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- There was an issue with the Marriott website that exposed reservations and payment information. It’s now been fixed
- Police are now using a new radar to see into peoples’ homes without a warrant
- Security budgets are reportedly going up due to the mega-breaches in 2014
- Also leading to higher pay for CIOs
- Anecdotally, I’d say it’s a pretty good time to be in infosec
- A new security startup, PFP Cybersecurity, uses power consumption to detect malware
- Meant initially to be used for SCADA type systems
- The US hacked North Korean computers back in 2010
- This is reportedly the reasons we were so sure they hacked Sony
- Recently leaked documents from Snowden show heavy offense
- Snowden recently talked to Schneier at Harvard about a number of things
- The NSA is becoming increasingly offensively oriented vs. defensive
- The NSA supposedly uses compromised systems as jump points
- Snowden said most NSA hackers are junior enlisted with limited skills
- Russia reportedly hacking for geopolitical gain, not just money
- Millions of gas stations could be at risk of shutdown
- The Automated Tank Gauges can be remotely accessed by attackers
- Could be manipulated to cause alerts
- Potentially could be used to stop the flow of fuel
- Microsoft gave Charlie Hebdo data to FBI in 45 minutes
- Starwood hack based on bad passwords
- Bad passwords, password re-use, and a brute forcing tool
- Account harvesting is rough: user enumeration, weak passwords, and lack of account lockout
- Flash has another major exploit. Update your stuff.
- People continue to be worried that the President’s crackdown on hackers could hurt security professionals
- Congress is meeting on the 27th of January to discuss breach notification
- The wireless in around 2 million cars is highly vulnerable to attack
- A polish company has created Mouse-Box, which is an entire computer inside of a mouse enclosure
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Notes
- Sorry about the noise part way through. My girl walked in and started unpacking groceries. But when I say one take, I mean one take.