Schneider Electric SCADA issues revealed at DEFCON
Ashley Madison hack, extortion will become more common, passwords added to SecLists
Hackers attack PR firm and manipulate stocks
Uber is quadrupling their security staff in 2015
Android vulnerabilities lately
Ideas and commentary
Business-based hacking: extortion-based hacking, ransomware, prediction-based hacking, PR releases, etc. Find the leverage, then execute the hack
My problem with threat intelligence
Optimal playlists for getting work done: baroque, no words, medium volume, 60 beats per minute
Ambient sound as two-factor, which goes to my idea of continuous authentication
How standardization and insurance will change security
Miller (mlr) is like sed, awk, join, cut, and sort, but for name:index data such as CSV
Participation in the OWASP IoT Project, Sasa Zdjelar is going to work on an IOT disposition project, Digicert is possibly working on a secure updates project, and we welcome others to add to the mix
Updates and announcements
Vegas conferences: two talks, Blackhat Arsenal, DEFCON talk on IoT Attack Surface Areas, Caparser release
If you’re into IoT, be sure to check out Craig Smith’s podcast at IoT Weekly, and Bruce Sinclair’s IoT podcast as well
SecLists has been reorganized, go check it out
Kali Linux 2.0 is out: new kernel, based on debian, rolling release, go get it
Notes
The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.