Not So Critical Update

By Not So Critical Update

Peter, Jon, and Mike get angry about tech stories from the week. Three industry professionals with very different viewpoints, and very different backgrounds, discuss what's been happening and fight ab... more

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October 15, 2021 Jon has a Twitch leak update
Jon (@jonnisec), Mike (@zenmike), and Peter (@pgl) talk about the Twitch leak (again :-)
https://threatpost.com/twitch-leak-emails-passwords/175390/
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15min
October 15, 2021 Surveillance company ShotSpotter Sues Vice
Mike (@zenmike) and Peter (@pgl) talk (once again) about ShotSpotter. This time they're suing Vice over the last article we discussed about them.
https://news.yahoo.com/vice-hit-300m-suit-controversial-002027930.html
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14min
October 15, 2021 Irish regulators and Facebook's slap on the wrist
Mike (@zenmike) and Peter (@pgl) talk about a photographer who trolls the community and himself.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/irish-regulator-proposes-36-mln-euro-facebook-privacy-fine-document-2021-10-13/
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21min
October 15, 2021 A true story about fake images and fake news
Mike (@zenmike) and Peter (@pgl) talk about a photographer who trolls the community and himself.
https://www.wired.com/story/true-story-bogus-photos-people-fake-news/
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18min
October 15, 2021 Facebook end-to-end encryption and CSAM
Mike (@zenmike) Peter (@pgl) talk about end-to-end encryption and balancing privacy needs vs. safety.
https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-responsible-for-94-of-69-million-child-sex-abuse-images-reported-by-us-tech-firms-12101357
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14min
October 08, 2021 Facebook goes down - and that's not even the worst Facebook news this week
This is your Not-So-Critical Update for Friday, October 8th.
Mike, Peter, and Jon talk about Facebook going down for 6 hours - and that isn't even the worst news about Facebook this week.
Also Twitch.tv has suddenly become open source software. At least in the sense that their source code and data is now all out in the open. #LiveStreamFail
00:00 Intro
2:13 Facebook is bad for us. Frances Haugen tells even they know it. Also, they were down for 6 hours Monday.
20:39 Your text messages have probably been hacked since 2016.
36:48 Twitch source code and data is leaked.
01:03:50 Bonus content. The show is over. From here on out it's just for fun.
And the co-co-hosts themselves: Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec)
Music from StreamBeats.
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1h 14min
October 01, 2021 Oct 1 - The Port of Houston is hacked and the NSA also hates ads
Mike, Peter, and Jon talk about the Port of Houston hack, ad blocking at the NSA and CIA, and the privacy nightmare that is the Amazon Astro.
00:00 Intro
02:38 - The Port of Houston is hacked.
16:50 - The NSA and CIA hate ads as much as everyone else.
25:46 - OMIGOD Microsoft's open source bugs are patched.
44:38 - Astro, I'm home. Please stop investigating me.
Music from StreamBeats.
And the co-co-hosts themselves: Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec)
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1h 11min
September 24, 2021 Sept 24 - The state of US privacy laws is bad, but AI is good?
Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
Here's a link to the book Jon mentioned:
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
00:00 Intro
01:30 Crypto-scammer manipulates Walmart and Litecoin
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/walmart-to-accept-payments-with-cryptocurrencies-using-litecoin.html
09:37 Microsoft finally patches PrintNightmare, causes other issues.
- https://www.techspot.com/news/91315-microsoft-latest-attempt-patch-printnightmare-vulnerabilities-causes-network.html
12:43 Critical infrastructure continues to be vulnerable.
- https://www.raconteur.net/infrastructure/future-of-infrastructure-the-threat-of-cyber-attacks/
21:19 The state of privacy laws in the U.S. IT SUCKS!
- https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/state-of-privacy-laws-in-us/

27:36 The ICO to end cookie pop-ups and spam calls and texts. Also, unicorns exist!
- https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252506318/ICO-in-bid-to-end-cookie-pop-ups
- https://news.sky.com/story/tougher-penalties-considered-for-nuisance-calls-and-text-messages-12403341
35:16 Breaking news: Schools are vulnerable to ransomware and data breaches - just like everyone else.
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667637/go-read-this-ransomware-attacks-schools-student-identity-theft
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-are-leaking-childrens-data-s-little-parents-can-rcna1926

48:56 Schools are buying (and using) FBI-grade phone-hacking tech for use against students.
- https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393
59:04 AI will save us all!
- https://www.makeuseof.com/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-cybersecurity-/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/11/how-the-pandemic-has-shifted-attitudes-to-the-artificial-intelligence-of-things-and-the-smart-home/
Music from StreamBeats.
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1h 15min
September 16, 2021 Sept 17 - Biometric scanning and poop smearing robots.
Mike Sutton (@zenmike) and Peter Lowe (@pgl) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
00:00 Intro
03:32 Zero-Click, Zero-Day FORCEDENTRY exploit of iMessage (and pretty much every Apple/Mac device on the planet). NSO Group is at it again with Pegasus Spyware.
- https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
10:44 Russia tests blocking entire DNS servers to censor Navalny Apps.
- https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/10/russia-to-test-block-domains-used-by-navalny-apps-sparking-online-privacy-fears-kommersant-a75014

19:29 The explosion of biometric security and surveilance since 9/11
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90674661/how-9-11-sparked-the-rise-of-americas-biometrics-security-empire

41:06 The SEC's SolarWinds investigation has publicly traded companies in a panic
- https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/
55:38 Roomba uses AI to house train it's poop smearing robots
- https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/09/tech/roomba-ai-avoids-dog-poop/index.html
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1h 4min
September 09, 2021 Sept 10 - Apple slows down, GDPR speeds up.
Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
00:00 Intro
02:20 Apple delays looking at our boring galleries
https://www.securityweek.com/apple-announces-delay-child-protection-measures
08:27 Adversarial attacks on unsupervised machine learning
https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/02/unsupervised-learning-can-detect-unknown-adversarial-attacks/
15:12 WhatsApp's GDPR fines
https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-facebook-privacy-fine-europe/
24:03 Facebook is reading your WhatsApp messages
https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/facebook-reads-and-shares-whatsapp-private-messages-report/
31:22 ProtonMail
https://www.slashgear.com/protonmail-secure-email-service-provided-user-data-that-led-to-arrest-05689657/
37:52 AI is stealing your job
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school
49:26 Cybersecurity is burning and VCs don't care.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/02/the-cybersecurity-industry-is-burning-and-vcs-dont-care/
59:14 Does targeting work? Or are you just really bad at it?
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
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1h 14min

FAQs about Not So Critical Update:

How many episodes does Not So Critical Update have?

The podcast currently has 759 episodes available.