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.