Episode  -- SB004

With Dave Away Minions Play

Dave is at the ISC2 Security Congress in Chicago right now and muttered something about really bad hotel wifi. Not sure whether it's the hotel or the wifi that is bad. I did not the correlation between expensive hotel and really bad wifi. Wonder if Hutton has modeled that yet.

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DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work.

ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 5 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good.

In this episode:

• News Briefs
1. @nickdepetrillo, @thegrugq, @quine, @erratarob and a laundry list of the infosec who's who offer a bounty for a biometric hack against Apple's new scanner
2. Charlatan hijacks iPhone 5S fingerprint hack contest, fools press
3. CCC uses traditional biometric smackdown techniques - and wins.
4. From the annals of Schneier: Google knows passwords
5. RSA to customers: Trust not the encryptions
6. HOST Has An Opinion
1. Focusing on the wrong thing.
7. Parting Notes -- a few one-liners...
1. Turing machine in Excel
2. Did you know that there's a new Microsoft Surface? Do you care?
8. Liquidmatrix Staff Projects -- gratuitous self-promotion
1. The Security Conference Library
2. Contribute to the Strategic Defense Execution Standard (#SDES) and you'll be Doing Infosec Right in no time.
3. If you're interested in helping out with openCERT.ca, drop a line to [email protected]
9. Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Attending Security Congress in Chicago, Derbycon, HITB Malaysia, Deepsec in Austria, and bsidesTO. Panelist at SecTor. And finally speaking at Hackfest in Quebec City.
2. James: - Speaking at Derbycon, bSidesTO, SecTor and Hackfest, Panelist at SecTor (twice)
3. Ben: - Panelist (with Dave, James and Mike Rothman) for SecTor 2013's return of the (canadian) fail panel
4. Matt: - Still on his honeymoon... And will be speaking at SecTor
5. Wil: - Getting playa out of his areas... But will be at SecTor
6. Other LSD Writers: - Wait... there are "writers"? What deviousness is this?
10. Advertising - pay the bills...
1. Hackfest registration is open
2. BSides Toronto!!!!
3. SecTor 2013
4. Use discount code liquidmatrix-2013 to receive 10% off the registration price. Can't attend the full conference? Use code liquidmatrix-expo2013 to gain free access to the expo ($50 value).
5. Signing up for a SANS course? Be sure to use the code "Liquidmatrix_150" and save $150 off the course fee! And Liquidmatrix_5 for 5% off a course

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