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News

• [ ] Norse lays of 20 people; not clear what percentage that is; threat intel not going so well?
• [ ] OPM declines to release details on its big breach
• [ ] Juniper says it’s going to remove the code that it thinks was developed by the NSA to eavesdrop on traffic
• [ ] CVE details lists (OS X, iOS, Flash, Air, IE, Chrome, Firefox) as the software with the most issues
• [ ] GM is going to do a bug bounty
• [ ] The Hacker Manifesto turned 30 (My crime is that of curiosity)
• [ ] Sophos Home free for Windows and Mac users
• [ ] SF Yellowcab filling for bankruptcy
• [ ] Hackers shut down Ukraine power grid; evidently a malicious word doc sent via email; supposedly the Sandworm Team
• [ ] Bicycle Attack on TLS: https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/https-bicycle-attack.pdf
• [ ] North Korea evidently detonated a hydrogen bomb
• [ ] Time warner customers lose email passwords (320K)
• [ ] Microsoft killing off IE 8, 9, and 10 on January 12th
• [ ] VTech launching new product line after it got hacked and leaked data on 6 million kids
• [ ] Big Flash player update, 0-day and 18 other issues

Ideas, updates, and discussion

• [ ] Back to Ubuntu from CentOS
• [ ] Sick for five weeks
• [ ] Ikigai (what you love, what the world needs, what you can be paid for, what you are good at)
• [ ] Giving books as gifts

Tools, talks, and projects

• [ ] TOWER-SEC protecting ECUs and Telematics on cars
• [ ] AppSensor project; Detection points: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/AppSensor_DetectionPoints
• [ ] Where the Science is Taking Us in Cybersecurity, Dan Geer
• [ ] Rapid7 Hackazon app (modern)
• [ ] DVNA (Damn vulnerable Node Application)
• [ ] Argon2 password hashing algorithm
• [ ] Dradis
• [ ] Kippo SSH honeypot

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Notes

1. 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.
2. Listen via iTunes or with the player embedded above