Unsupervised Learning: Episode 40

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InfoSec news and Articles ​

• LinkedIn breach from 2013 | 65.5 million emails and salted and hashed passwords

• XSS in WordPress plugin (JetPack)

• DerbyCon is going to stream live this year | you can’t stream the networking, so it probably won’t hurt next year’s sales too much

• Websites using audio fingerprinting to track web users

• Terrorists not showing advanced security tradecraft

• GSM/GPRS traffic interception for penetration testing engagements (NCC)

• Real robocop in Stanford shopping center

• Reddit reset over 100K passwords after surge in hacked accounts

• Google to start shaming partners that don’t provide quick updates

• CEO sacked after company grounded by whaling attack

• Marisa Mlynski gets 30K in Chrome bounties

• Security researcher proposes 5-star rating for IoT Security | strange since the Cavalry have already proposed a 5-star rating

• Lots of Twitter password resets (hacks?)

• FBI says to watch out for USB phone chargers in public places | you deserve what you get if you’re in IT

Technology news and articles ​

• Waverly labs instant language translation

• Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all corporate cash

• MIT makes incandescent light bulbs more efficient than LEDs

• Japan mandating coding education

• Twitter testing a live streaming feature to attack Periscope

• Uber users with low phone batteries more likely to accept surge pricing

• All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020

• Twitter dropping handles and media from character limit

Apple news and articles ​

• Flowers for Siri: got dumber instead of smarter

• Apple working on Siri and/or AppleTV upgrade in the AI space | looking to release an SDK and possibly do an Alexa competitor | could have a camera and/or facial recognition | they need to step up

Miscellaneous news and articles ​

• Boys with more books in the house earn more as adults

• People with intellectual disability are at increased risk for both violent and sexual victimisation and offending

• Alzheimer’s possibly related to infections

• Massive infrastructure found for enabling Chinese students to get in and succeed in American colleges

• Education doesn’t fix poverty

• Woman’s blindness fixed by stem cell treatment

• Standing desks may boost productivity in adults

Exploring ideas ​

• Unsupervised learning

• Threats, threat actors, and risks

• Corporations don’t want employees

• How technology hijacks peoples minds

• KARMA Risk Management

InfoSec tools ​

• LazyMap: Nmap to Nessus https://n0where.net/auto-nmap-scanning-script-lazymap/

• Halcyon: Nmap Script IDE https://n0where.net/unofficial-ide-for-nmap-script-development-halcyon/

• PTF: Pentesters Framework https://github.com/trustedsec/ptf

InfoSec projects ​

InfoSec papers ​

InfoSec reports ​

InfoSec talks ​

InfoSec initiatives ​

Announcements ​

• Presenting at BlackHat Arsenal in Vegas this year

• I’ll be at DerbyCon

• About five chapters done on my book, titled FUTURE

Summary and recommendations ​

• Make sure you either have a password manager or a very strong password scheme

• Make sure you have backups

• Make sure your loved ones have these things as well

Recommended content ​

• Tristan Harris

  • https://medium.com/swlh/distracted-in-2016-reboot-your-phone-with-mindfulness-9f4c8ad46538#.d66ri2ozn

  • https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.f434h93c3

• a16z

inspiration ​

• Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ~ Jules de Gaultier

• An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ~ Simon Cameron

• A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fin ​

• Ok, that’s it for this episode

• Thank you for listening

• If you like the show, please recommend it to your friends and share it, blog about it, share it on social media, and leave a review on iTunes

• See you next time

Show notes ​

• https://danielmiessler.com/blog/derbycon-moving-to-live-streaming-model/

• http://thehackernews.com/2016/05/audio-fingerprint.html?utm_content=buffera2eae&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

• https://danielmiessler.com/blog/corporations-dont-want-employees/

• http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/29/boys-books-earnings-adults

• http://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-0869-7

• https://medium.com/@thegrugq/notes-on-isis-european-style-42ef5b617a6#.t8fkx7kfp

• https://danielmiessler.com/blog/derbycon-moving-to-live-streaming-model/

• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/health/alzheimers-disease-infection.html?_r=1

• http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/return-of-incandescent-light-bulbs-as-mit-makes-them-more-effici/

• http://www.demos.org/blog/12/2/15/why-education-does-not-fix-poverty

• https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2016/may/gsmgprs-traffic-interception-for-penetration-testing-engagements/

• https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.3hv6ps7xn

• http://english.eu2016.nl/latest/news/2016/05/27/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020

• https://www.lovefone.co.uk/blogs/news/116694212-flowers-for-siri-what-made-apple-s-ai-so-stupid

• https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/05/security-advisory-stored-xss-jetpack-2.html

• http://www.slideshare.net/AndrewRJamieson/iot-security-its-in-the-stars-169-v201605241355

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