Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast

Episode 0x7E

The one after the outage...

We keep talking about how it's amazing that this is still happening and it really is. But I think we're done with that talk now. I was having a conversation with a CTO at another cloud service provider and he had a poster on his home office wall... "Consistency is what transforms average into excellent." Thanks for being a consistent listener / viewer!

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. North Korean Spy Hired by KnowBe4
2. Mandiant Shines Spotlight on APT45 Behind North Korea’s Digital Military Machine
3. Walkin... walking away. Wiz doesn't need Googley Money.
• Breaches
1. Over 3,000 GitHub accounts used by malware distribution service
2. Meta nukes massive Instagram sextortion network of 63,000 accounts
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc
1. CrowdStrike CSO Apology. This is how you do this. Much Respect.
• Mailbag
1. Dear Liquidmatrix I'm fighting with DNS records and SSL certificates and I'm losing my mind. Why is this stuff still so difficult in 2024? Is there anything you can do to help? Love, a frustrated guy
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. First round of the Sector.ca briefings were released this week. Yes, The Canadian edition of the Fail Panel is back for the 12th time!
2. Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Obviously not here. We don't know where he is. Assume something about the Militant Wing of the Girl Guides.
2. Jamie: - PTO Countdown is real. I'm not obsessing about it... but... I am.
3. Matt: - My calendar is screwed. Wheeeeeee
• Advertising - pay the bills...
1. Vulnerable U - The other place you can learn from Matt
• Closing Thoughts
1. Seacrest Says: You're not the boss of me. I can say whatever I want. It makes me happy to be a butterfly.

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Episode 0x7D

It's just a dream...

There's a lot going on as we head into summer here in the northern hemisphere. I think it's pretty cool but also worry a little bit that we're staying too focused on the wrong things. You ever have the feeling that you've bought into the wrong game?

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. AT&T Breach and Continuing Snowflake Saga  Nearly all AT&T cell customers call and text records breached
2. The Dark Web - See your The Dark Web footprint for free!
3. US sanctions alleged Russian hackers who claimed attacks on US water facilities
• Breaches
1. Hollywood Fears of a Major Hack Are Growing  Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
• DERP
1. Chromium browser? Google knows more about you than you want.
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. How to tell if you've been hacked - Great techcrunch article
2. Meshtastic - distributed comms for when the centralized system goes down
3. CloudFlare State of AppSec - 22 min from PoC to exploit. 7% of all traffic is DDoS. 1/3 of all Internet traffic is bots.
4. North Korean Hackers Update BeaverTail Malware to Target MacOS Users
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Summer camp, this fall: Singpore, Ireland, Portugal
2. Jamie: - (insert Griswoldian music here)
3. Matt: - Thanks for everyone who came to SnooSec. Summer Camp!
• Advertising - pay the bills...
• Vulnerable U - The other place you can learn from Matt
• Closing Thoughts
• Seacrest Says: These kids - they keep growing up damn them. Also, get off my lawn!!

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Episode 0x7C

Yup, this is a habit now.

It's all fun and games until somehow you find yourself actually planning and not doing that whole "maybe we will, maybe we won't" thing. It's happening. We're back and making a habit of this!

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. Russia forces Apple to remove dozens of VPN apps from App Store   Dark Money tied to war on Apple's encryption
2. OpenAI had an oopsie and forgot to mention it...   But they're also just plain making mistakes at the basics too
3. Hackers reverse-engineer Ticketmaster’s barcode system to unlock resales on other platforms
• Breaches
1. The human cost of breaches at Hospitals - this one is awful
2. Sightline Security for non-profits
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc
1. A really good assessment of the great Rogers outage of 2022
• DERP
1. DON'T LIE ABOUT YOUR BREACHES DAMMIT
• Mailbag
1. Dear Liquidmatrixes, What's the deal with The Cloud? I really like hugging my servers and I give them special names, how do you hug a cloud? Even better, how do I secure it? Thanks all y'all. Legacy Folk. Just sign up for CloudSLAW
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. Ollama - run some great LLMs on your laptop
2. Microsoft Midnight Blizzard Saga Continues
3. Eight Nations Issue Warning About Speed Of Chinese Hackers’ Operations
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Global News talking about Ticketmaster yesterday
2. Matt: - SnooSec NYC
3. Jamie: - Starlink terminal connection end point... SOMEWHERE.
• Advertising - pay the bills...
1. Vulnerable U - Mattjay's other news. Sign up or else.
• Closing Thoughts
• Seacrest Says: I'm Europe now, very fine. Not worry about my doing well.

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Episode 0x7B

Penta-pod!

Five down, we should probably do some more. It seems like people enjoy these things. Or at least our subscribers say so. Why don't you tell your friends!

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. No flaws like the old flaws. It's time to MOVEit, MOVEit... AGAIN
2. RockYou2024: 10 billion passwords leaked in the largest compilation of all time
• Breaches
1. Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy User Phone Numbers
2. Neiman Marcus confirms data breach, claims Snowflake account was hacked
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc
1. A group of Rabbit R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw
• DERP
1. regreSSHion - you're supposed to hold on to this until August. Also, cute name and logo is so 10 years ago (Heartbleed was TEN YEARS AGO)
• Mailbag
1. Hei Liquidmatrix, Are you going to be keeping it up? Especially as it is now summer time. ~Your friends from the blue and yellow furniture store
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. I did a podcast for work with another CISO who isn't a curmudgeon. You might enjoy.
2. TeamViewer: Hackers copied employee directory and encrypted passwords
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Summer Camp, Singapore in October, IRISCON and Websummit in November
2. James: - The other end of a Starlink connection... in a forest. :)
• Advertising - pay the bills...
1. MattJay's Vulnerable U - he's got more subscribers than we do. And he's got sponsors and shit.
• Closing Thoughts
1. Seacrest Says: I'm on a vacation. Leave me alone.

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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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Episode 0x79

We have no idea what's going on either...

But we're going to keep doing this as long as we can manage to schedule the appointment in our calendars and also show up...

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 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. Apple's AI Announcements - Private Cloud Compute
2. But is it ok that there's no money going back and forth... so we are the product?
3. Snowflake to Close Hacking Probe Into Attack Targeting Clients
• Breaches
1. Chinese hackers breached 20,000 FortiGate systems worldwide
• DERP
1. Major Data Breach
• New Section: Jamie Yells at Clouds
1. PLG motion with Enterprise Customers and pushing your AI Feature Set - I'm tired of getting the requests to turn it on and it comes with vague pricing issues. Seriously... so tired. If you want to sell to your Enterprise Customers, how about you have a conversation with the person who signs the OF instead of the people who can't. ARGH.
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. Bambu Lab Second Anniversary Sale - join us in the melty plastic revolution!
2. Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
3. China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - In will be speaking at the CIO Summit in Toronto
2. James: - Still the forest. I need a break so bad, July can't get here soon enough.
3. Matt:  - Europe - I'M ON A BREAK -- then Vegas...
• Closing Thoughts
1. Seacrest Says: Have you made your plans for the Solstice? Go long or go short - depends on your latitude.

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Episode 0x78

Surprise AGAIN

So... y'all thought it was a flash in the pan... well... we're happy to disappoint you with a brand new episode of the Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast. Hold on, it's going to be a wild ride.

Upcoming this week...

1. Lots of News
2. Breaches
3. 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 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. Snowflake (not)breach
2. Surprise, the Canadian Government agency that is supposed to watch for mis- and dis- information says it's happening. And the Members of Parliament are arguing about the validity of the statements. :|
3. PandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted again
• Cyber, cyber... etc
1. So Matt. You hate Chrome. It's all spyware. What's the point?
• Mailbag
1. Ahoy there, First time mailer, long time listener - I see that you've got the skull thing going on, can I ask you about where the cross bones went? Inquiring minds would like to know. ~ Pirate Steve
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. Go back and watch some of the old stuff... it's all still so valid it hurts.
2. Microsoft Total Recall
3. Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Toronto CIO Conference
2. James: - I'm looking forward to an appearance in the forest camping because I'm pretty much completely peopled out.
3. Matt: - Some podcasts and maybe a summer camp appearance.
• Advertising - pay the bills...
• Vulnerable U
• Seacrest Says: It's not the AI. It's not the AI. It's the AI. Sorry.

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Episode 0x77

I'm not cool and neither are you.

Ok, so it's been a long time - but we're good :) August 1st 2022 was our last show. The next one is scheduled now for sometime in 2026.

Upcoming this week...

1. Lots of News
2. Breaches
3. finishing it off with DERPs/Mailbag (or Deep Dive)
4. 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 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. ICQ will Shut Down SOOOOON
2. Hackers are using AI to find software bugs - but there is a downside
• Breaches
1. Your Mom.
• DERP
1. Salesforce / Slack AI situation and how it's been handled
• Mailbag
1. So... Y'all going to actually keep this up? For real this time? ~a concerned patron
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
1. Dave: I haz a new job! (a word about hiring market)
2. Jamie: Hey, me too but at the same company. Working my way through the collision of responsibilities.
• Upcoming Appearances:  -- more gratuitous self-promotion
1. Dave: - Gartner DC
2. James: - You just missed me at Open Source Data Infrastructure Toronto Meetup. I'm trying to avoid doing anything like actual work for the next little while.
• Closing Thoughts
1. Seacrest Says: Be Vulnerable - it's good for U

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Episode 0x76

Ready for a surprise thing? Yup. We found spare time and did a thing. Here's the thing. You get to spend a whole lot of time listen to security old farts.

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 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. Rogers Outage - the CRTC letter and An analysis on the BGP route withdrawal
  2. Why Bug Bounty Programs are Failing
  3. CISA Warns of Atlassian Confluence Hard-Coded Credential Bug Exploited in Attacks
• Breaches
• 1. Yeah. You've been Shanghai'd - maybe?
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc
• 1. SCADA market to reach 13+ Billion in 4 years - will any of it be secure?
  2. Uber won't get prosecuted for their 2016 breach, but...
• DERP
• 1. Oldie but goodie - Elon's plane being tracked is a security issue... and Drake tries to make it better and fails so miserably... derp.
• Mailbag
• 1. You guys are not good at segways... or segues https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/segue
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
• 1. Awesome Security (tools and stuff)
  2. Samsung has a thing that sounds like a backdoor but actually isn't
  3. As Microsoft blocks Office macros, hackers find new attack vectors
• Closing Thoughts
• 1. Seacrest Says: Seacrest says see you at band camp

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Episode 0x75

10th Anniversary Special

We should have something snappy here, but we're old and out of belt-onions

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 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. Whats changed in infosec since we last talked?
  2. Coinbase highlighting the risk of centralizing a decentralized system
  3. Great podcast from Odd Lots - the ponzinomics of cryptocurrency
  4. New Vulnerability Database Catalogs Cloud Security Issues
  5. Data breach at US ambulance billing service Comstar exposed patients’ healthcare information
• Breaches
• 1.  
  2. In Canada... largest breach settlement
• SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc
• 1. Wired knows shit.
  2. Deep fake remote IT job applicants
• DERP
• 1.  
• Mailbag
• 1. It's been a rough couple of years. We missed a lot. Some friends departed. How are y'all handling things? ~a long time listener
• Briefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWED
• 1. I'm hiring
  2. Me too
  3. Risk Disconnect in the Cloud
  4. Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts
  5. https://jobs.cisco.com/We're hiring at Cisco
• Closing Thoughts
• 1. Seacrest Says: Dave qualifies for senior AARPdiscounts now

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