The Weekly Security and Tech Review

oJoin the hosts Jesse Lesperance and Stanley Chan this week as they discuss malware being spread via pirated Game of Thrones episodes, flaws in WPA3, Microsoft’s webmail compromise, FOSS development and Amazon employees listening to your echo recordings.

Reference Material for this week’s topics

Game of Thrones: a Top Malware Conduit for Cybercriminals

Linux Mint – Monthly News – March 2019

Amazon employees are listening to your amazon echo recordings

Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords

Microsoft reveals hackers accessed some outlook.com email account for months

Jesse Lesperance, Stanley Chan and Robert Smith discuss some theories on why data that was stolen in the 2017 Equifax breach has yet to show up on the dark web.

With the breach taking place in late 2017, and with the data not turning up on the dark web, some security experts are suspecting that the responsible party may be a State-sponsored actor with the goal of using the data for spying.

This week hosts Jesse Lesperance, Stanley Chan and Kevin Champa are joined by guest host Robert “Robby” Smith.

The topics discussed this week include:

* Fema Data leak exposes persion info of 2.3M disaster survivors* From alert to driver vulnerability: Microsoft Defender ATP investigation unearths privilege escalation flaw * FTC Demans Broadband providers reveal data handling practices* IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit* HUD accuses Facebook of violating housing advertisement laws

The hosts: Jesse Lesperance, Stanley Chan and Kevin Champa discuss the topic of providing youth with mobile devices. What are the motivations and potential ramifications for providing mobile devices to individuals at a young age?

This week, Jesse, Stan and Kevin discuss Facebook storing users passwords in plain text, Critical Flaws in Medtronic Defibrillators, Drone Tech creating a blended threat, Microsoft rebrands Windows Defender, Zero-Days in Counter Strike 1.6 clients and Wind Power

 

Reference articles on the topics covered:

 

Facebook Employees had access to hundreds of millions of plain text passwords

Medtronic Defibrillators Have Critical Flaws, Warns DHS

Drone Tech creates new type of blended threat

Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender

Zero-Days in Counter-Strike Client Used to Build Major Botnet

People who live near wind turbines prefer them to solar and fossil plants

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