Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 11

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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

* I skipped a week due to travel in Asia.

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