5 Increasingly Effective Ways to Achieve Immortality

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 Aug 201526min

[ 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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

19 Jul 201518min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Jul 201525min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 Jul 20156min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29 Jun 201514min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15 Jun 201522min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Jun 201542min

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/upgradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 Apr 201513min