Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 9
Unsupervised Learning9 Maalis 2015

Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 9



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* 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



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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.

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