We take a look back at some of the big stories of 2015, at least, as we see it.
Plus the round up & more!
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Episode 227: Oracle’s EULAgy #oraclefanfic
- Oracle Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson, makes a blog post railing against reverse engineering and security research
- Claims Oracle is pretty good at finding bugs in their own code, and doesn’t need anyone else’s help, and that is violates their EULA
- The blog post was quickly taken down, but this is the Internet, it doesn’t work like that
Episode 196: Sony’s Hard Lessons
- Bruce Schneier walks us through what we can learn from the hack of Sony’s corporate network
Episode 217: An Encryptioner’s Conscience
- A recurring theme: firmware is terrible
- Replace your router with something that runs a real OS
- Luckily, more and more routers finally have enough hardware to run a minimal Linux or BSD install
- Smaller APU and Atom machines can run full OS or appliance software like pfSense
Episode 211: The French Disconnection
- Episodes recorded live in the studio always have a different feel to them, especially when it happens to be the 4th anniversary of the show
- The top story in this episode was about how to detect when your network has been breached
- Some great detail, and discussion of the Target and Sony hacks as examples of what to do, and what not to do
Episode 212: Dormant Docker Disasters
- The man who broke the music business
- Detailing the infinalside story of how some of the most popular music albums made it onto the internet before they were even in stores
- Again, in person episodes are always special
Episode 237: A Rip in NTP
- Recap of my visit to the OpenZFS
Round Up:
- Maltrail, a new MIT licensed open source malicious traffic detection system
- Making malware that is harder to detect, breaks some disassemblers
- “Firestorm”, a new vulnerability in “next generation” firewalls
- CryptoWall 4 – The Evolution Continues
- McAfee Enterprise Security Manager failed to manage own security. Authentication bypass vulnerability found
- Tutorial: How to reverse unknown protocols using Netzob
- Don’t be a victim of Tax Refund Fraud in 2016, Krebs has tips to protect yourself
- Tutorial: Fake WiFi Access Point, create a rough AP or an “Evil Twin”