Getting tired of hearing about the latest $problem. Can we do something different with our cognitive surplus?
Lots of NewsBreachesSCADA / Cyber, cyber... etc.finishing it off with DERPs/Mailbag (or Deep Dive)And there are weekly Briefs - no arguing or discussion allowedAnd if you've got commentary, please sent it to [email protected] for us to check out.
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News and CommentaryFacebook Awards Largest Bug Bounty To Date for Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - $33,500Gang Rigged Gas Pumps with Bluetooth Enabled Card SkimmersUS Courts uphold that you need an actual reason to search people's stuffF-35 Fighter Plans Intercepted In Shipping Container Destination: IranBreaches20 million Korean learn about a trusted insider the hard way (and then the executives own it completely)It wasn't just Target (and the obligatory Krebs)Is Your Twitter Password Secure?SCADA / Cyber, cyber... etcVSAT terminals are on the internetz ready for the p0wnCSEC Current Issues: Questions and AnswersDERPNetwork solutions ripping customers off to make them more secureSnapchat, still not fixing the problem ... but they do implement a bot stopping captcha system... ... that gets broken the same dayThe first rule of a totalitarian government is you don't talk about hacking (just like an oppresive wannabe theocracy)MailbagWe're reaching a tipping point around the concept of Privacy. Here's a few examples to discuss:
Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard ExplainedMPAA & ICE Confirm They Interrogated A Guy For Wearing Google Glass During A Movie79-year-old census resister has no regrets after conditional dischargeGoogle outed meHere We Go Again: Canadian Recording Industry Calls on Government To Regulate the InternetTrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability is Theoretically UselessAnother Six Weeks: Muting vs. Blocking and the Wolf Whistles of the InternetBriefly -- NO ARGUING OR DISCUSSION ALLOWEDSwitch to HTTPS Now, For FreeRSA Conference PartiesWhiteHat Aviator for Windows AlphaNF Tables (die die die IPTables)Predicting attacks (cyber!)ISO 30111 - vulnerability handling process Liquidmatrix Staff Projects -- gratuitous self-promotionThe Security Conference LibraryContribute to the Strategic Defense Execution Standard (#SDES) and you'll be Doing Infosec Right in no time.If you're interested in helping out with openCERT.ca, drop a line to [email protected]Upcoming Appearances: -- more gratuitous self-promotionDave: - Never To Be Seen AgainJames: - BSidesSF, RSA, etc. Sigh.Ben: - Putting his office tchochkes in a boxMatt: - Hiding behind his lustrous facial hair, speaking at AppSec California and BSidesSF/RSA/Metricon/etc.Wil: - Too Pretty (♫ I'm too sexy for this show, too sexy for this show, so sexy it hurts... I'm an actor, you know what I mean and I do my little turn on the catwalk... ♫)Other LSD Writers: - Promised to write up S4 and hasn'tAdvertising - pay the bills...Signing up for a SANS course? Be sure to use the code "Liquidmatrix_150" and save $150 off the course fee! Or do the math and figure out if 5% off a course would be a better deal with "Liquidmatrix_5"Closing ThoughtsSeacrest Says: The NSA is in bed with EVERYONE - including me.Creative Commons license: BY-NC-SA