Jan 28, 2022
Eric and Jon enjoy the (brief) respite from Oregon Winter Rain. Github enables second factor via push to mobile app, a 12 year old Linux privilege escalation, vulnerabilities in the Winter 2022 Olympics app, and remote controlling Tesla car functions via API keys. For fun a high schooler making circuits in his garage,...
Jan 21, 2022
Jon vaporizes some expensive bees, Eric creates an icon and is therefore serious. Cyber-Snow Days for Schools, Red Cross is hacked, Russia arrests some hackers and Ukraine has some PCs wiped. Eric's fun is Web3 and Jon's fun is new data on MS.
Jan 14, 2022
Eric returns from a wedding and Jon tidies up the apiary. A developer sabotages his own NPM packages, threat actors sending USB devices in disguise, and ransomware in the hardware. For fun, we have navigation by fish, public domain day 2022, and evidence of how lightning begins.
Jan 8, 2022
Happy New Year! Jon and Eric chat about cliché resolutions followed by log4j penalties. Eric softballs up a chrome note, a pixel 911 issue and an unlikely HomeKit crash. Jon talks about cryptocurrency contract bugs. Eric moves on to a serial brain and Jon drops a Cars reference while talking about tractors.
Jan 1, 2022
Eric and Jon are enjoying a bit of downtime over the holiday; the JWST was launched successfully, and you might not realize "encouraged" meant "required" in China. More Log4J followup, Shutterfly hit with ransomware, phishing for stock info, and building automation systems attacked. For fun we have self replicating...