Last month a security researcher was detained from a flight for allegedly making a silly plane hacking joke on Twitter. The latest news suggest his research was more than a just a joke. Watch today's video to learn what he's accused of and why I think he was irresponsible. Quick show note: I'll be traveling to speak at a conference this week. I'll try to keep my daily video … [Read more...]
ICANN Breach & More Sony – WSWiR Episode 133
Wow! This week's been such a busy news week that the information security (InfoSec) stories kept pouring in, long after I finished this week's video. The latest? CERT just warned about some critical vulnerabilities in NTPd, a popular network time protocol (NTP) service that many network devices and software uses. If you use NTPd, look into it (and I'll post more soon). In the … [Read more...]
Facebook Hacked- WSWiR Episode 74
App Store Hole, LoL Breach, and Zuckerberg Hacked I'm back with our regular infosec news video summary, where I highlight the biggest or most interesting security stories from the week and share a few tips along the way. Today's episode covers a handful of software updates, the breach of a popular multiplayer arena battle game, some drama around a new Facebook vulnerability, … [Read more...]
Android Bitcoin Wallets Broken – WSWiR in Words
Hacked Baby Monitors, Broken Bitcoins, and Apache Exploit Kits By the time you see this on Friday, I'll be hiking and camping in the Olympic National Forest. I'm taking a day off this week for an extended camping weekend. Unfortunately, that also means I did not have time to produce a full InfoSec summary video... but fear not. In lieu of this week's video, I'm leaving you … [Read more...]
TorSploit – WSWiR Episode 73
BREACH, TorSploit, and Fort Disco Sorry for the late posting, but your weekly taste of "what's up" in the InfoSec world is here for your viewing pleasure. As always, I summarize some of this week's biggest network and information security news, in case you didn't have time to follow it yourself. This week was packed with security stories, but I only had time to focus on four. … [Read more...]