Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Highly Reputable Pirates

Episode 148

Ransomware, Hook and Kr00k WiFi, and squirrel nut TLS

Hosts

Ned Bellavance

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52

@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Longer Topics

Ransomware… that’s bad right?

* Combatants: MalwareBytes, Comparitech, and even the Federal Bureau of Investigation

* Should I pay the ransom?

* The Baltimore City Government famously lost about $18 million in damages over a ransom of $75,000

* Danish company Demant had an even bigger breach, and recovering from a ransomware attack cost them upwards of $85 million

* The average ransom demand...