We looked at an Ars Technica story about the difference between normal internet denizens and security researchers regarding their online habits. Show Notes: Ars Technica | What amateurs can learn from security pros about staying safe online

Chaim goes to DefCon, and reports back

What is Alphabet?  We don’t know, but that won’t stop us from discussing it.

We talk the following news story about some internet vigilanties secretly fixing people’s routers.   Show Notes: Meet The Mystery Vigilantes Who Created ‘Malware’ To Secure 10,000 Routers

Chaim is in his hotel room, getting ready for #LineCon. Before the craziness happens, we take a look at a few things that came out of BlackHat.  We talk about stagefright, and how the big OEMs are finally starting to think security. The audio was bad.  I was using open wifi, vpn’d of course.

Chaim is going to Defcon, but has no idea what he should expect.  Fear Not! We bring you two experts who can help him navigate everything.  We are joined by Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) and Peter Teoh (@pteoh).

We did a second show last week, on how data caps affect our download habits.

We talk about the important stance the browsers made to block flash after a number of 0 day exploits were found in the HackingTeam’s files. [I thought the audio was very good on this episode].