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• Twitch, a game streaming service owned by Amazon, was hacked last week
  • Passwords, emails, usernames, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth
  • Amazon bought them last year for almost 1 billion dollars
• Bar Mitzvah attack on TLS
  • Requires that you can sniff traffic
  • Basically an RC4 problem
  • Solution is to remove it from your supported algorithms
• GitHub Has been hit by a massive DDoS attack
  • Apparently from China
• CSRF vulnerability found in a wind turbine
  • Allowed you to pull usernames and passwords
  • Also allowed the password to be changed for the default user, which had admin access
• CSRF vulnerability exposes Hilton customer accounts
  • There was an account rotation issue where you could gain access to their account as long as you could guess their 9-digit username
• Snowden says IT workers now the targets of spies
  • They’re not going after their information, but to use them for access to networks
• Premera hacked on same day as Blue Cross (January 29th)
  • Same story: encryption, know your network, etc.
  • Also same story: health data is harder to clean up from because it involves PII that cannot easily be changed
  • More speculation around these attacks is that they’re data gathering for larger attacks on government networks
• Apple Acquires FoundationDB
  • Fast NoSQL database probably to be used for its increasing entry into the services market
• Researchers use heat to breach air-gapped systems
  • Everyone knows that an airgap is the best defense
  • Ben-Gurion University came out with BitWhisper
  • Now bidirectional using malware on both systems that controlled heat creation and detection
  • Only 8-bits per hour
• BioCatch, Zumigo, Alibaba release tools to identify users
  • I used to work with a technology called BioPass
  • Uses what you do with your mouse, scrolling, how you smile via selfie, compares habits, your current location, etc. Similar to existing fraud detection just with more data points
  • Really cool tech, needs to be used with the right authentication level
• Korea investing 5B in IoT and Smart Cars
• Bring Your Own IoT
  • Recording audio and video are getting increasingly easy
  • Sensitive meetings might become dead zones soon, and perhaps even sensitive work areas
  • Some people will say that we already have this risk, but they key is the ease with which it can be done

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Notes

1. I skipped a week due to travel in Asia.