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

  1. I skipped a week due to travel in Asia.

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