Episode 0x7A

4-peat 4-peat!

Turns out this is actually habit forming. The weekly venting/ranting is excellent for the spirit! Hope you're able to vent as well. Feel free to scream while listening - it's not weird at all.

Upcoming this week...

1. Lots of News
2. Breaches
3. SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc.
4. finishing it off with DERPs/Mailbag (or Deep Dive)
5. And there are weekly Briefs - no arguing or discussion allowed

And if you've got commentary, please sent it to [email protected] for us to check out.

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 (approximately) 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 and Commentary
1. Biden bans Kaspersky - effective July 20. FINALLY.
2. Stolen test data and NHS numbers published by hospital hackers  Information is beautiful - World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks
• Breaches
1. The City of Hamilton breach continues. It's a farce. My property tax dollars going to no good purpose at all. Ongoing since Feb 25, no sign that they're any closer to getting the majority of systems up and running - and $5 million out of the door. Sigh.   The number of systems remaining offline is incredible. I'm pretty sure I could put together a crack team of 5 who could spend evenings and weekends for less than a month to knock out all of this list without extending our recruiting pool past Hamilton and Burlington. Sheesh.
2. Car Dealerships Nationwide Hit by Massive Cyberattack—What It Means for You
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc / DERP COMBO!!!
1. An Open Letter to Security Vendors - John Masserini (2015)
2. Vendor Rebuf - Andy Ellis (2017)
3. 10 Rules for Cybersecurity Salespeople - Mark Weatherford (2018)
4. Advice to cybersecurity companies selling to CISOs - Patricia Titus (2020)
• Mailbag
1. Dearest Liquidmatrix, It was so good to hear Jamie lose his ever-lovin' mind last episode. Dave alluded to being cranky during the brieflies. Can you please un-mute him and let us all hear him lose his mind for this episode? THANKS! ~The Entire Internet
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. Amazing how far software defined radio has come lately - go do some learnin' on your RTL-SDR things
2. Hackers claim to have carried off an enormous data heist on AMD, selling info on employee and customer information, future products and specs
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Summer camp. (also, we will be adding GUESTS in the near future)
2. James: - I'm trapped between Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and Github. I can't find my way out. Help
• Advertising -  pay the bills...
1. MattJay's Vulnerable U - he's got more subscribers than we do. And he's got sponsors and shit.
2. Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator. It's what plants crave.
• Closing Thoughts
1. Seacrest Says: Inserting an old recording of Matt from early episode.

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