Mostly Security

By Jon King and Eric Wuehler

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the ... more

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The podcast currently has 527 episodes available.

Mostly Security episodes:

March 17, 2018014: Ethereum, Spyware, and AMD's security flaws
MemFixed sends flush packets to memcached servers. Security tools start showing up for Ethereum. ISPs insert spyware into downloads from legitimate sites. Carl joins to discuss the recently disclosed AMD vulnerabilities.

Links:

Followup - MemFixed - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/memfixed-tool-helps-mitigate-memcached-based-ddos-attacks/

Ethereum Security Tool - https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/03/09/echidna-a-smart-fuzzer-for-ethereum/

Government injected spyware - https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packetlogic-devices-deploy-government-spyware-turkey-syria/

AMD Vulnerabilities - https://www.wired.com/story/amd-backdoor-cts-labs-backlash/

Two Photos, one millisecond - https://petapixel.com/2018/03/07/two-photographers-unknowingly-shot-millisecond-time/

Numberphile - http://numberphile.com/videos/analytical_continuation1.html
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36min
March 09, 2018013: Android P and network devices as a critical vector
Security implications of Google's Android 'P' first developer preview. Newly unclassified documents from 2016 (likely Shadow Broker fallout). Girl Scout cybersecurity badges and drones in Puerto Rico.

Links:

GitHub DDoS - https://github.com/649/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit

Android P security features - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17088394/android-p-developer-preview-notifications-kotlin-microphone

Android ecosystem statistics - https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Unclassified 2016 'BOD-16-02' - https://twitter.com/RidT/status/970880435411709952

Girl Scouts cybersecurity badges - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/girl-scouts-fight-cybercrime-new-cybersecurity-badge-n852971

Drones in Puerto Rico - https://www.wired.com/story/drones-electricity-puerto-rico/
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36min
March 09, 2018013: Android P and network devices as a critical vector
Security implications of Google's Android 'P' first developer preview. Newly unclassified documents from 2016 (likely Shadow Broker fallout). Girl Scout cybersecurity badges and drones in Puerto Rico.

Links:

GitHub DDoS - https://github.com/649/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit

Android P security features - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17088394/android-p-developer-preview-notifications-kotlin-microphone

Android ecosystem statistics - https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Unclassified 2016 'BOD-16-02' - https://twitter.com/RidT/status/970880435411709952

Girl Scouts cybersecurity badges - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/girl-scouts-fight-cybercrime-new-cybersecurity-badge-n852971

Drones in Puerto Rico - https://www.wired.com/story/drones-electricity-puerto-rico/
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36min
March 03, 2018012: Emailing 23,000 private keys and GitHub survives a DDoS attack
Jon is back from Florida. Is it Trust-ICO or Trustico? Anatomy of an Amplification Attack. Visualizing data and watching documentaries.

Links:

Trustico emails private keys - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/

GitHub does not <3 open memcached - https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/

LA Times Open S3 == Cryptojacked - https://threatpost.com/cryptojacking-attack-found-on-los-angeles-times-website/130041/

Jon's pwned password - https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Jon's Something Fun: Visual Capitalist - http://www.visualcapitalist.com/

Eric's Something Fun: Round Planet - https://www.netflix.com/title/80212704
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32min
March 03, 2018012: Emailing 23,000 private keys and GitHub survives a DDoS attack
Jon is back from Florida. Is it Trust-ICO or Trustico? Anatomy of an Amplification Attack. Visualizing data and watching documentaries.

Links:

Trustico emails private keys - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/

GitHub does not <3 open memcached - https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/

LA Times Open S3 == Cryptojacked - https://threatpost.com/cryptojacking-attack-found-on-los-angeles-times-website/130041/

Jon's pwned password - https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Jon's Something Fun: Visual Capitalist - http://www.visualcapitalist.com/

Eric's Something Fun: Round Planet - https://www.netflix.com/title/80212704
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32min
February 22, 2018011: Peter Wooley joins to chat UI/UX and Disneyland
We chat CSS Keyloggers and are not worried. Careful what you put into securityheaders.io. Is your Password in the list of 500 million known passwords? And you can't chat with Peter without a Disney sidetrack.

Links:

CSS Keyloggers - https://www.bram.us/2018/02/21/css-keylogger-and-why-you-shouldnt-worry-about-it/

securityheaders.io - https://securityheaders.io

Pwned Passwords - https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/

Avatar Flight of Passage - https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/animal-kingdom/avatar-flight-of-passage/

Check your Password - https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Peter's Something Fun: D&D Starter Set - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SI774U6
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30min
February 22, 2018 011: Peter Wooley joins to chat UI/UX and Disneyland
We chat CSS Keyloggers and are not worried. Careful what you put into securityheaders.io. Is your Password in the list of 500 million known passwords? And you can't chat with Peter without a Disney sidetrack.
...more
30min
February 17, 2018010: Consumer Reports, RTL Unicode, and CPU vs Ads
iFixit and the iPhone X Teardown, Consumer Reports is now adding Security and Privacy into their electronic device ratings, Telegram has a Zero-day vulnerability due to a Right-to-Left Unicode character and Salon.com wants to mine cryptocurrencies in exchange for viewing their website. Jon talks about building a Raspberry Pi time-lapse video and Eric talks about StackOverflow stats.

Links:

iFixit and iPhone X Teardown - https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/motherboard-ifixit-worlds-best-iphone-teardown-repair/5a01b91b177dd416f530a081

Consumer Reports adds Security and Privacy - https://www.consumerreports.org/televisions/samsung-roku-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-hacking-consumer-reports-finds/

Zero-day Vulnerability in Telegram - https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/

Unicode character crashes iPhones - https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/iphone-bug-telugu-unicode-ios-mac-text-bomb/

Salon.com wants to mine cryptocurrencies - https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon/

Python library for checking astral data - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astral

Eric checks StackOverflow stats - https://stackoverflow.com/users/251299/eric

Jon's stats on StackOverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/4155/niniki
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30min
February 17, 2018 010: Consumer Reports, RTL Unicode, and CPU vs Ads
iFixit and the iPhone X Teardown, Consumer Reports is now adding Security and Privacy into their electronic device ratings, Telegram has a Zero-day vulnerability due to a Right-to-Left Unicode character and Salon.com wants to mine cryptocurrencies in exchange for viewing their website. Jon talks about building a Raspberry Pi time-lapse video and Eric talks about StackOverflow stats.
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30min
February 09, 2018009: Carl Woodward joins the show and talks Meltdown
Carl talks meltdown/spectre from the trenches. Jon fawns over the Falcon Heavy launch. Eric yaps about Right to Repair and Hacking John Deere tractors. Carl wants an alarm clock, buys an Alexa - its all downhill from there, and it is Cedric's fault.

Links:

Netflix Repokid - https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-aardvark-and-repokid-53b081bf3a7e

Transaction Synchronization Extension - https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/524022

Falcon Heavy Launch - https://www.space.com/39632-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-whats-next.html

Tesla added to US satellite catalog - https://twitter.com/AFSpace/status/961371676582797313

Right to Repair - https://repair.org/

Hacking Tractors - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

Carl buys an Echo Spot - https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-VN94DQ-Echo-Spot-Black/dp/B073SQYXTW/
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40min

FAQs about Mostly Security:

How many episodes does Mostly Security have?

The podcast currently has 527 episodes available.