Today's swell show notes are at: https://7ms.us/7ms-158-pentesting-in-a-vacuum/

Today's show notes are here: https://7ms.us/7ms-157-infosec-news-and-links-roundup/

Today's show notes: https://7ms.us/7ms-156-off-topic-3-ways-to-be-a-more-connected-parent/

Here are the show notes for today: https://7ms.us/7ms-155-million-dollar-pentest-idea-notepad-tricks-and-ll-bean-jackets-for-dogs/

Episode show notes are here: https://7ms.us/7ms-154-friday-infosec-news-and-links-roundup/.

Today's episode is a movie review of Ex Machina (how the FRICK do you pronounce that?) and closes out with special musical guest, Sweet Surrender!

This is a mini-review of the Almond 2015 router by Securifi. This is NOT a paid advertisement or endorsement. I just happen to REALLY like this little router.

Here are some of my favorite stories and links for this week!

• NMAP course from Udemy - $24 for a limited time (I think)
• How to handle the the thoughtless compliance zombie hordes - by BHIS is coming up Tuesday February 16th from 2-3 ET. The price is free!
• Pivot Project touts itself as "a portfolio of interesting, practical, enlightening, and often challenging hands-on exercises for people who are trying to improve their mastery of important cybersecurity skills.

• It is absurdly easy for attackers to destroy your Web site in 10 minutes.
• Secure your home network better using advice from the SANS Ouch! newsletter.
• Chromodo (part of Comodo's Internet Security)disables same-origin policy which basically disables Web security. Wha?!
• Virus total now looks at firmware images as well.
• We can soon wave goodbye to Java in the browser forever!. Kinda.

• Here's a nice SSL/TLS-checking checklist for pentesters.
• Kali is moving to a rolling release configuration pretty soon. Update yours before April 15!

Preview16 wordsIn today's off-topic episode I review the following movies:

• Bone Tomahawk
• Goodnight Mommy
• Misery Loves Comedy

This episode continues the series on securing your life - making sure all the security stuff related to your life is in order. Today we're particularly focusing on preparing to travel. What if (God forbid) the plane goes down? Who has access to your money, passwords, etc.?