Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 2

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* UK police arrest 18-year-old in connection to Playstation and XBox attack

* Major ASUS router bug

* Local users can take full control without a password

* Biggest issue there seems to be DNS hijacking

* Legislative attacks on infosec profession and encryption

* Anti-hacking law language ambiguous “according to owner”

* Obama is said to agree with Cameron, but it’s complicated

* Evidence of a plot is different than outlawing encryption

* There’s other talk about it being illegal to see hack data

* French reporting 19,000 DoS attacks since the shootings

* Anonymous is going after ISIS and others

* An attack on free speech is an attack on Anonymous

* Google releases another Windows flaw that they didn’t fix

* Verizon API vulnerability exposes customer email addresses

* Issue was with a mobile API used by Android devices

* Allowed him to retrieve peoples’ emails and send emails as them

* On whether we should trust the FBI regarding the Sony attack

* We now find out the attribution came from a previous NSA hack

* It’s hard to criticize without data

* This doesn’t mean they did it, or that the FBI is always right, or that they should always be trusted

* It means be cautious when you don’t have any information, and the person you’re criticizing has all of it

* Free speech and the Paris attacks

* Where is the line for free speech?

* I think it comes down to safety and taste

* You can’t yell fire, and art matters

* Quote of the week

* No one is as happy as they seem on Facebook, as depressed as they seem on Twitter, or as employed as they seem on LinkedIn.

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Notes

* I have a consolidated InfoSec news feed (here) that I use as a source for headlines.

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