PEBCAK Podcast: Information Security News by Some All Around Good People

Episode 13 - FBI Recovers Colonial Pipeline Bitcoin, Difficulty of Securing Data in the Cloud, Electronic Arts Hacked Through Slack Cookie, Laws the Hosts are Most Likely to Break


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Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast!  Friend-of-the-show Zoltan Kovacs joins us as a guest co-host, filling in for Brian this week.  We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome!  Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)
PEBCAK - Acronym of “problem exists between chair and keyboard.”
 
FBI recovers $2.3 million in Bitcoin from Darkside ransomware crew
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-used-hackers-bitcoin-password-to-recover-colonial-pipeline-ransom-2021-6?op=1
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/u-s-recovers-millions-pipeline-ransom-because-hackers-mistake-n1269889
     
    Securing applications and data in the cloud is fundamentally different than securing a datacenter
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-systems-used-by-hackers-to-mine-cryptocurrency/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/30/capital-one-looked-cloud-security-its-own-firewall-couldnt-stop-hacker/
     
    Electronic Arts game source code stolen after Slack cookie theft
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack
  • https://www.pcgamer.com/pirated-games-helped-a-malware-campaign-compromise-32-million-pcs/
     
    Laws the hosts are most likely to break
     
    Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)
     
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    Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/
    Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/
    Zoltan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanlkovacs/
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