicted * The Hello Barbie doll is recording kids voices and sending the recordings over the Internet for voice recognition * I get asked a lot about what to do about this kind of stuff * Start by making a list of everything that can record voice or audio in your home, and determine what kind of controls you have on them * Assume the worst, even though it’s probably not that bad * US industrial systems attacked 245 times between October 2013 and September 2014 * Most attacks were against Critical Manufacturing and Energy * Biggest vectors were spear phishing and port scanning * CloudFlare aims to defeat DDoS with Virtual DNS * They want to proxy DNS before it hits customer name server * The CIA supposedly tried to hack Apple hardware * The article has come under extreme scrutiny * Going to be on the Security Weekly podcast with Pau * Hillary Clinton’s email account dram * OpenSSL is getting an audit * Bout time * Wikimedia is suing the NSA over surveillance * Spoofing the boss is the best way to phish someone, evidently * Had a great time at CactusCon in Phoenix * Did a talk with Jason and saw Dave’s keynote * Dave’s keynote was about struggling with the basics, not APT * He asked when a major breach was NOT a dumb mistake * Someone’s looking to make a Snowden Phone * Looks like I’ll be on the Security Weekly podcast with Paul * Going to talk about IoT security and my our OWASP project END CONTENT Play Podcast Notes * Comments welcome on content and format, as usual. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 9, 2015 · 12 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 9
START CONTENT * Sorry about the audio last week; wireless headsets don’t compare to the Yeti * The CIA is focusing on cyberespionage in its new management * Anthem is refusing an audit by the OIG office–an org that audits health care groups that provide services to federal employees * Nothing says I’m guilty like refusing an audit * Reminds me of the Russians refusing the crash investigation in Game of Cards * There’s been a possible credit card breach at the Mandarin Oriental hotel chain * The incident was reported by Brian Krebs * Three people were indicted in the Epsilon hack * Resulted in around 1 billion email addresses being stolen * Dave Aitel thinks junk hacking is a waste * Basically hacking your blender or whatever * In my opinion he’s missing the point that most conferences are like this * I think there’s a hierarchy of talks * Create new defense tool based on new defense idea * Create new defense idea * Create new attack tool based on new attack idea * Create new attack idea * Create new tool for existing attack or defense idea * Describe existing attack or defense idea * Microsoft has reported it’s vulnerable to FREAK as well, making it even more serious * FREAK has proved to be less alarming than previous SSL vulns simply because of the difficulty of attack END CONTENT Play Podcast Notes * I think I’m going to standardize the intro and outro so that I only end up recording the actual story content each week. * Any recommendations on what else you’d like to see would be appreciated. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 3, 2015 · 16 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 8
START CONTENT * New SSL attack called FREAK * Has to do with falling RSA back to a deprecated and weak level * Requires the client and server are both vulnerable * The solution is to patch * Many orgs will also want to note which servers were vulnerable * The lesson is that you don’t reduce security to increase it * Backdoors x time = regret * Using Ruby’s Open-URI could be dangerous * open-uri monkeypatches kernel.open * open(params[:url]) can execute |ls * Hilary Clinton used a personal email address and did not store correspondence on government servers for her entire 4 years as Secretary of Defense * This seems highly suspect * First you’re putting that data at risk in a personal system * Second you’re obviously trying to hide your conversations * Facebook can access your account without your password * Google no longer encrypting Lollipop by default * Was one of the main selling points for 5, and now it’s gone * They said it was simply a driver issue * DLink routers have a remote command injection bug * Could allow DNS hijacking and other attacks * ISIS has threatened some members of the Twitter team for disabling their accounts * This really puts a point on public presence for me * I’m a strong proponent of the belief that the way to avoid attack is to avoid being a target, not to be hard to attack once people want to * This works for personal attacks, not for countries obviously * There has been some major fraud happening with people connecting stolen cards to ApplePay * The issue isn’t a security problem with ApplePay, but rather with standard bank / card security issue * Up to 18.8 non-Anthem customers exposed in the Anthem breach * This is in addition to the 80 million actual anthem customers * GoPro vulnerability on its website exposes customer Wi-fi passwords * Expect more of this * Uber took over 5 months to issue a breach notification * There was a breach of driver names and license numbers that they just now disclosed * Seagate NAS vulnerability allows unauthorized root access * This raises the cloud storage issue I blogged about last week END CONTENT Play Podcast Notes * Sorry about my voice on this one. I’m a bit sick. :( Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 24, 2015 · 8 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 7
START CONTENT * New stuxnet like piece of malware was discovered * Was found by Kaspersky * Has infected thousands of computers, mostly in Iran * The malware is the most advanced ever found * Can hide on the computer even after reinstall * Many of the names used in the application are known NSA codenames, such as GROK * Wired said those targeted groups were Islamic scholars * The group is called equation group due to the encryption used to hide itself * Car washes hacked by Billie Rios * Bad web software * Default passwords * Submit POST requests * Battery power can be used to track Android phones * Based on the power you use from cell phone tower usage * Obama sides with encryption against government groups * Lenovo laptops spying on you * Can we just say it’s dumb to use things produced in China? END CONTENT Play Podcast ### Notes * Sorry about the pops in the audio. My desk randomly makes loud noises. I’m working on it. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 17, 2015 · 12 min
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 6
START CONTENT * Ukrainian banks hacked for up to 1 Billion dollars * Evidently installed malware on bank admin machines using phishing * Not sure they have an FDIC * As if the Ukraine didn’t have enough problems * 10 million password project * Mark Burnett posted 10 Million password combinations * Went through a long explanation of why he was doing it * I’ve broken them up and put them in the SecLists project * Jeb Bush leaks personal data * Anthem may have been Heartbleed * Could have been China, but who knows * Reminder about talking about things without information * It’s best to just leave it alone * HP released Home Security Systems report * We found 10/10 systems vulnerable to account harvesting * DARPA Dark Web Search Engine * Stuff not indexed by Google * Tor services, etc. * Obama creating new threat intelligence agency * Unified organization for tracking threats * Looking to partner with private industry as well * Anthem and Cyberinsurance * Up to 200M in cyberinsurance * Probably won’t cover it, but it’ll be a good test of usefulness * Facebook lets you pick who manages your account when you die * Facebook threat sharing program * Uber lost and found database was online with personal data in it * Basically, if you lose something in a car, they know who you are, and they keep your stuff for you * But they had the database exposed online END CONTENT Play Podcast Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.