Mostly Security

Eric finishes* painting, gets Paramount+ for "free" and construes adventures in 3D printing. Jon builds shields and drives a lot. TikTok's clock runs out while Scholastic entertains a bored hacker. Is it the Ad Industry or the Surveillance Industry or is there a difference? Here comes the Woolly Mammoth and Mars rises over the Moon.

Eric sends his kids back to school, and both Eric and Jon attend the last Harry Potter Oregon Symphony performance. HTTP is (evidently) still a (big) thing, and a roundup of the new Mac malware discovered in 2024. Los Angeles fires are still raging (donate to the Red Cross to help). For fun we have a startup that wants to bury its plant a mile underground, and scientists discovered the volcano that erupted in 1831 and wreaked havoc.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:49 - Open Port Chronicles
• 21:13 - 2024 Mac Malware Roundup
• 32:05 - Buried Nuclear Startup
• 36:39 - LA Fires Red Cross Response
• 38:01 - Volcano Mystery Solved

Happy New Year! Jon explains "Y2K" to his children, Eric continues to check off small projects around the house. NASA's Parker Probe is alive! Eric translates a VW data leak article from German and then gets side tracked by the new VW Buzz while Jon admires the Karmann Ghia before chatting about hacked Chrome extensions. For fun, Eric talks Thorium and Jon shares what's new on Public Domain Day!

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 7:40 - Parker Probe is alive!
• 8:39 - Dude, I Know Where Your Car Is
• 13:54 - Karmann Ghia
• 15:24 - Chrome Extension Attack
• 21:49 - Thorium Reactor
• 26:02 - Public Domain Day

Eric and Jon enjoy the holiday break with family. Ascension begins notifying people from the May breach, and NSO is ruled liable for WhatsApp hack in 2019. The Parker space probe does the closest (and fastest) flyby of the sun, and Jon visits the Chacchoben Ruins and Kennedy Space Center.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 11:06 - Ascension Ransomware Fallout
• 14:43 - NSO Liable for WhatsApp Hack
• 18:21 - Fastest Human Made Object
• 21:43 - Chacchoben Ruins
• 26:48 - Kennedy Space Center

Jon is on a ship and Eric is not. Microsoft Recall is making its way back to your PC while Project Zero hunts driver bugs. Nate Bargatze is funny (or at least Eric thinks so) and Jon thinks Orcas wearing salmon hats is funny.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 4:17 - Recall is Back
• 9:03 - Driver Bug Hunting
• 16:24 - Self-deprecating Humor
• 17:59 - Salmon Hats

Eric and Jon get Treed and ready for holidays. AI for MacOS threat creation, and a buncha prompt attacks against various models and tools. Blue Origin says they're ready for testing, and science says the Clovis people ate Mostly Mammoths.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:17 - Moonlock
• 16:16 - Prompt Mania
• 23:43 - New Glenn Ready
• 26:38 - Mammoth-Eaters

Thanksgiving happened. Maybe don't threaten a security researcher. Phishers like cheap TLDs. Attacking LLMs for fun and profit. Students send a rocket beyond the Kármán line and Jon gets a ChipDrop.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 3:31 - OpSec Fail
• 6:36 - New TLDs are for Phishers
• 14:02 - LLM Attacks
• 22:07 - Student Rockets
• 25:29 - ChipDrop

Eric and Jon prep for Thanksgiving with Tech Support Woes. Bluesky's day has come -- including 'interesting' persistence capabilities. Macy's 154 Million Dollar finding, and Starbucks has to resort to pen and paper timekeeping. For fun we have McKean's Inversion, BART on camera, Reality Builder TV, and a lost city in Greenland.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 15:22 - Advanced Bluesky Persistence
• 20:01 - $154 Million Mistake
• 24:33 - Pen and Paper
• 29:00 - McKean's Inversion
• 31:21 - Tunnel Vision
• 33:05 - Perkins Builder Brothers
• 35:39 - Camp Century

We're trying out Bluesky! Eric hates painting, Jon fixed his shower. Is Google catching up with Shielded Emails? Phishing with an SVG inception. Apple patches some things. Finastra is (sorta) frank with its customers. Rats in Cars getting Froot Loops. New species of bee discovered...

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:05 - Snowflake Followup
• 13:43 - Shielded Email?
• 15:12 - Phishing with SVGs
• 17:23 - Apple Ooopsies
• 18:57 - Sorta Frank Finastra
• 22:24 - Rats in Cars getting Froot Loops
• 26:33 - New Species of Bee

Eric prepares to Paint and Jon sightsees. Canada tells TikTok to shut down its office, a trove of MacOS escapes, and an ML Bug Bonanza from JFrog. Displays get twisted, and Jon visits an amazing 12th century Vishnu temple.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:34 - No Canadian TikTokkers
• 13:12 - Escape, anyone?
• 15:16 - ML Bug Bonanza
• 22:46 - Twisted Display
• 24:56 - Keshava