Unsupervised Learning: Episode 38

May 01, 2016

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InfoSec news and articles

  • Michigan lawmakers want life sentence for hacking cars | will that apply to changing the speed of your turn signal?

  • SWIFT to get update after Bangladesh hack

  • NSA is so overwhelmed with data that it’s no longer effective

  • FBI now saying they don’t know how the hack worked

  • US Cyber Command is hacking ISIS (cyber bombs)

  • Millions of Spotify credentials appear online

  • SAML assertion problem with O365 exposes users’ accounts

  • SF now has highest per capita property crime rate in the US | A law made it a misdemeanor, but there’s also the forced proximity of very rich with very poor

  • Gartner says IoT Security market will reach $840 million by 2020

  • I summarized the Verizon DBIR report (read some of it)

  • Top web hacking techniques of 2015

  • GitHub dorking to hack Slack accounts | xoxb is the prefix of some of the tokens | slack has addressed it

  • Budget approval sought for training cybersecurity troops

  • List of top web hacks from 2015

  • Minecraft hacked with 7M passwords leaked

Technology news and articles

  • Nokia buys Withings for 320M

  • Driverless trucks coming, will automate millions of jobs | you can drive non-stop, you can drive at optimum speeds instead of faster because of human incentives | safety | etc; it’s a no-win situation for humans

  • Customer services is moving to text-based apps, which will eventually be voice-based

  • Drones are the new UFOs

  • Microsoft experimenting with DNA storage, promising something like 1 billion terabytes per gram

  • Ubuntu 16.10 will be called Yakkety Yak

  • Google rolling out IFTTT support on its OnHub router

  • Apple interview questions

Miscellaneous news and articles

  • Mindfulness therapy works as well as antidepressant drugs according to major study

  • House panel votes to make women register for the draft

  • McKinsey says investments won’t do nearly as well over the next 20 years as the past generation

  • Twitter should become the new Disqus (article)

  • Comcast buying Dreamworks for 3.8 billion

  • Marissa Mayer gets 55M to leave Yahoo

  • The small number of atoms in the universe, vs. the large number of combinations in the universe | number of atoms in the observable universe is 10^80, and the number of possible combinations on a Go board is 10^170 | number of things are additive, while the combinations of things are multiplicative | intuitions are bad at this scale

  • Why you can’t lose weight by exercising, via 60 studies

  • Teen birthrates way down, especially among hispanics and blacks

  • Happiness genes located in largest study of its kind

  • Amazon shares go up due to fourth profitable quarter

  • Universe likely littered with dead civilizations

  • Psychopathic tendencies associated with creativity | Wisdom of the psychopath

Exploring ideas

  • AI assistants are the future of computer interaction. I’m going to do a full dedicated episode on the real IoT soon

  • Two things as the basis for human happiness: Giving Love, and Adding Value

  • Weasel shuts down CERN | the original bugs are external, not internal

InfoSec tools

  • CANsee Auto IDS to be released at HITB security conference next month

  • JPEXS for decompiling Flash apps

  • SearchDiggity

  • Scape It | https://github.com/IonicaBizau/scrape-it

  • SCADA CIP – https://github.com/ayushman4/SCADA-CIP-Discovery

InfoSec projects

    InfoSec papers

    • How to Execute Modern Incident Response | IR is one of the most cost-effective things you can do, merges technical and non-technical resources, people who hunt have a better chance of finding things | start with a good definition, use technology increase visibility, nurture relationships to avoid silos, move from incidents to continuous IR, move to reduce the three gaps: DETECTION, TRIAGE, and REMEDIATION

    InfoSec talks

      InfoSec initiatives

        Announcements

        • Presenting at BlackHat Arsenal in Vegas this year

        • Speaking at SOURCE Boston on the KARMA risk rating methodology

        • I’ll be at DerbyCon

        Summary and recommendations

        • Learn from the NSA: sometimes there is such a thing as too much data or too much analysis. Figure out what you can process before you spin up more data collection. This applies to risk assessment if you’re in security

        • If you have issues with depression, I suggest looking into exercise and mindfulness; it’s a powerful combination by all accounts

        • Watch for messaging apps to become the new big thing, followed by their being controlled by AI and voice

        • If you’re not following L2Inc, make that change

        Inspiration

        • The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. —Ernest Hemingway

        • The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. — Marcus Aurelius

        • In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt

        Fin

        • Thank you for listening, see you next time

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        Show notes

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        Notes

        1. The intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.

        2. Please let me know what you think of the new show concept.

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