Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 2

Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 2



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* UK police arrest 18-year-old in connection to Playstation and XBox attack
* Major ASUS router bug


* Local users can take full control without a password
* Biggest issue there seems to be DNS hijacking

* Legislative attacks on infosec profession and encryption


* Anti-hacking law language ambiguous “according to owner”
* Obama is said to agree with Cameron, but it’s complicated
* Evidence of a plot is different than outlawing encryption
* There’s other talk about it being illegal to see hack data

* French reporting 19,000 DoS attacks since the shootings
* Anonymous is going after ISIS and others


* An attack on free speech is an attack on Anonymous

* Google releases another Windows flaw that they didn’t fix
* Verizon API vulnerability exposes customer email addresses


* Issue was with a mobile API used by Android devices
* Allowed him to retrieve peoples’ emails and send emails as them

* On whether we should trust the FBI regarding the Sony attack


* We now find out the attribution came from a previous NSA hack
* It’s hard to criticize without data
* This doesn’t mean they did it, or that the FBI is always right, or that they should always be trusted
* It means be cautious when you don’t have any information, and the person you’re criticizing has all of it

* Free speech and the Paris attacks


* Where is the line for free speech?
* I think it comes down to safety and taste
* You can’t yell fire, and art matters

* Quote of the week


* No one is as happy as they seem on Facebook, as depressed as they seem on Twitter, or as employed as they seem on LinkedIn.


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* I have a consolidated InfoSec news feed (here) that I use as a source for headlines.

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