Mostly Security

Jon is in Germany touring cathedrals and Eric is unable to spend money. Cybersecurity apprenticeship programs, Rust-based ransomware and yet another breach. Eric finds hacking fly brains interesting and Jon admires Reims Cathedral.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 8:27 - No Sale for NSO Group
• 9:15 - Cybersecurity Apprenticeships
• 12:42 - Rust Ransomware
• 16:09 - Debt Collection Ransomware
• 20:25 - Hacking Fly Brains
• 23:28 - Reims Cathedral

Eric enjoying summer and Jon stressed out. Honda key fobs vulnerable to replay attacks, if you mine bitcoin in texas you're cut off, and how to sell a billion dollars in fake Cisco hardware. And (drumroll....) the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are in, and they're stunning. Enjoy!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 21:37 - Rolling-PWN
• 27:51 - Bitcoin Shutdown in Texas
• 32:48 - Fake Cisco Hardware
• 38:49 - First Images from JWST!

Eric has a rollercoaster week, Jon counts his bees. Instagram is a ghost, North Korea adds targets to ransomware attacks, and Lawyers hire hackers to get information for litigation. Eric share Absurd Trolley Problems and Jon asserts Code is Just.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 14:54 - Boo, Instagram
• 24:38 - NK Ransomware Attacks
• 28:56 - Hacking for Lawyers
• 33:54 - Absurd Trolley Problems
• 36:21 - Code is Just

Eric feeling better and reading more, Jon fighting squirrels and bees. Are mass resignations incoming? How about some job applicants using Deepfakes then. The price of bitcoin may be hurting North Korea, and if you own the webview you can extract critical data. For fun we have a media hat trick: a podcast (The Joy of Why), a video (Japanese nail-less (de-)construction), and a book (Kaiju Preservation Society).

• 0:00 - Intro
• 14:58 - Resignations Incoming?
• 19:47 - Deepfake Job Applicants
• 23:17 - Bitcoin Crash Hurts North Korea
• 26:42 - WebView2 Apps
• 32:21 - The Joy of Wh(y)
• 34:44 - Look Ma, No Nails
• 36:01 - Kaiju Preservation Society

Jon got surprised by last minute concert tickets and has moar internet. Eric gets ill and reads a lot. A US defense contractor wants NSO group tool and some Modified Elephant followup. FBI chases a LinkedIn cryptocurrency scam, scammers chase unpatched Confluence servers, and the US DOJ catches a Russian botnet. Eric appreciates Lava Lamp Encryption and Jon follows up again on CRISPR.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:35 - NSO technology takeover
• 15:20 - Elephants planting evidence
• 18:44 - LinkedIn cryptocurrency scam
• 24:44 - Confluence bug exploit
• 27:32 - RSocks proxy seized
• 30:32 - Lava lamp encryption
• 34:50 - 100% effective so far!

Eric builds bee boxes and Jon's bees aren't doing so well. Oh, and bees "can be included under the law's definition of 'fish'." Three named vulnerabilities this week: PACMAN, SynLapse, and Hertzbleed. Although two of them shouldn't be much of a concern for most of the #realWorld. For fun we have a frustrating game, a beaver internet outage in Canada, and a faceID patent to detect the veins in your face.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:56 - Bees Are Fish?
• 13:52 - PACMAN
• 18:14 - SynLapse
• 27:00 - Hertzbleed
• 34:05 - QWOP
• 37:43 - Leave it to Beaver
• 40:29 - Face (veins) ID

Eric has no kitchen, Jon misses the symphony and almost catches a swarm. More "Death to Passwords" talk from Apple, an S3 Bucket exposed, and CISA warns about the top PRC exploits. Eric dives into a new book series and Jon watches more YouTube.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 16:00 - Apple Passkey
• 29:46 - Mobike Bucket
• 33:52 - CISA Alerts
• 38:49 - Cradle Series by Will Wight
• 43:39 - Out of the Woods YouTube

Jon fails at grafting and a Weekend at Eric's. Come for the Bad Guys, stay for the animation. Future cyber predictions, WSL malware, and the Polonium actor group. For fun we have lab grown wood products and the new AI artist in town.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 9:15 - The Bad Guys
• 15:54 - Cybersecurity in the Future
• 25:09 - WSL Malware Increasing
• 30:09 - Exposing Polonium Activity
• 35:54 - Lab Grown Wood
• 40:51 - AI Can't Spell

Jon talks bees, Eric has a boring weekend. Good news for "Good Faith" hackers. How to steal open source libraries "for science" and the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Eric ponders stolen NFTs and Jon considers Viking Ships.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:08 - Good Faith Hackers
• 16:41 - Library Theft
• 19:13 - Sock Puppets
• 25:55 - Verizon Report
• 31:36 - Stolen NFTs
• 36:43 - Viking Ship

Eric returns from Disneyland and Jon goes back to Corvallis. iPhones could potentially be attacked even when turned off, executives also use bad passwords, and protocol downgrade attacks abound. For fun we have the world's most inconvenient convenience store, and a way to trick your brain into understanding more of what you read.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 15:28 - Eric Topic
• 21:00 - CEO Passwords
• 25:11 - Correct Horse Battery Staple
• 26:15 - Protocol Downgrade Attacks
• 36:18 - Inconvenient Convenience Store
• 39:15 - Bionic Reading