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  • 211: I'm Exploiting Them Myself

    Holiday prep and Jon is easily distracted all episode without any help from Eric. Spiderman is seen in the theaters and Eric's height changes by a couple inches. Money is stolen for Bitcoins and IoT Honeypots distract Jon. IAM is still hard and Jon updates on the Log4j issue. Eric wonders how fast the universe is expanding and Jon talks about touching the sun.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:01 - Money for Bitcoins
    • 14:55 - IoT Honeypots
    • 23:04 - IAM is Hard
    • 26:11 - Log4j Part 1
    • 29:02 - Log4j Part 2 - Happy Holidays!
    • 35:34 - Universe Expansion Rate?
    • 40:39 - Touch the Sun?
    47 min
  • 210: Forest Of Uniform Trees

    Eric and Jon are ready for the Holidays. Apple releases an Android app (!!?), NPM expunges discord stealing packages, Log4Shell is the vulnerability of the week (year??), and reverse engineering NSO Groups zero click iMessage exploit. For fun we have the forgotten Heroines of Chaos, and linking increased rates of dementia to noise pollution.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:10 - Tracker Detect
    • 13:51 - Discord Token Stealers
    • 17:59 - Log4Shell Part 1
    • 27:38 - Log4Shell Part 2
    • 30:30 - NSO Zero Click Reversed
    • 42:03 - Hidden Heroines of Chaos
    • 47:04 - Dementia Linked to Noise
    53 min
  • 209: It's A Good Unit

    Eric sleeps, reads (and listens) to books and gets holiday'd up; Jon decorates with Star Trek ornaments. Eric talks about how Apple AirTags are marking cars to steal and Jon shares articles on government playing offense and defense in cybersecurity. Eric shares the story about a Graphing Calculator and Jon talks about seeing back in time to 50 million years after the Big Bang.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 10:24 - AirTags for Theft
    • 15:43 - Offensive Cybersecurity
    • 18:46 - Defensive Cybersecurity
    • 23:42 - The Graphing Calculator
    • 29:28 - James Webb Telescope
    39 min
  • 208: Bee Spit

    Eric has a traditional Thanksgiving, and Jon disappoints Eric with cold pizza. What exactly is Fake Honey? REvil associate found in Barnaul, should IT remain a separate business function, the Ubiquiti hack from an insider, HP releases a patch for wormable bug, and the internet truly is held together with (bee) spit and baling wire. For fun Eric visits Golden Spike National Park, and Jon shares what may be the cause of death by sleep deprivation.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 10:15 - Fake Honey?
    • 11:32 - Netflix Show
    • 15:32 - REvil Unmasked
    • 17:50 - Get Rid Of IT?
    • 19:28 - Ubiquiti Trusted Insider
    • 26:05 - HP Wormable Printer Bug
    • 29:53 - Spit and Baling Wire
    • 39:09 - Golden Spike National Park
    • 42:35 - Yelp Review Posters
    • 45:52 - Sleep Deprivation Kills
    55 min
  • 207: Leave The Audio Running

    Eric and Jon share thoughts on Wheel of Time, Dune and other media. Eric goes to grandma's house and Jon goes camping for Thanksgiving. A Zelle Scam, a GoDaddy WordPress breach and an NPM Flaw. Eric shares a little family history and Jon chats about Chainsaw (but not that kind of chainsaw). Then things get a little loopy while discussing Right Whales.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:14 - Zelle Scam
    • 20:32 - GoDaddy Data Breach
    • 24:41 - NPM Flaw
    • 30:29 - The Peach City
    • 34:15 - Chainsaw
    • 37:33 - Right Whales
    • 40:40 - Tahora Tracker
    43 min
  • 206: Never Trust The Client

    Concerts are back, and movies are good. Jon almost (?) breaks down and buys a car. An FBI site allows anyone to send an email from the FBI, the head of Instagram gets his account memorialized, and Emotet is back. Two things can be true: solar and vegetable farming. An amazing visual of the size of space, and editing audio and video by selecting and editing text.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 10:36 - Red Notice
    • 19:32 - FBI Email Gateway
    • 23:32 - In Memoriam
    • 27:42 - Emotet is Back
    • 32:38 - Solar Energy Vegetable Farming
    • 36:13 - The Size of Space
    • 39:42 - Edit audio and video by text
    42 min
  • 205: Do You Know The Word "Yeet"?

    Jon drives a Ford and Eric is Jealous. Eric and Jon talk about ransomware reward money and a botnet. Eric goes and visits the only vertical street in North America and plugs his WiFi Check app. Jon wants to yeet stuff into space and butchers the french language discussing a really, really, really, really, really, really old company.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 10:16 - Ransomware Reward Money
    • 13:49 - Meris Botnet
    • 17:47 - Revil Ransomware
    • 23:29 - Oregon City Municipal Elevator
    • 27:37 - WiFi/Check
    • 28:53 - Spinlaunch
    • 35:07 - Bazacle
    40 min
  • 204: Scramble Of Letters

    Eric fights water and Jon finishes his hay feeder. Eric watches Dune a second time while Jon holds to his principles. NSO added to export ban entity list, 2FA bots are on the rise, CISA releases a registry of known exploited vulnerabilities, and the Trojan Source vulnerability may or may not matter. For fun -- did you know DOS was still a thing? Listen to Disturbed's Sound of Silence, wireless electric car charging, and a detailed toxic map of the US.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 7:47 - Hay Feeder
    • 12:22 - NSO on Entity List
    • 17:04 - 2FA Bots
    • 22:59 - CISA Registry
    • 28:19 - Trojan Source
    • 34:06 - Trojan Source Rebuttal
    • 38:17 - LiveWired Followup
    • 39:23 - Dune Screenplay Author
    • 41:59 - The Sound Of Silence
    • 43:56 - Wireless Car Charging
    • 47:41 - ToxMap
    54 min
  • 203: An Episode Of Tangents

    Eric goes driving, Jon builds a feeder. 007 Spoilers. GPSd loses 1024 weeks. Docket enumerates Covid records. Email providers DDOS'd. Petrol Station Ransomware. Eric is happy to see Dune, Part Two greenlit and Jon shares a Chainsaw CNC video and fascinating details about Brains.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 15:43 - GPS -1024
    • 19:51 - Docket COVID Security
    • 25:26 - Email DDOS'd
    • 28:37 - Petrol Ransomware
    • 33:05 - Dune, Part Two
    • 36:01 - Chainsaw CNC
    • 39:12 - Amazing Brains
    47 min
  • 202: Elf Miner

    Eric and Jon go to the movies. Jon gets stung in the face. An open source tractor?!? Check your biometric logins, a phishing attack against Coinbase, more NPM package coinminers, and the largest Deepfake voice fraud yet. For "fun" we have micro plastics, Cloud Cuckoo Land, and dinosaur shrimp.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 10:11 - Jon's Eye
    • 13:21 - Open Source Tractor
    • 15:22 - Check Biometrics
    • 17:35 - Coinbase Phishing
    • 25:41 - Malicious NPM Packages
    • 28:07 - Deepfake Voice Fraud
    • 28:42 - Episode 91 Link
    • 33:45 - Micro Plastics
    • 38:04 - Cloud Cuckoo Land
    • 41:45 - Triops Emerge
    48 min

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