The 443 - Security Simplified

With Thanksgiving right around the corner (or just having just passed depending on when you listen to this), we wanted to take some time and talk about the things we are thankful for in the cyber security world. Before that though, we’ll cover the latest news in breaking biometrics where researchers out of New York University and the University of Michigan have developed a fingerprint master key.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, in today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we provide some useful cyber security tips to keep your bank account and home network safe while shopping for the latest holiday tech. Before that though, we cover a breach of over 23 million SMS messages and its impact on multi-factor authentication and account security as a whole.

In this special edition of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover WatchGuard’s 2019 security predictions, available in video and audio formats! For this year’s predictions, the WatchGuard Threat Lab imagines a dystopian future caused by a cybersecurity apocalypse. Learn about Vaporworms, ransomware targeting industrial control systems, the Internet being held hostage, and more. But don’t worry, we’ll also discuss how it can all be avoided! See both our predictions teaser video, and the full video podcast, here: watchguard.com/2019predictions

We’re about to launch our security predictions for 2019, but in this episode we review and rate our predictions from last year. Did the predictions hit, miss or were just “meh”? Listen to find out!

This week, on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the Bleeding Bit Bluetooth vulnerability impacting a large number of wireless access points. We then dive headfirst in to election security. We’ll cover both what we’re worried about and what isn’t very likely when it comes to securing the 2018 US mid-term elections.

In today's episode of The 443 -- Security Simplified, we cover a class action settlement for the largest data breach in history (so far). We then dive in to the world of bots. From botnets to Twitter bots, we cover how they work, where they came from, and where they are going.

In this episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the recent activity of the APT group known as Grey Energy. Who are they? Who are they targeting? And what are their methods? We’ll answer all of that before diving in to the basics of web app security. We’ll break down 5 of the OWASP Top 10 web app security threats into easily understood and actionable advice.

On this week's episode of The 443 - Security Simplified, we cover a recent cyber security audit of major DoD weapons systems (spoiler alert: it's bad). Then we dive in to the recent controversial story out of Bloomberg about hardware implants in motherboards manufactured in China. Did it actually happen? And if so, what does it mean for the future of hardware manufacturing? We'll give our thoughts and more.

Welcome back to The 443 – Security Simplified. Have you ever wondered how to get in to cyber-security? In this episode, we talk weigh the benefits of formal education versus self-taught knowledge and discuss the certifications and skills that can help get your foot in the door. Before that though, we’ll dive in to this week’s news including another bad day for Facebook and the latest in nation-state attacks.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover Microsoft’s latest push towards killing off passwords once and for all and the privacy impact of Facebook maintaining “Shadow Contact Information.” We then dive deep in to the world of digital certificates and how they secure our web connections.