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  • 151: Strap Some Rockets To It

    Jon does yard work, Eric muses about holiday light displays. Mutant Bacterial Enzyme followup and Election Phishing (is the election over yet)? Details on potential ransomware attacks on US Health Care infrastructure. Eric chats about a very expensive rock and faster than light travel, Jon mentions murder hornets and fills us in on Lise Meitner.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:27 - Mutant Bacterial Enzyme
    • 15:36 - Election Phishing
    • 20:12 - Health Care Ransomware
    • 21:41 - Krebs On Ransomware
    • 24:44 - CISA Ransomare Publication
    • 28:55 - Psyche the Asteroid
    • 31:20 - Faster than Light Travel
    • 36:09 - Murder Hornets
    • 40:08 - Who is Lise Meitner?
    45 min
  • 150: Stepped On By Dinosaurs

    Everyone go Vote! Winter (rain) is coming to Oregon, gotta get those chores done. Venice dodges the flood again, and Dickeys is breached. Chrome has a zero day, Google kills Nest Secure (and many other products), and phishing and exfiltration using legit services. For fun, did we mention you should vote? Also an uncrushable beetle and an Asteroid Smack Down.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 4:59 - Chainsawing
    • 8:15 - Oregon Vote By Mail
    • 14:18 - Venice, Again
    • 15:19 - Dickeys
    • 16:42 - Chrome Zero Day
    • 20:06 - Nest Secure No More
    • 23:17 - Products Killed By Google
    • 26:27 - Phishing With Native Services
    • 31:38 - Vote, please!
    • 35:16 - Uncrushable
    • 39:29 - Asteroid Pickup
    45 min
  • 149: Something Worth Doing

    Some Covid Phishing and Microsoft takes TrickBot to court. McAfee releases details on an Azure bug bounty and donates the proceeds to charity. Eric votes for David Attenborough and Jon votes for Generative Adversarial Network Art. #VOTE

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:19 - Venice - 24 hours later
    • 13:43 - FinFisher Raid
    • 15:42 - Phishing the President's Covid
    • 18:47 - Microsoft v TrickBot
    • 22:40 - Prisoner of Azure-kaban
    • 33:06 - Donating to Charity
    • 33:32 - David Attenborough
    • 37:39 - GANksy
    44 min
  • 148: Anything Qualifies As Physics

    Jon Paints and Eric Hikes. Calories anyone? Typosquatting followup, zerologon is multiplatform, and who doesn't like SPACE! Four! Point! Oh! Please Vote, and were you aware IAM is difficult? For fun we have Venice barriers, punk Astley, Twinkie Fungi, Nobel Prizes, and gene splicing. Please leave us a review!

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 1:39 - Painting
    • 6:15 - Elk Mountain
    • 13:37 - Olive Garden
    • 16:14 - Typosquatting Packages
    • 19:37 - Something Phishy
    • 19:52 - Samba Zerologon
    • 23:31 - Space 4.0 (part 1)
    • 27:25 - Space 4.0 (part 2)
    • 30:54 - VOTE!
    • 32:43 - Enter the Vault
    • 45:48 - Venice Barriers
    • 49:39 - Punk Astley
    • 50:31 - Twinkies Are(n't) Forever
    • 52:40 - Nobel Prizes
    • 55:43 - Bring Me A Gene
    • 57:51 - Link To Review
    59 min
  • 147: Isn't that called a Vending Machine?

    Jon patches his QNAP, Eric follows coffee maker firmware shenanigans. There's a 9-1-1 outage and a deconstructed Mac Spyware app. Ring makes a camera drone to fly around the inside of your house and Civilization is on the Subscription Bandwagon.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 7:26 - Meatless Mark Rober
    • 13:43 - QNAP Ransomware
    • 17:32 - Coffee Maker Ransomware
    • 25:09 - 911 Outage
    • 33:23 - Deconstructing a Mac App
    • 41:07 - Ring Camera Drone
    • 46:38 - Civilization Frontier Pass
    50 min
  • 146: Too Tipsy

    Nice to breathe again, 3d printing fun, and concrete adventures. Directive to patch Zerologon, Russia bans ESNI, and did you know octal is a valid IP representation? Strava shows personal info to strangers, and Germany sees the first potential death due to a ransomware attack. For fun, you can fly Serenity, calculate the speed of light with a chocolate bar, code in Swift on Windows, and listen to Timber Wars. (will anyone notice if I *don't* put images into the metadata??)

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 20:51 - Zerologon Patch Directive
    • 22:20 - Russia Bans ESNI
    • 25:54 - Other IP Encodings
    • 34:54 - Strava Exposure
    • 41:20 - Ransomware Death
    • 45:51 - Fly Serenity
    • 48:56 - Microwave and Chocolate
    • 51:25 - Swift on Windows
    • 53:14 - Timber Wars Podcast
    59 min
  • 145: Got Barnacled Up

    No Mt. St. Helens for Eric, but bonus honey for Jon. GitHub drops passwords for cloning, Jon remembers a two year old underwater datacenter. More reminders about Disinformation and "Game Over" if you don't patch your servers. Eric's something fun isn't all that fun, then he stomps on Jon's fun. Jon gets excited about Library of Congress tech.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:40 - GitHub Passwords?
    • 15:10 - Project Natick
    • 20:29 - Disinformation Information
    • 26:26 - ZeroLogon Attack
    • 33:34 - Going to the Movies? No.
    • 39:17 - Biomarking Bees
    • 42:16 - Library of Congress Tech
    48 min
  • 144: Now You Have A Birdsicle

    Wildfires are consuming the west coast -- including Oregon; Eric repurposes railing for a fence, Hartford schools and Pakistan's largest power company hit by ransomware. For fun Eric has a FrozenBird and Mario Cart Live, and Jon brings the board game Karmaka.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:23 - Building A Fence
    • 14:57 - School Ransomware
    • 18:01 - Pakistan Ransomware
    • 20:46 - Mcafee Netwalker
    • 27:33 - Birdsicle
    • 30:28 - Mario Cart Live
    • 32:54 - Karmaka
    42 min
  • 143: Steepled Finger Tap

    Warning: This episode is rife with cliches. Eric's getting a new deck. Jon weeds and fences. Googling GitHub is now a thing. Apple notarizes a bad app. "Good" email names are more trouble than they're worth, and MoFi gets a 6 out of 10. Eric steals his something fun and Jon 1-ups that with a new 3d printer and an Umbrella Academy.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:06 - Medical data leaked on GitHub
    • 15:33 - Apple notarization is not App Review
    • 20:42 - Email Hijinks
    • 27:29 - myrealbox.com
    • 30:16 - MoFi gets 6/10
    • 38:26 - AR Copy Paste
    • 41:41 - New Photon Mono X 4k
    • 47:16 - The Umbrella Academy
    50 min
  • 142: Not A True Viking

    Jon harvests honey and Eric's on another road trip. "A Nevada Company" is Tesla, US Gov warns of the "BeagleBoyz", Bridgefy isn't secure, and an Ad Click Stealer. For fun Eric likes the Microsoft Flight Simulator (and the glitches), and Jon recommends an old fashioned (and fantastic) blog: honeybeesuite.com.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 3:43 - Honey Harvest
    • 8:41 - "A Nevada Company"
    • 12:14 - Hint: It's Tesla
    • 13:38 - BeagleBoyz and FASTCash
    • 21:07 - Bridgefy App
    • 28:08 - Ad Library Click Stealer
    • 35:16 - Microsoft Flight Simulator
    • 40:22 - Honeybeesuite.com
    44 min

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