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Unsupervised Learning: Episode 40
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
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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
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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
Notes
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.
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