Please note that the start of this podcast is intended to sound like a shortwave broadcast. The sound will become normal during the introduction.
US Senate passes a bill requiring incidents reporting. Senators suck at OPSEC. Dirty pipes. Backblaze tests SSDs. Weight Watchers knows too much.
BBC shortwave broadcasts have begun.
Pwns of the week: Samsung, six state governments, Roskomnadzor, Conti.
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Conti fights for Russia without fighting for Russia. Facebook wants selfies to delete accounts. War griefing. Orbot for iOS drops. Toyota shuts down from cyber attack. MikroTik routers in Ukraine compromised.
News about Signal Private Messenger and shortwave shenanigans. Pwn of the week: Russian military. Fail of the week: also Russian military.
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Correction: The link to the CISA page referenced in this episode is https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up .
CISA warns everyone to bolster their cybersecurity now. New York State now has a statewide Joint Security Operations Center. 3G networks are going away. Facebook finds tracking transparency harmful. TikTok gets around attempts to maintain some privacy. We know who Q is.
Tracking in the analog world is getting worse.
Pwn of the week: Credit Suisse.
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MoviePass – now with 100% more evil! Finding where Telegraph users are. VMWare Horizon under attack by TunnelVision. IOI won control of the OASIS. Pegasus spyware prohibited in Europe. Expect more cyberattacks from Russia.
Cole County prosecutor declines the case against responsible disclosure. Google follows Apple’s example, but Meta doesn’t seem to mind this time. Texas sues Meta over facial recognition. Your Facebook news feed is now just a feed.
Pwn of the week: GiveSendGo. Fail of the week: Second Sight Medical Products.
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IRS drops ID.me. Ransomware demands you like and subscribe to its channel. Geofence warrant used in Seattle. Lockbit has a new version. Germany and France will be fine without Facebook.
The EARN-IT act is back. Kill it before it metastasizes.
Pwn of the week: Vodafone Portugal. Fail of the week: Mazda.
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State-level cybersecurity training. Phishing training leads to more phishing. Google fonts violate GDPR. US Athletes advised to bring burner phones to China. Right-to-repair bill for farm equipment introduced in Senate.
California net neutrality law can’t be preempted by the FCC; find out why.
Meta investor funds both WhatsApp and the tools to break it; Facebook loses users. iOS changes mess with Facebook’s revenue stream. Metaverse is losing a metric crapton (~1.1 imperial short craptons) of money, and parent company Meta loses two metric craptons of stock value.
Pwns of the week: BitFinEx, News Corporation; Fail of the week: Tesla
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Safari on iOS is insecure. ID.me is comparing faces to a database looking for repeat identity thieves. Industrial equipment pre-loaded with malware. Pkexec considered harmful. FCC orders ISPs to lay out plan details clearly.
Pwns of the week: Belarusian Railways, Patriot Front
Google bait and switch might get them sued, location handling gets them sued twice, they give up on privacy-invading FLoC technology, and they fail to recognize that there’s no copyright on the number one.
Finally, a crisis intervention AI shares data with a commercial chatbot.
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UK Government wants to convince you not to encrypt. Eye/o wins a precedent-setting court case. Australian citizens’ phones seized and searched when they returned home from overseas. Israel uses Pegasus against its citizenry. Democrats propose outlawing surveillance advertising. Youtube-dl hosting provider sued. IRS needs to see your face.
Standards are there to make things work together; Apple would rather lock in its users. Ten years after the SOPA/PIPA protests.
Pwn of the week: Red cross; fail of the week: Android Camera QR reader.
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Bad USB drives. Apple vs T-Mobile. Dutch Olympians advised to leave their devices home. Europol put on a data diet. CISA concerned about cyber threats. Google Analytics is illegal in Austria. FTC wants to break Meta up while the UK wants to sue it into oblivion. Log4j summit at the White House. REvil gets pinched. Reddit goes down. Ransomware goes.
Canon has a DRM problem with their printers. QR codes considered harmful.
Pwns of the week: Albuquerque School District, Ukraine government
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Norton 360 mines Etherium. MS Defender misses a spot. Amazon sued for collection biometric data. WSDOT has a trivially exploitable flaw. France fines Google and Facebook over cookies. Swiss army bans most messaging apps.
Pwns of the week: an unnamed academic institution and Broward Health.
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