Apple Zero Day Sold To Government (Transcript)

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And welcome to another edition of the Security Assessment Podcast.

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I am your host, Brandon, as always.

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I want to, first of all, folks, apologize for my voice today and the way I sound.

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He caught my daughter’s cold and I’m kind of getting over it, so my throat’s a little

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scratchy.

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So I do want to apologize for the…

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It’s not the audio, it’s my voice.

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So I do apologize for that today.

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Some big… couple of things I wanted to talk about.

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Real quickly, some big news as far as I’m concerned.

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Microsoft releases, officially releases, Copilot this week for Windows.

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And you can get it for… they have the free version you could use or you can get the paid

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version.

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$20 a month for personal, $30 if you want their pro version.

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And obviously if you’re in business, you have a $20 a month or $30 a month program as well.

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Microsoft really hoping… they sent in their earnings report call that this is going to

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be kind of a thing where they’re going to try to… they’ve kind of saturated the market

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with Office, but they’re hoping this is going to help them sell per seat.

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They’re hoping this is going to up the amount of money that people are spending.

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So Microsoft Copilot, pretty big thing.

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I have been messing with it.

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I know controversy has always surrounded it on GitHub.

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I really like it as a programmer, being able to have it as a copilot and really using it

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as, like I said, as a kind of a coding… something extra when I’m coding as a tool

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to help you if you get stuck or to help you if you have to do repetitive code over and

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over again or if you’re like me, not a great typist, just to have it.

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And it really does help.

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I know there has been some controversy about it because it did learn on all of GitHub’s

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code and some people saying, well, that code is… there’s been controversy about the licensing,

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how the copilot uses the code and some of that.

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But I do think it actually is going to be a big thing for people.

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And I’m sure it’s going to be integrated into many different security products if it isn’t

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already.

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And there’s just so many things that it can do.

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And like I said, I’ve seen it the other day.

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I was messing with it in Excel, all these kinds of things.

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So I do think it is something that is definitely going to be a tool that we’re all going to

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use as time progresses, going to get more and more popular.

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And just like I said, I’m just really excited to see where it goes.

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I actually…

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I’m not sure if I’m going to stay paying for…

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I will stay with paying $10 a month for GitHub, but I’m not sure if I’m going to…

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Well, I’ve been paying for the GitHub copilot for a while, but I’m not sure if I’m going

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to actually stay with it with…

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I don’t know if I use Excel and Word enough to justify $20 a month, but like I said, I

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might pay for chat GPT and just use that.

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I’m not sure yet.

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I’m still deciding what I’m going to do.

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But like I said, really big news as far as I’m concerned, because I think that’s going

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to be really huge going forward, especially with the search market and all that kind of

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stuff.

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So we’ll have to see.

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Also, two big news this week.

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I think Blue Sky opened up to everybody.

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Blue Sky is supposed to be like Twitter, but it’s decentralized.

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So I think it’s going to be like Mastodon to a certain degree and like Twitter to a

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certain degree as well.

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So I’ve messed with it a little bit, not a huge fan of it, but I thought that was pretty

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interesting that they opened up this week as well.

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Decked Dorsey saying his goal with this is that it’s going to be like Twitter, but decentralized.

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I think Mastodon is kind of onto that, but they have a little way to go yet.

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So we have to remain and see what happens with that going forward.

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Speaking of Check Dorsey, Square had a large outage the other day.

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They haven’t announced why it went down yet, but Square had a big outage.

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Didn’t affect us too much here.

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We’re very fortunate, but I know a lot of places were upset that Square was down.

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They couldn’t take credit card payments and stuff like that.

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So that is actually quite big news.

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And like I said, they got it back up.

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They’ve had outages before, but especially with credit card processing, the money they’re

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losing as well as the people that can’t take credit cards, it’s quite a big deal.

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So that was something that happened this week as well.

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I thought that was pretty important news.

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Also too, since we’re kind of going into the news already, that’s fine.

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Also news I thought was relevant.

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Disney has announced that they’re going to be cracking down on the password sharing.

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They’re doing this because they’re trying to do what Netflix is doing.

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They want to make sure people aren’t sharing passwords.

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That’s revenue loss.

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So they’re going to go ahead and start fighting that.

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I can’t stress enough to everybody that listens how important it is not to share your password

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to anything.

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I’ve said this a million times.

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People say all the time, “Well, I’m just sharing my password with them.”

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No, you should not share your password because the odds are a chance that password is going

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to be something that you’re using for something else.

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Now that person knows one of your passwords and it doesn’t take much for them to go ahead

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and try to get into other systems using that one password.

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The other problem is if that person should get compromised, now somebody has your password

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since you gave it to a friend.

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So I can’t stress it enough.

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I understand people are sharing passwords and logins should help somebody save some

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money.

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It’s great and it’s wonderful that you’re helping your friends.

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If you’re going to keep doing that, which you shouldn’t, but if you’re going to keep

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doing that, I strongly recommend you make it a weird generic password that you don’t

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use anywhere else.

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So at least if that does get compromised, you at least are safe.

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That person, if somebody does get that password, it’s like I said, a different password than

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you use for everything else.

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So very important.

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Make sure you, like I said, change your password.

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The other thing you could do if you do want to share password information for a service,

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you also, if you have to use a different email even, so that this way at least if the email

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gets compromised and the password gets compromised, it’s not your same username and password or

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your username and email or email and password combination.

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So it’s much, much safer.

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I strongly recommend that.

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Again, if you want to keep sharing your password information, that’s fine, but you should really

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at least be using a different password and even more so a different email address.

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So very, very important.

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Also too, I want to point out too, Apple did release an update today for iOS.

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A couple people had asked me about it.

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I just want to point that out.

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It is not actually a security update.

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It is actually a bug fix for a text prompt.

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So if you don’t get it, it’s not a big deal.

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It’s just a bug fix.

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It’s not a security update.

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So very important to know that.

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Another thing I wanted to point out is the security through obscurity.

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And the reason why I’m saying that is a very large bank in China called ICBC was hit by

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a ransomware attack the other day.

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And what surprised me in 2024, they are still using a novel network server.

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And this just astounded me because a novel network has long been not used in business.

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It’s still supported by a third party company as you can run it.

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It’s not like it’s completely obsolete yet.

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But what’s funny was this ransomware got loose in their system and when it got to one of

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their critical systems, the ransomware didn’t actually know what to do.

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It didn’t know how to affect the system because it was network.

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So I thought that was a little funny.

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Like I said, to me it was just funny that it’s kind of the old saying of security through

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obscurity.

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But like I said, it was pretty funny.

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Like I said, it nailed a lot of the workstations that were part of their system.

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But like I said, when it got to this, it had no idea what to do with the network server.

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So as much as I pick on them for running NetWare, it may have actually saved their systems because

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they weren’t able to get into their critical systems because they were still running NetWare.

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So I thought that was pretty funny.

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And anybody that’s listening right now that is a network guy, I’m sure you’re laughing

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because I was too when I read this, I was like, wait a minute, like NetWare in 2024?

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I can’t believe it.

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But for them, talk about luck.

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Like I said, that really saved them.

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So maybe that was the, maybe somebody had planned that.

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I’m sure somebody’s going to take credit for planning.

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If it wasn’t planned, I’m sure somebody’s going to take the credit for it.

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So I thought that was a pretty funny, pretty funny story.

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And like I said, it made me laugh.

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So I thought we’d go ahead and share that.

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Also big, I think the biggest news security news of the week was an article that was released

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from Slashdot here.

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A Chinese state sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon has been living in the networks

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of some critical industries for at least five years.

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According to joint cybersecurity advisory issued by the US and its allies on Wednesday.

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The compromised environments are continents, are in the continents of the United States

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and elsewhere, including Guam and others.

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It was published in the US agencies that their security counterparts, Australia, Canada,

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the UK and New Zealand.

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The report comes weeks after the US officially announced that the operation to disrupt Volt

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Typhoon by deleting malware from thousands of internet connected devices across the country.

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Apparently they have been in systems for quite a while.

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The company, the hacker group has been targeting sectors like communication, energy, transportation

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and water systems.

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So which are, I mean, we all know critical parts of the economy.

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So I wanted to point that out.

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I got a lot of press.

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It definitely deserved it.

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State sponsored hacking is quite a big deal.

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And with everything, we’ve had some issues with China and some of that over the years.

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And it’s been five years, so it’s quite a while now.

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But I thought that was, I mean, in my opinion, that was the biggest news of the week.

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The other big story of the week, I really believe is that critical vulnerability that’s

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affecting most Linux distros.

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You know, that, I mean, it’s basically allowing for bot kits to get in.

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Linux developers are in the process of patching high severity vulnerability in certain cases

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that allows the installation of malware that runs at the firmware level.

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So they are in the process of working on that.

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The vulnerability did get tracked at CVE-2023-40547.

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You know, this is, it’s basically a buffer overflow attack is what it is, but it’s a

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coning bug that allows attackers to execute code of their choice.

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And like I said, when they affect it, it will actually be able to get into the bootkit.

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So they are working on this.

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I think the vulnerability resides kind of like I said, in the boot process to a certain

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degree.

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So it is pretty important.

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So I mean, and the scary part about this is even if you’re using secure boot, it could

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still be a problem.

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So secure boot, obviously the protection that’s built in the most modern computing devices,

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Windows, Linux, and Mac, obviously.

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You know, it’s a verified process, but apparently this thing is, you know, this is an exploit

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of that vulnerability attacks, you know, and actually lets you get, you know, right into

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that secure boot firmware.

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And that’s actually quite concerning.

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So like I said, they are working on that.

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Like I said, the, you have a CVE for it.

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And like I said, they are working on it.

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I would imagine the patch is coming, it’s going to be out soon.

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Looks like it’s tracked as 2023, even though it was, I mean, it was discovered fairly recently.

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So, but I guess it’s really being exploited now.

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So very important with that.

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Same thing with Log4j.

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I just saw an article this week, I don’t have it in the show notes, but I wanted to point

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that out that Log4j is still an issue because so many, I mean, you’re looking at, you know,

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you have, especially with Google was talking about that you have repositories that are

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six, seven levels down that still have not been patched for Log4j.

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So it’s very important when you’re using open source software that, you know, even though

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it is open source and stuff like that, but you got to make sure if you’re using these

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abandoned projects, you know, you definitely could, could have a serious issue, you know,

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with these unpatched vulnerabilities, especially something like Log4j and this too now.

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This shouldn’t be as bad because it’s not so many levels down, but if you’re using,

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you know, a fork of a fork of a fork, you know, you’re going to have to make sure that

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it’s patched.

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So very important.

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And I think those were the two real big news stories.

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and everybody picked it up.

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Government hackers targeting iPhone owners with zero day vulnerability.

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Apparently Google says that there are three unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iPhone

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offices that have not been patched and that Apple doesn’t know about them.

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help them exploit iPhones that they want to get into using these vulnerabilities.

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Like I said, according to Google, the government hackers took advantage of the three iPhone

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zero days, which are vulnerable to no, which are vulnerabilities not known to Apple.

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So that means that they weren’t reported.

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So Apple has not yet patched them.

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they’re not reported to Apple, they still have this exploit that they can use to get

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into the phones.

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So that’s why this is a big deal.

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Like I said, I don’t know if it was the biggest deal because they’re only doing it to phones

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they want, but if you’re one of the phones they want, it is a big deal.

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This startup apparently has done stuff like this before.

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It was reported in 2002 and 2003.

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So like I said, this isn’t the first time they’ve done this, but it is kind of big news.

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Like I said, I have a serious problem when startups do this because I think it’s the

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security companies.

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I understand they’re providing a security service to the government by showing them

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how to get into these phones using, finding these zero days and then kind of saying, “Hey,

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we have this.

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We can help you.”

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I get it.

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I understand it, but I don’t particularly agree with the business model.

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I just don’t agree with it.

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I mean, Apple pays very, very well for security vulnerabilities.

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And what this is is probably the government is paying them a lot more than Apple is.

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And like I said, I really think I have a serious ethical issue with this, but I know this is

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what companies are doing now and I really don’t agree with it.

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But I thought that was another thing that I wanted to bring up that I did have it in

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my notes.

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I mean, it is a big deal just because the…

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To me, it’s a big deal because Apple doesn’t know about them and these companies, they

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have security features to define these holes and then they use these holes until they’re

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patched.

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I know their businesses are doing this now, but to my opinion, it is borderline.

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Well, not borderline.

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It is unethical.

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It is, in my opinion, the government using loopholes.

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If any of us did this to people to steal data, we would be charged and we would be in so

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much trouble.

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But because the government’s doing it, it’s okay.

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And because this company is working with the government, they’re okay.

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I just think I have a serious problem with this because it does not put everybody in

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the same playing field.

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It would be like our company finding a security vulnerability and then trying to sell it to

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other businesses because they’re selling it to the government.

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It’s fine.

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I just have an issue, an ethical issue with this.

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I don’t agree with it.

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It disgusts me and maybe that’s why I was hesitant to bring it up on the podcast, but

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I just don’t agree with this.

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It gives hackers a bad name.

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It gives a lot of people just a bad name because the way they’re using this, I don’t like it.

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I find it very disturbing to me.

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I don’t agree with it.

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And our company would never do something like this.

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If we found a bug like this, we would immediately report it to Apple.

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We would not be reselling it.

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And I can’t just blame this company.

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There are other companies out there that do it as well.

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And I just have serious issues with it ethically, morally and everything else.

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And like I said, I don’t agree with it.

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And I apologize for getting a little upset here on the podcast, but I just definitely

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this really disturbs me as a security professional.

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So Verizon Wireless had a, and it got hit with a hack the other day that kind of the

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old saying, you know, the dangers within Verizon apparently had an internal employee that managed

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to breach their system.

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They actually, it was in an office in the main area.

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And the reason why, I mean, they didn’t announce it, but it is the main attorney general.

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So it has to be in Maine, at least I think.

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And Verizon discovered the breach December 12th of 2023.

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Nearly three months later, they determined it.

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Apparently they got names, physical addresses, social security numbers, gender, union affiliates,

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birth dates and compensation benefits.

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This seems to be actually Verizon’s employees information.

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And I’m not mistaken.

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It was actually, it doesn’t say it here, but another article I read had said that they

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were speculating that, here we go.

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An employee gained unauthorized access to a file containing sensitive employee information

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on September 21st, but they didn’t discover it until December 12th.

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So they had three months to get all that data together and get it out.

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But apparently, like I said, they have, I believe they have intent.

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I believe they have not referred, who is it?

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They haven’t released who it is yet, but they are on it.

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And like I said, but it’s been three months.

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That’s pretty bad.

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But like I said, it was an internal employee.

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And that’s why I brought this up because sometimes you have to be, sometimes, you know, we’re

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always trying to, as security professionals, we’re always trying to keep people from outside

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to coming in, but sometimes it’s the people inside we’ve got to worry about too.

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And that sometimes is a tough thing as a security professional.

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We’re always worried about what’s coming in from the internet, what’s coming in from the

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internet.

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Sometimes it’s the people that are already in your network that are the issue.

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And that was the case here.

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Also too, another thing I wanted to bring up only because JetBrains actually warned

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about this, and I do use JetBrains once in a while for some of my programming, but they

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are warning of a new TeamCity authority bypass vulnerability.

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JetBrains urged customers today to patch their TeamCity on-prem servers.

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Okay, so it’s an on-prem server issue, especially servers against a critical authentication

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bypass vulnerability that can let attackers take over vulnerable instances with admin

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privileges.

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It’s CVE 2024-23917.

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So if you do use, this is probably going to be most, probably most people are going to

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be developers.

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I know there’s a lot of people using this, it’s more of a developer-based kind of thing.

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But if you are using it, I strongly recommend that you patch immediately.

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So some news that I really wanted to bring up, just because it is relevant and important.

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Apple has released Apple Music, Apple TV, and then a third app, which is going to be

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their iPhone sync app for your computer.

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This is for Windows, obviously not for Mac.

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But the reason why I bring this up is Apple has announced that these are going to be the

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apps they’re going to use, and that they are going to be, they haven’t announced when,

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but they will be deprecating iTunes on the Windows PC.

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So this will eventually be, you know, will replace iTunes, which we’ve all been using

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on Windows for a while now.

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I don’t have, I mean, I’ve used it in the past, I haven’t used it in a while, but pretty

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important.

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So, there’s something to keep an eye on.

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If you get these new apps, you can go ahead and uninstall iTunes.

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And like I said, the reason why I’m bringing that up is because as iTunes gets deprecated,

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they won’t be patching it.

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And you know, they will, I mean, it’s deprecated, it’s not officially gone yet.

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But like I said, you know, it says right here, after you download the Apple Music app, Apple

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TV app, and the Apple Devices app, which is the one I’m talking about that you use for

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syncing and all that on your phone, you won’t see your music or video content in iTunes.

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So this is pretty big, and you can’t use iTunes to mainly sync or manage your phone or iPad

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anymore.

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It must go through the Apple Devices app.

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However, you can use iTunes to access only your podcasts and audiobooks.

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So I think eventually they’re going to release an audiobook app, and then iTunes will be

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completely deprecated eventually.

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But as of right now, once you install those three apps, iTunes will only do your podcasts

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and your audiobooks.

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My feeling is that they will eventually release an audiobooks app for iTunes, and probably

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eventually the Apple Podcasts app will go ahead and come to Windows.

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I don’t know a ton of people that are using those services on Windows, but Apple is in

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the services business, and they do need to go where customers are, and Microsoft does

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have over two billion people on Windows, so they have to accommodate that.

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But very important to keep an eye on this, because this will mean that eventually iTunes

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won’t be patched, and you could have a piece of software on your device that is vulnerable.

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So very, very important just to know that.

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And I also think it’s cool too that years ago, if you remember, Apple refused to put

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iTunes on Windows, and then eventually somebody talked to Steve Jobs and said, “Listen, if

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we want the iPod to take off, we have to put it on Windows,” because Windows at that time

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was the biggest, and it still is the biggest desktop platform by far.

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Apple only has, I think they said about 125, 150 million PCs out there compared to Microsoft’s

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two, I think over two billion.

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So plus Microsoft too also has the Xbox and stuff like that.

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So it is very important to understand that Microsoft does have a much bigger computing

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platform, but again, they also have people that work.

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They also have the people that work, the people that have at home, and it’s a little bit different.

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But like I said, it’s nice to see Apple saying, “Hey, even though these people aren’t using

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Macs, they’re using Windows machines, we still should really cater to our customers who want

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to use our services.”

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So definitely a different Apple than it was under the Jobs era.

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But like I said, as far as security-wise goes, it is important to be careful as the, like

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I said, and that goes for any app.

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I see people all the time that have outdated software on their computer, like Java and

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stuff, and that is how people get hacked.

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So very important.

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One of the things, the other thing I do want to bring up, a couple of, this is kind of

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interesting.

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Earlier in the week, Apple had an issue with the Vision Pro, their new product that we

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just talked about that they released last week.

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And if you’ve got your password, you had to actually go to the Apple store to get it fixed.

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Apparently Apple has fixed this issue now, and you can reset your password on the Vision

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Pro.

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This was a story that was earlier than we, I think it was Monday or Tuesday came out

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that you couldn’t reset your password, and now you can.

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They fixed it, like I said, I think it was Wednesday or Thursday, they released an update.

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So it was a story that I had in the show notes, kind of fixed at this point, but it was pretty

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funny.

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People were like very upset that they could not reset their password on Vision Pro.

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And we’ll have to see what happens with the Vision Pro security-wise.

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And the reason why I say that, is you remember Apple, the iPhone started with the Touch ID,

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then obviously with the iPhone X, we went to Face ID.

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And now with the, you know, with their new headset, they actually now have Retina ID.

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I would be very curious to see if Apple will eventually move to Retina ID on other devices.

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I don’t know if they will or if they won’t.

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We still do not have Face ID on the new Macs.

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I thought for sure that would be something by now, but we’re still using Touch ID.

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Again, we’re going to have to see what Apple does with this, because this is where they

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were in a very interesting phase here, because I really thought that by this point Face ID

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would be on the Macs.

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We have Windows Hello, but we don’t have Face ID on the Mac.

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So I thought that was weird.

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But again, I do think it’s very important to point out to everybody, and I say this

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all the time, and I mean no disrespect to anybody that’s on a Mac, because I’m a Mac

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user myself, but you have to understand they have 100,000, 125,000, 150,000, I’m sorry,

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125 million, 150 million Macs out in the world.

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Apple has over a billion iPhones in the world.

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So what Apple has in phones, Microsoft has in desktops.

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You know, Microsoft will always favor the desktop market because they have so many users

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on it.

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Same thing goes, like I said, with Apple.

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They are always going to favor their iPhones and iPads over their Macs just because they

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have so many more people on them.

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Apple is still, whether they will limit it or not, is still really the iPhone company.

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Just because, I mean, don’t get me wrong, they care about their Macs.

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It’s a couple billion dollar a quarter business.

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But when you look at Mac sales versus iPhone and iPad sales, they definitely are still

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the iPhone company.

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And I don’t take anything away from them.

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The same thing with Microsoft.

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They are still the Windows and Microsoft Office company.

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Even though they have Xbox, they have other things, those two are still their cash cows.

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And the same thing goes for Apple.

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So Apple is very slow to adopt these things from their phones to their computers because

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it’s just one of those things like, okay, we want to do this, but it’s going to affect

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00:28:17,140 –> 00:28:20,220
such a small amount of our user base compared to doing something on the iPhone.

440
00:28:20,220 –> 00:28:25,340
So it’s just one of those things, unfortunately, where you just go where the majority of your

441
00:28:25,340 –> 00:28:26,340
customers are.

442
00:28:26,340 –> 00:28:36,700
And by far, by double, triple, quadruple, it’s 10 times almost what the iPhone has user

443
00:28:36,700 –> 00:28:38,420
base compared to the Macs.

444
00:28:38,420 –> 00:28:40,180
It’s just the way it is.

445
00:28:40,180 –> 00:28:41,180
Not taking it away from Apple.

446
00:28:41,180 –> 00:28:46,420
They make great computers, but I’m just saying they are just going to favor their cash cow

447
00:28:46,420 –> 00:28:49,740
markets versus their other markets.

448
00:28:49,740 –> 00:28:51,740
That’s just the way it is.

449
00:28:51,740 –> 00:28:56,180
Some other interesting news that I also found, by the way, I wanted to bring this up.

450
00:28:56,180 –> 00:29:00,380
Mozilla announced today that they are getting a new CEO.

451
00:29:00,380 –> 00:29:05,620
Somebody from their current CEO who’s been with the company for 25 years is stepping

452
00:29:05,620 –> 00:29:09,100
down and somebody else from the board is taking over.

453
00:29:09,100 –> 00:29:13,140
Not really going to affect probably Mozilla too much, but let’s just wait and see.

454
00:29:13,140 –> 00:29:15,020
But I thought that was interesting news.

455
00:29:15,020 –> 00:29:16,820
Mozilla, I really like Mozilla.

456
00:29:16,820 –> 00:29:22,640
I tell everybody to use Mozilla just because they are a security first browser.

457
00:29:22,640 –> 00:29:23,640
Very important to me.

458
00:29:23,640 –> 00:29:27,540
And I tell everybody, use Mozilla if you can.

459
00:29:27,540 –> 00:29:31,460
I push everybody that way and I apologize to them if I feel like I’m preaching it.

460
00:29:31,460 –> 00:29:34,300
I don’t get paid by Mozilla to make this announcement.

461
00:29:34,300 –> 00:29:39,100
It’s just they are very security conscious and very much put the user first.

462
00:29:39,100 –> 00:29:42,580
And I really, that and like a signal, any of those companies that put users first, I

463
00:29:42,580 –> 00:29:44,740
really appreciate.

464
00:29:44,740 –> 00:29:48,240
But Mozilla obviously does have to make some revenue and they have announced today that

465
00:29:48,240 –> 00:29:54,780
their Mozilla Monitoring Plus, which scrubs the internet for personal information from

466
00:29:54,780 –> 00:29:57,480
the web for free.

467
00:29:57,480 –> 00:30:01,740
They have announced that they are having a new $9 per month service called Mozilla Monitor

468
00:30:01,740 –> 00:30:05,900
Plus and this will automatically scrub for you.

469
00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:09,420
So it would tell you where your stuff works and you would have to actually manually go

470
00:30:09,420 –> 00:30:11,760
and do it and do the work yourselves.

471
00:30:11,760 –> 00:30:15,820
Now for $9 a month it will go do the work for you.

472
00:30:15,820 –> 00:30:20,560
Again if you don’t, I know we’re all in subscription fatigue, but if you want to keep your stuff

473
00:30:20,560 –> 00:30:23,360
off the internet this would be worth $9 a month.

474
00:30:23,360 –> 00:30:27,700
If you want to do it for free that’s fine, you just have to do all the manual work.

475
00:30:27,700 –> 00:30:29,180
So very important.

476
00:30:29,180 –> 00:30:31,160
I wanted to bring that up because it is a service.

477
00:30:31,160 –> 00:30:33,060
I do tell people to use.

478
00:30:33,060 –> 00:30:38,320
I would recommend if you do know somebody who is not the most tech savvy person, it

479
00:30:38,320 –> 00:30:41,560
may actually be the right step.

480
00:30:41,560 –> 00:30:46,740
Maybe it’s the kind of person that your grandmother or your mom who’s not overly tech savvy say,

481
00:30:46,740 –> 00:30:50,220
“Hey, maybe it’s worth the $9 a month for you if you’re worried about your security.”

482
00:30:50,220 –> 00:30:54,180
If it’s somebody like us who can handle all the technical stuff, you do it yourself.

483
00:30:54,180 –> 00:30:58,460
So I thought that was really interesting and really important and I just wanted to bring

484
00:30:58,460 –> 00:30:59,460
that up.

485
00:30:59,460 –> 00:31:04,580
So speaking of open source by the way, something else I wanted to point out.

486
00:31:04,580 –> 00:31:10,300
Apple today or this week announced that it is launching a new open source programming

487
00:31:10,300 –> 00:31:13,180
language that’s called PKL.

488
00:31:13,180 –> 00:31:17,340
Now I was going to confuse PKI because I confuse those myself too.

489
00:31:17,340 –> 00:31:19,220
I was like, “Wait, don’t we already have this?”

490
00:31:19,220 –> 00:31:27,100
But no, it launched February 1 of 2024 with Hinta version 0.25.

491
00:31:27,100 –> 00:31:33,300
It’s going to be used, it’s designed around a key value structure in the main system.

492
00:31:33,300 –> 00:31:37,620
I’m not going to get too techy into it, but they have launched this and what basically

493
00:31:37,620 –> 00:31:43,300
the goal of this is, it’s supposed to be an embedded configuration language hoping to

494
00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:49,960
take the stress out of the small to large or simple to complex, ad hoc to repetitive

495
00:31:49,960 –> 00:31:52,560
configurations tasks.

496
00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:55,620
So go look into it more if you’re interested.

497
00:31:55,620 –> 00:31:58,860
I’m actually not overly interested in this.

498
00:31:58,860 –> 00:32:03,040
I know a couple of people I know on Twitter that were talking about it.

499
00:32:03,040 –> 00:32:09,140
They said it’s very nice, it’s very simple, easy to use, it’s good for simple stuff.

500
00:32:09,140 –> 00:32:11,220
It is actually on GitHub if you want to go ahead and look at the code.

501
00:32:11,220 –> 00:32:15,340
Like I said, I just wanted to bring that up because they have open source another programming

502
00:32:15,340 –> 00:32:16,340
language.

503
00:32:16,340 –> 00:32:20,100
So kind of interesting, thought it was really cool.

504
00:32:20,100 –> 00:32:26,760
And also too, I wanted to bring up another thing that was like, they’ve been very taken

505
00:32:26,760 –> 00:32:30,500
care of it, but it was on bleeping computers, so it’s worth noting it.

506
00:32:30,500 –> 00:32:33,820
Mastodon had a vulnerability that has those hackers to take over accounts.

507
00:32:33,820 –> 00:32:36,300
Like I said, that was very late last week, early this week.

508
00:32:36,300 –> 00:32:38,020
I think we were ready to record the podcast.

509
00:32:38,020 –> 00:32:44,060
It’s already been taken care of CVE 2024-23832.

510
00:32:44,060 –> 00:32:51,580
And like I said, it stems from insufficient origin validation to Mastodon, allowing attackers

511
00:32:51,580 –> 00:32:52,580
to take over accounts.

512
00:32:52,580 –> 00:32:59,500
The reason why I brought it up, it was rated 9.4, which is kind of why I brought it up.

513
00:32:59,500 –> 00:33:04,000
It impacts all Mastodon versions before 3.5.17.

514
00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:09,540
So if you are running your own Mastodon server, go ahead and patch it.

515
00:33:09,540 –> 00:33:15,580
The flaw was fixed, like I said, in 4.2.5 released a couple days ago.

516
00:33:15,580 –> 00:33:19,780
So just go ahead and up your new version.

517
00:33:19,780 –> 00:33:25,420
Like I said, it’s the version before 3.5.17.

518
00:33:25,420 –> 00:33:29,300
So if you’re on 4, you should be okay.

519
00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:31,460
But I would upgrade to the latest version anyway.

520
00:33:31,460 –> 00:33:38,140
Like I said, it’s already been patched, but like I said, that was late last week where

521
00:33:38,140 –> 00:33:39,140
they talked about it.

522
00:33:39,140 –> 00:33:42,700
I just wanted to bring it up because I know a bunch of us here run our own Mastodon instances.

523
00:33:42,700 –> 00:33:46,060
One thing that’s nice, if you’re on something like Masthope or something like that, one

524
00:33:46,060 –> 00:33:50,320
of those hosted platforms, you actually can’t patch it for you.

525
00:33:50,320 –> 00:33:54,300
So I thought that was, that’s one of the nice parts about having hosted solutions.

526
00:33:54,300 –> 00:33:56,180
You know, it does it for you.

527
00:33:56,180 –> 00:34:00,720
So by the way, I wanted to point, the other thing that was on bleeping computer, which

528
00:34:00,720 –> 00:34:05,660
caught my attention again late last week, it didn’t make the podcast because I had recorded

529
00:34:05,660 –> 00:34:12,460
it by the time, but Clorox said they had a cyber attack caused 49 million in expenses.

530
00:34:12,460 –> 00:34:13,460
Unbelievable.

531
00:34:13,460 –> 00:34:19,620
I mean, I mean, they have, sure they have insurance, probably cyber insurance, but like

532
00:34:19,620 –> 00:34:28,820
I said, it affected 8,700 employees and almost 7.5 billion in revenue last year for the company.

533
00:34:28,820 –> 00:34:32,980
And they got hacked on August 11th.

534
00:34:32,980 –> 00:34:36,620
And it actually, like I said, they actually, they’re not saying what it was, but they were

535
00:34:36,620 –> 00:34:43,020
saying that when they reported their final, their earnings for last year, they had said

536
00:34:43,020 –> 00:34:47,360
that they had a big loss because of this cyber attack.

537
00:34:47,360 –> 00:34:52,980
So like I said, it cost the company, you know, quite a bit of money.

538
00:34:52,980 –> 00:34:57,220
Remember Johnson Controls had a hack like that a couple months, it was a couple months

539
00:34:57,220 –> 00:34:59,980
ago that took their whole systems down.

540
00:34:59,980 –> 00:35:02,400
So you know, these cyber attacks are big.

541
00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:05,600
They affect companies, they cost companies money.

542
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:09,720
And like I said, a lot of these companies have cyber insurance, but it’s just important

543
00:35:09,720 –> 00:35:13,000
to be aware of it.

544
00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:17,820
One thing I do want to talk about with Windows anyway, Microsoft has announced that they

545
00:35:17,820 –> 00:35:21,940
are bringing the Linux pseudo command to Windows server.

546
00:35:21,940 –> 00:35:26,940
That was big news again late last week, but I just want to bring that up because Microsoft

547
00:35:26,940 –> 00:35:30,360
is, I mean, definitely a different Microsoft guys than it was years ago.

548
00:35:30,360 –> 00:35:33,360
I know for a fact Microsoft used to be anti Linux.

549
00:35:33,360 –> 00:35:38,580
Now pretty much the majority of servers on Azure are Linux, but, and obviously you have

550
00:35:38,580 –> 00:35:42,780
the sub, you know, the Android subsystem for Windows and the Android subsystem for Linux.

551
00:35:42,780 –> 00:35:47,300
But Microsoft now says they’re bringing the Linux pseudo command feature to Windows 20,

552
00:35:47,300 –> 00:35:52,400
Windows server 2025 offering a new way for people to elevate themselves.

553
00:35:52,400 –> 00:35:54,080
So I thought that was interesting.

554
00:35:54,080 –> 00:35:57,960
They’re testing it and it’s going to be in an insider preview.

555
00:35:57,960 –> 00:36:00,040
So that was a big news.

556
00:36:00,040 –> 00:36:03,440
It really is news for Microsoft, see Microsoft embracing the open source and Linux.

557
00:36:03,440 –> 00:36:08,360
It definitely is a different company than it was under Balmer or Gates.

558
00:36:08,360 –> 00:36:11,520
And I mean, I think at the time they were the right CEOs, but now with open source being

559
00:36:11,520 –> 00:36:16,040
what it is and stuff like that, you know, adapt or adapt or die, right?

560
00:36:16,040 –> 00:36:17,360
Some news out of Denmark.

561
00:36:17,360 –> 00:36:20,960
And the only reason why I’m bringing this up is this is quite interesting.

562
00:36:20,960 –> 00:36:25,320
Denmark ordered schools to stop sending student data to Google.

563
00:36:25,320 –> 00:36:29,760
Danish, I wonder if this is really important because a lot of school districts in America

564
00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:32,240
use Google workspace.

565
00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:37,840
Danish data protection authority has issued an injunction regarding student data being

566
00:36:37,840 –> 00:36:43,640
funneled through Google using Chromebook and Google workspaces in schools.

567
00:36:43,640 –> 00:36:50,160
The matter was brought up by an agency stating that kids being, one, they don’t think it’s

568
00:36:50,160 –> 00:36:53,840
right that young kids data is going out onto the internet.

569
00:36:53,840 –> 00:37:05,520
They’re saying that Google is analyzing documents with personal data on them, allowing Google

570
00:37:05,520 –> 00:37:10,280
to build a profile on kids before they’re even of age to understand what it is.

571
00:37:10,280 –> 00:37:14,680
They were announced that they must cease the transfer of personal data to Google for specific

572
00:37:14,680 –> 00:37:18,240
purposes.

573
00:37:18,240 –> 00:37:22,440
They want to ensure that Google refrains from processing the data and building profiles

574
00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:23,920
on kids and stuff like that.

575
00:37:23,920 –> 00:37:31,400
Like I said, it’s actually pretty big news because there is no on-prem version of Google

576
00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:35,480
workspace like there is with Microsoft and SharePoint and stuff like that.

577
00:37:35,480 –> 00:37:38,000
So this is actually pretty big news.

578
00:37:38,000 –> 00:37:42,800
Like I said, it’s one of those things where, you know, they want to, I get what they’re

579
00:37:42,800 –> 00:37:43,800
trying to do.

580
00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:47,480
They’re trying to say, well, Google workspace for education, Chrome OS, Chrome, all that’s

581
00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:48,480
gathering data.

582
00:37:48,480 –> 00:37:51,120
They’re building profiles on these kids when the kids are in kindergarten, first grade,

583
00:37:51,120 –> 00:37:52,600
second grade, they don’t understand.

584
00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:55,680
They have no way of knowing what’s going to happen later on down the road.

585
00:37:55,680 –> 00:37:58,440
So I mean, it’s a really tough, tough thing.

586
00:37:58,440 –> 00:38:05,280
I have been saying this for a while, but again, it’s a tough thing because the problem is,

587
00:38:05,280 –> 00:38:14,080
is Google is a much lower cost in the door than Windows or Mac.

588
00:38:14,080 –> 00:38:18,520
Obviously iPads, obviously, you know, the iPad could last a kid, you know, his whole

589
00:38:18,520 –> 00:38:22,960
career because Apple really, you know, has let the iPad, you know, kid may only need

590
00:38:22,960 –> 00:38:27,940
two iPads over the course of his entire 13 years or three where a Chromebook is every

591
00:38:27,940 –> 00:38:29,640
three or four years yet to replace it.

592
00:38:29,640 –> 00:38:33,920
But Chromebook is also like 200 bucks compared to an iPad.

593
00:38:33,920 –> 00:38:41,080
So you know, that’s how Google kind of got in the door with these sorts of things because,

594
00:38:41,080 –> 00:38:45,120
you know, a Chromebook is, you know, 200 bucks and then, you know, three years place, you

595
00:38:45,120 –> 00:38:49,600
know, 200 bucks, 200 dollar device and then the kids has now, now it’s been in service

596
00:38:49,600 –> 00:38:50,600
for eight years.

597
00:38:50,600 –> 00:38:54,080
Whereas an iPad, you know, you’re looking at, we got to lay out five, six, $700.

598
00:38:54,080 –> 00:38:56,160
So that’s kind of how Google got in the door.

599
00:38:56,160 –> 00:39:01,520
But and then two windows machines, you know, are expensive to, you know, they’re looking

600
00:39:01,520 –> 00:39:04,560
at, well, windows machines, you got to maintain it.

601
00:39:04,560 –> 00:39:07,680
You got to upgrade it where the Chromebook was simple and easy.

602
00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:11,880
I mean it, I mean, both, both platforms do have their advantage.

603
00:39:11,880 –> 00:39:17,960
I will say that, but I guess what they’re saying now is, you know, it’s getting, I kind

604
00:39:17,960 –> 00:39:19,360
of get what they’re saying.

605
00:39:19,360 –> 00:39:23,060
It’s, it’s, you’re, you’re building profiles on kids and they don’t even understand what

606
00:39:23,060 –> 00:39:26,760
they’re sharing or what they’re sharing and how they’re sharing and they’re, I mean, it

607
00:39:26,760 –> 00:39:30,240
is, it is a pretty interesting topic.

608
00:39:30,240 –> 00:39:35,320
I’ve always said to, I don’t understand how Google gets around the whole, you know, you’re

609
00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:38,720
not 13, you’re, so you’re not supposed to have an account on the internet, but yet they

610
00:39:38,720 –> 00:39:43,920
get around it because it’s their workspace product or their education product or, you

611
00:39:43,920 –> 00:39:46,840
know, the years of, okay, well kids can’t be on the internet till they’re a certain

612
00:39:46,840 –> 00:39:47,840
age.

613
00:39:47,840 –> 00:39:51,560
Well, Chromebook is always connected and Google specifically collects everything in the cloud

614
00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:53,600
so that they can have it, analyze it, look at it.

615
00:39:53,600 –> 00:39:56,520
I mean, it’s, it’s definitely a controversial topic.

616
00:39:56,520 –> 00:40:01,760
I’m not saying I don’t, I don’t necessarily disagree with Denmark personally, but unfortunately

617
00:40:01,760 –> 00:40:04,320
it’s the way it is in America.

618
00:40:04,320 –> 00:40:09,320
And I don’t think Google has gotten a big foothold in America and muscled out Microsoft.

619
00:40:09,320 –> 00:40:13,020
You remember when I was younger growing up, everybody had Microsoft windows and those

620
00:40:13,020 –> 00:40:15,600
kids were conditioned to be Microsoft’s future customers.

621
00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:16,600
That worked out.

622
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:20,040
Well now Google’s saying, well, if we do this, those people will be our future customers.

623
00:40:20,040 –> 00:40:24,640
You know, it’s, it’s, you know, it’s the same reason why Apple’s trying to keep iPhones

624
00:40:24,640 –> 00:40:28,800
in schools and stuff like that because they want kids to learn iOS so that they become

625
00:40:28,800 –> 00:40:30,800
future customers.

626
00:40:30,800 –> 00:40:33,160
It’s just, you know, it’s conditioning, man.

627
00:40:33,160 –> 00:40:35,040
It’s just the way it is.

628
00:40:35,040 –> 00:40:38,480
The other thing I think this is the last funny story I want to bring up, and this will be

629
00:40:38,480 –> 00:40:41,320
the last news story of the week.

630
00:40:41,320 –> 00:40:47,360
Apparently there was a 3 million electric two buses were used in a DDoS attack.

631
00:40:47,360 –> 00:40:52,120
Apparently the news site announced that a cyber security firm for tonight, fortunate,

632
00:40:52,120 –> 00:40:57,120
excuse me, said three million electrocute buses were infected with Java malware and

633
00:40:57,120 –> 00:41:01,000
were used to conduct a DDoS attack against a Swiss company.

634
00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:07,080
Um, again, any internet connected device can be used as a weapon.

635
00:41:07,080 –> 00:41:10,720
Uh, it’s the same thing like the refrigerators that were being used.

636
00:41:10,720 –> 00:41:15,000
Uh, remember in a DDoS attack a while back, this is a very similar thing.

637
00:41:15,000 –> 00:41:18,320
So it’s made funny that it’s electric toothbrushes.

638
00:41:18,320 –> 00:41:20,680
So I thought that was really funny.

639
00:41:20,680 –> 00:41:24,840
And uh, you know, like I said, any internet connected device can be used as a weapon folks.

640
00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:30,980
Like it’s just, you know, if somebody can hack it, somebody can, uh, can use it as a

641
00:41:30,980 –> 00:41:31,980
bot.

642
00:41:31,980 –> 00:41:33,260
But I thought it was funny.

643
00:41:33,260 –> 00:41:38,520
It was three, it was three million electric toothbrushes.

644
00:41:38,520 –> 00:41:40,080
That’s just hysterical.

645
00:41:40,080 –> 00:41:44,780
Um, shows you that you should, you know, not be using Java.

646
00:41:44,780 –> 00:41:49,160
And uh, what’s even more funny is they, uh, when they were testing these things, they

647
00:41:49,160 –> 00:41:55,080
found that most of the toothbrushes were using default passwords and default, um, all the

648
00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:56,080
defaults were set.

649
00:41:56,080 –> 00:42:01,820
Yeah, because who the heck thinks that, you know, who thinks to change the password on

650
00:42:01,820 –> 00:42:02,820
their toothbrush?

651
00:42:02,820 –> 00:42:04,820
I mean, think about it.

652
00:42:04,820 –> 00:42:07,940
Uh, you know, and this is what the tweets out of this story were great.

653
00:42:07,940 –> 00:42:10,460
Somebody was like, somebody was like, what is wrong with people?

654
00:42:10,460 –> 00:42:11,460
There’s no details.

655
00:42:11,460 –> 00:42:14,600
Like who, who is the target of the DDoS?

656
00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:15,600
What happened?

657
00:42:15,600 –> 00:42:16,600
What brand of toothbrushes?

658
00:42:16,600 –> 00:42:19,640
Uh, you know, people are like, I don’t understand this.

659
00:42:19,640 –> 00:42:22,420
This is why would somebody hijack somebody’s toothbrush?

660
00:42:22,420 –> 00:42:24,740
I mean, it was just, some of these were funny.

661
00:42:24,740 –> 00:42:27,780
I mean, again, they haven’t released much of it yet.

662
00:42:27,780 –> 00:42:31,840
Uh, the devices, I’m sure there’s going to be an update for the devices to patch them.

663
00:42:31,840 –> 00:42:35,660
But um, you know, it’s just hysterical.

664
00:42:35,660 –> 00:42:37,660
Uh, it’s just unbelievable.

665
00:42:37,660 –> 00:42:39,660
I just, it’s funny.

666
00:42:39,660 –> 00:42:43,260
I mean, uh, toothbrushes, you know, it’s just, you always get that one story of the week

667
00:42:43,260 –> 00:42:44,260
that always makes you laugh.

668
00:42:44,260 –> 00:42:49,120
And uh, here you are brushing your teeth and meanwhile you’re, uh, you’re DDoSing somebody.

669
00:42:49,120 –> 00:42:50,580
So I thought that was pretty funny.

670
00:42:50,580 –> 00:42:56,200
That along with the, uh, the, uh, the novel one, uh, my opinion were the two best stories

671
00:42:56,200 –> 00:42:58,060
of the week this week as far as funny goes.

672
00:42:58,060 –> 00:42:59,820
Um, I do want to point out folks as well.

673
00:42:59,820 –> 00:43:03,420
Uh, I do want to get to one thing here before we get to the end of the show.

674
00:43:03,420 –> 00:43:04,620
Uh, listener feedback.

675
00:43:04,620 –> 00:43:07,220
I cleaned out the mailbag today.

676
00:43:07,220 –> 00:43:09,140
I do appreciate all listener feedback.

677
00:43:09,140 –> 00:43:12,260
A bunch of people that they really like to show.

678
00:43:12,260 –> 00:43:13,980
Shows really well, well done.

679
00:43:13,980 –> 00:43:16,420
Uh, most, most comments pretty positive.

680
00:43:16,420 –> 00:43:19,140
Um, I will say that, but I do appreciate the feedback.

681
00:43:19,140 –> 00:43:22,660
Again, it’ll be in the show notes, brandon@lepaniesecurity.com.

682
00:43:22,660 –> 00:43:23,660
Send in all your information.

683
00:43:23,660 –> 00:43:24,900
That’s the best way to reach me.

684
00:43:24,900 –> 00:43:30,340
Um, and I will go ahead and take care of trying to get as much as I can on the show.

685
00:43:30,340 –> 00:43:35,740
Uh, somebody had pointed out to me that the co-pilot, so we talked about co-pilot last

686
00:43:35,740 –> 00:43:36,740
week.

687
00:43:36,740 –> 00:43:41,780
We talked about it again this week, but a co-pilot does not run on Firefox.

688
00:43:41,780 –> 00:43:43,260
Only chromium based.

689
00:43:43,260 –> 00:43:47,100
Uh, the chat GPT though works on Mac and Firefox.

690
00:43:47,100 –> 00:43:48,100
So they want to play on them.

691
00:43:48,100 –> 00:43:55,380
Microsoft co-pilot, if you’re going to use co-pilot by co-pilot, it does not run on Firefox.

692
00:43:55,380 –> 00:43:56,620
Only chat GPT does.

693
00:43:56,620 –> 00:43:59,540
And chat GPT also works on the Mac and Firefox.

694
00:43:59,540 –> 00:44:03,900
I will say, I do know that chat GPT is much more cross platform.

695
00:44:03,900 –> 00:44:06,180
Uh, obviously Microsoft’s not really that worried.

696
00:44:06,180 –> 00:44:10,980
I do know office for the Mac does have co-pilot, but Microsoft obviously not as worried about

697
00:44:10,980 –> 00:44:15,240
bringing co-pilot to the Mac desktop because it’s their co-pilot.

698
00:44:15,240 –> 00:44:16,980
They want you to use Windows.

699
00:44:16,980 –> 00:44:21,380
Um, but chat, if you do want to spend $20 a month, chat GPT does work on all platforms.

700
00:44:21,380 –> 00:44:22,660
It’s more cross platform.

701
00:44:22,660 –> 00:44:26,880
So a very, very important that.

702
00:44:26,880 –> 00:44:30,500
Also too, somebody had pointed out to me, and I did want to bring this up on the show

703
00:44:30,500 –> 00:44:32,460
because I felt it was really important.

704
00:44:32,460 –> 00:44:40,100
Um, if you go to Microsoft OneNote, uh, it actually comes up with a message that said,

705
00:44:40,100 –> 00:44:42,860
this browser has no longer supported.

706
00:44:42,860 –> 00:44:49,900
Um, kind of implying that Microsoft is very focused on edge and chromium based browsers

707
00:44:49,900 –> 00:44:51,980
and really doesn’t care about Firefox anymore.

708
00:44:51,980 –> 00:44:56,660
Um, I do notice that some other people have pointed out too, that certain things, uh,

709
00:44:56,660 –> 00:44:58,100
don’t work in Firefox.

710
00:44:58,100 –> 00:45:03,500
Um, certain sites, um, you know, that, and unfortunately that’s just the way it is.

711
00:45:03,500 –> 00:45:10,640
Firefox is, uh, definitely the, the smaller, and unfortunately if you are using the smaller,

712
00:45:10,640 –> 00:45:13,560
less known browser, you’re going to run into issues like this.

713
00:45:13,560 –> 00:45:17,220
Most of the companies now are focused on the chromium based browsers.

714
00:45:17,220 –> 00:45:22,780
Um, the only thing I can recommend to you if you, if this is a problem for you, um,

715
00:45:22,780 –> 00:45:28,320
is to go ahead and use Brave, which is a security focused browser, but it is built on chromium.

716
00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:33,420
So that is the only option I would recommend, but I am glad somebody pointed that out and

717
00:45:33,420 –> 00:45:35,060
I really do appreciate that.

718
00:45:35,060 –> 00:45:38,780
Um, like I said, if you are, if you do have to use a chromium based browser and some people

719
00:45:38,780 –> 00:45:42,300
do, um, like I said, I recommend using Brave if you can.

720
00:45:42,300 –> 00:45:45,520
Um, also too, I didn’t want to, nobody else put this into me.

721
00:45:45,520 –> 00:45:48,240
We were talking about hard drives and stuff like that.

722
00:45:48,240 –> 00:45:55,480
Um, I, I didn’t get a chance to really too much dig into it, but a recent report declared

723
00:45:55,480 –> 00:46:06,220
that the quality of, of actual micro SDs and USB sticks and stuff like that, uh, are actually

724
00:46:06,220 –> 00:46:07,220
on the decline.

725
00:46:07,220 –> 00:46:11,980
They’re saying that they’re finding that, that USB sticks and micro SDs are becoming

726
00:46:11,980 –> 00:46:13,620
less and less reliable.

727
00:46:13,620 –> 00:46:16,220
Uh, so I thought that was really interesting.

728
00:46:16,220 –> 00:46:18,420
Um, I have talked about Spinrite a few times.

729
00:46:18,420 –> 00:46:22,280
I know Steve Gibson over on Twit, uh, does the security now podcast.

730
00:46:22,280 –> 00:46:23,280
He creates it.

731
00:46:23,280 –> 00:46:25,820
It is, I think it is one of the best hard drive recovery tools.

732
00:46:25,820 –> 00:46:27,860
I actually do buy a copy of it.

733
00:46:27,860 –> 00:46:29,980
Um, I think I’m, I’m thinking I have six right now.

734
00:46:29,980 –> 00:46:34,700
I didn’t get his latest version, but I did get six and, uh, it is a really great, you

735
00:46:34,700 –> 00:46:35,780
can use it on drives.

736
00:46:35,780 –> 00:46:36,780
It works on solid states.

737
00:46:36,780 –> 00:46:41,380
It works on all stuff and, uh, it will work on jump drives and, and SD cards and stuff

738
00:46:41,380 –> 00:46:42,380
like that.

739
00:46:42,380 –> 00:46:43,980
So, um, go ahead and use that.

740
00:46:43,980 –> 00:46:49,580
I do understand that a lot of the quality, unfortunately, of these, these sticks and

741
00:46:49,580 –> 00:46:52,540
stuff is all going to be made in a cheaply in places.

742
00:46:52,540 –> 00:46:53,540
And that’s unfortunate.

743
00:46:53,540 –> 00:46:57,500
Uh, I always tell everybody, if you’re going to buy USB sticks, if you’re going to buy

744
00:46:57,500 –> 00:47:03,140
micro SDs, uh, cards, stuff like that, try to buy name brand like scan disc and stuff

745
00:47:03,140 –> 00:47:07,780
like that, just because you know, they’re not going to come from this little place in

746
00:47:07,780 –> 00:47:11,020
China that puts viruses and stuff like that on them, because that’s what happens.

747
00:47:11,020 –> 00:47:14,620
A lot of these cheaper sticks, yeah, they’ll work on your machine, but they also infect

748
00:47:14,620 –> 00:47:15,620
your machine.

749
00:47:15,620 –> 00:47:19,180
Um, and I don’t know if a lot of people don’t know that, but that’s kind of a gimmick is

750
00:47:19,180 –> 00:47:23,100
I’ll buy these, these jump drives, infect them with something and they’ll post them

751
00:47:23,100 –> 00:47:26,900
up on Amazon cheaply and hope people will buy them.

752
00:47:26,900 –> 00:47:31,380
That’s a cheap way of me, uh, distributing my virus and an easy way of me building a

753
00:47:31,380 –> 00:47:34,460
botnet for relatively cheaply and I don’t have to worry about hacking or anything like

754
00:47:34,460 –> 00:47:35,460
that.

755
00:47:35,460 –> 00:47:37,140
Just people sticking their USB sticks in.

756
00:47:37,140 –> 00:47:38,500
So very important.

757
00:47:38,500 –> 00:47:44,220
Um, also too, uh, I do want to point out too, I made a mistake yesterday and, or the other

758
00:47:44,220 –> 00:47:48,820
day, last week on the podcast and they pointed out to me yesterday, um, Spinrite will actually

759
00:47:48,820 –> 00:47:50,500
work on an Intel based Mac.

760
00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:54,300
I did say that it does not work on Mac and I was wrong.

761
00:47:54,300 –> 00:47:57,420
It works on Intel based Macs.

762
00:47:57,420 –> 00:48:00,820
Uh, but you need the latest version 6.1.

763
00:48:00,820 –> 00:48:02,580
So I do want to point that out because that was really important.

764
00:48:02,580 –> 00:48:03,860
Somebody did bring that up to my attention.

765
00:48:03,860 –> 00:48:08,300
He said, Hey Steve, on the last couple episodes ago said that it does work on Intel Mac 6.1.

766
00:48:08,300 –> 00:48:11,620
Uh, does not work on M1 Macs, but still works on Intel.

767
00:48:11,620 –> 00:48:15,580
So if you have somebody on Intel Mac that’s having hard drive issues, uh, you could actually

768
00:48:15,580 –> 00:48:16,900
use Spinrite to help them out.

769
00:48:16,900 –> 00:48:20,620
So I just wanted to bring that up and, uh, cause I misspoke.

770
00:48:20,620 –> 00:48:24,780
So also too, again, folks, if you do have anything that you want to send in, uh, anything

771
00:48:24,780 –> 00:48:28,700
again, go to brandon@lipanasecurity.com is my email.

772
00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:29,700
Please send it in.

773
00:48:29,700 –> 00:48:31,500
I appreciate all the feedback and I love it.

774
00:48:31,500 –> 00:48:33,340
Uh, I want to thank you very much for listening.

775
00:48:33,340 –> 00:48:36,020
I apologize for my voice and not feeling well today.

776
00:48:36,020 –> 00:48:39,580
Um, but like I said, I do want to get the show out because I really enjoyed doing it

777
00:48:39,580 –> 00:48:41,220
and I felt it was important.

778
00:48:41,220 –> 00:48:44,900
I want to thank everybody for listening and we will see you on the next episode.

779
00:48:44,900 –> 00:48:45,900
Thank you very much.

780
00:48:45,900 –> 00:48:47,940
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781
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Apple Zero Day Sold To Government

Today on the show we get into three zero-day vulnerabilities that the government is using to get into iPhones. We talk about Chinese hackers in the US networks for five years targeting communications, energy, transportation, and water systems. China’s ICBC was hit with a ransomware attack but was saved by Novell Netware. Plus this week’s listener feedback and was your toothbrush part of a DDoS attack.

We Talk New of The Week

  • Critical Vulnerability Affecting Most Linux Distros
  • Microsoft bringing Linux sudo command to Windows Server 2025
  • Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to Google
  • Clorox says cyberattack caused $49 million in expenses
  • Mastodon vulnerability allows attackers to take over accounts
  • Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Leaked Personal Information
  • Apple just launched a new open-source programming language
  • JetBrains warns of new TeamCity auth bypass vulnerability
  • Apple iTunes Going Away For New Apps
  • Verizon insider data breach hits over 63,000 employees

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Fighting Ransomware Attacks

Today on the show we talk about Ransomware Attacks and using an Albert Sensor. The CISA has a ransomware pilot program to help fight attacks across all sectors at StopRansomware.gov. Microsoft releases preview of Windows Server 2025 with includes hotpatch which is a feature that allows you to patch servers without a reboot. Plus a batch of listener feedback and questions.

We Talk News of The Week

  • Samsung extends Android updates from 5 to 7 years
  • Kansas City public transportation authority hit by ransomware
  • US Department HHS gets 7.5 Million Stolen
  • Cloudflare Has A Security Breach
  • Mercedes-Benz Leaves Private Key In Public Repository
  • HP class action lawsuit over printer bricking

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All right, folks, and welcome to another episode of the Security Assessment Podcast.

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I’m going to thank you all as always for listening.

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I am your host, Brandon.

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A lot to talk about as there always is in the world of security, but one of the things

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I do want to talk about real quickly is, because it’s so huge as far as a new product line

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and a big launch, and Apple obviously launching the Vision Pro.

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They just released a recording of this on Saturday, so everybody would have gotten them

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yesterday that ordered them on the pre-release.

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So, but big news, a lot of YouTube videos coming out last couple of days, a lot of the

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embargo was lifted from Apple, so a lot of the YouTubers are showing it now and stuff.

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So we’re not exactly, like I said, I have not touched one yet.

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I haven’t messed with one.

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I know a lot of people are able to go into stores and mess with them and things like

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that.

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Like I said, I have not yet, but I did watch some of the reviews.

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It does look very cool.

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I like the multi-screen thing.

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I’m not sure what I would actually use it for.

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I’m a big Mac user.

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I do like my Mac.

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I do like my iPhone, my Apple Watch, my headphones, stuff like that.

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But I’m not really sure what I would actually use it for.

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It does look very cool.

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I definitely can see it being a big thing for Apple.

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I know they do have a little bit of a supply chain issue with it because they can only

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get so many screens right now.

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But like I said, I did want to bring that up.

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Those of you that haven’t seen it, go and check out all the reviews.

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I, Justine, had a really good 25-minute review, and a bunch of other people have had reviews

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up.

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I’m sure we will, as the next couple weeks go on, I’m sure we’ll see more and more of

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these reviews.

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But a very big new category for Apple that they aren’t in yet.

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And maybe this would be the big push that VR needs.

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We do not know.

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So like I said, that was, I think, the biggest news of the week.

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And fortunately, when you have a lot of big news like this, when Apple releases a big

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thing like this, it drowns out quite a bit of the other news.

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So we’ll talk about that here today.

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But like I said, it was really kind of a monumental moment, the fact that Apple’s in a new space.

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I think it’s going to work out pretty well for Apple.

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Apple doesn’t always do well in new spaces.

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Remember the HomePod, that’s an area where they really haven’t thrived.

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They’ve had some over the years in the Netbook space.

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I don’t know if you guys remember that.

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This is back in probably the early 2000s.

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They tried to get into the Netbook space.

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That didn’t work out for them.

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The services business is doing very well, but again, how many people are using Apple

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Plus and Apple Music versus how many people are using Netflix and Spotify.

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They’re getting a piece in the market, but definitely not the biggest piece.

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So we’ll see.

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Apple is definitely still an iPhone first company, followed by the other products.

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I will say though, you do notice that their wearables and their Macs and a bunch of other

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things are $7, $8 billion businesses, which are huge businesses by the way.

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But when you compare it to the iPhone, it’s small.

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Apple has actually gotten their services business up.

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They just released their earnings report and they’re saying that their services business

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is their second largest business.

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But those numbers are a little skewed.

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Apple does include all your AppleCare stuff in that.

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They do include the $11 billion from Google they get.

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They include a lot of stuff in there that aren’t particularly necessarily services,

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if you know what I’m trying to say.

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So those numbers are a little skewed, especially when you think about how many people are paying

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for AppleCare on iPads and phones and computers, stuff like that.

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Like I said, their money they get from Apple, their advertising money they get for the iPhone.

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There’s a lot of things that are in there that aren’t necessarily what you think of

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as Apple TV services.

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So I just want to bring that up.

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Also too, a couple of things too, somebody had brought up with Apple services.

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Apple hasn’t necessarily released their numbers as far as how many subscribers they have for

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Apple Music and things like that.

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Like I said, I’m not saying Apple’s not hurting.

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They’re doing more than fine, okay?

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But just something I did want to bring up that since it was a pretty big thing this

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week, I did want to go ahead and bring up.

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Also too, some other news that I think is important that I do want to bring up that

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not really security related, but was big news that I think is going to really be a big thing

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in this industry.

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We have Apple moving into a new space, but then Microsoft moving into a new space as

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well with AI and releasing Microsoft Co-Pilot.

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They have Co-Pilot, which is 20 bucks a month and Co-Pilot Pro.

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They also have Co-Pilot for business.

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All these things, like I said, you should have JitHub, which is still 10 bucks a month.

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They’re not changing that.

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But they do have their Co-Pilot for Office, for personal use, Office, Windows, all that

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stuff.

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Then they have their other Co-Pilot, which is their professional version.

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They went for businesses, which is 30 bucks a month.

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Then they have their Pro version for creators.

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So again, a big space here at Microsoft moving into a new space, Apple moving into a new

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space.

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As I would say on their earnings call, they are looking into AI and what they can do with

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Siri.

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I’m interested to see what’s going to happen with that.

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Apple’s way behind on this stuff with Siri.

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I’d be curious to see what they do with that.

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If they’re going to partner with ChatGPT or if they are going to do something on their

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own, that will remain to be seen.

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So big news, I think, as far as that stuff goes, just because it’s two new spaces and

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it’s two new spaces that two of the biggest companies in the world are getting into.

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So I just wanted to bring that up because I thought it was really relevant and something

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to really be aware of.

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Some of the stuff that I wanted to, we’re in the news and it is kind of, for me, technically

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security related.

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I did want to bring this up because I thought it was rather interesting.

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Apparently, a lot of the new electric cars do not have AM radio in them.

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And the reason why I’m bringing this up and why it is security related is they are saying

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the government now is saying that these electric car manufacturers are going to need to insulate

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around these AM radios so that AM radio needs to remain in cars.

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And I know you’re thinking to yourself, well, who listens to AM radio?

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According to the government, 80 million people a year still listen to AM radio.

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Personally, if you’re under the age of 50 and listening to AM radio, I’d be shocked.

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But the reason they’re saying this is actually really important is because a lot of money

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has gone into redundancy and stuff like that into the AM radio system.

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And the AM radio system is actually a very big part still of the emergency broadcast

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system.

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And as you know, a lot of the electric cars have been coming without AM radio because

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AM radio, the frequency interferes with the car.

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So instead of insulating against it, they have just been taking AM radios out of cars.

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So be as it may, the government is saying now that they’re going to need these companies

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to put AM radio back in cars.

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So all the electric cars that have taken AM radios out, they’re going to have to put them

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in and they’re going to insulate around them.

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It’s going to be quite expensive, they say, to insulate them.

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But the government’s kind of saying, hey, we need this in the cars for the emergency

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broadcast system.

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I think an interesting thing to talk about, because I don’t even know what the AM emergency

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frequency is, if I’m being honest with you, in our local area here.

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But apparently they are saying it’s actually a, government’s saying it’s actually a national,

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I don’t want to say national security, but it kind of is because it’s a national, the

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national emergency system.

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People need a way to get to it in their cars because if they’re in their cars, that’s when

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they’re going to be commuting and transferring, going other places in the event of storms

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and stuff like that.

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So I don’t know how I really feel about this.

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One of the things that somebody had brought up online, which is a lot of your conservative

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radio, right wing radio is still on AM.

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People are saying maybe they’re doing that to try to keep conservative radio alive.

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There’s a whole lot of rumors with this sort of thing and not getting political about it,

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but I could see the government doing something like that.

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But like I said, interesting to hear this, that they’re saying 80 million people, that

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number sounds really high to me, still listen to AM radio, but they are saying that it’s

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essential for the emergency broadcast system.

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I could actually see to a certain degree this, only because during hurricane Sandy, I was

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very involved with the emergency broadcast system during a major snow ice storm we had

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up here.

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I was very involved with the emergency broadcast system and I know everybody’s saying, well,

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I’ll just use my cell phone.

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But in rural areas and in bigger city areas, there have been issues during these storms

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of that because so many people are on their phones that these cell phone networks get

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flooded.

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I know specifically during Sandy, we had issues with so many people trying to reach out to

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their family during Sandy that the cell phone towers and stuff got overwhelmed.

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We had issues where cell phone towers went down.

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So there are quite a bit of things here, reasons that this could be useful also to radio waves

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carry and can go places that sometimes digital can’t because they’re analog versus digital.

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So a lot of things with this, there’s a whole big thing you can check out on the government’s

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website about it, look up AM radio emergency broadcast.

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There are quite a bit with this and I know, like I said, in my mind, I’m thinking to myself,

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who is really going to use AM radio?

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But I do kind of understand where they’re coming with this only because I have seen

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cellular telephones fail in these kinds of situations, especially in rural and big cities.

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They just get so many people on them.

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These networks just can’t handle all the traffic.

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Like I said, I think it’s going to up the cost of the car because obviously if these

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companies do have to insulate against these things, it’s going to just obviously trickle

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down to the consumer.

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We’re going to pay for it in the end.

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They’re not going to absorb that cost.

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But like I said, it was rather interesting to steer this whole thing.

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There’s been things going on about this all week that they’re saying that this is a big

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thing and they ought to do this and they got to do that.

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We need AM radio around.

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It’s just been a huge thing.

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And like I said, it’s very quite shocking to me just how much, you know, how many people

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are still listening to AM radio.

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It just kind of shocked me.

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But again, that was in the news this weekend.

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It was a pretty big topic.

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Like I said, I still believe that that 80 million number is a bit on the high side,

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especially when they’re saying that the millennials are the largest voting group now.

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And I don’t know how many of them are listening to AM radio.

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So kind of interesting with that.

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Some other stuff that came up in the news, follow ups to what we were talking about last

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week.

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Apparently, Microsoft Teams was hit by a second outage.

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They’ve had a couple of outages in three days.

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Microsoft hasn’t really went into what is happening, but they had a second outage recently

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this past week.

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Kind of, you know, kind of big news with that.

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I mean, how many teams is a huge thing?

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And Microsoft is hedged their bets on this stuff, especially since the pandemic and during

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the pandemic and all that.

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And now it’s the second outage in North America and South America that they’ve seen in a week.

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So that was a follow up.

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They’re still investigating what’s going on with it.

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They’re saying they haven’t actually really came out and said yet what it is, but apparently

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they are investigating it.

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So I thought that was rather interesting in the news this week.

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Also too, some other news as well.

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We were talking about that Chromium and Google forcing people, you know, with the to use

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anti-tracking.

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You know, the thing where they can force advertising and stuff like that.

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Apparently now Google announced in their earnings report they have 20 million more people on

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YouTube Premium, making them have over 100 million YouTube Premium subscribers.

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So I thought that was interesting.

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Some other people had pointed out if you do want to use Firefox or use a version of Firefox

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if you don’t like Firefox, Firefox does have other, there are other editions of Firefox

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that you can use that are based on the Firefox browser.

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Obviously Tor, which is really slow.

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I don’t know if I’d recommend that.

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Libra Wolf, which is another security based focused Firefox.

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They have Pale Moon.

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There’s a bunch of different ones.

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If you search, just go ahead and search Firefox, you know, browsers, Firefox based web browsers

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and they’ll come right up.

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There’s so many different options.

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I actually didn’t realize how many different versions of Firefox there were as far as how

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many people had used it to build different browsers.

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So I thought that was really neat.

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They do have the Firefox developer version if you don’t want all the Firefox junk built

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in.

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Like I said, there’s a Molvid browser.

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There’s just so many of them.

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Like I said, WaterFox, the list just goes on and on and on.

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But like I said, go ahead and check that out.

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Like I said, I always recommend Firefox only because I know they’re very security focused

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first and they’re not based on Chrome.

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So I really am 100% all in on Firefox.

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So I know they had, they did have complaints.

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They did have been still complaining.

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We talked about it last week, but this week they’re saying that, you know, it’s going

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to be very difficult for them to make, they’re going to have to maintain two browsers now,

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one in the US, one in the EU because Apple on iOS is still making you use WebKit in America.

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But over in the EU, you don’t have to use WebKit.

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So like I said, they were talking about how it’s going to be quite a project.

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So I’m sure they’ll figure it out.

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But like I said, that was a quite a big topic as far as Apple, Spotify coming out the other

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day saying that the new rules that Apple made for the EU are a joke and that it’s not, they’re

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not, it gives the illusion of security and gives the illusion of opening things up when

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they’re still kind of forcing you to go the direction they want just in a different way.

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Kind of, you know, kind of a, kind of, I kind of agree with them because there’s still,

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Apple still has control over the platform.

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They’re just letting you do things a different way.

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So it’s not, again, there, it’s the illusion of openness is what Spotify called it.

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Like I said, I’m not super, I do do some development work, but I don’t do a whole heck of a lot

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of development on iOS.

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I do know as somebody who has developed tools and stuff like that, I mostly develop for

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Windows and Linux.

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I do have some stuff available for the Mac, but I’ve never actually published it on the

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App Store.

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I have a serious issue with the way Apple handles the App Store personally.

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I don’t think it’s fair that I have to pay a hundred dollars a year for a developer account

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to put my app out there and for free to give away a tool to somebody for free in the App

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Store on the Mac.

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That’s a hundred dollars a year as a developer and, and so Apple gets a hundred dollars a

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year and I get to give a tool away for free.

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Like why isn’t there a way that people like me that want to give tools away for free on

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the App Store can get on and give them away for free without having to pay a hundred dollars

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a year?

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I just don’t think it’s, it’s right.

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I mean, it really stinks that, like I said, I would love to put apps on the App Store

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for Mac OS, but I’m not going to spend a hundred dollars a year, you know, to put something

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for free on the App Store, but it’s not going to do it.

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So I’ve really had an issue with this over the years and the way Apple does handle the

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Mac Store, whether it’s for, you know, iOS or Mac OS, they’ve always kind of muscle people

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and they get people to pay, you know, put free apps on there and I just, I really don’t

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care for it.

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And, that’s something, you know, that is part of my issue with Apple and the way they handle

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this sort of thing.

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So, like I said, kind of, I think Apple needs a better way of handling free apps.

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They need a better way of handling open source.

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You know, these open source companies that basically run on donations have to pay Apple

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just to keep their free open source apps on Apple’s platform.

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That’s not right.

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That’s not really fair.

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And like I said, I really think that, you know, Apple could do a much better job with

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these sorts of things.

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So, other, something else I wanted to talk about too, kind of a big issue as far as security

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goes for anybody that’s listening, it’s a network admin and anybody that handles security,

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but apparently Microsoft, which has had something called hot patching, which allows you to patch

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the server without rebooting.

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It’s a very, very popular Azure feature that Microsoft has had for quite a while and has

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only been available on Azure, is now going to be available in Windows Server 2025.

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So, they released the Server 2025 preview the other day and a bunch of people have been

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messing with it.

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And now apparently Microsoft is going to allow you in Server 2025 to patch servers using

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hot patching where you don’t have to reboot the server.

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That’s actually pretty big news.

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Microsoft for decades, you have always had to go ahead and to patch the servers, you

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had to reboot them.

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And now you’re going to be able to use hot patching.

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Now for a long time, Microsoft was only putting hot patching on Azure because they wanted

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people to go to Azure and hey, well, if you do it on Azure, you get this feature.

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Well, now they’re going to let you bring it to people that want to have servers internally

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or need servers internally.

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I think this comes down to Microsoft knows that what they call their legacy business,

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which is selling server software to businesses and stuff like that, still a big business

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for them.

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A lot of companies are not going to go to the cloud.

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They don’t want those monthly bills.

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They want to host their own servers due to security, due to infrastructure, whatever.

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And Microsoft is just going to have to say, bite the bullet and just say, “Hey, you know

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what?

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We’re going to have to take some of these great features over in Azure and put them

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into regular desktop, not desktop, but server-based operating system, on-prem server-based operating

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system if we want to keep this business that’s bringing in billions of dollars a year in

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revenue going.”

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So in the new Windows Server 2025, there will be hot patching, which used to just be an

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Azure feature.

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But apparently now, like I said, Microsoft is going to be bringing it to all of us.

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So I think that is wonderful.

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And I really appreciate Microsoft doing this.

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I know a lot of customers that still need and want to host their own server internally.

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Every bunch of years, they have us come in and do an upgrade.

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This is a big deal.

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People do not want to go out in the cloud and keep paying a monthly fee.

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I’m not saying it’s right.

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I’m not saying it’s wrong.

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It’s whatever’s best for your operation, your business.

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But it’s really nice that they’re actually giving us these features.

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So I do really appreciate Microsoft putting the customer first here.

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So speaking of Microsoft news, a little transition there.

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Microsoft, we all remember they got breached a couple of weeks ago.

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I guess somebody was able to get to their higher ups, their email.

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Microsoft did release more information on that.

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Apparently Microsoft security team detected a nation state attack on their corporate systems

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on January 12th of this year.

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And they jumped into response.

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It was attacked.

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It was a threat actor, Midnight Blizzard, which is a Russian state sponsored attack,

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a Russian state actor or attacker.

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And like I said, they went ahead and it was a, apparently, apparently while they noticed

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it on January 12th, they went through the logs and they actually found that in November

00:21:23.000 –> 00:21:32.320
of 2023, a threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy product.

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They said non-production, non-production product that apparently had a giant foot and gained

00:21:39.680 –> 00:21:41.720
a giant foothold on their systems.

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Like I said, but apparently it was actually now they’re saying it was a Russian state

00:21:48.520 –> 00:21:50.120
sponsored attack.

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So like I said, not sure they’re not, they haven’t released what they got yet, but they

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have said that it was, they have narrowed it down and they do know who it was, what

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it was and how they got in and what the system was.

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So interesting, interesting there only because the state sponsored hacking stuff is becoming

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more and more popular.

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So speaking of interesting things that have also been announced for tax go, a still unknown

00:22:19.800 –> 00:22:25.520
threat actor stole 7.5 million from the US Department of Health and Human Services in

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a security breach that took place between March and mid November of last year.

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So this is actually really interesting because they still don’t know who took it, but the

00:22:35.920 –> 00:22:43.120
unknown attacker is believed to have gained access to an HHS system that processes civilian

00:22:43.120 –> 00:22:47.960
grant payments using a spear phishing attack.

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They then process the hijacked payments for five grant recipients before being deleted.

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Like I said, they’re still investigating as to who did it.

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But yeah, so interesting, what upsets me about this is they still don’t know who did it and

00:23:07.140 –> 00:23:08.680
this happens quite a while ago.

00:23:08.680 –> 00:23:12.680
So like I said, that was something I noticed in the news.

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Again, a lot of these big security breaches and stuff that were announced really got buried

00:23:17.900 –> 00:23:19.120
under all the Apple news.

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And that’s, I mean, that’s just the way it is, but I do want to point that out because

00:23:23.600 –> 00:23:26.980
some of these are actually really big news.

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Something else I wanted to point out as well, something else that was announced again kind

00:23:30.840 –> 00:23:33.580
of got buried in the news here.

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In the news, apparently Samsung has announced with the launch of their S24 series smartphones

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that you will be saving seven years of software and security updates.

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That’s an increase from the company’s previous smartphone series, which they’ve had before,

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which is only five years.

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So they have, like I said, they’ve gone ahead and bumped it to seven.

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A lot of people believe that they did that because Google bumped their phones to seven

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years for security updates.

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So that’s why they think they were, a lot they’re doing it.

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So now if you have an Android device, you will be getting updates for seven years from

00:24:10.980 –> 00:24:12.780
Samsung and Google.

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I wish all the companies would do that.

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I see so many Samsung smartphones from my daughter’s friends and stuff like that that

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are just out of date and they’re not getting updates.

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And it’s quite scary when you think about it and people don’t even understand it or

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even know about it.

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So a lot of people just are completely just don’t know about this stuff and that’s what

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happened.

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So I thought that was a little bit of interesting news that I saw as well.

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I wanted to bring that up because I know a couple of people that listen to the show were

00:24:39.480 –> 00:24:42.240
talking about Android and I appreciate one of our listeners.

00:24:42.240 –> 00:24:43.240
They sent that to me.

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So thank you very much for that.

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Again, I do have my email in the show notes.

00:24:47.800 –> 00:24:49.880
That’s the best way to reach me.

00:24:49.880 –> 00:24:52.440
Please send me any information you have or questions.

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We do have some listener feedback.

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I’ll get to hit a little bit here.

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But some of that, I guess I do appreciate a couple of people send that back.

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Again, I’m not overly knowledgeable.

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I don’t say I’m knowledgeable, I’m knowledgeable of it, but I don’t have an Android smartphone.

00:25:07.100 –> 00:25:11.580
So I don’t particularly, I’m not as up on that as I should be.

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Maybe that’s something I should really focus on this year.

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But I do appreciate them sending me that.

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So something I thought was interesting and I actually, I have known about this, but I’ve

00:25:20.660 –> 00:25:25.200
been, anytime the government sticks their nose in stuff, I’m sometimes a little hesitant

00:25:25.200 –> 00:25:29.680
to kind of jump in because things are, and I don’t want to get political, but we all

00:25:29.680 –> 00:25:32.640
know sometimes when the government sticks their nose in things get worse.

00:25:32.640 –> 00:25:38.800
Fortunately, sometimes politics, just insecurity or anything should not go along.

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But the CISA is actually, they had a sort of a pilot program last year.

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You can go ahead and check it out at the website at stopransomware.gov.

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And for companies that may be kind of unaware of the security vulnerabilities or things

00:25:57.340 –> 00:26:01.400
like that, what this is, this is a stop ransomware thing.

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And what you do is you can actually sign your company up.

00:26:05.180 –> 00:26:07.840
And I don’t know the exact specifics as I have not done this, but I wanted to bring

00:26:07.840 –> 00:26:12.340
this up because this was started last year and I know they had an update on it here on,

00:26:12.340 –> 00:26:14.180
and somebody had brought this to my attention.

00:26:14.180 –> 00:26:15.180
Again, I appreciate that.

00:26:15.180 –> 00:26:17.640
We have a great community here.

00:26:17.640 –> 00:26:20.640
But one of the things they have pointed out is you can sign up and what happens is the

00:26:20.640 –> 00:26:26.160
CISA will kind of monitor your, you know, your, your port, your systems or however they

00:26:26.160 –> 00:26:27.880
do it.

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And what you can actually do with this is, if they do find any, anything that could be

00:26:34.920 –> 00:26:38.380
a vulnerability that could allow ransomware in or stuff like that, they will actually

00:26:38.380 –> 00:26:43.280
reach out to you and tell you, Hey, you have an explanatory system patch this or whatever.

00:26:43.280 –> 00:26:47.440
Because a lot, especially smaller companies and especially school districts that maybe

00:26:47.440 –> 00:26:51.300
don’t have security people and stuff on staff or people that aren’t as aware or maybe full

00:26:51.300 –> 00:26:56.180
time, especially some smaller businesses, they might not even have IT people full time.

00:26:56.180 –> 00:26:57.660
So they don’t know unless they call somebody in.

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But what they’ll actually do is they will actually alert you of this stuff so you can

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patch it.

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Like I said, that is at their, it’s stop ransomware.gov.

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Like I said, they started this last year and now they’re expanding it to include more

00:27:13.000 –> 00:27:14.000
businesses.

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I think you have to, I don’t know if they send you, I believe they send you a, an Albert

00:27:17.760 –> 00:27:18.760
sensor.

00:27:18.760 –> 00:27:24.400
An Albert sensor sits on your system and it reports back to CISA and what it does, it

00:27:24.400 –> 00:27:25.400
monitors the traffic.

00:27:25.400 –> 00:27:29.360
And if it does see something that it sees, it could be a vulnerability or it could be

00:27:29.360 –> 00:27:30.360
an issue.

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They will go ahead and reach back to you.

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But that, like I said, is something it’s from the CISA and it’s a, like I said, it’s an

00:27:37.480 –> 00:27:38.480
Albert sensor.

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And those of you that say, well, you may not be so happy about the government’s taking

00:27:42.360 –> 00:27:44.440
something on your network that’s going to sniff traffic.

00:27:44.440 –> 00:27:47.720
I wouldn’t be so happy about it either.

00:27:47.720 –> 00:27:49.540
You can get a free Albert sensor.

00:27:49.540 –> 00:27:53.020
It’s free, it’s open source and you can actually have it alert you.

00:27:53.020 –> 00:27:56.920
That might be a better option for some of you guys that aren’t so thrilled about, you

00:27:56.920 –> 00:27:59.040
know, the government sticking something on your network.

00:27:59.040 –> 00:28:02.680
I’m kind of in the same boat with you, like I said, but you can get an Albert sensor.

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It’s free.

00:28:03.680 –> 00:28:06.060
You can load it on a raspberry PI, on a little computer, whatever that, and have it monitor

00:28:06.060 –> 00:28:07.920
your systems.

00:28:07.920 –> 00:28:09.080
It’s not that difficult to set up.

00:28:09.080 –> 00:28:10.520
There are tons of YouTube videos on it.

00:28:10.520 –> 00:28:14.740
There are tons of documentation on the internet, but that’s something you can do.

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Like I said, if you, if you know a company that maybe isn’t able to handle this sorts

00:28:19.420 –> 00:28:23.640
of thing, have them reach out and maybe they can get some help with that.

00:28:23.640 –> 00:28:28.960
Like I said, smaller businesses that don’t have people like us on the staff, maybe they

00:28:28.960 –> 00:28:29.960
can sign up.

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And then if you have your, you know, if you’re a business and you want to monitor things,

00:28:33.720 –> 00:28:35.760
maybe you put your own Albert sensor in.

00:28:35.760 –> 00:28:40.400
But either way, that was something, like I said, that I noticed and that I wanted to

00:28:40.400 –> 00:28:45.740
bring up to you guys, because that is something, like I said, it’s a year ago now.

00:28:45.740 –> 00:28:49.520
And like I said, there, the, the system, it wasn’t, like I said, it was kind of like a

00:28:49.520 –> 00:28:54.400
pilot program with, I think it was at schools at the beginning and certain companies, but

00:28:54.400 –> 00:28:56.500
now they are going to be opening it up a little more.

00:28:56.500 –> 00:28:58.840
So that might be something useful.

00:28:58.840 –> 00:29:01.360
Even if you’re in the security business, that might be something to have, maybe some of

00:29:01.360 –> 00:29:05.640
your customers sign up for, or maybe you can even sell them an Albert sensor.

00:29:05.640 –> 00:29:09.040
Like I said, go ahead and be your choice, but like I said, that is something out there

00:29:09.040 –> 00:29:14.840
and is available and ransomware is such a big thing nowadays that it’s something you

00:29:14.840 –> 00:29:18.840
got to fight against because it can really put a whole company out of business.

00:29:18.840 –> 00:29:22.560
So news on that.

00:29:22.560 –> 00:29:27.080
Also too, I wanted to bring something up that I thought was interesting.

00:29:27.080 –> 00:29:30.840
I actually happened to scroll, kind of stumbled upon this.

00:29:30.840 –> 00:29:39.960
I remember last week we talked about HP was basically anti using third party, you know,

00:29:39.960 –> 00:29:43.800
in cartridges because they want to have like a subscription business for that.

00:29:43.800 –> 00:29:46.720
But apparently they did push that third party firmware update.

00:29:46.720 –> 00:29:50.160
It was actually on 9to5Mac where I saw this.

00:29:50.160 –> 00:29:56.720
They actually did push this third party update to try to help people that were, you know,

00:29:56.720 –> 00:29:58.720
had out of date firmware and were vulnerable to attack.

00:29:58.720 –> 00:30:01.760
It actually bricked a bunch of printers.

00:30:01.760 –> 00:30:04.120
And a lot of people are really upset about it.

00:30:04.120 –> 00:30:07.500
A lot of people are saying, well, hey, this was just a money grab.

00:30:07.500 –> 00:30:12.640
But what it was is they had well-known viruses that were actually embedded in third party

00:30:12.640 –> 00:30:16.360
cartridges that were actually being only a problem.

00:30:16.360 –> 00:30:21.840
And if you did have, they patched and I guess a lot of some, obviously some things bricked,

00:30:21.840 –> 00:30:26.160
some people that had the cartridges bricked, some just like I said, some just bricked because

00:30:26.160 –> 00:30:29.120
they were too old to handle the update or whatever happened.

00:30:29.120 –> 00:30:35.600
But apparently Ars Technica also reported on this saying that security experts, whether

00:30:35.600 –> 00:30:39.700
this could happen, they said it’s so far out there.

00:30:39.700 –> 00:30:44.280
It would be a nation state attack on a specific individual.

00:30:44.280 –> 00:30:46.140
I don’t know if I really believe that.

00:30:46.140 –> 00:30:50.620
What a lot of this was, was these companies giving out third party, well, they weren’t

00:30:50.620 –> 00:30:54.400
giving out, but people were selling third party cartridges with viruses in them, either

00:30:54.400 –> 00:30:57.560
not knowing and what it is again.

00:30:57.560 –> 00:31:01.200
This is basically one of those things where I sell you a cartridge, it’s infected, you

00:31:01.200 –> 00:31:02.200
put it in a machine.

00:31:02.200 –> 00:31:06.960
Now I have a bot where I can use it to DDoS.

00:31:06.960 –> 00:31:07.960
That’s what this is.

00:31:07.960 –> 00:31:08.960
This is building a botnet.

00:31:08.960 –> 00:31:12.320
What they were doing is people that were, I think anyway, what my personal feelings

00:31:12.320 –> 00:31:15.360
about it is that they were trying to help create a botnet.

00:31:15.360 –> 00:31:16.840
Cause that’s the only reason why you do that.

00:31:16.840 –> 00:31:20.080
I mean, same thing with the smart fridges and stuff that people still have their way

00:31:20.080 –> 00:31:21.080
out of date.

00:31:21.080 –> 00:31:22.240
Those things are compromised.

00:31:22.240 –> 00:31:24.400
People aren’t hacking into them to get your fridge data.

00:31:24.400 –> 00:31:28.000
They’re hacking into it so that they have something to use for a botnet.

00:31:28.000 –> 00:31:30.560
Same thing with these printers and the little devices like this.

00:31:30.560 –> 00:31:31.840
People don’t hack into them for data.

00:31:31.840 –> 00:31:32.840
They hack into what they have.

00:31:32.840 –> 00:31:34.120
They can use them to DDoS.

00:31:34.120 –> 00:31:39.360
But the reason why I’m bringing that up is apparently HP is now going to be facing a

00:31:39.360 –> 00:31:45.920
huge class action lawsuit over this for bricking printers and stuff like that.

00:31:45.920 –> 00:31:48.600
Like I said, not all the printers brick because of bad cartridges.

00:31:48.600 –> 00:31:50.640
Some of them brick because of hardware issues.

00:31:50.640 –> 00:31:52.520
Some of them brick because of software issues.

00:31:52.520 –> 00:31:53.520
Some of them bricked.

00:31:53.520 –> 00:31:58.400
I mean, it just, there are so many reasons, but apparently HP is saying that they were

00:31:58.400 –> 00:32:01.360
trying to protect people and it didn’t come off that way.

00:32:01.360 –> 00:32:05.600
They’re kind of in the doghouse now because it kind of made it look like, Hey, the way

00:32:05.600 –> 00:32:09.680
they, the way they worded it and the way they made it sound was, you know, we’re doing this

00:32:09.680 –> 00:32:13.360
to protect you, but it kind of made it look like they were doing it to make themselves

00:32:13.360 –> 00:32:16.000
a business because now how many people had brick printers?

00:32:16.000 –> 00:32:18.840
So they’re facing a class action lawsuit.

00:32:18.840 –> 00:32:23.040
It’d be kind of neat to see how this kind of plays out.

00:32:23.040 –> 00:32:26.840
It’s kind of the whole thing with Apple where, okay, we don’t let people side load for security

00:32:26.840 –> 00:32:30.480
reasons, but it’s also a way of Apple controlling the ecosystem.

00:32:30.480 –> 00:32:32.640
I think this is kind of one of those double-edged swords.

00:32:32.640 –> 00:32:37.640
So we’ll have to see what happens with this as we go forward.

00:32:37.640 –> 00:32:38.960
This will be one that we’ll have to watch.

00:32:38.960 –> 00:32:42.640
These sort of things take forever to go through.

00:32:42.640 –> 00:32:45.560
So we’ll have to see, like I said, and see what comes out of it.

00:32:45.560 –> 00:32:47.800
But yeah, I thought that was pretty interesting.

00:32:47.800 –> 00:32:53.480
Especially, it made it on 9 to 5 Mac because so many people were just crazy over this.

00:32:53.480 –> 00:32:57.240
So I’d be really upset that the printers aren’t working and stuff like that.

00:32:57.240 –> 00:32:59.520
I actually don’t print that much anymore.

00:32:59.520 –> 00:33:03.120
I don’t have an HP printer, but I actually don’t print that much anymore.

00:33:03.120 –> 00:33:08.040
And I don’t really have anybody I know that had this problem personally.

00:33:08.040 –> 00:33:13.000
But like I said, I thought it was interesting that they had an update on that story.

00:33:13.000 –> 00:33:19.480
Especially after all the craziness last week with how many printers got bricked.

00:33:19.480 –> 00:33:22.520
I kind of figured this would be a thing.

00:33:22.520 –> 00:33:27.440
So some other news that I think is interesting to security professionals, I’m not sure about

00:33:27.440 –> 00:33:34.160
others out there, but federal investigators, ever since that whole thing with Trump, with

00:33:34.160 –> 00:33:40.280
the situation with January 6th and Trump and the Secret Service deleting their text messages

00:33:40.280 –> 00:33:48.440
and stuff like that, apparently now the federal investigators are warning companies that are

00:33:48.440 –> 00:33:54.240
either under investigation or warning federal entities like the US Department of Justice

00:33:54.240 –> 00:34:05.200
and the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, that if anybody is under investigation, that

00:34:05.200 –> 00:34:11.280
they are not allowed to delete messages from tech companies like Slack, Microsoft Teams,

00:34:11.280 –> 00:34:12.280
and Signal.

00:34:12.280 –> 00:34:15.720
Apple wasn’t on the list, which surprised me of all things.

00:34:15.720 –> 00:34:22.520
But apparently they’re saying this guidance comes as the Federal Investigation and Department

00:34:22.520 –> 00:34:31.120
of Justice looks through rules and how messaging is handled in the government.

00:34:31.120 –> 00:34:35.920
In November of last year, the FCC accused Amazon of deleting more than two years worth

00:34:35.920 –> 00:34:42.100
internal signal employee chats after the agency was under investigation for antitrust lawsuits.

00:34:42.100 –> 00:34:48.520
They’re also going after Google, who apparently deleted messages during the antitrust trial

00:34:48.520 –> 00:34:51.760
that was going on recently.

00:34:51.760 –> 00:34:52.960
We all remember what happened with that.

00:34:52.960 –> 00:34:57.600
Google apparently had, when they were home, actually had emails saying, “Hey, delete your

00:34:57.600 –> 00:34:59.080
message so they can’t get them.”

00:34:59.080 –> 00:35:05.520
But this is also too, they’re warning their own state entities, “You’re not allowed to

00:35:05.520 –> 00:35:08.720
delete your messages if you’re under investigation.”

00:35:08.720 –> 00:35:13.680
Like I said, Apple is not on the list, but Apple was not able to get messages back during

00:35:13.680 –> 00:35:14.680
that.

00:35:14.680 –> 00:35:19.240
It’s a pretty big thing because, and like I said, I’m not trying to get political, but

00:35:19.240 –> 00:35:24.280
it was actually a big thing when they were investigating January 6th, how many people,

00:35:24.280 –> 00:35:29.840
these state entities deleted their messages, like the Secret Service.

00:35:29.840 –> 00:35:33.520
I think there was even a couple other entities that deleted their messages.

00:35:33.520 –> 00:35:38.080
And now these big tech companies that are in these anti-lawsuits are doing the same

00:35:38.080 –> 00:35:39.080
thing.

00:35:39.080 –> 00:35:41.640
Instead of people seeing their messaging history, they just blew it away.

00:35:41.640 –> 00:35:44.640
Like I said, Google did that.

00:35:44.640 –> 00:35:48.800
I know Apple didn’t because Apple actually is actually pretty aware on that stuff.

00:35:48.800 –> 00:35:50.440
But I forget who else did it.

00:35:50.440 –> 00:35:51.520
I know Google did it.

00:35:51.520 –> 00:35:55.800
Like I said, so this is a pretty big thing.

00:35:55.800 –> 00:36:01.960
And the thing that’s weird about companies like Google is, Google actually does provide

00:36:01.960 –> 00:36:09.280
a Google Workspace product called Google Vault that allows you to put holds on stuff so it

00:36:09.280 –> 00:36:11.080
can’t be deleted.

00:36:11.080 –> 00:36:13.360
And it’s kind of interesting that Google, obviously they probably didn’t want those

00:36:13.360 –> 00:36:16.100
chats to be deleted, so they probably had somebody take off the hold.

00:36:16.100 –> 00:36:23.120
But I know Google has it, I know Microsoft has it, that you can actually hold it so that

00:36:23.120 –> 00:36:24.120
they don’t get deleted.

00:36:24.120 –> 00:36:25.900
I’m sure Slack probably has something like that as well.

00:36:25.900 –> 00:36:28.360
Microsoft Teams I know has it because it’s built into Office.

00:36:28.360 –> 00:36:30.600
But this is actually pretty big.

00:36:30.600 –> 00:36:36.360
Signal I don’t think does because they’re not a huge corporate entity in the sense of

00:36:36.360 –> 00:36:41.340
you can’t manage your Signal accounts via corporate commodity.

00:36:41.340 –> 00:36:44.720
But I thought it was pretty interesting that they finally are telling these companies,

00:36:44.720 –> 00:36:51.360
no, you can’t do that and no, if you’re a government entity that is part of the US government,

00:36:51.360 –> 00:36:53.420
you can’t delete your messages.

00:36:53.420 –> 00:36:58.620
Because the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice, the Secret Service,

00:36:58.620 –> 00:37:02.340
I think even the IRS I think actually had issues where when they were investigating

00:37:02.340 –> 00:37:07.920
Trump they were missing emails or messages that were sent to the Trump organization.

00:37:07.920 –> 00:37:11.480
So I think it’s interesting the government stepping in now and kind of saying, we have

00:37:11.480 –> 00:37:14.100
a problem with people deleting this stuff.

00:37:14.100 –> 00:37:17.680
Not only on the trial side, but internally let’s try to take care of this.

00:37:17.680 –> 00:37:20.720
But I guess what I don’t understand is why these companies, and probably because they

00:37:20.720 –> 00:37:26.180
don’t want this stuff to get out, why these companies don’t put holds on this stuff, litigation

00:37:26.180 –> 00:37:27.180
holds.

00:37:27.180 –> 00:37:28.600
That’s such a common thing in this day and age.

00:37:28.600 –> 00:37:30.540
Like I said, it’s probably because they don’t want people to see it.

00:37:30.540 –> 00:37:35.080
But like I said, I know for a fact Google has been caught doing it.

00:37:35.080 –> 00:37:39.420
I know, I think Microsoft got caught possibly doing this during discovery back in the day

00:37:39.420 –> 00:37:42.080
when they were facing issues.

00:37:42.080 –> 00:37:45.340
I know for a fact that they’ve had issues in the government with people deleting stuff

00:37:45.340 –> 00:37:46.340
they shouldn’t.

00:37:46.340 –> 00:37:50.980
So like I said, they can say it, but now will people do it?

00:37:50.980 –> 00:37:53.040
That will kind of remain to be seen.

00:37:53.040 –> 00:37:59.460
I know people like Warren Buffett and some of your bigger companies out in Silicon Valley,

00:37:59.460 –> 00:38:06.600
like investors and stuff, will purposely say, “Don’t send me an email unless it’s something

00:38:06.600 –> 00:38:09.760
that’s not going to be held against us,” or, “Don’t send me an email.”

00:38:09.760 –> 00:38:13.180
I know Warren Buffett doesn’t send an email at all just so it can’t be used against him.

00:38:13.180 –> 00:38:18.380
I know specifically some of the early investors like in Oracle and stuff, they actually say

00:38:18.380 –> 00:38:21.740
they don’t have email because they’ve been sued so many times they don’t bother with

00:38:21.740 –> 00:38:22.740
it.

00:38:22.740 –> 00:38:27.340
They just want handwritten stuff or just come and tell them so there’s no evidence of it.

00:38:27.340 –> 00:38:31.540
It’s kind of crazy what these companies do, but it’s kind of nuts.

00:38:31.540 –> 00:38:35.180
One of the things I wanted to bring up, talking about having a rough day, when I spread this,

00:38:35.180 –> 00:38:37.420
I was like, “Oh, I hate to be this guy.”

00:38:37.420 –> 00:38:46.960
But apparently somebody had left their employee authentication token sitting in a GitHub repository

00:38:46.960 –> 00:38:54.200
that had access to a Mercedes GitHub Enterprise server, which is hosted internally, which

00:38:54.200 –> 00:39:02.760
has access to all their source code and accidentally exposed, like I said, all their internal code

00:39:02.760 –> 00:39:08.540
data, but like I said to everybody in the world, unrestricted access.

00:39:08.540 –> 00:39:14.080
And they’re investigating this, but apparently the key was there for more than 90 days before

00:39:14.080 –> 00:39:16.200
it was discovered.

00:39:16.200 –> 00:39:22.080
And like I said, they’re going through, they don’t know exactly what they got yet.

00:39:22.080 –> 00:39:27.200
They’re doing an audit now, but apparently the token gave unrestricted, unmonitored access

00:39:27.200 –> 00:39:32.300
to the entire source code for Mercedes.

00:39:32.300 –> 00:39:36.840
Like I said, I would not want to be that guy.

00:39:36.840 –> 00:39:41.520
Apparently somebody sent this to me, it’s actually on TechCrunch, but I was like, “Oh,

00:39:41.520 –> 00:39:45.280
I felt really bad for that poor security admin now.

00:39:45.280 –> 00:39:50.120
I’m sure he’s got a lot of cleanup to do and a heck of a lot of work ahead of him.”

00:39:50.120 –> 00:39:53.920
Just all their source code, that’s just, oh, that’s brutal.

00:39:53.920 –> 00:39:58.460
We remember when some of Microsoft’s source code got out, luckily it was for older stuff,

00:39:58.460 –> 00:40:02.160
but that’s one thing you don’t want is your source code to get out.

00:40:02.160 –> 00:40:08.440
So yeah, that was something I saw on the news and I was like, “Oh, ouch.”

00:40:08.440 –> 00:40:11.440
So I thought that was interesting.

00:40:11.440 –> 00:40:16.720
One thing I do want to point out, like I said, I did have some listener feedback.

00:40:16.720 –> 00:40:19.280
I have a couple more news stories I want to get to, but I do want to read this.

00:40:19.280 –> 00:40:21.160
Somebody had brought this up to me.

00:40:21.160 –> 00:40:26.960
Somebody had asked me, I think it’s a younger listener.

00:40:26.960 –> 00:40:28.360
I don’t want to read his whole email.

00:40:28.360 –> 00:40:31.880
Anyway, it’s a younger kid that wants to get into programming and he asked what language

00:40:31.880 –> 00:40:32.880
should he learn.

00:40:32.880 –> 00:40:38.680
You know, it really depends on what you want to do is the advice I would actually give

00:40:38.680 –> 00:40:39.680
you.

00:40:39.680 –> 00:40:43.280
I know myself, I use Python a lot.

00:40:43.280 –> 00:40:45.720
I use JavaScript a lot.

00:40:45.720 –> 00:40:51.240
I use HTML every day almost for different stuff we’re doing or just for coding projects

00:40:51.240 –> 00:40:52.240
I’m doing.

00:40:52.240 –> 00:40:54.760
PHP I use quite a bit.

00:40:54.760 –> 00:40:56.040
It really depends on what you’re going to be doing.

00:40:56.040 –> 00:41:02.120
I mess around a lot of code stuff, like web code stuff and a lot of data stuff.

00:41:02.120 –> 00:41:07.440
I know if you’re going to be a database admin, I would recommend learning SQL.

00:41:07.440 –> 00:41:08.680
There’s so many different things.

00:41:08.680 –> 00:41:12.120
It really depends on the project you want to do or what you want to do, depending on

00:41:12.120 –> 00:41:13.600
what language you learn.

00:41:13.600 –> 00:41:20.520
I know myself, I started out with Visual Basic because I was writing Windows stuff.

00:41:20.520 –> 00:41:24.080
Then I know I went to C# and then, like I said, I started doing a lot more security

00:41:24.080 –> 00:41:27.160
projects so I started using Python for a lot of things just because it’s what I like to

00:41:27.160 –> 00:41:28.160
use.

00:41:28.160 –> 00:41:33.800
It’s loosely written and I just like how it’s got so much support in the community.

00:41:33.800 –> 00:41:39.320
And then I know some people, you know, who use C# for everything for what they do.

00:41:39.320 –> 00:41:42.800
I know guys that just do database stuff that just knows SQL.

00:41:42.800 –> 00:41:44.840
It really depends on what you want to do.

00:41:44.840 –> 00:41:46.960
It really depends on what language you should learn.

00:41:46.960 –> 00:41:50.440
It’s just like with any language, if you think you’re going to French, you probably should

00:41:50.440 –> 00:41:51.920
learn French.

00:41:51.920 –> 00:41:55.480
If you think you’re going to Germany, you should learn German.

00:41:55.480 –> 00:41:58.240
It just really comes down to what you want to do.

00:41:58.240 –> 00:41:59.760
The question is unfortunately a little bit broad.

00:41:59.760 –> 00:42:01.800
I wish you would give me more of what you’re trying to do.

00:42:01.800 –> 00:42:05.160
But like I said, I would say it depends on what you’re trying to do.

00:42:05.160 –> 00:42:07.360
It depends on what language you want to learn.

00:42:07.360 –> 00:42:09.720
I did email him back and ask him what he was doing.

00:42:09.720 –> 00:42:11.400
He didn’t get back to me yet.

00:42:11.400 –> 00:42:18.200
But like I said, that would be my, that would be really my, what I would suggest.

00:42:18.200 –> 00:42:23.080
Somebody else too that listened to the show last week pointed up, they had said, I’m not

00:42:23.080 –> 00:42:24.420
comfortable with GitHub.

00:42:24.420 –> 00:42:25.720
Where else can I host my code?

00:42:25.720 –> 00:42:28.880
You had spoken about Mantis.

00:42:28.880 –> 00:42:34.600
Mantis really isn’t a code repository as it is more of a, more of like a code, more like

00:42:34.600 –> 00:42:38.200
use it for your problems and your, your bugs and stuff like that.

00:42:38.200 –> 00:42:39.200
You can use JITLab.

00:42:39.200 –> 00:42:40.200
JITLab is free.

00:42:40.200 –> 00:42:41.200
It’s open source.

00:42:41.200 –> 00:42:42.200
You can host your own JITLab.

00:42:42.200 –> 00:42:46.120
I mean, you can host it on a little Mac mini or a little, even, I mean, if you want to

00:42:46.120 –> 00:42:48.800
host a little pie with, and you can do whatever.

00:42:48.800 –> 00:42:52.080
I mean, it’s just, it’s so easy and versatile if you’re not comfortable on JITLab.

00:42:52.080 –> 00:42:53.960
I personally use JITLab.

00:42:53.960 –> 00:42:55.720
I know a lot of people that don’t.

00:42:55.720 –> 00:42:59.720
I know specifically a couple friends of mine that do have software that they use to make

00:42:59.720 –> 00:43:03.240
money, refuse to host it on JITLab because they’re so worried that even though it’s a

00:43:03.240 –> 00:43:08.000
private repository, Microsoft might look at it and build it into windows.

00:43:08.000 –> 00:43:10.960
You know, when it’s your livelihood, if you’re not comfortable with it, I mean, all my stuff

00:43:10.960 –> 00:43:11.960
is open source.

00:43:11.960 –> 00:43:15.960
I don’t care if anybody takes it, but if it’s your livelihood, you know, you can host it

00:43:15.960 –> 00:43:16.960
on JITLab locally.

00:43:16.960 –> 00:43:22.560
I mean, you can even host it on, I mean, if it’s really like something you just, you know,

00:43:22.560 –> 00:43:27.560
you can even host it on any real local storage, a NAS in your house.

00:43:27.560 –> 00:43:32.600
I mean, it’s not something, you don’t necessarily need a repository for everything, but it depends

00:43:32.600 –> 00:43:33.600
on what you’re doing.

00:43:33.600 –> 00:43:37.080
But yeah, like I said, I would say, like I said, everything I do is really open source.

00:43:37.080 –> 00:43:40.840
I really could care less if somebody gets it, but if it’s your livelihood, I mean, you

00:43:40.840 –> 00:43:43.540
can host your own JITLab server on your own server internally.

00:43:43.540 –> 00:43:49.080
You can host it, like I said, on a NAS locally or whatever like that.

00:43:49.080 –> 00:43:51.420
I mean, there’s a lot of stuff you can do to keep your code safe.

00:43:51.420 –> 00:43:57.140
I probably would be a little bit more worried about it if my stuff wasn’t open source.

00:43:57.140 –> 00:44:00.560
So I wanted to point that out.

00:44:00.560 –> 00:44:04.200
Something else somebody wanted me to point it out to me, and I knew about it, but I should

00:44:04.200 –> 00:44:06.560
have mentioned it on the show.

00:44:06.560 –> 00:44:10.320
Somebody had mentioned to me, talking about outages, you really should let everybody know

00:44:10.320 –> 00:44:11.320
about the down detector.

00:44:11.320 –> 00:44:14.760
There’s a lot of sites like that now, but yeah, down detector will actually tell you

00:44:14.760 –> 00:44:17.000
if something is actually down.

00:44:17.000 –> 00:44:21.260
Because sometimes these companies don’t always know they’re down or necessarily don’t get

00:44:21.260 –> 00:44:27.060
the information up on their support sites and stuff to let you know they’re having an

00:44:27.060 –> 00:44:28.780
outage or open their Twitter.

00:44:28.780 –> 00:44:33.960
So sometimes the only way to know if it’s right in the middle of something before the

00:44:33.960 –> 00:44:39.220
company knows or before it’s announced is if you go to the down detector, you’ll always

00:44:39.220 –> 00:44:48.580
see on the front page, “Hey, why is,” just for example, “Why is YouTube got all these

00:44:48.580 –> 00:44:49.820
people complaining about YouTube?

00:44:49.820 –> 00:44:51.360
Why are all these people complaining about Google?

00:44:51.360 –> 00:44:55.560
Why are all these people complaining about Teams or Word Online?”

00:44:55.560 –> 00:44:59.720
So it is a really useful tool, especially, like I said, if you think you’re having an

00:44:59.720 –> 00:45:06.560
issue and you don’t know if it’s you or if it’s the company.

00:45:06.560 –> 00:45:11.460
Like I said, I’ve done it at down to domain times because I’ve had customers saying, “Hey,

00:45:11.460 –> 00:45:13.800
our Google Meet isn’t working.”

00:45:13.800 –> 00:45:15.320
And well, Google doesn’t have anything on their site.

00:45:15.320 –> 00:45:18.720
Then I go to a down detector and it’s like, “Oh, wow, look at all those people saying

00:45:18.720 –> 00:45:21.160
they’re having trouble with Google,” or, “Hey, look at all those people saying they’re having

00:45:21.160 –> 00:45:22.160
trouble with Facebook.”

00:45:22.160 –> 00:45:29.280
Or I’ve actually been in situations like that and they have everybody on their Slack, Teams.

00:45:29.280 –> 00:45:33.660
They have all their, I bet you they have probably almost every service you can find on the down

00:45:33.660 –> 00:45:34.660
detector.

00:45:34.660 –> 00:45:38.260
Somebody emailed that to me to bring that up and it really was something good that I

00:45:38.260 –> 00:45:41.840
really think if you don’t know about it, now you do kind of.

00:45:41.840 –> 00:45:43.820
But like I said, it’s a down detector.

00:45:43.820 –> 00:45:49.660
That’s actually a really great site and I really recommend going there if you are having

00:45:49.660 –> 00:45:53.440
an issue and you’re not really sure about, like I said, what’s going on.

00:45:53.440 –> 00:45:56.360
So like I said, go ahead and check that out.

00:45:56.360 –> 00:45:59.960
Something else too I did want to bring up, talking about nation state hacking, I forgot

00:45:59.960 –> 00:46:01.840
about this, it was at the bottom of my notes.

00:46:01.840 –> 00:46:07.280
Cloudflare announced that they had a nation state hacker attack that accessed their source

00:46:07.280 –> 00:46:08.280
code.

00:46:08.280 –> 00:46:10.840
A lot of people are going to, a couple of people are asking why do people want source

00:46:10.840 –> 00:46:13.380
code so bad because if you get the source code, you can kind of find where the holes

00:46:13.380 –> 00:46:14.960
and the bugs are.

00:46:14.960 –> 00:46:18.880
But they actually had said, there are another one, Cloudflare, a lot of people use them

00:46:18.880 –> 00:46:20.480
to host their sites.

00:46:20.480 –> 00:46:25.040
They announced that they had a nation state hack and that they didn’t really announce

00:46:25.040 –> 00:46:26.800
who the nation state was on this article.

00:46:26.800 –> 00:46:33.080
But I guess I’m not really sure what it was, but like I said, they announced that they

00:46:33.080 –> 00:46:34.640
had somebody come in and steal source code.

00:46:34.640 –> 00:46:38.880
If you host on Cloudflare, go ahead and I think they did release an email to everybody,

00:46:38.880 –> 00:46:39.920
so go ahead and check that out.

00:46:39.920 –> 00:46:42.040
But yeah, they announced that.

00:46:42.040 –> 00:46:47.880
The other thing that was interesting that I did want to bring up to all of you, the

00:46:47.880 –> 00:46:53.820
NSA admits to secretly buying your internal browsing data without warrants.

00:46:53.820 –> 00:46:56.920
That was something that was in the news this week.

00:46:56.920 –> 00:47:02.260
The NSA admits that they’ve been buying data from data brokers and stuff.

00:47:02.260 –> 00:47:05.080
We kind of talked about this a little bit last week, but now they’re talking about how

00:47:05.080 –> 00:47:09.760
the NSA, they admitted to doing it as well as other companies that admitted to doing

00:47:09.760 –> 00:47:10.760
it.

00:47:10.760 –> 00:47:17.640
But apparently now the NSA, after again, the FTC prohibited it and said that, no, you can’t

00:47:17.640 –> 00:47:22.840
do that to companies like in market media and some of the who have been selling data

00:47:22.840 –> 00:47:24.300
to companies without some of that.

00:47:24.300 –> 00:47:29.060
Now the NSA is saying, hey, we’ve done it too along with these other organizations.

00:47:29.060 –> 00:47:34.240
So it’s not really news, but kind of more of an update to that story.

00:47:34.240 –> 00:47:38.940
And then on one story I wanted to bring up too as well, I found this late in the day

00:47:38.940 –> 00:47:43.320
the other day, but I wanted to bring this up because we were talking about ransomware

00:47:43.320 –> 00:47:47.580
and how they have things now, Albert sensors and stuff that they’re trying to help these

00:47:47.580 –> 00:47:49.260
organizations with.

00:47:49.260 –> 00:47:55.260
But Kansas city area transportation announced that they were hit with a ransomware attack

00:47:55.260 –> 00:47:56.860
on Tuesday, January 23rd.

00:47:56.860 –> 00:48:03.180
And that was the reason why pretty much all the transportation systems were down.

00:48:03.180 –> 00:48:12.140
There are 70 buses, they have 70 buses, six Metro fleets, 300 buses.

00:48:12.140 –> 00:48:16.320
They reported 10.5 million people use their transportation services and were unable to

00:48:16.320 –> 00:48:21.860
on Wednesday, uh, due to a ransomware attack that impacted all the communications for the

00:48:21.860 –> 00:48:25.300
entire Kansas city transit.

00:48:25.300 –> 00:48:30.480
So again, when I say the Albert sensor and stuff like that, um, you know, it is really

00:48:30.480 –> 00:48:31.480
important.

00:48:31.480 –> 00:48:39.220
Uh, the other thing that they were saying is the, um, these companies, ransomware attackers,

00:48:39.220 –> 00:48:43.900
um, apparently they’re, they actually, this is what I thought was interesting about this.

00:48:43.900 –> 00:48:48.980
They actually said they wanted $2 million if they paid within so many days and a hundred

00:48:48.980 –> 00:48:52.640
thousand a day after they met that if they didn’t meet the deadline.

00:48:52.640 –> 00:48:56.040
So then not only it’s like, it’s like, okay, so you get to pay us this, but if you don’t

00:48:56.040 –> 00:48:58.920
meet the deadline, we’re going to keep up in the price.

00:48:58.920 –> 00:49:03.160
So, um, I thought that was not interesting, but it kind of made me laugh a little bit.

00:49:03.160 –> 00:49:08.360
So, uh, like I said, again, this, these, these ransomware attacks are a big issue and a big

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money grab.

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And, um, like I said, they’re, they’re trying to do a lot to protect against them, but,

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uh, unfortunately you can only, you know, these, a lot of these, these, especially government

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and stuff only do so much.

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So it’s kind of good that they’re, you know, working against them, trying to anyway, but

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uh, it’s tough.

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Well, again, folks, I want to thank everybody for listening.

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I do want to say, uh, any more listener feedback, please go ahead and email me at brandon@lipanasesecurity.com.

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It will be down in the show notes below.

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Uh, if you have anything you want to tell me, any comments, questioning like that.

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Um, and I will, like I said, get back to you on the next show.

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I want to thank everybody for listening and we will see you on the next episode.

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Thank you very much.

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Using Globaleaks To Protect Sources

Many times, Sources (whistleblowers) need to send information anonymously to reports or journalists. Using email or putting files on cloud storage is not safe or secure if you want a free, safe, secure, and anonymous way to allow sources to share information I suggest Globaleaks.

Globaleaks is a free open-source platform that allows sources to anonymously send information and data to reporters. Globaleaks is easy and simple to set up and anyone regardless of technical savvy can do it easily. Globaleaks has great instructions and a simple template that can be done with little or no effort on Docker.

After the installation, I examined the security of this system and was very impressed. To start with when the source or whistleblower submits an incident only the user with the recipient roll can read it. Globaleaks has three roles defined Whistleblower, Recipient, and Administrator.

From Globaleaks Documentation:
“Recipient – The user receiving anonymous reports submitted by Whistleblowers and responsible for their analysis. Recipients act reasonably in good faith and have to be considered in all scenarios described as trusted parties with reference to the protection of Whistleblowers’ and the confidentiality of the information by them communicated.”

I figured as Administrator of the system and the server I would have access but Globaleaks really thought this through. Not even the admin account has access to the encrypted data submitted by the source.

After going through Globaleak’s very well-done documentation I found this:

“Administrator – The users supporting the setup, management and monitoring the security of the platform. Administrator may not represent the same entity running, promoting and managing the whistleblowing initiatives (e.g., hosted solutions, multiple stakeholders projects, etc). The Administrator has to be considered in all scenarios described as a trusted entity. They do not have direct access to reports and they are responsible for advising Recipients on the best practices to be adopted in their work.”

Despite being the admin, you don’t have access to the data. I decided to check even deeper. I went on to the test server I made as admin and examined Globaleaks and all the documents submitted and the databases were encrypted. Even at the server level, the admin does not have access to the data.

The database stores users’ passwords hashed with a random 128-bit salt, unique for each user and hashed using Argon2. This key derivation function was selected as the winner of the Password Hashing Competition in July 2015. The hash involves a per-user salt for each user and a per-system salt for whistleblowers. The system forces users to change their password at their first login and pushes to use 2FA for recipients and admin users.

I then started wondering about the logs I should be able to see what IP address the source used to connect to the server. When I checked the logs, I found something interesting. While the logs are on the server for diagnostics all IP addresses and login information times were all nulled out for additional security of the source. Even metadata is nulled for additional protection.

One thing I did notice during the setup of Globaleaks you can set up the system to work on the regular web which Globaleaks does not recommend even using a VPN. They recommend making the server a .onion domain. A .onion domain is the address of a website that can only be accessed through the Tor anonymity browser. Regular browsers won’t be able to navigate the relay of proxy servers that will take users to this type of website.

Globaleaks recommends accessing the platform via the Tor Browser to allow the best practices for protecting source identity and reducing the possibility that a system involved in the operation has tracked their activities and their IP address.

Reading through documentation Globaleaks software is in adherence with the OWASP Security Guidelines. GlobaLeaks tries to get a security audit done every 2 years and does participate in HackerOne bug bounty.

I found this platform to be very secure and well done through my research and I would recommend it to any company that needs a platform for sources or whistleblowers.

Apple iPhone Had Backdoor

We start the show off with a bunch of Apple news talking about them having a backdoor in their phones for the last four years or more. Apple adds a new feature in iOS 17.3 called Stolen Device Protection and in iOS 17.4 Apple will allow side loading. Microsoft CoPilot and Outlook email are possibly tracking you and we get into .onion domain.

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Apple iPhone Had Backdoor (Transcript)

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all right and welcome to another great edition of our podcast a security

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assessment podcast hosted by yours truly Brandon so folks a bunch of things to

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talk about this week I hope I get to the news but I have a bunch of other stuff I

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want to go ahead and talk about this week because a lot of a lot of things

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came out and I just want to go over everything with you so first and foremost

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Apple a lot of news coming out of there first of all the vision pro as that was

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released this past week and Apple so far I said they sold a hundred and

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eighteen thousand units now I know this isn’t security related but I’m gonna kind

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of bring this full circle so if you guys remember over the years Apple’s policies

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with their app store and all that kind of stuff have been very much based on

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security so in other words we have to you know take a third of this because it

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caused us to run you know the app store it costs us to do this that well

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apparently now a lot of these companies that they have really messed with

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Netflix Spotify Google are coming back now and kind of striking back at Apple a

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little bit they are actually a lot of these companies are saying well yeah

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we’re not making an app for the vision Pro sorry Apple so there’s no Spotify

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support no Netflix support no YouTube support on it there’s quite a few things

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that are not going to be available in the vision brokers people are not making

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apps if the thing really takes off I’d imagine that they probably woke they

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don’t want to mix out on that part of the market but apparently a lot of these

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companies are a little upset with Apple’s tough tactics and what they

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think they’ve done to them over the years and stuff and they are not going

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to take it and they’re gonna hit Apple where it hurts and that’s app support

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for the vision Pro so while Apple has always done it on the gaze you know guys

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of security apparently now coming back to kind of bite them a little bit so

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that was in the news with the vision Pro do I think all of that over the years is

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all for security I don’t necessarily think at all I think was to help Apple’s

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business but I do think that now this visa may either way I like I said it’s

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going to you know it’s gonna be a thing for them now and going forward they’re

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gonna have I think a tough time with this app support I know Microsoft apps

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and stuff are on it but apparently a lot of the other entertainment apps that

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people are gonna want are not on it so 17 an app update did come out before the

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iPhone will begin to patch a vulnerability but also Apple added

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something called stolen device protection for the iPhone and what this

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actually is stolen device protection adds a layer of security to your phone

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that basically like if you’re trying to use it when you’re at home or work

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places it recognizes it will actually help protect your account and and so no

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words when if your device you know like if your devices phones it’s stolen it’s

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gonna be someplace where you’re not normally so what this will say is hey

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this isn’t you know this device really has never been here before why are you

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trying to change your password right now and then it’s gonna obviously force you

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to do face face ID biometrics as well as part of it because in case somebody’s

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shoulder surfing and you know you know they just catch catch your code like I

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said if they open it and then also to the so in order if you want to change

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your password it’s actually be your code anymore if you’re in a weird place

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you’re going to have to actually scan your face and put in the code so more of

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a two-factor kind of thing I think I think it’s gonna be really lovely I said

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well this could make you know changing your password a little more of a pain

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the way it sounds you can read through Apple support document the way it sounds

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is it’s only going to be an issue if you’re going someplace you’re normally

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not and you’re and you’re trying to change your password so it looks like

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Apple’s being really intelligent about that now like I said it’s gonna really

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be more of a thing where okay I’m out and about you know I’m at a place I’ve

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never been before I went to change my password and now it’s gonna make me scan

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my face put in my passcode and it’s gonna make me wait you know so it’s one

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of those things it looks like I think it’s a good idea definitely not gonna

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hurt I think it’s gonna be much more of an issue if you’re hook oh someplace

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you’ve never been before it’s gonna be like your credit card if you try to use

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your credit card someplace you’ve never been before you know it’s gonna make it

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a little more difficult so I’m all for it I think that’s a good thing also to

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Apple they actually the beta now is out for 17 for which is gonna be the next

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update which is coming in March and apparently now Apple in in the EU very

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key part here in the EU they are going to allow side loading of apps and in

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loading things outside of the App Store but however there’s gonna be the saying

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a fee for it or a charge for it or something like that Apple hasn’t said

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what yet this is all speculation because if you can do see in the code that there

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is actually slide loading that’s going to be available but like I said it’s

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going to be an issue because you’re gonna have to pay for it I think I think

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Apple’s gonna use it as a is hey you want this great you got to pay for it

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now so that was something that a lot of people is talking about too on the

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iPhone which is okay so Apple is going to allow side loading now in Europe and

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please it’s not in America yet just point that out in Europe but in order to

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do this you got to pay a fee now somebody had said what if I use a VPN I

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don’t think that’s gonna work because I think the Apple knows where the phones

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purchased if it’s purchased over in Europe or purchased here so even if you

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use a VPN that’s not gonna make a difference they’re still gonna know

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where the phone was bought so even if you would use a VPN now if you bought a

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phone overseas and brought it here I think it would be okay so I’m wondering

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now if people that want to side load apps are gonna buy apps overseas and how

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Apple’s gonna regulate this is this could start to be a pretty big thing for

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Apple and then – if people figure if they are going to allow side loading how

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are they going to control it and if there is a way to do it can people over

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here so people here make start cracking their iPhones and doing it so I’m

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curious to see what this is gonna once you start opening that little box there’s

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no way to go back now Android has been able to people to andrew’s been able to

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do this for since the beginning of it because androids open source but I’m

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very curious to see how this is going to play out over the next you know as it

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starts happening because Apple is doing this to comply with EU regulations which

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I mean I understand them allow you I mean it’s your phone you bought it it’s

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not like Apple owns it but I’m very curious to see what is what how this is

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gonna play out and how people are gonna make it work over here in America you

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know people over here in America and I figure it out so well that remains to be

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seen but it looks like Apple is going to start allowing sideloading but it is

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going to cost it’s not going to be free there may be a monthly subscription to

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do it Apple’s gonna I’m sure figure out a way to have control over it so we will

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have to wait and see with that also – some other interesting things that have

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come out of Apple this week that I found this was actually a couple like this is

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a couple weeks ago but I wanted to wait and see to talk about it so apparently

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Apple hasn’t now Apple has somebody had discovered a back door in iOS where

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Apple can get into your phone Oh Apple’s kept it a very tight-knit secret not

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many people have ever been able to nobody’s been able to they say they

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don’t know if you like to explain it or not only Apple’s able to do it but the

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reason why I’m bringing this up is because this really is going to set a

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precedent now be now that people know this exploit is out there and not really

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an exploit it’s something Apple can do but if you remember a couple years ago

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Apple was trying to get there FBI was trying to get Apple to unlock an iPhone

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of somebody that they thought something you know whatever they wanted to get into

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this person’s phone and remember Apple says once the phone is locked we can’t

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we can’t unlock well apparently Apple can so they kind of lied to the

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government saying that no we can’t get into that device when they actually can

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now the fact that people know what the exploit is nobody they’re saying that

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they don’t believe it’s being exploited because only Apple knows about it it’s

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been very kept very very tight but my issue with this though is is if Apple

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knows about it one have they used it which they have said they haven’t but we

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don’t know about that and then two now that it’s out there Apple’s you know

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gonna I’m sure Apple’s gonna patch it now but even if you patch it you can’t

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what’s to say somebody figures out a way to unpack it by putting an old version

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of iOS on a phone or something like that so this is gonna make things a lot a lot

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so our security goes I think it really hurts Apple tremendously now because the

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fact is it was there you could get in not I mean Apple I think on whatever but

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now that it’s there I’m sure these the state-sponsored company you know FBI

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are gonna try to find how to get into it how to use it so they can get in after

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Apple told them they couldn’t so I imagine Apple is gonna probably get some

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crap for lying to government which whatever that doesn’t really I don’t

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really care about that but I’m curious now what they are going to do and how

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they are gonna try to exploit this especially on phones that they want if

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you remember during that whole thing where Apple were refusing to unlock the

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iPhone I remember distinctly Apple was going to so when you back your phone up

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to the cloud to iCloud that that backup is not encrypted all the iPhone if you

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back up your phone to that cloud it’s not encrypted Apple was going to have a

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feature on the phone where you can swipe and say hey I want my all my backups to

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my iCloud encrypted the Apple actually took him had to kind of be nice to the

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FBI said listen we’re not going to give people the ability to encrypt their

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backups in the cloud now if you plug your phone into a computer and I – I

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called iTunes with something iTunes open up iTunes and hit you know make backup

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and notice did you want to encrypt backup yes it will encrypt it on your

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computer but the iCloud backup that’s saved up to iCloud is not encrypted and

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they say the reason why Apple does this is to help the FBI out because if they

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can at least get into some his iCloud account they can at least get an

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unencrypted backup of the phone and you know at least that way they you know it

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was basically like Apple saying hey we’re gonna play nice so at least if you

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hacked the person’s iCloud you know bag up you can get a copy of the it was kind

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of like because I guess the I guess they said the FBI and some of that actually

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do use iCloud iCloud backups of that to get to phones and stuff or people of

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interest and things like that so I guess it was Apple’s way of saying okay well

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we’re going to go ahead and at least we’re not gonna crack this device for

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you but there is a way of you getting a copy of the phone it’s kind of a little

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hold in Apple’s thing that they do to help out law enforcement but the fact

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that they’ve lied for years and said they have no way of getting into a

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device and they actually could I’m curious to see if there are going to be

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any repercussions for this I doubt there will be but you know it’s it will have

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to wait and see what happens but this is quite an interesting topic to me anyway

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because people said well they’re patched now that people found out about it yes

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they passed it but just because it once it’s there it’s there I mean you could

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patch it but then you know people can install the patch we can use an old

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version of iOS once once they find us there apparently it’s been there since

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the iPhone 6 6 & 7 they said so you know and the new phone has it all the new

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phones have it but now obviously the patch but again it’s there so I’m very

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curious to see what’s gonna go with this this is gonna be an interesting topic to

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watch now especially since there is a way to do this so this am I been on the

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Apple should have ever done this I’m totally against it but you know it is

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what it is it’s out there now and we have to deal with it so but yes I thought

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that was a very interesting topic to say the least as far as that doesn’t mind to

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the authorities all that kind of stuff it was interesting so speaking of another

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thing about Apple we’re just gonna I’m just gonna unload all the Apple news

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first thing in the podcast Mozilla is saying that Apple’s new browser rules

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are a real pain in the butt Apple has new rules in the EU that we talked about

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before that are supposed to support open iOS to alternative browsers supposed to

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be opening up iOS to alternative routers that alternative browsers thank you

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Apple’s new webkit which they’re releasing to meet with EU requirements

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so now you’re not only going to use webkit but you’re gonna have this other

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thing now so what what people are saying is well this is gonna be a pain in the

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butt now because you’re gonna have to maintain you’re going to retain either

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the one for America which is using webkit which yeah and then you have to

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maintain the one in Europe now which supports other things besides webkit so

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it kind of makes it having to maintain both but I get why Apple’s doing this

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you know they’re trying to make it so that at least the you know people that

00:14:03.360 –> 00:14:08.200
want to use the apps in the store and stuff are safe but apparently they could

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say the EU they’re saying that since there’s gonna be two versions of this

00:14:12.600 –> 00:14:15.600
particular way you can do this one with the webkit and the one outside of the

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webkit it’s gonna make it kind of a pain to maintain both you know both browsers

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because like I said the Apple like I said their plan is to restrict their

00:14:26.560 –> 00:14:31.240
newly announced browser engine kit to EU specific apps so you’re gonna have

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webkit which is the general kit that we’re all used to and then you’re gonna

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have the browser engine kit specifically for the EU so again this is more that EU

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regulation stuff so it’s gonna be kind of a pain you got to maintain both

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webkits now and obviously that patch that came out this week obviously patched

00:14:47.480 –> 00:14:51.720
webkit because there’s a vulnerability in it but like I said it was a I guess

00:14:51.720 –> 00:14:56.960
it’s been a pretty crazy week I kind of understand where Mozilla is going with

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this again I would like to see and again you can’t get it’s the only thing I don’t

00:15:01.600 –> 00:15:05.000
like about this it’s only in EU so you can’t I would love to see what the other

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webkit is and compare it to this webkit and want to see but like I said that was

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something I saw it then I was like oh that’s that’s pretty interesting so

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Mozilla is complaining about it I’m sure others will complain about it as well

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but that’s what we’re doing so apparently like I said this is all EU

00:15:23.180 –> 00:15:27.600
stuff because the EU regulations and all that so like I said we’ll have to keep

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an eye on all that and see what happens I’d love to see if you get like I said

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let’s get a hands on the webkit over here in America to see what’s actually

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going on with it but we will have to see speaking of things by the way that I

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want to talk about one of the things that somebody had talked about we talked

00:15:42.960 –> 00:15:47.480
about bitwarden and things of that nature with last no I think last podcast

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before whatever it was but dumb somebody had asked about bitwarden on their phone

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and one of the things I had said I think was last podcast was that if you’re

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gonna go with a password app you have to kind of go with it and stick with it and

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one of the things I was trying to explain I don’t think people know this

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and I’ve tried this before you have you can go into your iPhone or Android and

00:16:10.040 –> 00:16:15.720
you don’t have to use Apple’s password manager you can use a different password

00:16:15.720 –> 00:16:21.080
manager you could go in there and say hey I don’t want you know Apple I want

00:16:21.080 –> 00:16:26.680
to use bitwarden or I want to use one password or whatever and once you do

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that you know you can set up so the biometrics I know a lot of people saying

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what’s ridiculous I’m using this on my device and every time I have to type in

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the password no you have to go in you can enable bio biometrics on it on your

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iPhone you can even enable bio biometrics on your Mac if you want to

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yeah you have to open a bitwarden and sign into it but then once you do that

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you can use biometrics on your Mac also so you can use Windows Hello on Windows

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or you can use your password reader on your on your Windows device I’m sorry

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your password your fingerprint reader on your device and you can use biometrics

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for that so I know a lot of you guys are doing using it in the browser there is

00:17:03.900 –> 00:17:11.680
browser integration for Windows Hello and for Mac or like I said Windows so I

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think there’s even Chrome support actually too but like I said Chromebook

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support but like I said go ahead and like I said if you want to use your

00:17:18.240 –> 00:17:21.060
bio met like it’s not a lot of people said to me well I’m using bitwarden

00:17:21.060 –> 00:17:24.520
because it’s safe but it’s kind of a pain in the butt you gotta keep typing

00:17:24.520 –> 00:17:28.180
in the password you don’t you can actually have the biometrics on your

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Android iPhone Windows Mac because you can use Windows Hello or your

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fingerprint reader and go ahead and like I said and it does work pretty well I

00:17:36.460 –> 00:17:40.580
have actually used biometrics so I have all that set up I know it’s not so bad

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on a laptop with a full keyboard but when you’re using your iPhone or if

00:17:45.480 –> 00:17:48.560
you’re you know got stuff in your hand and you just want to look at a password

00:17:48.560 –> 00:17:51.700
or something like that you just want to look at your phone like I said there is

00:17:51.700 –> 00:17:55.200
cable that so go ahead and like I said you can set that up you know a couple

00:17:55.200 –> 00:17:58.020
people that asked about that again if you want to reach out to me it’s

00:17:58.020 –> 00:18:03.180
brandon@lipanasecurity.com is the email I’ll put it in the show notes also so

00:18:03.180 –> 00:18:08.940
you can reach out to me like I said on Twitter kb3yua it’s my call sign but

00:18:08.940 –> 00:18:11.720
like I said you can do that as well a couple people had asked about that so I

00:18:11.720 –> 00:18:16.400
just wanted to bring that up also the other thing I wanted to bring up as well

00:18:16.400 –> 00:18:21.680
more information on the Microsoft hack I guess this is kind of the news I was

00:18:21.680 –> 00:18:24.320
worried we’re gonna get to new stories but I guess these are kind of new stories

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I guess Microsoft apparently they got hacked obviously we know that their big

00:18:30.360 –> 00:18:35.240
executives got hacked because of an old an old system that was sitting out there

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apparently it was a test account that got hacked it was basically a password

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spray account and once they got that simple easy password they were kind of

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able to kind of work their way up and stuff like that so it’s it’s like I said

00:18:49.120 –> 00:18:53.960
it’s not like I said it was very basically a very easy simple password

00:18:53.960 –> 00:18:59.280
hack that’s how most of these things happen believe it or not most of your

00:18:59.280 –> 00:19:02.480
big attacks like this happen for stuff like this but it was just a basic

00:19:02.480 –> 00:19:06.160
password spray attack somebody got into their old account you know they’re an

00:19:06.160 –> 00:19:10.980
old account and and that was pretty much it so like I said not you know not a

00:19:10.980 –> 00:19:14.520
whole lot unfortunately like I said I’m not a fortunate but I’m saying in

00:19:14.520 –> 00:19:21.080
general a lot of times these kinds of hacks are not you know overly complex

00:19:21.080 –> 00:19:24.420
also to one of the other things I would like to point out I got a bunch of

00:19:24.420 –> 00:19:28.080
people that reached out we were talking about Microsoft 365 and all that kind of

00:19:28.080 –> 00:19:32.920
stuff Microsoft Teams actually had like an eight-hour outage yesterday Friday

00:19:32.920 –> 00:19:39.120
and Microsoft hasn’t announced why but they had you know they have had you know

00:19:39.120 –> 00:19:42.840
an outage so it’s one of the point that anybody struggled with teams yesterday

00:19:42.840 –> 00:19:48.780
there was an outage also – I would like to point out to anybody that is

00:19:48.780 –> 00:19:51.340
listening I know a lot of you guys that listen are like me like to mess with

00:19:51.340 –> 00:19:55.700
codes of that if you haven’t yet like I said chat I really would recommend if

00:19:55.700 –> 00:20:00.720
you use github go ahead and get copilot for github is 10 bucks a month I really

00:20:00.720 –> 00:20:03.940
do recommend I don’t make any money on this they’re not Microsoft’s not paying

00:20:03.940 –> 00:20:08.420
me I’m just saying it really helps you when you’re in a bind or you’re

00:20:08.420 –> 00:20:11.380
struggling or you can’t find an error in your code or you’re struggling to

00:20:11.380 –> 00:20:15.060
thinking maybe get the right code for an issue you’re working on I really do

00:20:15.060 –> 00:20:18.500
recommend it I’m not saying it’s a replacement for actually being a coder I

00:20:18.500 –> 00:20:22.580
think it’s just a tool that helps you out but the other reason I’m bringing

00:20:22.580 –> 00:20:26.860
that up is I know a lot of you guys say well I don’t like copilot I don’t like

00:20:26.860 –> 00:20:32.520
you know I don’t like github and I use you know was it jet lab or what is it

00:20:32.520 –> 00:20:35.140
one of the other ones they have there’s a bunch of them out there and that’s

00:20:35.140 –> 00:20:39.260
fine you don’t necessarily have to use a github and by the way I would like to

00:20:39.260 –> 00:20:42.980
point out those of you that know I’m really into open source one of the other

00:20:42.980 –> 00:20:47.180
things that I have actually used in the past I don’t use it much now but I used

00:20:47.180 –> 00:20:52.900
you is mantis mantis is actually a really great open source tool for those

00:20:52.900 –> 00:20:56.040
of you that is that a programmers that say handle my stuff in github I like to

00:20:56.040 –> 00:21:00.460
host my own code I like to host my own bug stuff I like to do all that you can

00:21:00.460 –> 00:21:04.620
go ahead and use mantis it’s a great thing you can also use it for help desk

00:21:04.620 –> 00:21:09.500
there’s it’s open source there’s tons of plugins for it I strongly recommend it

00:21:09.500 –> 00:21:13.020
it’s free it doesn’t cost you a dime also like I said there is something

00:21:13.020 –> 00:21:17.180
called jet lab and that ran out like I said I don’t use jet lab too much I use

00:21:17.180 –> 00:21:23.720
it once in a while only because I help out with the fedora project and they use

00:21:23.720 –> 00:21:27.780
jet lab which is fine but that’s also free you can use there’s also an open

00:21:27.780 –> 00:21:32.120
source version of that but like I said mantis or jet lab are fine I do like to

00:21:32.120 –> 00:21:36.260
use github but that’s fine but anyway one of the reasons why I’m bringing that

00:21:36.260 –> 00:21:40.580
up is because a bunch of guys have said to me well I don’t use github I don’t

00:21:40.580 –> 00:21:47.960
want to pay for copilot so if you are a Windows user Microsoft has actually

00:21:47.960 –> 00:21:54.380
announced copilot there’s copilot which is 20 bucks a month and copilot Pro so

00:21:54.380 –> 00:21:59.060
if you’re a personal user you can get copilot for like 20 bucks a month and

00:21:59.060 –> 00:22:04.760
it works on no works on all the office products it works on vs code works on

00:22:04.760 –> 00:22:08.880
Visual Studio all that kind of stuff so you can get that if you don’t want to

00:22:08.880 –> 00:22:13.200
say I mean it probably is the same thing but it like I said it actually is really

00:22:13.200 –> 00:22:17.120
good it’s Microsoft copilot it actually does I’ve actually found it myself when

00:22:17.120 –> 00:22:19.820
I’m actually like if I was typing up a document for the podcast or something

00:22:19.820 –> 00:22:24.160
like that or piping of a document for somebody it actually is nice because

00:22:24.160 –> 00:22:26.960
actually correct your spelling while you’re doing it it helps to finish

00:22:26.960 –> 00:22:32.200
sentences of that I look at I look at it really more as a tool than anything else

00:22:32.200 –> 00:22:37.540
I know $30 is a bit steep I did get the personal version just because I thought

00:22:37.540 –> 00:22:42.360
it was better in the sense of I mean I have an office professional account for

00:22:42.360 –> 00:22:47.160
testing and stuff but like I said instead of having the professional one

00:22:47.160 –> 00:22:50.160
and going through the business version of Microsoft office I just got the

00:22:50.160 –> 00:22:54.900
personal co-pilots test and it actually works like I said with office it

00:22:54.900 –> 00:22:57.960
works with all their stuff it actually works with their power apps and things

00:22:57.960 –> 00:23:01.600
like that so I mean it basically built into all Microsoft products so if you

00:23:01.600 –> 00:23:05.640
are on got somebody that does a lot of Microsoft work if you are somebody that

00:23:05.640 –> 00:23:09.300
codes if you’re even if you you know somebody like you know a friend or a

00:23:09.300 –> 00:23:13.860
wife that uses office a lot or excel a lot it could really be a great tool for

00:23:13.860 –> 00:23:19.540
them I know 20 is a little steep but it really is a very powerful tool and I

00:23:19.540 –> 00:23:23.520
really do recommend it like I said I’m trying like I said I’m not getting any

00:23:23.520 –> 00:23:28.140
paid from Microsoft to sell you anything but I do think it’s really a great tool

00:23:28.140 –> 00:23:33.540
and I really think you could all a lot of people could benefit from it so like I

00:23:33.540 –> 00:23:36.960
said be something to work looking into you could also go to chat cheap teens

00:23:36.960 –> 00:23:42.360
you get $20 version there it’s not built into as much as the Microsoft one is if

00:23:42.360 –> 00:23:46.560
you use Microsoft products it even works the Microsoft co-pilot on on office even

00:23:46.560 –> 00:23:50.840
works on Mac that kind of shocked me because I do use a Mac so for some

00:23:50.840 –> 00:23:53.600
things so I was kind of shocked I was like hey I works on my Windows machine I

00:23:53.600 –> 00:23:58.000
can’t expected that but then I hopped over on my Mac and like works on that

00:23:58.000 –> 00:24:02.220
too the other thing is – it’s kind of neat that I did like with it and of

00:24:02.220 –> 00:24:04.920
course security is a thing you know I wonder what this thing’s reading and

00:24:04.920 –> 00:24:08.920
keeping the logs that’s something I thought about too but I don’t think it

00:24:08.920 –> 00:24:13.440
summarizes emails it can I all that kind of stuff so a pretty neat could be for

00:24:13.440 –> 00:24:17.080
somebody who maybe is a small business owner that can’t afford to pay a

00:24:17.080 –> 00:24:20.920
secretary or can’t afford to pay an assistant this could be something that

00:24:20.920 –> 00:24:25.000
could really help you out so like I said I know we all worry about what it’s

00:24:25.000 –> 00:24:28.400
collecting what it’s learning but it is something I just wanted to bring up it

00:24:28.400 –> 00:24:33.640
is it was a pretty powerful tool a little bit of old news here but I didn’t

00:24:33.640 –> 00:24:37.840
want to bring this up Google has obviously got hit with that big thing we

00:24:37.840 –> 00:24:42.040
talked about last week for the incognito mode we all remember that whether it

00:24:42.040 –> 00:24:45.880
wasn’t really incognito they were still recording your stuff apparently Google

00:24:45.880 –> 00:24:51.620
settled that lawsuit and now they have actually updated the information in

00:24:51.620 –> 00:24:54.240
their incognito window in the new Chrome so if you update the latest version of

00:24:54.240 –> 00:24:59.480
Chrome you’ll notice the incognito is worded a lot differently saying yes we

00:24:59.480 –> 00:25:03.620
you know it is called conneal we can’t you know you know they did change the

00:25:03.620 –> 00:25:06.880
wording or not a big deal but I just thought just thought that was kind of

00:25:06.880 –> 00:25:11.920
funny that they changed went ahead and changed around a bunch of that stuff so

00:25:11.920 –> 00:25:16.640
it was funny also – I also wanted to bring up somebody had sent me a question

00:25:16.640 –> 00:25:21.000
asking me about global leaks I had talked about that I am gonna publish an

00:25:21.000 –> 00:25:23.960
article on the website this week or next week I did a whole review on it I

00:25:23.960 –> 00:25:28.880
actually loaded in on a VM and I’ve been messing with it somebody had asked me

00:25:28.880 –> 00:25:34.160
about using a VPN and uploading to global leaks I do want to point out too

00:25:34.160 –> 00:25:39.420
that while you should always use a VPN even if you’re using Tor if you if you

00:25:39.420 –> 00:25:44.720
once you actually load up global leaks it actually does a dot onion domain so if

00:25:44.720 –> 00:25:48.720
you are more comfortable with VPN and then opening up Tor and then going to

00:25:48.720 –> 00:25:53.080
that onion site you could do that as well that would probably be the way they

00:25:53.080 –> 00:25:56.120
that’s actually the way they recommend on their documentation as I was looking

00:25:56.120 –> 00:25:59.940
through it I was actually checking the sound like oh okay that’s interesting so

00:25:59.940 –> 00:26:05.880
they actually do recommend using the onion site and not and actually doing it

00:26:05.880 –> 00:26:12.120
that way so but like I said if you you do load up global leaks and all that you

00:26:12.120 –> 00:26:17.160
do notice it will automatically make a dot onion site so that you can go ahead

00:26:17.160 –> 00:26:22.960
and you know use it with Tor and be much more secure again VPN and a

00:26:22.960 –> 00:26:28.120
Tor if you use VPN and use Tor it’s almost anonymous I would say I would say

00:26:28.120 –> 00:26:32.240
it’s pretty pretty close to anonymous so like I said I wanted to point that out

00:26:32.240 –> 00:26:34.540
so if you do see anything I know a couple people say well what is a dot

00:26:34.540 –> 00:26:39.400
onion domain that’s all part of the Tor stuff so very important and I just

00:26:39.400 –> 00:26:42.460
wanted to bring them because that was a question that somebody messaged me and I

00:26:42.460 –> 00:26:45.640
just didn’t want to address it on the podcast so thank you very much I love

00:26:45.640 –> 00:26:49.520
all the emails that I’m getting we get a couple I got a couple last week and I

00:26:49.520 –> 00:26:52.900
got a couple this week so like I said I’m gonna put the email it’s Brandon

00:26:52.900 –> 00:26:58.600
the pain security send me questions if you have also to my Twitter kb3 yua like

00:26:58.600 –> 00:27:02.440
I said reach out to me with your questions and like I said I’ll try to

00:27:02.440 –> 00:27:06.220
answer them on the podcast so I really appreciate that it was really cool you

00:27:06.220 –> 00:27:08.880
know getting emails and stuff like that from you guys knowing that everybody’s

00:27:08.880 –> 00:27:13.160
listening and I like I said I really do appreciate that you guys listening and I

00:27:13.160 –> 00:27:17.260
really appreciate you guys commenting back so like I said really really

00:27:17.260 –> 00:27:21.460
appreciate it so I wasn’t sure I was going to get to the gets all the news I

00:27:21.460 –> 00:27:26.540
had but we’ll get to some of it anyway important stuff anyway so apparently

00:27:26.540 –> 00:27:30.140
WordPress obviously is always under attack by lots of things but apparently

00:27:30.140 –> 00:27:34.100
hackers are targeting a WordPress database plug-in active in they saying

00:27:34.100 –> 00:27:39.020
over a million sites that’s pretty big it’s something called better search

00:27:39.020 –> 00:27:43.100
replace is the WordPress plug-in and hats like I said it’s being exploited

00:27:43.100 –> 00:27:48.580
apparently they have released an update so go ahead and update that if you are

00:27:48.580 –> 00:27:52.340
like I said running WordPress a very important update to WordPress site

00:27:52.340 –> 00:27:55.780
regularly let me tell you there’s so many vulnerabilities out there it’s just

00:27:55.780 –> 00:28:02.300
unbelievable like I said just just how much you know how many vulnerabilities

00:28:02.300 –> 00:28:05.300
come out for WordPress I mean it’s a great platform but it just drives you

00:28:05.300 –> 00:28:08.540
nuts when you really look how many vulnerabilities there are it’s crazy

00:28:08.540 –> 00:28:12.140
something something else like I said I grabbed my attention today the US

00:28:12.140 –> 00:28:16.020
Federal Trade Commission is continuing to clamp down on data brokers by

00:28:16.020 –> 00:28:21.380
prohibiting in market media from selling or licensing precious location data that

00:28:21.380 –> 00:28:25.020
was on a hacker news this week apparently there’s a settlement that’s

00:28:25.020 –> 00:28:30.620
going on part of out a part of allegations that a Texas based company is

00:28:30.620 –> 00:28:33.980
selling information and not telling customers that they’re selling the

00:28:33.980 –> 00:28:39.020
location information the FTC has kind of stepped in and kind of made the kind of

00:28:39.020 –> 00:28:42.620
is going athletes come and saying hey we’re trying to pass a law here if you

00:28:42.620 –> 00:28:47.780
want to you know if you know in in market what’s the name of the company or

00:28:47.780 –> 00:28:50.740
any company for that matter they’re going after saying if you’re going to

00:28:50.740 –> 00:28:57.740
sell people’s location data you have to have their consent so the FCC FTC is

00:28:57.740 –> 00:29:01.260
really clamp you know cracking down on this I’m wondering how this is gonna

00:29:01.260 –> 00:29:05.820
affect things like Facebook I mean like companies like four squared and yes

00:29:05.820 –> 00:29:08.260
they’re still out there but I know probably like but why four square yeah

00:29:08.260 –> 00:29:11.860
how about four squared it’s not there they’re a location they have all that

00:29:11.860 –> 00:29:15.880
stuff there they still collect you have companies like Google so that I’m

00:29:15.880 –> 00:29:19.100
wondering how this is gonna affect them going forward I know in their terms of

00:29:19.100 –> 00:29:22.620
service they do tell you that they use the location services and stuff but I’m

00:29:22.620 –> 00:29:30.900
curious how this is going to play out as we go you know further and further with

00:29:30.900 –> 00:29:33.820
this sort of thing so we’ll have to wait and see but apparently the FCC is

00:29:33.820 –> 00:29:37.300
starting to crack down if people are going to sell your data they have to

00:29:37.300 –> 00:29:40.340
tell you they’re going to sell your location data so those of you that have

00:29:40.340 –> 00:29:45.700
an HP printer I found this was something that I was on our testing a apparently

00:29:45.700 –> 00:29:50.420
the HP CEO apparently he addressed the company’s controversial practice of

00:29:50.420 –> 00:29:56.100
bricking printers when users use third-party ink this is a serious thing

00:29:56.100 –> 00:30:00.820
now they’re saying that they have hacked we’ve actually seen that you can embed

00:30:00.820 –> 00:30:07.640
viruses in ink cartridges okay and and what HP is saying here is well this is

00:30:07.640 –> 00:30:14.020
the reason why we’re bricking printers because we want you to buy HP ink so you

00:30:14.020 –> 00:30:19.640
don’t get a virus on your printer and in wall okay I do agree with that to a

00:30:19.640 –> 00:30:23.700
certain degree they’re also doing this because they want you to sign up for

00:30:23.700 –> 00:30:28.940
that HP cartridge subscription service they want you to buy their cartridges

00:30:28.940 –> 00:30:32.460
they make the money they want you buying third-party cartridges but the fact is

00:30:32.460 –> 00:30:37.740
it’s your printer and the fact that if you are using a third-party cartridge

00:30:37.740 –> 00:30:42.700
you know that they break your basically brick your thing is hey it’s not a valid

00:30:42.700 –> 00:30:46.540
cartridge you can’t use it is ridiculous and this is all because they’re trying

00:30:46.540 –> 00:30:51.340
to get into the service of okay well you sign up you get an HP printer and you

00:30:51.340 –> 00:30:55.100
sign up for a service and then you know and then every and every time you run

00:30:55.100 –> 00:30:59.180
low on ink will automatically send it to you it’s all I mean it’s all I mean

00:30:59.180 –> 00:31:02.340
they’re saying it’s a guise of security because oh we can get a virus if you use

00:31:02.340 –> 00:31:06.580
a non-authentic ink cartridge you maybe that is some of it I’m not saying it

00:31:06.580 –> 00:31:10.380
isn’t but you know as I know HP is a business they’re not just protecting you

00:31:10.380 –> 00:31:14.940
to be your friend they also want you to buy their ink so I thought that was an

00:31:14.940 –> 00:31:19.140
interesting thing as well so one of the other things I saw online was about

00:31:19.140 –> 00:31:24.860
Maven gate those of you that don’t know what that is Maven gate is also there’s

00:31:24.860 –> 00:31:27.900
several public popular libraries out there for like Java Android and some of

00:31:27.900 –> 00:31:33.020
that and Maven gate is basically a supply chain attack according to the

00:31:33.020 –> 00:31:36.960
site access to projects can be hijacked through domain name purchases and since

00:31:36.960 –> 00:31:41.940
most default build configurations are vulnerable you know they’re worried so

00:31:41.940 –> 00:31:47.280
what’s happening is and this is a little bit of the problem with open source to a

00:31:47.280 –> 00:31:51.660
certain degree so we saw this with the Apache vulnerability but what’s

00:31:51.660 –> 00:31:56.260
happening is is people are okay they’re working on projects they’re working on

00:31:56.260 –> 00:32:01.140
things you know they get domains or something like that and then they stay

00:32:01.140 –> 00:32:03.420
work on the platform then they either lose interest or they don’t need the

00:32:03.420 –> 00:32:06.580
product anymore or whatever and then these projects just sit there well

00:32:06.580 –> 00:32:09.980
what’s happening with Maven gate is people are saying okay well this project

00:32:09.980 –> 00:32:13.920
has been abandoned a while but I can still see people are downloading it and

00:32:13.920 –> 00:32:19.060
using it oh look this domain is available let me grab it because the

00:32:19.060 –> 00:32:22.760
person lets the domain go because you’re not using it anymore let me grab it let

00:32:22.760 –> 00:32:26.500
me put some infected stuff on this so when people download the repository their

00:32:26.500 –> 00:32:31.220
machines get infected so that’s kind of the what Maven gate is and that’s kind

00:32:31.220 –> 00:32:35.340
of what’s going on right now and they’re saying a lot of Java and Android

00:32:35.340 –> 00:32:40.100
applications are vulnerable because people are still using these calls to

00:32:40.100 –> 00:32:42.820
these you know these repositories but these repositories are not being

00:32:42.820 –> 00:32:48.140
maintained anymore mobile security firm added Maven gate technology included

00:32:48.140 –> 00:32:53.060
vulnerabilities to the attack that seemed reports the 200 companies Facebook

00:32:53.060 –> 00:32:58.980
Google signal Amazon and others were using these repositories that were not

00:32:58.980 –> 00:33:02.460
patched so apparently that you know so it’s this is a pretty big deal and this

00:33:02.460 –> 00:33:05.420
is kind of that whole thing we talked about like when Apache when Apache had

00:33:05.420 –> 00:33:09.500
that big vulnerability you know the problem is some people may not be

00:33:09.500 –> 00:33:14.840
maintaining those repositories anymore so that that log4j thing is still an

00:33:14.840 –> 00:33:19.100
issue in a bunch of stuff I mean if you’re talking you know yeah you know a

00:33:19.100 –> 00:33:22.640
piece of code that’s been patched in three years four years that somebody’s

00:33:22.640 –> 00:33:25.260
downloading that repository and using it to build an app that thing is still

00:33:25.260 –> 00:33:29.760
vulnerable so this is kind of the whole supply chain attack thing comes from but

00:33:29.760 –> 00:33:33.060
like I said Maven gate is pretty interesting because like I said people

00:33:33.060 –> 00:33:35.940
are actually going through old repositories hackers are going through

00:33:35.940 –> 00:33:40.800
old repositories and saying okay well I see this domains available let me grab

00:33:40.800 –> 00:33:45.720
this domain and let me you know make this repository something I’ll clone

00:33:45.720 –> 00:33:48.780
repository but I’ll put some code in there so when people download that

00:33:48.780 –> 00:33:55.400
repository you know it you know it gets you know they get hacked so very

00:33:55.400 –> 00:34:01.460
important there the other thing I wanted one other article I saw that really kind

00:34:01.460 –> 00:34:06.580
of shocked me a little bit was there was a data breach of 1 million cancer

00:34:06.580 –> 00:34:11.600
patients on slashdot and what happened was and this is I mean very common it

00:34:11.600 –> 00:34:15.560
does happen but apparently what happened was you had a million patients

00:34:15.560 –> 00:34:21.740
information got out in November and since the breach hit in South Lake Union

00:34:21.740 –> 00:34:25.060
Cancer Center research I’m also giving the name out just so you guys know in

00:34:25.060 –> 00:34:28.880
case anybody goes there but apparently they’re saying that they are receiving

00:34:28.880 –> 00:34:34.160
apparently again more swatting stuff because they have over a thousand over a

00:34:34.160 –> 00:34:41.340
million emails and then here’s the even scarier part through how they got into

00:34:41.340 –> 00:34:45.360
the system was that Citrix bleed vulnerability that was just released not

00:34:45.360 –> 00:34:48.820
that was released so that just means somebody had a patch their machines in

00:34:48.820 –> 00:34:52.980
forever or a patch their Citrix systems in a while so that’s concerning as well

00:34:52.980 –> 00:34:56.820
but apparently they have over a million emails and they’re swatting all these

00:34:56.820 –> 00:34:59.720
people and you think about these people are sick they’re dealing with a lot they

00:34:59.720 –> 00:35:03.860
might not be paying attention as much they might not be feeling well you know

00:35:03.860 –> 00:35:08.780
it’s kind of a kind of a sick thing to do to attack sick people but again they

00:35:08.780 –> 00:35:13.580
got into that Citrix bleed vulnerability and you know apparently now they like I

00:35:13.580 –> 00:35:16.800
said they’re swatting emails so that’s and that’s concerning because what they

00:35:16.800 –> 00:35:19.340
could say you owe bill I mean it’s easy enough to see when somebody’s not paying

00:35:19.340 –> 00:35:22.580
attention to a lot going on like this you can go ahead and say oh hey you owe

00:35:22.580 –> 00:35:29.740
a bill you know or something like that so again concerning by the way hundred

00:35:29.740 –> 00:35:36.260
seventy thousand sonic walls by the way exposed to a security incident that

00:35:36.260 –> 00:35:39.180
apparently makes them vulnerable to DDoS that was also in the news this week so

00:35:39.180 –> 00:35:45.460
if you are using a sonic wall make sure you are patched speaking of something

00:35:45.460 –> 00:35:49.540
that came up this is actually on the rot calm I really like Paul throughout he

00:35:49.540 –> 00:35:54.940
does a wonderful job really top-level journalism but apparently as we all know

00:35:54.940 –> 00:35:59.680
if you don’t know Microsoft is moving from mail and they want they want to go

00:35:59.680 –> 00:36:04.360
to move everybody to outlook on the desktop and all that kind of stuff we

00:36:04.360 –> 00:36:08.100
all know that’s been you know that’s been coming they’ve been talking about

00:36:08.100 –> 00:36:14.300
it for a while now but apparently somebody had looked through there’s a

00:36:14.300 –> 00:36:18.320
actually a barely of a lot of people are saying that it looks like outlook is no

00:36:18.320 –> 00:36:26.080
longer simply an email service in a new post the privacy focused company is not

00:36:26.080 –> 00:36:30.020
so privacy focused anymore meaning Google I’m sorry I mean Microsoft its

00:36:30.020 –> 00:36:37.500
data collection mechanism for Microsoft 772 external partners and ad delivery

00:36:37.500 –> 00:36:41.660
systems are linked into Microsoft’s email system which would be outlook comm

00:36:41.660 –> 00:36:47.300
or any or any of their general outlook in general whether it’s email or not the

00:36:47.300 –> 00:36:51.480
disclosure explains that Microsoft and 772 of its partners are scanning the PC

00:36:51.480 –> 00:36:58.080
on which the new outlook runs specifically to identify the user what

00:36:58.080 –> 00:37:02.840
they’re storing and information apparently a separate choose your ads

00:37:02.840 –> 00:37:07.380
layout window is also shown only in the EU because obviously EU has different

00:37:07.380 –> 00:37:11.220
rules in here in America but so apparently you know if you’re using

00:37:11.220 –> 00:37:15.980
outlook mail you know Microsoft always claimed to be their privacy security

00:37:15.980 –> 00:37:20.020
but apparently they’re tracking you and I’ll tell you why this is Microsoft

00:37:20.020 –> 00:37:25.340
wants they they spend all money on chat GPT they want to really boost their bit

00:37:25.340 –> 00:37:30.020
their advertising business using chat GPT and other things but now apparently

00:37:30.020 –> 00:37:33.580
like I said they’ve got over hundreds and hundreds of trackers in the new

00:37:33.580 –> 00:37:38.720
outlook so if you are using outlook either on your computer or on the web

00:37:38.720 –> 00:37:43.180
just be aware that there are a lot of trackers in there not sure not sure how

00:37:43.180 –> 00:37:47.400
many Google has I’m sure Gmail has some or quite a bit but like I said that was

00:37:47.400 –> 00:37:52.940
rather concerning and Microsoft really didn’t even deny it which is or didn’t

00:37:52.940 –> 00:37:56.100
you know it was just really a I just didn’t really care for the way Microsoft

00:37:56.100 –> 00:38:04.180
you know handled it also to hackers have exploited Windows Defender smart screen

00:38:04.180 –> 00:38:10.620
flaw to spread data stealer malware by the way the vulnerability Microsoft

00:38:10.620 –> 00:38:14.420
Defender it’s a critical flaw in Microsoft Windows Defender apparently

00:38:14.420 –> 00:38:19.980
Microsoft has released an update for it so run your Windows updates if you have

00:38:19.980 –> 00:38:25.700
not so like I said all that was that was like I said a little concerning

00:38:25.700 –> 00:38:28.060
Microsoft really getting hit hard last couple weeks with security

00:38:28.060 –> 00:38:34.500
vulnerabilities on the another thing too on the hacker news there is apparently a

00:38:34.500 –> 00:38:41.740
new NPM Trojan bypass that installs any desk with so apparently what it does is

00:38:41.740 –> 00:38:48.420
the Trojan gets on your machine and then uses JavaScript file and actually

00:38:48.420 –> 00:38:52.780
installs any desk so I thought that was interesting I do any desk is pretty

00:38:52.780 –> 00:38:57.660
secure but you do have to be careful it has been lately not as good as it used

00:38:57.660 –> 00:39:00.140
to be they’re getting a lot of hacks and stuff like that so you gotta be careful

00:39:00.140 –> 00:39:06.460
but apparently yeah this actually like I said actually installs any it infects

00:39:06.460 –> 00:39:10.460
your machine but it doesn’t just it doesn’t figure malware it infects it

00:39:10.460 –> 00:39:14.340
with with any desk and that allows people and obviously I’m sure ensures

00:39:14.340 –> 00:39:17.540
it’s also as a service and set the password or something like that and

00:39:17.540 –> 00:39:19.900
there are people that obviously know that so they’re able to get in that way

00:39:19.900 –> 00:39:25.180
so that was interesting also apparently Walmart Financial Services I’ve been the

00:39:25.180 –> 00:39:31.060
target for they’re saying since since 2013 Walmart they’re saying Americans

00:39:31.060 –> 00:39:37.140
have been swindled out of 27 billion dollars in 2013 and 2022 apparently pro

00:39:37.140 –> 00:39:42.980
publica investigated the company and apparently it’s only refunded four

00:39:42.980 –> 00:39:47.860
million dollars in gift card fraud and others it refused to it actually refused

00:39:47.860 –> 00:39:53.340
to actually refund and all that so apparently Walmart now is under heavy

00:39:53.340 –> 00:39:58.060
scrutiny over this saying that Walmart doesn’t really want to refund those gift

00:39:58.060 –> 00:40:00.900
cards because they make money on people buying gift cards and that’s why they

00:40:00.900 –> 00:40:05.180
don’t refund them and apparently like I said Walmart as under investigation by

00:40:05.180 –> 00:40:10.660
the F the FTC over how they don’t you know they have Walmart this is where

00:40:10.660 –> 00:40:16.460
Walmart has a financial incentive to avoid cracking down it makes money each

00:40:16.460 –> 00:40:21.500
time Walmart gift card is used and earns a fee when another brand of card is

00:40:21.500 –> 00:40:26.380
bought as a result Walmart has never cracked down on their gift cards or

00:40:26.380 –> 00:40:30.020
money transfer services because they do have money transfer services at Walmart

00:40:30.020 –> 00:40:33.940
and apparently they have been proud of just kind of turning a blind eye to it

00:40:33.940 –> 00:40:36.820
because the more people that you know use these gift cards of that more money

00:40:36.820 –> 00:40:40.440
they make so they don’t care if people are getting hacked or fraud out of it

00:40:40.440 –> 00:40:47.700
because they’re making a fortune on it so apparently 20 think about that 27

00:40:47.700 –> 00:40:55.700
billion dollars that’s a lot of money between 2013 and 2022 so Walmart now is

00:40:55.700 –> 00:40:58.900
apparently under investigation for this they’re possibly gonna be a big

00:40:58.900 –> 00:41:02.860
class-action lawsuit against this but apparently Walmart does not crack down

00:41:02.860 –> 00:41:07.540
on this because they’re making a fortune on it isn’t that lovely so it doesn’t

00:41:07.540 –> 00:41:10.780
matter screw the consumer that buys you all the time as long as you’re making

00:41:10.780 –> 00:41:15.460
money so one thing I did want to bring up in while it’s not security related I

00:41:15.460 –> 00:41:22.140
thought it’s pretty cool apparently this past week was the 40th anniversary of

00:41:22.140 –> 00:41:28.500
the Macintosh being released never Steve Jobs released it like I said on

00:41:28.500 –> 00:41:32.820
right after the smoothie of the big huge Super Bowl ad that was huge and I wasn’t

00:41:32.820 –> 00:41:37.100
I was 84 I wasn’t alive yet but I’ve seen it in movies I’ve watched on

00:41:37.100 –> 00:41:42.500
YouTube for that but apparently 40th anniversary of the Macintosh so I

00:41:42.500 –> 00:41:46.180
thought that was really cool a lot of places are covered in stuff like that I

00:41:46.180 –> 00:41:50.300
know I just Dean on YouTube she actually brought him brought one of the old max

00:41:50.300 –> 00:41:53.740
all the way to Cupertino and stuff like that so it was a lot of fun this week

00:41:53.740 –> 00:41:58.940
like I said I really I am a Mac user I think I said I do use Windows as well

00:41:58.940 –> 00:42:03.340
but I do use a Mac as well so I thought that was pretty cool and like I said

00:42:03.340 –> 00:42:08.340
40th anniversary of the Mac so that was pretty cool a lot of people don’t

00:42:08.340 –> 00:42:12.140
realize that was the user interface on that as well son of Windows by the way

00:42:12.140 –> 00:42:16.580
the GUI the instant interface wasn’t actually Apple it or Microsoft invented

00:42:16.580 –> 00:42:20.660
they actually stole it from Xerox Park who came up with it and Xerox was like

00:42:20.660 –> 00:42:24.380
too worried about the copier business and didn’t want to get into the PC

00:42:24.380 –> 00:42:28.460
business so they decided to go ahead like I said they didn’t care about it so

00:42:28.460 –> 00:42:32.740
those guys took it but I thought that was pretty cool like I said 40th

00:42:32.740 –> 00:42:37.780
anniversary of the Macintosh release and like I said I thought there’s a lot of

00:42:37.780 –> 00:42:40.060
fun a lot of people covered it on the internet and some of that so I’m sure

00:42:40.060 –> 00:42:43.660
you guys might probably saw it but if not like I said a lot of fun

00:42:43.660 –> 00:42:48.900
Leo Laporte on twit.tv actually they on MacBreak Weekly they actually booted up

00:42:48.900 –> 00:42:53.940
an old Macintosh that he actually has as part of it and they it was really a

00:42:53.940 –> 00:42:57.860
whole thing was a lot of fun it was cool to see how revolutionary it was like I

00:42:57.860 –> 00:43:02.580
said the first Macintosh really had a lot of it was revolutionary but had a

00:43:02.580 –> 00:43:06.780
lot of problems the Macintosh Plus was the game plus was they came up with

00:43:06.780 –> 00:43:11.980
after Steve Jobs left which is basically just the second version of it had a lot

00:43:11.980 –> 00:43:16.060
less issues and stuff like that but again still revolutionary still amazing

00:43:16.060 –> 00:43:22.820
still really cool and obviously became a major success after you know Jobs left

00:43:22.820 –> 00:43:25.820
and of course after Microsoft’s are really pushing the GUI everybody wanted

00:43:25.820 –> 00:43:28.860
GUI based and that’s when a lot of people started jumping on the Apple

00:43:28.860 –> 00:43:33.020
bandwagon and stuff along with Windows so I thought that was pretty cool and

00:43:33.020 –> 00:43:36.940
like I said 40th anniversary Mac a big moment pretty cool especially for

00:43:36.940 –> 00:43:40.260
somebody like me as a Mac guy really like it and like I said I was really

00:43:40.260 –> 00:43:44.860
neat to like I said to see it and just all the different stories you hear and

00:43:44.860 –> 00:43:47.140
stuff like that about people you know the swap of death because you always

00:43:47.140 –> 00:43:51.340
keep swapping disks because it didn’t have any local hard drive so you every

00:43:51.340 –> 00:43:53.620
time you want to do something you got a swap disk and people usually call it a

00:43:53.620 –> 00:43:57.940
swap of death I’m just a lot of cool stuff like I said not really security

00:43:57.940 –> 00:44:01.740
related but like I said it was definitely a lot of fun and a lot of

00:44:01.740 –> 00:44:06.420
people don’t realize too with the the original Mac there was like I said there

00:44:06.420 –> 00:44:09.340
was there was just so many issues with the original was it was a revolutionary

00:44:09.340 –> 00:44:15.500
yes but it really didn’t take off until after it like I said after they came out

00:44:15.500 –> 00:44:19.540
with the second version of it which was the Macintosh Plus which had a hard

00:44:19.540 –> 00:44:23.700
drive in it which had well the other promise and he those things used to

00:44:23.700 –> 00:44:27.580
overheat all the time because Jobs didn’t want a fan so they reworked the

00:44:27.580 –> 00:44:31.100
internal things like that like I said I mean anything is you know the first-gen

00:44:31.100 –> 00:44:34.540
is gonna have issues but like I said but it was really cool I liked it and I

00:44:34.540 –> 00:44:37.720
wanted to bring that up because like I said I am kind of a little bit of a fan

00:44:37.720 –> 00:44:42.500
boy to a certain degree you know not all the time but definitely with with their

00:44:42.500 –> 00:44:48.500
computers anyway so I want to thank everybody for listening and we will see

00:44:48.500 –> 00:44:55.100
you on the next episode thank you very much

What A Week For Hacks

Today on the show we go over backing up your data locally and in the cloud. We then get into IoT devices like washer, dryer, frige and other appliances. We talk about Google Chrome tracking, Chromium open source, Ivanti has more exploits and much more.

We Talk New of The Week

  • Critical Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked
  • Opera MyFlaw Bug
  • Cybersecurity Talent Shortage
  • Kaspersky’s iShutdown Tool
  • Lush cosmetics Reports Cyberattack
  • Labor hit by major government data breach

Plus Much More.

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think it looks much better rather than just our business logo they actually

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went ahead and actually made the logo a little bit quite a very much cooler

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actually and like I said made it look a little more different to our business

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name is on there and then the name of the podcast and then like I said she did

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a few things with the the art and so that so I really appreciate that looks

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much better I think looks much cooler I know the old saying you’re not supposed

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to judge a book by its cover but unfortunately the cooler your show art

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looked the better change you have the people you know reading your listening

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to your podcast just like a book if it’s got a cool cover much better chance of

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people reading it so I appreciate that also too we got a lot of people that

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wanted to communicate with us so we actually went ahead if you go to our

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website LaPani security.com and you go ahead and check it out there’s actually

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a forum area there so go ahead and join the forums and we can chat about shows

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security news all that stuff on there and again that is the forum so I want to

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I guess I give you guys some options how to communicate with us the forums are

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pretty cool we’ll use that for the show as well as anybody who wants to talk

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other news and like I said of course you can always email us on a website just

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hit contact us and shoot me an email you can do that as well so I do appreciate

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that like I said you guys have been reaching out and communicating with me I

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do appreciate that and I appreciate you listening to the show so thank you very

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much for that also – over I’ve been working on a couple of security tools I

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added a password strength tool runs locally on your machine you can test

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your password strength there’s tons of them online bit Warren and bit warden

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and security org and a bunch of places offer great tools like that but I was in

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the mood to putz around with some code and I messed around that and that’s on

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the site and that’s free it’s also gonna be up on the Windows Store as well so we

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are I’m doing that as well so a lot of like it’s a lot of little projects

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things going on but over the weekend is always podcast time so again I thank you

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all for listening the show now should be on all the services if I did miss one

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please reach out to me and let me know like I said my emails on my website if I

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missed but I think I have it on all the services now but like I said if I’m

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missing any please let me know so a couple things I wanted to wanted to talk

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about we have a lot of news to talk about but I thought this was

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specifically an interesting article that wanted to kind of start to show off with

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apparently there was a on the security now podcast there was actually somebody

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who had said that they were actually seeing they were monitoring their

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network and they actually were seeing that their wash machine was down was

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uploading and downloading like three gigs of data it was it was unbelievable

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I was reading about this and apparently somebody had hot I mean we all know IOT

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devices like fridges and stuff like that and stoves and stuff don’t get updated

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as much but apparently somebody they actually found somebody running a botnet

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and it was all these wash machines and they were all all this sort of things

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and the reason why I bring this up is somebody it’s somebody it’s in the thing

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that got interesting is to me was and it kind of makes sense so if you hijack an

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IOT device specifically like a wash machine or a refrigerator now the

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specific bug that they’re talking about was actually something that got loaded

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into RAM and I know a lot of people that are listening gonna say well that’s easy

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enough to fix you just restart the the device you’re absolutely 100% right but

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I never really thought about this but it really got me thinking how often do you

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actually unplug your washing machine think about it how often do you actually

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unplug your refrigerator or even think about something like your dishwasher

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that you can’t even get to the plug right kind of an interesting thought

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think about where if you hijack an IOT device you actually have control of this

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thing for quite a while unless the people have a power outage and since

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these devices obviously most of them don’t get regular updates or I mean

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obviously you’re a lot of times your refrigerator is going to last a lot

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longer then probably the support from you know from the manufacturer as far as

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like the updates for the software so they go really makes these these

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connected devices especially vulnerable and and even if they are being updated

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if you get a vulnerability you can load into the RAM like I said think of how

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many times you’ve ever restarted your washing machine or restarted your fridge

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or like I said or something like a while I guess it or a dishwasher where you

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can’t even get to the plug in most cases really doesn’t happen often so if you

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hijack those devices you could have a bot like I said until people have a

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power outage so and if that’s the case you just go back and reinfect them and

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then you’re gonna have them again until people you know until people come I mean

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it kind of is a scary thought if you really think about it because you know

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people will you know have these these connected devices that never get

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restarted so all you need to do is load a you know something into RAM and and

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it’s gonna be there until they have a power outage and think about this well

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the people have a generator what if you have a generator now think now you’re

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never gonna have a real power I mean so I mean a kind of an interesting scary

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thought to think about and something I heard about security now made me really

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you know really think about the IOT devices that I have in my house and all

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that and you know how how you know if somebody got a control of one you know

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it’s it’s it’s pretty brutal and a lot of people especially like the security

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like security people network people tinker or stuff that we’re gonna monitor

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our network traffic and stuff like that but a lot of people like think about

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older people and some of that really don’t really you’re not gonna monitor

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you know don’t don’t monitor their network traffic they just the Internet’s

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there and that’s it so specifically kind of a scary kind of a scary thing to

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think about and something to really think about if you do have IOT attached

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devices you how often they are getting patched so interesting interesting very

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interesting topic I need like I said on security now I really was interested in

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that one this week I don’t listen to it every week I do like Steve Gibson I do

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like spin right wonderful hard drive recovery tool I mean he doesn’t need our

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plug he’s got twit but really is a great hard drive recovery tool he does do a

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great podcast so security now is one I do listen to on occasion and like I said

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it’s really worth listening to also to this week not really security news but

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the the pre-orders for Apple’s vision Pro started like I said really not

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security news but the reason I’m bringing it up is there are already

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people hacking or hawking them excuse me up on eBay already for double the price

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it always happens when there’s a shortage on things Apple specifically

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doesn’t you know only has a limited amount of them to start with I know the

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I believe if I’m not mistaken the a lot of the reviewers and stuff I’ve seen on

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YouTube and all that already have them but apparently if you break the screen

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see almost $800 to fix the screen if you are going to get the vision Pro I

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recommend the Apple care one thing I will say I’ve always said this to people

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especially maybe not so much with the Apple stuff because Apple’s got pretty

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good control that stuff but I do want to say that if you do buy anything like

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that online like I said that’s not much Apple because apples usually got pretty

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good control their stuff but if you do buy any of that stuff online be very

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careful I’ve actually seen people not myself personally but I have actually

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seen online people that actually will will get old laptops you know load you

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know Windows or Linux on them and then load a key logger or load a virus I’m

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like that I’m saying keep an eye on things or use it as a botnet and then

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sell it online if people say oh wow look I got this cheap computer for a hundred

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bucks well yeah you did get a cheapie for a

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hundred bucks but now everything you type is being logged or you know every

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time there’s an attack or something like that your computer is gonna be the one

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used being used as the you know the botnet so you know be very careful when

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you buy cheap electronics online you never know what people do to them I think

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that they call that a supply chain attack obviously we all know we’ve seen

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the videos and some of that what happens with that but again be very very careful

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with that I always encourage people if you are going to get a used computer

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make sure you wipe it the other thing that’s really concerning about that too

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is I see especially especially online on Facebook marketplace a lot you see a lot

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of people that are actually okay you know I’m just I didn’t use this computer

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I’m just selling it online because I don’t need it anymore and then you open

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and I see people you know you started up and oh hey look there’s people’s crap

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still on this computer they never even wiped it clean that happens a lot as

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well especially without recycle electronics and stuff like that happens

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a lot so just another thing to be aware huh so speaking of that too by the way

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one of the other interesting things like I said I was reading very interesting to

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me anyway talking about the Google keyboard how the Google keyboard has

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really got grown in popularity I avoid I mean I’m always concerned about all the

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stuff to get Google collects it’s only gonna be a matter of time before somebody

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eventually hacks them and and we really know how much data they are collecting

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on us we know they’re collecting a lot of data on us but like I said this

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specifically I’m eventually it’s going to happen but anyway you know especially

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when I have a keylog if you think about using the Google keyboard I mean that

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thing basically is a legalized key logger I mean it’s I’m sure Google’s logging

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everything you’re typing specific keywords and all that kind of stuff I

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know I mean I know it I mean I know Google has good security I’m not saying

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they don’t but you think about it using the Google keyboard is basically allowing

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Google to be your key be a legalized key logger I kind of put that out to people

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kind of concerning especially some of the stuff going on with Google now with

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the anti ad tracking stuff you know chromium what would have said to me is

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you know a lot of companies have gone to the open source chromium which is

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maintained by Google and you can create your own browser on chromium but what’s

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concerning to me on that specifically is now that people are using chromium to

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create their own browser everybody but Firefox it’s a bit concerning to me

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because now you know Google is gonna make this ad tracking change to chromium

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and it’s gonna basically affect all the browsers everybody’s about all the

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browsers except for Firefox so it’s a little bit concerning to me that Google

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has kind of kind of because of their open source chromium because everybody

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jumping on board with it now has a very easy way to go ahead and pretty much

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sway the market however they want if you think about it I mean the only one that

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any ad blocker technology and stuff that’s going to work on anymore is gonna

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be Firefox you know because I mean edge opera brave all those guys are built I’m

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not sure what Braves gonna do crazy see what the Braves gonna do they’re saying

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they’re gonna do something I’m curious what they’re gonna do but I mean even

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chromium is gonna have this anti ad technology built in basically Google has

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a way now of kind of kind of swaying the market however they want it’s very

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concerning to me personally I don’t particularly care for it I think that

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you know open source is one thing but they’re also using open source to go

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ahead and push the market in the direction they want to benefit their

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business a little bit a little bit unethical as far as I’m concerned let

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me see the ones that won’t be affected obviously are going to be Firefox and of

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course Safari isn’t affected but those are gonna be only two of the ads

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blocking technology gonna keep working on I recommend to personally if you

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don’t like people tracking you which I don’t particularly like with Google’s

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doing I recommend using Firefox or specifically sound like Firefox or a

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Chrome but like I said I don’t I don’t like I said I’m not very big now the

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other thing too like I said Google has been pushing especially to get rid of

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you know certain cookies and have their own master cookie and everybody uses

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their master cookie and I’m like well yeah that’s great because they’re saying

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oh we’re doing this for privacy but you’re also doing it so everybody’s gonna

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rely on you now for the ads I mean they’re they’re slowly pushing their way

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into being big brother and like I said it’s from a security standpoint concerning

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because I mean if Google does ever get hacked the amount of data that’s gonna

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be released on everybody it’s gonna be a pretty pretty insane it’s gonna be way

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worse than anything we’ve seen I remember when the whole Ashley Madison

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hack happened you know we’re talking even worse with Google because they know

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what you’re searching where you’re searching what time you’re searching or

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pretty pretty concerning so you know something to be concerned about some

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other things too I’ve got a ton of stuff things they got tons I want to talk

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about oh one of the things too I wanted to talk to somebody I know a couple

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people we were talking about how people reached out to me talking about Plex you

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know hosting your own stuff and and your own music and your own videos of that I

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know Plex said they’re gonna be coming out with their own version of like the

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iTunes store and so that’s that you can buy and rent videos right on their

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service I think that’ll be pretty cool they’ve talked about that a few times

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doesn’t come to fruition yet but eventually maybe we’ll see but one of

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things I do want to bring up about that somebody had brought up to me that you

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can use Plex to you know if you tore in a video or something like that you can

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you know use Plex to you know share it on your local network and while that I

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don’t condone that but if you do download a torrent I just want to say

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one thing guys you gotta be very careful you download a torrent especially with

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the popular movies a lot of those torrent files with the popular movies

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have viruses and spyware and some of that built in a lot of times what people

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will do is they will say okay well this is a popular movie I’ll rip it but then

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what I’ll do is I’m gonna put a little little little piece of code in this

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little file here so that this way when they watch the movie and affects their

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system so just something to be you know if you’re going to torrent videos or they

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don’t like I said don’t condone I don’t recommend but if you do torrent videos

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be very careful make sure you scan the files and stuff like that so you don’t

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get a virus on your computer very very important one of the other interesting

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articles this week on throat calm I read his he’s a really big follows he does

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everything with Microsoft and I really follow his stuff because I mean I use I

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use both Mac and Windows I like them both actually but specifically he really

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gets into the guts of Windows and a lot of my customers have Windows one of the

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things he had talked about two specific things was subscription fatigue and the

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reason I’m bringing this up is I know it’s not security related but I do want

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to bring it up because one of the things that he was talking about is that a lot

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of people are starting to host their own files internally people that’s like are

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like okay well I can you know if I buy this NAS for $250 $300 this neck gear

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NAS whatever I can hold you know host like four terabytes of files and I don’t

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have to have any storage online I could save a subscription of $9.99 a month and

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by the way do I want to point out that that’s we just saw about Plex similar

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concept but one of the things he brought up we were people were commenting on

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this and it is very important you know sometimes saving saving money is good

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especially with the economy so that always you know try to save where you

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can but one of the things I do want to point out as well it’s great to host

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your own files and stuff like that heaven forbid you have a fire or

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anything like that you just lost all your data there’s no you know you should

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always have an off-site backup and I know people are saying themselves well

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you know I’ll just save one more sub locally and save a subscription and and

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it is I mean I agree with it too I’m sure we’re all trying to cut back

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especially with subscription services going up and up and up but specifically

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if you if you are going to be saving data locally you really should have

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backup I have my own local NAS here that I host and save all my files on that I’m

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working on some of that but I do also have it set up so that it backs up to

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the cloud any changes I know I think carbonite offers a service like that I

00:18:02.080 –> 00:18:08.940
know I think carbonite I think I think fast go back or a fast backup or go back

00:18:08.940 –> 00:18:14.480
fast or any of those I think junk I think it’s what jungle backup or

00:18:14.480 –> 00:18:17.840
whatever that well that’s an encrypted one but they um they offer where they’ll

00:18:17.840 –> 00:18:21.900
back your NAS up for you every night even if you’re using any if you’re using

00:18:21.900 –> 00:18:26.580
anything any of the popular NAS is like Synology or anything like that they have

00:18:26.580 –> 00:18:31.600
services built right into it but like I said if you are going to be saving your

00:18:31.600 –> 00:18:35.600
stuff locally to try to save money backing it up to an external hard drive

00:18:35.600 –> 00:18:38.280
and leaving it is not I mean a NAS little bit different because you have

00:18:38.280 –> 00:18:43.020
usually have two hard drives that are redundant but if you are going to be

00:18:43.020 –> 00:18:45.500
just backing up your data to a hard drive saying oh yeah I’m gonna back my

00:18:45.500 –> 00:18:49.200
data up this fancy money that one hard drive sitting in your you know your

00:18:49.200 –> 00:18:53.180
living room or your kitchen if there’s a fire you lost all your stuff so I don’t

00:18:53.180 –> 00:18:56.340
particularly recommend that I know we’re all trying to save money on subscription

00:18:56.340 –> 00:19:05.480
services but it’s not exactly the safest and best way to do things so like I said

00:19:05.480 –> 00:19:11.860
just be very careful sometimes you are saving money but you’re also exposing

00:19:11.860 –> 00:19:18.080
yourself possibly to you know you know losing your data so be very very careful

00:19:18.080 –> 00:19:23.820
with that one of the things one of the things somebody did show me this week

00:19:23.820 –> 00:19:30.700
that I like I said I have not I didn’t I knew I knew about it but never actually

00:19:30.700 –> 00:19:39.200
messed with it we’re all on social media these days and there’s a site online

00:19:39.200 –> 00:19:50.520
called red act dev r-e-d-a-c-t dot dev and what this service actually does and

00:19:50.520 –> 00:19:55.000
like I said I have to look because there is a paid version and there is a a free

00:19:55.000 –> 00:20:01.480
version what you can actually do is you can actually go on here and you link

00:20:01.480 –> 00:20:08.840
your social media accounts and it will actually delete all your posts it does

00:20:08.840 –> 00:20:15.280
it all for you so something to think about like I said um like I said it’s

00:20:15.280 –> 00:20:20.280
you can look at it it’s also a mobile app as well but I guess it’s something

00:20:20.280 –> 00:20:23.440
to think about I know a couple people have asked me how do I go ahead and get

00:20:23.440 –> 00:20:29.360
rid of my you know how do I go ahead and get rid of stuff that I posted that I

00:20:29.360 –> 00:20:33.560
don’t want like I said you can go in and actually clear out an entire account of

00:20:33.560 –> 00:20:38.000
data especially Twitter and some of that so just something to look at somebody

00:20:38.000 –> 00:20:41.240
that showed that to me the other day and I really liked it and I wanted to bring

00:20:41.240 –> 00:20:45.480
it up to you guys so they know some people want to kind of prune back some

00:20:45.480 –> 00:20:49.480
of their social media so getting into some of the news of the week that I

00:20:49.480 –> 00:20:53.520
actually collected tons of it we’re not gonna go through all of it because

00:20:53.520 –> 00:20:58.120
there’s so much of it I remember when a friend of mine started a security

00:20:58.120 –> 00:21:01.280
podcast back like maybe 15 years ago he had said I wonder if I’m gonna have

00:21:01.280 –> 00:21:08.400
enough to talk about it seems like now it’s just so much of it but avante has

00:21:08.400 –> 00:21:13.360
had a rough couple weeks the security vendor like I bring this up because I

00:21:13.360 –> 00:21:17.280
know I have had people with the vante and I’ve had a kind of run around

00:21:17.280 –> 00:21:23.920
pre nuts apparently avante their remote so their remote software that last people

00:21:23.920 –> 00:21:28.880
work remotely actually has a vulnerability in it and it was actually

00:21:28.880 –> 00:21:35.360
made NBC News last night apparently top US cybersecurity watchdog issue an

00:21:35.360 –> 00:21:39.740
emergency directive federal agencies about popular software saying that they

00:21:39.740 –> 00:21:44.640
need to go ahead and either patch it or remove it because I guess the government

00:21:44.640 –> 00:21:49.960
uses avante so pretty important if you remember last week I think on the show

00:21:49.960 –> 00:21:55.980
we talked about the VPN had an issue so now they’re remote software which allows

00:21:55.980 –> 00:21:59.360
for remote desktop some of that and now there was this week and then their VPN

00:21:59.360 –> 00:22:03.120
and then earlier this week they had another issue that they released so

00:22:03.120 –> 00:22:08.660
avante is really getting picked apart so something if you do have an avante

00:22:08.660 –> 00:22:13.760
system make sure you are patched and ready to go VPN the remote software

00:22:13.760 –> 00:22:18.920
remote desktop all that stuff that they provide is been having some

00:22:18.920 –> 00:22:23.840
vulnerability so please if you are somebody with avante go ahead and get

00:22:23.840 –> 00:22:30.780
that patched on another site this week you actually says export experts warn of

00:22:30.780 –> 00:22:36.940
Mac OS backdoor hidden in pirated versions of popular software now while

00:22:36.940 –> 00:22:43.600
this is a great article okay the backdoor in the dot dig but they’re

00:22:43.600 –> 00:22:49.240
saying legitimate software like navicat premium ultra edit final shell secure

00:22:49.240 –> 00:22:55.040
CRT and Microsoft remote desktop or have been found to have even though they are

00:22:55.040 –> 00:23:00.680
legit they actually have backdoors into the system so something to be very

00:23:00.680 –> 00:23:04.840
careful of you do use any of those softwares I actually do myself make sure

00:23:04.840 –> 00:23:11.240
you either uninstall them or you patch them very important kind of surprised me

00:23:11.240 –> 00:23:15.640
too because Microsoft had heck of a week this week as far as their stuff

00:23:15.640 –> 00:23:20.420
Microsoft executive said that their emails were hacked by their top guys

00:23:20.420 –> 00:23:24.480
like people they haven’t said names but a match by Sasha and people like that

00:23:24.480 –> 00:23:30.000
the CEO they’re saying that Microsoft actually their emails got hacked by a

00:23:30.000 –> 00:23:34.280
Russian intelligence group the interesting thing about this while we

00:23:34.280 –> 00:23:38.480
weren’t doing the podcast at the time obviously if you remember the solar

00:23:38.480 –> 00:23:46.640
winds attack that happened back in I believe was 2000 or 20 20 20 it’s the

00:23:46.640 –> 00:23:50.560
same they’re saying it’s the same group how they know they have not said how but

00:23:50.560 –> 00:23:57.960
that was something in the news this week that really is kind of really was

00:23:57.960 –> 00:24:01.840
concerning Microsoft obviously I’m waiting to see what’s gonna happen I can

00:24:01.840 –> 00:24:05.080
only imagine that they’re gonna be there’s gonna be a lot of cleanup

00:24:05.080 –> 00:24:08.000
because when you when you’re that high of an executive at a company like that

00:24:08.000 –> 00:24:12.600
you get emails that are not supposed to be out in the world like trade secret

00:24:12.600 –> 00:24:17.080
stuff and things about purchases and things like that that can really be

00:24:17.080 –> 00:24:21.160
dangerous they get out in the wrong hands so I’m sure Microsoft’s in cleanup

00:24:21.160 –> 00:24:25.880
mode right now for that one of the the other interesting articles I’ve

00:24:25.880 –> 00:24:31.320
followed this this pretty closely actually and I take this with a grain

00:24:31.320 –> 00:24:34.320
of salt personally because it’s Kaspersky and they’re rushing company

00:24:34.320 –> 00:24:38.480
and that’s concerning to me because I know there’s been always been

00:24:38.480 –> 00:24:42.280
speculation about Kaspersky and their ties with the government some of that so

00:24:42.280 –> 00:24:47.120
I take this at value but one of the things Kaspersky has recently launched

00:24:47.120 –> 00:24:52.800
is a tool called I shut down and it’s designed basically to detect notorious

00:24:52.800 –> 00:24:58.560
spyware that is on your iOS device I’m not really sure I know cup I’ve seen

00:24:58.560 –> 00:25:04.640
this going around the internet people talking about this I am personally a

00:25:04.640 –> 00:25:08.960
little hesitant with anything from Kaspersky right now because of

00:25:08.960 –> 00:25:12.200
everything going on in the world I know I have seen a bunch of people that used

00:25:12.200 –> 00:25:17.160
it and they said they did find stuff I’m again it’s supposed to be for that

00:25:17.160 –> 00:25:23.360
Pegasus that quad dreams rain and the other one predator so again I mean I

00:25:23.360 –> 00:25:28.400
think you know that it’s well it could be a good tool I would be hesitant to

00:25:28.400 –> 00:25:33.800
use it right now anything like that from Kaspersky that’s that’s just me

00:25:33.800 –> 00:25:38.320
Microsoft having a heck of a week – by the way I had another story here in my

00:25:38.320 –> 00:25:44.840
show notes a critical Microsoft SharePoint bug now actively exploited CIS a

00:25:44.840 –> 00:25:48.440
warns that the attackers are now exploiting a critical Microsoft

00:25:48.440 –> 00:25:52.440
SharePoint privilege escalation vulnerability that can be chained with

00:25:52.440 –> 00:25:58.360
another critical bug now one thing that I do point out that I went through the

00:25:58.360 –> 00:26:02.320
this and read through this whole thing it says the Microsoft SharePoint server

00:26:02.320 –> 00:26:09.320
exploit chain was successfully cut founded by star labs researcher they

00:26:09.320 –> 00:26:15.400
earned $100,000 reward from from what I could take from this because the they

00:26:15.400 –> 00:26:19.880
weren’t overly descriptive about this Microsoft I’m guessing it’s going to be

00:26:19.880 –> 00:26:24.440
if you have in-house SharePoint running that’s a big business for Microsoft

00:26:24.440 –> 00:26:27.360
SharePoint a lot of people don’t know they actually bought SharePoint they

00:26:27.360 –> 00:26:30.960
didn’t actually build it but one of the things like I said if you are running

00:26:30.960 –> 00:26:34.280
SharePoint make sure you go ahead and patch your service but I believe it is

00:26:34.280 –> 00:26:37.680
internal SharePoint it has to be because if it was its external SharePoint

00:26:37.680 –> 00:26:41.640
Microsoft will patch it for you so yeah like I said but they didn’t because one

00:26:41.640 –> 00:26:46.080
of the things somebody had asked was on the forums was is is this currently

00:26:46.080 –> 00:26:49.840
being exploited on 365 and if it is I mean there’s nothing we could really do

00:26:49.840 –> 00:26:52.680
about it Microsoft’s got a patch it but I would imagine they’re probably gonna

00:26:52.680 –> 00:26:57.640
patch it so if you’re running internal SharePoint go ahead and patch immediately

00:26:57.640 –> 00:27:02.400
Microsoft had a lot of big bugs over the last year or so you remember I think it

00:27:02.400 –> 00:27:06.400
was last right around Christmas time whatever they had an issue with exchange

00:27:06.400 –> 00:27:09.440
it got to the point rack space actually had a shut all their servers down

00:27:09.440 –> 00:27:13.980
because it was that vulnerable a lot of stuff going on with that but that is

00:27:13.980 –> 00:27:17.560
something by the way that is going to be coming to an end Microsoft has said that

00:27:17.560 –> 00:27:23.320
they will not be releasing exchange server anymore that I think they said

00:27:23.320 –> 00:27:26.560
they’re releasing their last version of local exchange I don’t know that’s gonna

00:27:26.560 –> 00:27:30.360
fly a lot of people really upset about that and it’s not so the reason why that

00:27:30.360 –> 00:27:35.600
is an issue is because you do have stuff people like lawyers and stuff like that

00:27:35.600 –> 00:27:40.640
that do host their own exchange servers because of the whole security and

00:27:40.640 –> 00:27:48.040
privacy of what they’re actually doing and they don’t want stuff exposed out to

00:27:48.040 –> 00:27:52.240
the cloud specifically because they don’t you know how cloud is redundant

00:27:52.240 –> 00:27:55.480
well they there’s just some kind of rules where they can’t have data being

00:27:55.480 –> 00:27:59.520
backed up in other countries if it’s certain things regarding certain it’s

00:27:59.520 –> 00:28:03.240
all law and stuff I don’t really understand that well but like I said

00:28:03.240 –> 00:28:06.560
it’s there’s something about that I know lawyers specifically upset about that

00:28:06.560 –> 00:28:10.600
some doctors are really upset about that because of the whole HIPAA thing which

00:28:10.600 –> 00:28:15.640
I mean obviously 65 in the cloud is HIPAA compliant but especially people

00:28:15.640 –> 00:28:19.200
with trade secrets or stuff like that you know are concerned and stuff like

00:28:19.200 –> 00:28:22.640
that so we’ll see I mean Microsoft I mean the end of the day Microsoft’s

00:28:22.640 –> 00:28:26.160
gonna keep releasing it if it’s making them money that’s what it comes down to

00:28:26.160 –> 00:28:31.000
you know so you know as things you know stop making Microsoft money is when

00:28:31.000 –> 00:28:34.800
they’re pushing it to the cloud so you know Microsoft’s legacy business of

00:28:34.800 –> 00:28:39.560
Windows Server and Exchange SharePoint all that sort of stuff is still making

00:28:39.560 –> 00:28:43.000
them a lot of money on-prem so until it doesn’t they’re gonna keep releasing it

00:28:43.000 –> 00:28:47.200
so like I said we’ll see what happens with that I would imagine a lot of people

00:28:47.200 –> 00:28:51.080
really complained about the SharePoint going into the cloud I’m sorry about

00:28:51.080 –> 00:28:56.040
exchange going into the cloud I actually am all for it SharePoint I don’t think

00:28:56.040 –> 00:28:59.780
should be in the cloud because SharePoint is very customizable and you

00:28:59.780 –> 00:29:04.200
can do a lot with it where exchange not so much and it’s much more secure in the

00:29:04.200 –> 00:29:07.600
cloud like I said I think I don’t think you’re gonna see I don’t think you’re

00:29:07.600 –> 00:29:11.480
gonna see SharePoint stop being released locally but I do think exchange

00:29:11.480 –> 00:29:14.440
eventually will go all in the cloud but I guess I do like SharePoint locally

00:29:14.440 –> 00:29:18.920
because it is very customizable and I have seen some companies with very

00:29:18.920 –> 00:29:24.860
elaborate SharePoint setups speaking of things that are hacked and secure lush

00:29:24.860 –> 00:29:29.080
cosmetics I know they’re pretty popular company I don’t know a lot about them

00:29:29.080 –> 00:29:34.480
but I do know that they had a they got hacked pretty bad and they have somebody

00:29:34.480 –> 00:29:38.160
coming in an IT company doing an independent security audit to check their

00:29:38.160 –> 00:29:42.920
system so really glad they’re doing that but they did get hacked they haven’t

00:29:42.920 –> 00:29:46.240
released I obviously want the report as the people to come in and do a search

00:29:46.240 –> 00:29:49.200
and spec see I don’t think they know what got hacked a lot of these places

00:29:49.200 –> 00:29:52.080
like cosmetics companies and stuff of that don’t really know the security

00:29:52.080 –> 00:29:55.140
infrastructure too well so they you know they’re gonna somebody come in do an

00:29:55.140 –> 00:29:59.120
audit see what got tampered with and then obviously make recommendations but

00:29:59.120 –> 00:30:03.160
to tighten the place up so if you are somebody that uses them you might want

00:30:03.160 –> 00:30:07.040
to keep an eye on your credit cards or whatever you use on there so our friends

00:30:07.040 –> 00:30:14.760
down under had a substantial breach labor was hit by a major government data

00:30:14.760 –> 00:30:19.880
breach millions of files stolen from key departments labor has admitted it

00:30:19.880 –> 00:30:24.420
suffered Australia’s largest ever government data breach with key

00:30:24.420 –> 00:30:29.880
intelligence defense economic department information files were stolen from

00:30:29.880 –> 00:30:36.400
Australia’s largest commercial law firm so those people in Australia I can

00:30:36.400 –> 00:30:39.680
imagine I really hope they have good cyber insurance because they are going

00:30:39.680 –> 00:30:43.480
to need it the interest the other interesting thing about this they said

00:30:43.480 –> 00:30:49.720
in April of 2023 of 2023 ransomware group stole more than 2.5 million files

00:30:49.720 –> 00:30:55.200
from the firm so this is you know something that’s this is a pretty big

00:30:55.200 –> 00:31:03.000
deal because a lot of government stuff has gone out so like I said I saw that

00:31:03.000 –> 00:31:05.800
I’m like oh interesting so it’s not just our government that gets hacked by the

00:31:05.800 –> 00:31:13.400
way it’s everybody else as well also – there are a bunch of those of you that

00:31:13.400 –> 00:31:17.360
use WordPress for your website there has been a lot of stuff coming out about

00:31:17.360 –> 00:31:23.040
this obviously WordPress always has issues with hacks and some of that so

00:31:23.040 –> 00:31:26.760
you have to make sure you keep all your stuff up to date but they said over 6700

00:31:26.760 –> 00:31:32.720
WordPress sites using outdated version of the pop-up builder plug-in have been

00:31:32.720 –> 00:31:37.600
infected and are suffering from malware so if you are somebody that uses the

00:31:37.600 –> 00:31:42.600
pop-up builder plug-in on your website I would make sure to get that hack get

00:31:42.600 –> 00:31:47.160
that fix so you don’t get hacked or if you are hacked roll back to a backup

00:31:47.160 –> 00:31:51.360
there’s another one as well this week about WordPress over 300,000 WordPress

00:31:51.360 –> 00:31:58.320
sites vulnerable to post SMTP plug-in so if you are somebody that uses SMTP on

00:31:58.320 –> 00:32:03.520
WordPress and you use the post SMTP plug-in you have to patch that as well

00:32:03.520 –> 00:32:10.040
so it’s a busy week for security stuff going on I mean always is but

00:32:10.040 –> 00:32:15.160
specifically this week there’s a lot of a lot of hacks and stuff like that

00:32:15.160 –> 00:32:21.920
opera has a bug in it which is going to let hackers run any file on your Mac or

00:32:21.920 –> 00:32:29.520
Windows PC that was in the news this week as well opera obviously pretty

00:32:29.520 –> 00:32:35.240
popular I mean it’s definitely it’s not on chrome level or Firefox level but

00:32:35.240 –> 00:32:40.680
definitely is pretty popular but like I said security researchers disclosed a now

00:32:40.680 –> 00:32:45.440
patch security floor in opera web browser that was allowing people with

00:32:45.440 –> 00:32:50.920
Microsoft Windows or Apple OS that could exploit any files or run any files on

00:32:50.920 –> 00:32:55.160
their system so the remote code execution vulnerability my flaw they’re

00:32:55.160 –> 00:33:02.120
calling it was discovered and apparently it is patched now so if you are if you’re

00:33:02.120 –> 00:33:06.280
using opera browser or opera GX make sure you go in patch that’s actually

00:33:06.280 –> 00:33:10.600
pretty concerning thing because anybody can run any files on your machine pretty

00:33:10.600 –> 00:33:17.280
scary so team viewer apparently has another big attack right now that people

00:33:17.280 –> 00:33:21.480
figure out how to remotely gain access to systems team viewers saying to patch

00:33:21.480 –> 00:33:27.000
it any of that stuff especially team viewer and any desk and a lot of these

00:33:27.000 –> 00:33:31.240
things they’re always very vulnerable to attacks is obviously you get remote

00:33:31.240 –> 00:33:35.080
control so nice a machine so I know these things are important are very

00:33:35.080 –> 00:33:37.960
well used but you got to make sure you keep up to date because these companies

00:33:37.960 –> 00:33:41.000
have quite that I would not want to be on one of these security teams for one

00:33:41.000 –> 00:33:45.880
of these companies I can only imagine what they go through the amount of just

00:33:45.880 –> 00:33:51.220
stuff that they have to deal with with attacks and all that cuz I mean

00:33:51.220 –> 00:33:54.840
basically think about it I mean somebody I mean you’re basically if you get

00:33:54.840 –> 00:33:58.160
hacked is basically give somebody remote access to a system so it’s a it’s a

00:33:58.160 –> 00:34:03.120
really tough really tough thing to you know deal with I give any of these guys

00:34:03.120 –> 00:34:07.600
that work on these teams tons and tons of credit because it definitely is a

00:34:07.600 –> 00:34:12.360
home edge is gonna be hard work so the one the last article I want to talk

00:34:12.360 –> 00:34:17.720
about is an interesting one they are actually saying that there is a lack of

00:34:17.720 –> 00:34:23.200
cybersecurity experts in the industry and the same part of the problem is that

00:34:23.200 –> 00:34:26.920
a lot of the kyber security experts don’t have the degrees required to get

00:34:26.920 –> 00:34:31.880
the job this is an interesting article it’s from the national was at the

00:34:31.880 –> 00:34:38.320
national the national cyber director he addressing the cyber talent shortage

00:34:38.320 –> 00:34:44.560
this is actually like I said this is actually on the actual news site clear

00:34:44.560 –> 00:34:49.320
news dot clearance jobs calm which is where you would look for federal jobs

00:34:49.320 –> 00:34:54.480
he’s actually saying that he working that they want to remove the degree

00:34:54.480 –> 00:34:58.480
requirement most jobs in the US government for skyber secure car for

00:34:58.480 –> 00:35:01.520
your degrees many people don’t have a four-year degree that our security

00:35:01.520 –> 00:35:06.720
experts and they want to go ahead and remove that just way they will not get a

00:35:06.720 –> 00:35:11.720
shortage as people without four-year degrees are not being considered so

00:35:11.720 –> 00:35:16.840
basically what this is the government is is lowering their standards for getting

00:35:16.840 –> 00:35:21.560
people and and honestly I don’t blame them I know a lot of good cybersecurity

00:35:21.560 –> 00:35:26.040
people myself included that don’t have four-year degrees that went maybe to

00:35:26.040 –> 00:35:29.560
college for two years have associates and they got into cybersecurity I know

00:35:29.560 –> 00:35:33.400
many people that didn’t go to college at all and when it got into cybersecurity I

00:35:33.400 –> 00:35:36.800
know a lot of programmers that are amazing bug finders that never went to

00:35:36.800 –> 00:35:41.800
college and do a great job so I actually think this is actually really good most

00:35:41.800 –> 00:35:47.040
of your good hackers didn’t go to college I hate to say that but a

00:35:47.040 –> 00:35:51.480
majority of your good hackers don’t go to college I know a lot of good good

00:35:51.480 –> 00:35:54.760
security professionals and some of that that you bug bounty and some of that

00:35:54.760 –> 00:35:57.520
none of them are meant to college they just hang out and just do bug bounty all

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day I know a lot of guys that actually did get in trouble and then got jobs

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with the government after they got out I know a lot of that kind of stuff happens

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so I think this is a specific case where they’re gonna have to you know sometimes

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the you know the government needs to understand that they’re you know they

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you’re not always gonna you have to look sometimes it’s not even lowering your

00:36:19.520 –> 00:36:24.480
standards if the industries have changed so much you know 20 30 years ago none of

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your IT people went to college because College for Computer Technology didn’t

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exist so I mean a really interesting thing and some of your your best minds

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are not college graduates so I think this is actually a good thing by the

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government I’m sure they’re gonna have some kind of vetting process where you

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have to pass it you know test or something like that I’m sure that

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there’ll be something there but like I said I actually think this is actually a

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really good idea get more able to get more people get better people sometimes

00:36:52.600 –> 00:36:55.720
people that you know there’s a big difference in one thing anybody that

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works in cybersecurity or it works any job field whether it’s a skill or trade

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will realize there’s always a big difference between knowledge and

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experience and that’s really important so I do want to bring that up like I

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said some of the best coders I’ve ever met have never went to college and they

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were great coders so I mean it’s it’s one of those kinds of businesses where

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sometimes you’re not going to always you know college isn’t for everybody some

00:37:20.160 –> 00:37:24.040
people are better at educating themselves and I think that is becoming a real

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thing now especially with the internet stuff a lot of people go to cyber school

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now a lot of people do home school now some of that because they want to move

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faster they want to learn more there’s actually quite a bit of that actually I

00:37:35.360 –> 00:37:38.920
know quite a few people that are that are cyber schooling or homeschooling

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just because they can move at a faster pace and get more done and be more

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prepared for college and then some people isn’t you know colleges for

00:37:47.040 –> 00:37:51.600
everybody a lot of guys that made good money doing apps on the App Store and

00:37:51.600 –> 00:37:56.240
stuff that have never went to college so you know it’s one of those kinds of

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things where I think the government realizes that yes we’re holding people

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to a ridiculously high standard some of the best people in we need to get the

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best so in order to get the best we have to lower the standards of what we want

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and you know college is not for everybody like I said there are some

00:38:10.960 –> 00:38:14.760
great people in security industry that don’t have four-year degrees so I’m

00:38:14.760 –> 00:38:18.120
really happy that they’re doing that we need to really get a handle on this kind

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of thing because with all this government sponsored hacking and all

00:38:23.100 –> 00:38:27.400
that kind of stuff we are going to need really good people and especially since

00:38:27.400 –> 00:38:31.960
there is a shortage of people this is a good way of doing it and I want to point

00:38:31.960 –> 00:38:35.280
this out to a lot of people talk about COVID and and I’m not getting political

00:38:35.280 –> 00:38:39.360
I’m not but a lot of people say COVID where’d all these people go why didn’t

00:38:39.360 –> 00:38:44.080
people go back to work it just shows you too that it’s it’s not just like the job

00:38:44.080 –> 00:38:49.600
it’s not just like the food industry it’s not just the you know the the

00:38:49.600 –> 00:38:53.920
blue-collar jobs with a shortage of people even in in white-collar fields

00:38:53.920 –> 00:38:58.920
there is a shortage of good people so it just shows you it doesn’t matter what

00:38:58.920 –> 00:39:03.840
industry your is there is a serious shortage of people in the workforce and

00:39:03.840 –> 00:39:07.960
like I said it doesn’t matter you know what industry you’re in there is a

00:39:07.960 –> 00:39:12.320
shortage right now so I thought that was interesting like I said I want to go

00:39:12.320 –> 00:39:15.880
ahead and just point one thing out like I said if you want to reach out to me go

00:39:15.880 –> 00:39:20.640
to the website the pain of security comm email me I do enjoy all the emails and

00:39:20.640 –> 00:39:25.760
really appreciate it and like I said I have I do we do have the forums up now

00:39:25.760 –> 00:39:29.400
and a lot of other things so please go with it we also have a lot of free tools

00:39:29.400 –> 00:39:33.360
I have I write a lot of free little tools and give them away for free if you

00:39:33.360 –> 00:39:38.280
go to the pain of security comm click on tools click on software there is tons of

00:39:38.280 –> 00:39:41.480
free software there you can use little security tools little things I write

00:39:41.480 –> 00:39:46.120
that I give away for free go ahead and like I said take you know you know

00:39:46.120 –> 00:39:49.800
download them enjoy them use them like I said all these little goodies that I

00:39:49.800 –> 00:39:52.520
write like I said I give them away for free I enjoy messing with code when I

00:39:52.520 –> 00:39:56.680
have some downtime and it’s nice just make sometimes little tools that people

00:39:56.680 –> 00:40:01.440
can use and kind of help people out just like this podcast so I want to thank

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everybody for listening and we will see you on the next episode thank you much

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all right let the show begin our first episode of the security assessment
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podcast I am your host Brandon and this show is going to be we’re gonna try to
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do a weekly show about the security every week a lot of you guys might
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remember me from the technology geek podcast which I did for many many years
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but recently we don’t I have not done that show I’ve been concentrating more
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on the business and things that are going on in the security world and the
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hardware world all that kind of stuff so the show is gonna be a little bit
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different for those of you that remember me from the technology geek podcast but
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except we’re gonna be focusing more on security we’re gonna talk about other
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things trust me tech news gadgets all that kind of stuff but more security
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focused here now on this show and speaking of security news we’ll dive
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right in here so a lot of a lot of things really going on overseas right
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now we all know obviously about the Russia and Ukraine situation but
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apparently that there has been research done and people have found out apparently
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Russia has hacked over 10,000 security cameras in Ukraine and they’ve been
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using these cameras specifically to target attacks target specific cities
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just their their strikes on Ukraine get updates on what’s going on in Ukraine
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all that so recently they have went ahead and they have Ukraine’s shut down
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a lot of their security cameras really to protect themselves as well as you
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know Russia spying on them and things like that what’s concerning to me though
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is some of the camera vendors that they use over there are here in America
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Ukraine has not yet released a list of what camera vendors or what kind of
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cameras were infected I would really like to know that because the odds are
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chance some of those camera vendors are probably used over here I know they for
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the only thing we got so far about this was that the cameras are made by China
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North Korea and Russia so that could be a whole sort of whole bunch of brands I
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wish they would release it they have not yet I know people are trying to find out
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obviously it’s probably not the top thing on Ukraine’s list to get out there
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but is something very important if you see any weird activity or anything like
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that going on on your cameras it may be something worth taking a look at so just
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keep yourself you know you know kind of keep an eye on things just see what’s
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going on with your camera system and if you see anything obviously turn them off
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right away and then also to the news I think it’s important enough really to
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talk about because it’s still all stuff in Ukraine going on but apparently Russia
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hackers were inside Ukraine’s telecom giant for months and they haven’t
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Russian hackers were inside Ukraine’s telecom giant Kistar forgive me if
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I butchered that and apparently they’ve been in for by the last year doing cyber
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attacks all that kind of stuff so one of the things that I guess is concerning
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about that is if you do send any email or any information over to Ukraine your
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data possibly could have gotten hung up with this America obviously has been
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communicating with Ukraine for a lot of things so it’s very concerning now one
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of the things they said if people need to be worried about is people using SIM
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cards because of the attacks anybody that used used an ATM anything like that
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anybody who’s communicated to anybody overseas you know so there’s just they
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have the attackers wiped almost I mean wiped almost everything so it’s gonna be
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almost impossible to find out who did it but they said there’s thousands of
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virtual servers and PCs that they said that they got access to so like I said
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you just be very cautious if you are speaking to anybody over there as it you
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know you could have been exposed if you give any personal information so just be
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concerned about that also to anybody I wanted to bring this up because I get to
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get some people ask me about it 23 and me still a mess over there they’ve been
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hit with about 30 lawsuits since December the breach apparently what
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they’re saying is 6.9 million of their users were exposed to some point they
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see roughly about 14,000 accounts were compromised so I mean it’s a big deal
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over there I’m very skeptical about this the fact that I’m 23 and me is trying to
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say oh it’s not our fault it’s your fault and all that kind of stuff they’re
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gonna hit this is gonna be a big class-action lawsuit you know it’s going
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to be like I said they’ve already gotten hit with 30 lawsuits already and I just
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don’t like the way they’re handling this saying that well that if this setting
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wasn’t if you turn the setting off you your account wouldn’t have been breached
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so it’s your fault for not turning this thing off I just I don’t particularly
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care the way they’re handling this they’re not taking any responsibility
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and that is a rather concerning speaking of lawsuits if you remember in 2020 the
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Google had Google got a lawsuit against them for claiming that the incognito
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mode apparently they’re still tracking you in incognito mode they apparently
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settled that with five billion I don’t know exactly how it’s gonna be dished
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out yet they haven’t talked about it yet but I’m sure there will be a lot anybody
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I guess it’s using cognitos give me a title to a few bucks so we will have to
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kind of to see what happens with that and keep an eye on that going forward
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and then also to that big class-action lawsuit was settled with that company
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home advisor apparently they were selling people saying hey you know you
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can get great leads from our company and apparently they were selling garbage
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leads to people and people were I mean losing money because you’re getting all
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these leads and and all that and you’re collecting tons of leads and stuff like
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that and the most you you pay per lead but get a lot of leads were garbage so
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apparently there was a big class action lawsuit with that and apparently
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everybody’s going to be entitled to so much money I mean it won’t be you’re not
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gonna get back everything you lost but I’m sure they’re they dished out at
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checks I know some people I saw on the internet got you know 30 40 50 dollars
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it really depends on how much you lost with those particular that class-action
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lawsuit but that was another lawsuit like I said it’s a lot of lawsuits are
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getting settled here early in this first part of them you know the month so but
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like I said I wanted to bring that up as well there there’s been so many of these
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lawsuits and it’s gonna keep going on but yeah 20 like it’s 23 in May home
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advisor Google all these lawsuits got settled this week so we’re moving moving
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forward so last pass the the largest I think password management company in the
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world I think anyway announced on their blog that they’re going to be making
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some serious changes to their system as you guys know they got hit a few times
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with a bunch of cyber attacks things of that nature last pass I actually have
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lost confidence in them there’s been too many attacks all and stuff over the last
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couple years I think it’s not all their fault as a company gets bigger and
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bigger it’s hard to sometimes to keep the security locked down well I mean it
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is their fault but it’s harder for them to lock it down and their their system
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is closed source so they don’t have people can’t review their code and some
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of that so but they are now trying to tighten things up a little bit on their
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blog they said they’re gonna be there asking customers to update their master
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password to make it longer and more secure they are going to be enforcing
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and enrolling multi-factor authentication and all these changes
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are going to be rolling out as they are trying to go ahead and make their
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systems more secure they should have been doing I know you know there’s
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always been a fine line in security between usability and secure you know
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secure ability in a sense of you don’t want to make something too secure that
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it’s so complicated that people don’t want to use it especially if you’re a
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for-profit business but you also don’t want to make it income you know too
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simple and insecure because then you’re not really doing your customers a
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service so that’s a very tough line to walk and specifically in the password
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management business it’s extremely difficult just because of the way things
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are you know it generally in this world people tend to take convenience over
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security and that’s perfectly normal but when you’re running a password
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management that has access to everything for people to get you have to be really
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secure and I think they’ve really dropped the ball on it I personally
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recommend that everybody use bitwarden that’s what I use they walk much fine
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they walk it’s much I like the way they run their company much more all their
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code is open source so hackers and things like that can look and see hey
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there’s a bug or report to them and they can patch it I like the fact that they
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have third-party audits done regularly that are public knowledge so they can
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have accountability so what they do is they have we have the security audits
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done once they fix the problems and all that they post the security audits up to
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their customers to show hey we had an audit done we found problems we fixed it
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so it keeps us honest the worst kind what really what last pass did that
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really upset me about them was they had an issue they knew they had an issue
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they kept it very hush-hush and then when they finally did have a breach
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because the issue they never patched they they didn’t react to it well they
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didn’t hate they they didn’t hand in quick didn’t react to it quick enough
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their response times were terrible with it you know the whole thing with them is
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just I just don’t particularly care for the way they’ve handled it and I do like
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the way last pass I’m sorry excuse me I do like the way bitwarden has handled
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any issues they’ve had quickly they’ve open sourced everything like they should
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for a company like that they have done everything the way I would have done it
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and the way I think is responsible to do it when you’re looking at you have
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people’s whole lives in their database and I know you’re saying what whole lives
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well yeah because most people use these passwords man for their bank accounts
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for all that kind of stuff very sensitive data that really needs to be
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overly secure you know it’s one of those things when you are when you’re storing
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people’s passwords to their personal information it needs to be tight and
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fortunately last pass I think they’ve just I think at the beginning they were
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ahead of their time with password managing and I think they just grew too
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fast grew too big and just you know they’re they they just got bigger than
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what they could handle they didn’t patch the code right they didn’t handle
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security audits and everything properly and sometimes that happens bitwarden is
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a lot smaller company they’re open source so that they can put the stuff
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out there if you want you know their their attitude is well here’s the code
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you know take a look let me know what you think if you want to run your own
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password managers you can here’s our code to do it so you’re safe and secure
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with it you run your own or you can buy our service I mean I think everything
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the way bitwarden has done it is is appropriate and compared to last pass
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they really stepped up their game so I am very very much pro bitwarden it’s the
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one I recommend they are not a sponsor of this podcast I want to point that out
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I’m recommending them because I personally use them I personally had
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good experiences with them also – they have iOS support they have Android
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support so if you’re using it on your desktop and you say hey I would like to
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use this on my phone as well you can use it on your phone as well and they have
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browser extensions it’s really really well done they have they’re actually
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adding passkey now which is a very important thing it’s in beta it should
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be out where instead of just using a password use a long key they support
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biometric so if you’re on a Mac or on your phone it can use face ID you can
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use ID your thumb ID your fingerprint ID like I said everything about them is
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being done properly for a password manager and that’s why I am very very
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pro bitwarden they are not a sponsor if they would like to I would be more than
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having to take them on as a sponsor but like I said the way they are handling
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the password manager I am very very for I actually have had companies in the
00:13:05,080 –> 00:13:09,320

past that wolf said to me you know we’re not comfortable hosting on bitwarden
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we’d like to host we like bit wouldn’t like to host it ourselves on our own
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server so we don’t have a big bill because they got a lot of users because
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you pay by the user with their their hosting count so you can actually take
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bit wardens code and host your own server and I am and it’s really cool like
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I said I I really like it because like I said if you’re a big company and say hey
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you know we don’t want to spend you know two three thousand a month on on you
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know password but we want something secure and safe you can actually use bit
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what it actually has the software and everything built out for you all you
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have to do is load it on your own server and you can manage it yourself so I
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really like the way they do this kind of twice that they’re really as a password
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manager they are right where you’d want to be and that’s why I really think if
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you are going to use a password manager I strongly recommend using bitwarden
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because they do they’ve got they are on the right track they handle incident
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response properly I’ve looked into the way they secure stuff with encrypt stuff
00:14:03,920 –> 00:14:08,320

like I said everything is being done right like I said I think last passage
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become too big of a company and they are putting their profit over people and
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insecurity you cannot do that you have to put security over profit one of the
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other companies that I used to recommend that I don’t anymore is to to know to
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to know to them and proton proton mail I used to be really pro both of these
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companies they run they’re running encrypting email services so in other
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words if you wanted to you could send an email to somebody with that was
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encrypted and so they can only open if they had the password or if they had the
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PGP key or anything like that but apparently recently there was a recent
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document that somebody sent me back from late news late November to donota is
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actually they were there they were supposed to be always okay crit you
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know encrypting email keeping your email safe and stuff that and apparently when
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you send an encrypt email it still is encrypted in their systems but because
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of a law that came out in Germany now there is a case right now they’re being
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required to be able to allow law enforcement to monitor mailboxes and
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this is kind of concerning to me because one of the things they are saying this
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is the way they responded to us I asked them a question about it they shouldn’t
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change anything for other users their emails should continue to be encrypted
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by default nevertheless to de nova sees a one-time bypass of encryption as a
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security risk to all customers now that’s what they said however he goes
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nothing I want to say as we emphasize surveillance measure only affects newly
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received unencrypted emails so in other words if somebody sent you an email from
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say Gmail or wherever you’re coming from those emails are not encrypted so if
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they sent if they sent you an email like say from your Gmail account they would
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capture it and read it or allow the law enforcement people to read it the
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company cannot decrypt data that is already encrypted so any of your emails
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that are there are safe also to they’ve added this if you send any encrypted or
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end-to-end encrypted emails through to to through to to note out those messages
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will still be encrypted so that’s a bit concerning so basically if I send you an
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email from to to know that’s encrypted they can’t read it but if you would just
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you know log into your Gmail your outlook or your Yahoo AOL whatever you’re using
00:16:41,400 –> 00:16:45,800

and send me a message to my to know account they could read it so kind of I
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mixed feelings about this now because they’re there I used to recommend them
00:16:51,660 –> 00:16:56,440

to people because they’re in sending encrypted safe email you still can send
00:16:56,440 –> 00:16:59,440

encrypted emails but before this all email sent to you was encrypted they
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did not keep logs they did not keep anything like that now they’re kind of
00:17:03,720 –> 00:17:07,560

changing their tune saying that you know if an email is sent unencrypted we can
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you know we can catch it so I am a little upset about that that is not the
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service they sold that is not the service that they used to have them as
00:17:17,000 –> 00:17:22,880

well as ProtonMail bunchies encrypted email services now are starting to do
00:17:22,880 –> 00:17:29,400

this and it’s rather concerning like you sold the fact that you know if I
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somebody sent me an email it would be received and encrypted no matter what
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now so only the emails I send from your company are encrypted so any emails I
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get back or not I mean it’s it’s just basically saying like oh if you you know
00:17:44,920 –> 00:17:48,920

it’s if you use our service you’re safe but if you’re gonna use receive email
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from companies outside it’s different and that that’s a big problem to me
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because if you’re running a bit you know it’s one thing to say email other
00:17:55,840 –> 00:18:00,280

friends that are using Tutanota but the problem is if they offer business level
00:18:00,280 –> 00:18:05,640

encrypt this is actually what’s on there say business level encryption all your
00:18:05,640 –> 00:18:11,640

emails encrypted and secure yes all your emails are encrypted and secure but if
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you’re running a business all these other companies are going to be sending
00:18:16,200 –> 00:18:19,040

you emails not all those emails are going to be encrypted so that’s actually
00:18:19,040 –> 00:18:23,280

kind of a lie because it means that any email that you get somebody if a
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business logs on to their Google Google workspace account or somebody logs on
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to their office 365 and shoot you an email to your Tutanota account first of
00:18:33,640 –> 00:18:37,280

all they don’t know you’re on Tutanota because they’re just sending it to your
00:18:37,280 –> 00:18:39,280

domain but like and then all of a sudden that email now is can be read because it
00:18:39,280 –> 00:18:44,120

was sent unencrypted it’s just not it’s not that’s not what they sold and the
00:18:44,120 –> 00:18:48,800

fact that they made a tool that can hang out there and catch these email so in
00:18:48,800 –> 00:18:51,760

other words the catch they’re catching the emails before they go to the
00:18:51,760 –> 00:18:55,000

encryption so that’s that’s a breach of security and I am not for that now
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they’re even posting on their website now they’re keeping count amount of
00:19:00,880 –> 00:19:05,640

reports that they’re asking law enforcement is asking for and stuff like
00:19:05,640 –> 00:19:08,320

that and apparently they’ve had 121 requests for data requests for real-time
00:19:08,320 –> 00:19:16,000

traffic they they’re listing on and that’s great that they’re listing at all
00:19:16,000 –> 00:19:19,560

but that doesn’t it doesn’t really fix the problem it just you know make you
00:19:19,560 –> 00:19:27,680

can make you more concerned you see how many how many people are asking for it
00:19:27,680 –> 00:19:30,640

how many people they’re complying with so for those of you that do work in the
00:19:30,640 –> 00:19:34,800

enterprise the there’s two big security vulnerabilities that came out this past
00:19:34,800 –> 00:19:42,480

it was just Friday Thursday or Friday came out apparently Juniper Networks
00:19:42,480 –> 00:19:47,360

apparently their firewalls has a critical remote code execution
00:19:47,360 –> 00:19:53,040

vulnerability which they are have flaw apparently it’s well it’s substantial
00:19:53,040 –> 00:20:00,200

flaw in the census it goes way way back to all even older versions so they have
00:20:00,200 –> 00:20:04,760

released a patch for that and then also to Avanti or Pulse Secure had a zero day
00:20:04,760 –> 00:20:14,640

vulnerability that they released a patch for it’s not really a patch more of a
00:20:14,640 –> 00:20:19,840

fix for right now so they can patch it but so that is another one that there’s
00:20:19,840 –> 00:20:25,080

been two big ones that came out last week and like I said luckily enough they
00:20:25,080 –> 00:20:31,000

have mitigation take not so much patches but mitigation techniques that you can
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go ahead and look that up as well anybody who got hit with the black
00:20:35,940 –> 00:20:43,940

basta in Bubba torrent illa ransomware if you were lucky enough that you
00:20:43,940 –> 00:20:53,080

haven’t saved the hard drive or just got hit with it recently Cisco has
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announced as well as a vast that they have a decryption tool that you can run
00:21:00,400 –> 00:21:08,080

and it will actually decrypt the data that those guys have put on your stuff
00:21:08,080 –> 00:21:15,480

that’s what ransomware is they encrypt your data so you can get to it but these
00:21:15,480 –> 00:21:19,560

guys actually have a tool now both of them the vast has one and now Cisco has
00:21:19,560 –> 00:21:25,160

one as well and you can actually run this and it will decrypt your data so
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you can get it back like I said it was always glad to see when they get these
00:21:28,800 –> 00:21:33,480

tools they don’t always happen but it was really nice to see somebody finally
00:21:33,480 –> 00:21:37,760

have a tool that can get your data back in those situations those of you by the
00:21:37,760 –> 00:21:45,000

way don’t forget to run your Microsoft Windows update because it’s past Tuesday
00:21:45,000 –> 00:21:49,400

was Microsoft’s patch Tuesday they patched 48 vulnerabilities on computers
00:21:49,400 –> 00:21:55,760

I know they have some of the vulnerabilities they patched did break
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things for some something IBM broke something with them and I think Adobe as
00:22:01,080 –> 00:22:05,520

well so love updates coming out for those things but yes they have had over
00:22:05,520 –> 00:22:10,960

48 patches came out this past week so that’s a pretty heavy patch Tuesday for
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Microsoft but I think I said at least they at least they got that done also to
00:22:16,800 –> 00:22:22,680

Adobe had some vulnerabilities with cold fusion that came out D link has some
00:22:22,680 –> 00:22:28,200

issues a couple of them that were released that have csv’s from the CIA
00:22:28,200 –> 00:22:33,840

say the cybersecurity infrastructure security agency so that was in the news
00:22:33,840 –> 00:22:39,720

this week as well coders if you use JIT lab don’t forget they also had a
00:22:39,720 –> 00:22:46,240

vulnerability this week you have to patch against so quite a bit of patching
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going on this week I mean it always does a second week second Tuesday of every
00:22:52,000 –> 00:22:56,040

month is always patched Tuesday from Microsoft and most companies go ahead
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and follow suit with that sort of stuff also – I do want to bring up as well we
00:22:59,800 –> 00:23:08,680

have a big piece on our website about signal really did a real deep dive into
00:23:08,680 –> 00:23:15,480

signal on our website because I felt it was important I know a lot of people
00:23:15,480 –> 00:23:20,200

especially recently friends of mine are looking for more secure messengers not
00:23:20,200 –> 00:23:26,720

just for personal use but for their businesses and signal is is about as I
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mean about as secure as you can get as far as a messaging platform meant that
00:23:33,640 –> 00:23:38,760

it was created by the guys who invented whatsapp and when whatsapp got bought by
00:23:38,760 –> 00:23:43,680

Facebook apparently Facebook said they weren’t going to compromise the
00:23:43,680 –> 00:23:47,960

integrity of it but apparently they have they do collect metadata and stuff like
00:23:47,960 –> 00:23:51,640

that on whatsapp even though it’s supposed to be a secure messenger again
00:23:51,640 –> 00:23:55,480

profit over people and so now these guys went out a bunch of years ago and
00:23:55,480 –> 00:24:00,680

started signal and it really is quite a you know it’s it’s a 501 nonprofit was
00:24:00,680 –> 00:24:07,960

founded in 2018 and unlike all the other messengers out there they actually do
00:24:07,960 –> 00:24:15,120

encrypt and and nobody can read it but you and the guy person that’s receiving
00:24:15,120 –> 00:24:18,440

it that’s not by the way Facebook messenger Snapchat Skype Google chat
00:24:18,440 –> 00:24:23,840

text messages they are not and and encrypted the only ones that are end to
00:24:23,840 –> 00:24:27,760

end encrypted right now are whatsapp allegedly signal definitely and I
00:24:27,760 –> 00:24:34,660

message definitely so those are two important things to remember if you’re
00:24:34,660 –> 00:24:40,540

going to send somebody a message you need to be safe and secure I guess it I
00:24:40,540 –> 00:24:45,080

message or the signal I recommend either or either or if it’s fine and whatsapp
00:24:45,080 –> 00:24:51,600

is supposed to be secure and I’m not exactly sure how much I trusted there’s
00:24:51,600 –> 00:24:55,360

a lot coming out about Facebook collecting metadata collecting phone
00:24:55,360 –> 00:24:59,920

number linking that to people’s Facebook accounts so they can figure out who’s
00:24:59,920 –> 00:25:03,640

sending these encrypted messages and all that so I would be I’m hesitant I like
00:25:03,640 –> 00:25:08,920

whatsapp I do use whatsapp but if I’m gonna send something safely and securely
00:25:08,920 –> 00:25:12,280

I usually use I message or signal yet the one thing that stinks about I
00:25:12,280 –> 00:25:17,060

message is the person has to be on an iPhone or you know you can’t you can’t
00:25:17,060 –> 00:25:23,740

get it I mean that’s the only thing I mean I wish I wish Apple would open up I
00:25:23,740 –> 00:25:29,260

message to to Android just because I think it would be I mean RCS eventually
00:25:29,260 –> 00:25:35,820

might fix this but it would make end to end encryption much safer and much
00:25:35,820 –> 00:25:41,580

better I think anyway but I mean Apple’s never gonna do that they’re a
00:25:41,580 –> 00:25:47,140

for-profit company they’re they’re not gonna give I message out to just anybody
00:25:47,140 –> 00:25:51,820

because they they want people to be locked into their platform with the blue
00:25:51,820 –> 00:25:55,100

bubbles and all that so they’re not going to they’ve already talked about it
00:25:55,100 –> 00:25:58,800

many a time saying that well if we put I message on Android it might make it so
00:25:58,800 –> 00:26:02,700

easy for people to get off of Apple so they’re not going to do that I wish they
00:26:02,700 –> 00:26:06,940

would though because it would just be so much better because I message it the way
00:26:06,940 –> 00:26:11,460

the way they store stuff the way they message I go it’s just so much safer
00:26:11,460 –> 00:26:15,180

than than Android I mean RCS is going to make it better but it’s not going to
00:26:15,180 –> 00:26:20,580

make it it’s gonna make it a little bit more secure but not as much as it
00:26:20,580 –> 00:26:25,060

because SMS messages are unbelievably insecure but like I said specifically I
00:26:25,060 –> 00:26:30,160

wish they would but so what I do is if I know the person has an Android I tell
00:26:30,160 –> 00:26:35,260

them I want to use signal talk to them because signal is cross-platform it even
00:26:35,260 –> 00:26:38,760

works on the desktop and all that kind of stuff it works on your desktop it
00:26:38,760 –> 00:26:42,480

works on Mac or Windows or it’s pretty much like since it’s since it’s just an
00:26:42,480 –> 00:26:46,940

app it’s it’s cross-platform which is very nice but the one thing I am
00:26:46,940 –> 00:26:51,940

concerned about signal though is they have made it public on their blog this
00:26:51,940 –> 00:26:55,820

is they are a nonprofit you know they are they do burn through a lot of money
00:26:55,820 –> 00:27:00,220

so they are looking for donations so I actually donate a few bucks a year to
00:27:00,220 –> 00:27:05,700

them because I do use signal I know it’s not much but if you all donated a few
00:27:05,700 –> 00:27:08,780

dollars to them you know it would help them out they are a nonprofit they are
00:27:08,780 –> 00:27:12,460

really my whole issue is I well I do like signal and I think they are a great
00:27:12,460 –> 00:27:19,340

platform I don’t know if enough of their users care enough about security that
00:27:19,340 –> 00:27:25,900

they’re willing to pay for it that’s the issue with security sometimes is you
00:27:25,900 –> 00:27:30,700

know somebody may use signal and say oh this is a wonderful great platform it’s
00:27:30,700 –> 00:27:34,340

very secure they do everything to you know authenticate they do everything
00:27:34,340 –> 00:27:39,260

right but the problem is the majority of people that use it probably don’t care
00:27:39,260 –> 00:27:46,140

enough about it to pay for it I know specifically a lot of journalists use
00:27:46,140 –> 00:27:50,820

signals so they can talk to their sources securely I know a lot of
00:27:50,820 –> 00:27:56,020

countries are using it right now especially in well actually some
00:27:56,020 –> 00:28:00,560

countries actually signal is gonna pull out of because they can’t get like I
00:28:00,560 –> 00:28:05,580

think it’s England wants them to make it eat you know want them to decrypt the
00:28:05,580 –> 00:28:10,280

messages so they can read them and signals like no that’s not what we do
00:28:10,280 –> 00:28:14,180

we’re not decrypting our messages we’re pulling out of England like so but I
00:28:14,180 –> 00:28:18,740

know over like Ukraine and places like that they have been using signal to
00:28:18,740 –> 00:28:22,420

communicate securely between whatever they’re doing over there with all that
00:28:22,420 –> 00:28:26,700

stuff so I do know a lot of people links in America thought of journalists use it
00:28:26,700 –> 00:28:30,900

I do know a bunch of people use it for communicating with their company if
00:28:30,900 –> 00:28:37,220

they’re sending around trade secrets stuff like that but I know but like I
00:28:37,220 –> 00:28:40,380

said my whole issue is is signal saying well we need you know we need to raise
00:28:40,380 –> 00:28:44,140

money we’re gonna keep this going we’re a nonprofit and my whole issue with that
00:28:44,140 –> 00:28:49,740

is well you know I don’t know if enough people using it care about it enough to
00:28:49,740 –> 00:28:56,460

pay for it I mean I pay five bucks you know I’m which is nothing when you’re
00:28:56,460 –> 00:29:01,100

looking at I think they said their runway cost runway cost is how much it
00:29:01,100 –> 00:29:04,500

cost to run the company nonprofit I think they’re saying it will cost like
00:29:04,500 –> 00:29:08,020

12 to 15 million a year that’s that’s a lot of money to run a nonprofit but
00:29:08,020 –> 00:29:12,220

again they’ve got server costs they’ve got server hosting things of that nature
00:29:12,220 –> 00:29:16,460

so you know that’s kind of part of it and also to authenticating the phone
00:29:16,460 –> 00:29:21,700

numbers and things like that so there’s there’s a lot going on there and it’s
00:29:21,700 –> 00:29:24,900

not cheap to make a secure service and since they are open source and since
00:29:24,900 –> 00:29:30,340

they are you know nonprofit you know it’s a little more complicated again
00:29:30,340 –> 00:29:34,660

they’re not a for-profit company they’re putting security over people so that’s
00:29:34,660 –> 00:29:38,180

why I’m very much pro you know giving them money because they are actually
00:29:38,180 –> 00:29:42,980

creating a wonderful service and putting the security over profitability but
00:29:42,980 –> 00:29:46,660

unfortunately they rely on donations like I said I don’t know if there’s
00:29:46,660 –> 00:29:51,140

enough people that care about that service or care enough about what’s
00:29:51,140 –> 00:29:55,300

going on behind the scenes to be able to you know keep going I would imagine
00:29:55,300 –> 00:30:00,900

probably the founders they did very well selling to Facebook what’s app and
00:30:00,900 –> 00:30:04,620

imagine that they may actually put more money in to keep it going but there’s no
00:30:04,620 –> 00:30:08,340

guarantee with that I hope signal doesn’t go out of business because they
00:30:08,340 –> 00:30:10,900

have been done a lot of good work recently and help protect a lot of
00:30:10,900 –> 00:30:15,260

people and I just I don’t think they’re gonna be able to come up with enough
00:30:15,260 –> 00:30:19,540

money and keep going the same thing goes for Firefox you know Mozilla Firefox is
00:30:19,540 –> 00:30:27,180

like the alternative to Chrome they’re the alternative to a lot of other
00:30:27,180 –> 00:30:32,860

browsers and you know Mozilla is another one putting security over everything
00:30:32,860 –> 00:30:38,820

else they are a nonprofit organization but the problem is is again when you’re
00:30:38,820 –> 00:30:44,500

making a browser that’s pro security you know pro putting people first in your a
00:30:44,500 –> 00:30:49,840

nonprofit you have to rely on people donating and I don’t know if enough
00:30:49,840 –> 00:30:53,860

people I mean Mozilla has a big user base but again I think people just
00:30:53,860 –> 00:30:58,340

download it and use it and I don’t think enough people care about the security or
00:30:58,340 –> 00:31:02,500

what Mozilla is trying to do here to be able to to get enough donations to pay
00:31:02,500 –> 00:31:08,980

for their you know tens of millions of dollars a year and cost of running so
00:31:08,980 –> 00:31:13,580

you know it’s a it’s a very weird situation we’re in right now when it
00:31:13,580 –> 00:31:18,820

comes to you know security in the sense of you know these companies are trying
00:31:18,820 –> 00:31:23,780

to be nonprofit so they can put their put users first but it’s also tough when
00:31:23,780 –> 00:31:28,220

you’re trying to you know gain you know trying to earn money you know it’s it’s
00:31:28,220 –> 00:31:33,020

a different it’s a different situation I know specifically places like I think I
00:31:33,020 –> 00:31:39,140

know I know Firefox has run into some really tough issues and even signal as
00:31:39,140 –> 00:31:43,260

well and in places like China Egypt Cuba Iran places like that where they’ve
00:31:43,260 –> 00:31:49,900

actually banned Firefox and banned stuff like signal because of they don’t like
00:31:49,900 –> 00:31:54,060

the end-to-end encryption stuff and all that and again you know it’s I mean it’s
00:31:54,060 –> 00:31:59,220

a fortune for those people that yeah they can’t use a service because their
00:31:59,220 –> 00:32:02,660

country is against it especially in places like China and stuff where they
00:32:02,660 –> 00:32:07,460

are companies are must provide you know a way for them to read data and so that
00:32:07,460 –> 00:32:13,420

that’s that’s kind of the whole controversy behind tick-tock is you know
00:32:13,420 –> 00:32:18,220

the people are using tick-tock and toasted over there and and since it is a
00:32:18,220 –> 00:32:22,620

Chinese company you know they do have you know the the right in China to look
00:32:22,620 –> 00:32:29,620

through data and stuff like that of their people but since that is since
00:32:29,620 –> 00:32:34,500

Americans and other countries are using him that’s kind of where the security
00:32:34,500 –> 00:32:38,780

issue comes in is if it’s somebody who’s an American citizen do they have the
00:32:38,780 –> 00:32:42,940

right to look through it and it says it is hosted over in China do they have or
00:32:42,940 –> 00:32:50,100

you know are they looking through you know Americans data and so that so that
00:32:50,100 –> 00:32:54,380

that’s kind of why they did the ban on tick-tock because you’re dealing with a
00:32:54,380 –> 00:32:58,300

country that is is allowed to you know spy on their people but we don’t allow
00:32:58,300 –> 00:33:04,300

that in America well the problem is you have politicians and stuff like that
00:33:04,300 –> 00:33:07,660

that have tick tock on their phone and they’re in all these private discussions
00:33:07,660 –> 00:33:11,100

and stuff like that so that’s kind of where the controversy kind of came in
00:33:11,100 –> 00:33:15,660

with tick-tock and like I said you also have other companies as well other
00:33:15,660 –> 00:33:20,740

countries as well that like like I said like Egypt and Cuba and places like that
00:33:20,740 –> 00:33:26,340

where you know they don’t they’re allowed to spy on their people too and
00:33:26,340 –> 00:33:30,300

then when it’s an Americans data that’s where the kind of the controversy comes
00:33:30,300 –> 00:33:33,420

in so like I said there is that I feel that security and encryption is a human
00:33:33,420 –> 00:33:39,840

right but a lot of other countries don’t feel that same way so that’s like I said
00:33:39,840 –> 00:33:45,780

that’s part of the problem also – one of the others I wanted to bring up as well
00:33:45,780 –> 00:33:50,300

with tuna tuna Noda and proton mail one of the other issues I have with this
00:33:50,300 –> 00:33:56,760

whole situation with them capturing encrypted email and and the reason I do
00:33:56,760 –> 00:34:00,780

have a big issue with this is because a lot of places news outlets will say well
00:34:00,780 –> 00:34:06,900

hey use you know email us at this website and it’ll be an attitude to know
00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:10,740

the address or at a proton mail address that if you’re a whistleblower and
00:34:10,740 –> 00:34:15,720

you’re going to email them from an email address that’s not a to denote account
00:34:15,720 –> 00:34:20,280

we’re not a proton mail account um you’re you’re exposing your information
00:34:20,280 –> 00:34:24,580

out there if you’re trying to silently whistle blow something you’re not going
00:34:24,580 –> 00:34:30,440

to be able to you know it’s there they’re catching non encrypted emails so
00:34:30,440 –> 00:34:36,060

kind of ruins the whole point of being a whistleblower and the privacy you know
00:34:36,060 –> 00:34:41,420

these companies think oh hey we’re using you know tuna Nova or proton mail so that
00:34:41,420 –> 00:34:46,220

we’re getting these things securely you’re not actually and that that’s kind
00:34:46,220 –> 00:34:51,660

of what the concern is is you have a source that is coming to you thinking
00:34:51,660 –> 00:34:58,500

they’re sending it to you securely via an encrypted email message but it’s not
00:34:58,500 –> 00:35:01,900

it’s actually getting caught because it’s unencrypted what you with the best
00:35:01,900 –> 00:35:06,620

way to do would be to go ahead and create a to denote account or a proton
00:35:06,620 –> 00:35:09,900

mail account and send it to that address from so sweet stain because if it stays
00:35:09,900 –> 00:35:14,540

to denote a to to denote our pro time at a proton mail it’s encrypted so that
00:35:14,540 –> 00:35:18,340

would be the only way you’d be able to protect yourself but the problem is a
00:35:18,340 –> 00:35:20,980

lot of people most people don’t know that and that’s kind of the the dangerous
00:35:20,980 –> 00:35:26,800

and the scary part of the whole situation they do have open source
00:35:26,800 –> 00:35:32,900

software out there stuff like global leaks which is a open source software
00:35:32,900 –> 00:35:39,160

completely free for a company to put in place and what it actually does is it
00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:43,260

actually allows your source to submit data to a news organization securely
00:35:43,260 –> 00:35:49,980

anonymously and safely I’ve actually looked into this I’m actually gonna
00:35:49,980 –> 00:35:53,700

write something up for the web plate eventually about this I haven’t gotten
00:35:53,700 –> 00:35:57,040

to it yet but I will and I’ve actually really done an in-depth look into their
00:35:57,040 –> 00:36:01,120

systems and what it does is it actually sends you actually upload completely
00:36:01,120 –> 00:36:05,880

anonymously they don’t save any logs on the server or anything like that and
00:36:05,880 –> 00:36:09,440

then what it does you upload the actual data to the server and encrypts it only
00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:15,580

the person on the other end that’s in charge of looking at you know that data
00:36:15,580 –> 00:36:20,480

can actually open it and view it nobody else and even the server admin can look
00:36:20,480 –> 00:36:25,400

at that data because it’s encrypted it’s only available to the person that’s in
00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:29,580

charge of that server as far as the person that’s in charge of reading it
00:36:29,580 –> 00:36:34,080

whether it’s legal or a report or whatever like that it’s much more
00:36:34,080 –> 00:36:37,160

secure way of doing it like I said it’s called global leaks I’ll put a link in
00:36:37,160 –> 00:36:42,000

the description below they’re not a sponsor it’s completely free it’s open
00:36:42,000 –> 00:36:44,900

source and like I said it actually is a much more secure way for your contact or
00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:51,380

your whatever whistleblowers whatever to send data to a reporter or to news
00:36:51,380 –> 00:36:57,740

organization and they’re completely it’s completely anonymous there’s no logs or
00:36:57,740 –> 00:37:02,340

no nothing and this way they can get it up to you securely without risking their
00:37:02,340 –> 00:37:06,680

lives or their jobs or whatever they’re trying to leak out to you just sending
00:37:06,680 –> 00:37:11,900

an email through to to Nova proton mail is not a secure thing anymore unless you
00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:18,020

do it through you know through proton mail or through to to note I and most
00:37:18,020 –> 00:37:22,580

people don’t know to do that so it’s actually quite a not as a secure way of
00:37:22,580 –> 00:37:26,460

doing it sending it via email but like I said global leaks is a it’s a completely
00:37:26,460 –> 00:37:32,420

open source piece of software any company anybody can use it you could set up be
00:37:32,420 –> 00:37:36,740

set up the server takes me 20 minutes to set up and then like I said somebody can
00:37:36,740 –> 00:37:40,900

go right to the site whatever upload stuff and then the person that’s marked
00:37:40,900 –> 00:37:46,700

as the receiver or the reviewer can go ahead and review it and see if what
00:37:46,700 –> 00:37:50,460

they’re gonna do with it but like I said the even the server admin cannot see it
00:37:50,460 –> 00:37:54,380

it’s all encrypted all the database stuff is all encrypted all the passwords
00:37:54,380 –> 00:37:57,460

or everything is the software was done so well and with the thought of
00:37:57,460 –> 00:38:01,300

protecting sources it’s a really great I wish more people would use it
00:38:01,300 –> 00:38:05,320

unfortunately it’s one of those things where it was created I don’t know how
00:38:05,320 –> 00:38:09,020

many people are actually using it but I wish more people would because it is
00:38:09,020 –> 00:38:12,700

such a great piece of software and again that is global leaks if you don’t know
00:38:12,700 –> 00:38:17,380

how to install it reach out to us we can always help you out with that this isn’t
00:38:17,380 –> 00:38:20,660

an ad but it is something that most news organizations really should know about
00:38:20,660 –> 00:38:25,140

and like I said they’re what it amazes me to is like I said it is open source
00:38:25,140 –> 00:38:30,340

it is completely free and I like I said I wish more more organizations would
00:38:30,340 –> 00:38:35,180

would use it I think it will be eventually it’s just gonna take time to
00:38:35,180 –> 00:38:38,780

get people on board with it so and that is like I said global leaks I will put a
00:38:38,780 –> 00:38:43,260

link in the show notes as well so folks I’m gonna wrap it up on our first
00:38:43,260 –> 00:38:47,780

episode like I said if you you can listen to all of our old shows which we
00:38:47,780 –> 00:38:51,460

don’t have yet this would be the first one like I said at the panty security
00:38:51,460 –> 00:38:55,460

calm also to check out all of our services and everything we offer at our
00:38:55,460 –> 00:39:00,220

site like I said lapani security calm and I want to thank you for listening
00:39:00,220 –> 00:39:05,220

and we will talk to you on the next episode thank you very much
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