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Mostly Security

Jon King and Eric Wuehler

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job. From beekeeping adventures to hiking mountains to favorite shows, there"s always something fun to wrap up the show.

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37:01

292: People Farming

Mostly Security ·

2023/07/15

Jon gardens and Eric has a potpourri of activities (hiking, museuming, movieing). Scams and phishing up huge year over year, and will Meta ever launch Threads in the EU (honoring privacy laws?). For fun we have SR-71 stories and a fishing charter out of SW Washington. 0:00 - Intro 11:35 - Scams Up 16:45 - No Threads for EU 23:23 - SR-71 Blackbird 32:50 - Salty Dog

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39:54

291: The Brisket Saga

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2023/07/06

Eric's attempt at making brisket was hampered by IOT failures, Jon's attempt at fishing was hampered by stomach failures. More surveillance camera oopsies and NSO acquisition notes. Will the UK force backdoors in encrypted messages and people really still send snail mail scams via the post office? Who knew. Threads is the latest Twitter replacement and we're looking forward to seeing pebbles from an asteroid. 0:00 - Introduction 19:37 - Surveillance Camera Fail 22:15 - NSO Acquisition Fail 23:40 -

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39:24

290: Muscular Barbarian

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2023/07/01

Eric goes stargazing and Jon road-trips to southern oregon. Electromagnetic Fault Injection in drones and a severe zero click apple bug used to target Kaspersky employees. For fun we have a reimagined We Didn't Start the Fire by Fall Out Boy, and a new 'zoom out' feature by Midjourney. 0:00 - Intro 18:03 - EMFI 23:16 - TriangleDB 31:44 - We Didn't Start the Fire 33:38 - Midjourney Zoom Out

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39:15

289: Four Brain Cells

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2023/06/23

Father's Day stuffs, weddings, missed baseball games, beach pizza with carrot chasers. Google sells out to Squarespace. That 30TB external drive is not the deal you think it is. Oregon DMV data compromised. Eric ends up at America's Car Museum and Jon recommends He Who Fights With Monsters. 0:00 - Introduction 10:57 - Google Domains 15:00 - When is 30TB not 30TB? 23:03 - Oregon DMV Data Loss 29:45 - America's Car Museum 33:49 - He Who Fights With Monsters 36:30 - 仙俠

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40:12

288: Inverse Honeypot

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2023/06/17

Jon stacks hay and has a graduate, while Amazon fails to deliver poptarts for Eric. Github repositories purporting to demonstrate zero days instead are malicious; Barracuda urges hardware replacement of compromised devices, unable to patch with software; and spy camera ecosystem completely compromised and practically unpatchable. For fun we have neal.fun's space elevator and a solar probe discovers more about the source of the solar wind. 0:00 - Intro 12:20 - Fake Exploits 16:03 - Hardware

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33:15

287: Putting Some Honey Up Top

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2023/06/09

Eric's Rocket League team is in first place and Jon's bees are doing great! Kaspersky discovers a compromise on the inside (reboot your iPhone!), Chrome needs an update and BitDefender detects anomalies. Eric beams solar power down to earth and Jon muses what a lost couple decades might be. 0:00 - Introduction 8:53 - Reboot your iPhone 15:37 - Update your Chrome 18:16 - Check your Android Apps 24:25 - Solar Power from Outer Space 27:22 - Waking up after 2 decades

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39:27

286: LoTR Type Hike

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2023/06/03

Eric runs around Oregon and Mostly Bee Talk with Jon. 60 Minutes demos DeepFake voice hacking -- social engineering remains the easiest and most prevalent way folks are compromised; and PyPi declares that all project and org maintainers must enroll in 2FA before the end of the year. For fun we have the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper that uses Raspberry Pi's and ZiGGY -- a mobile EV charging solution. 0:00 - Intro 13:52 - Eric Topic 19:52 - PyPi Goes 2FA 27:17 - Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper 33:32

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35:05

285: Unprecedented Business Requirement

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2023/05/26

Jon goes fishing and figures he'll fix a car. Eric goes camping but doesn't really and learns about volunteering at the zoo. Please check out https://attachment.zip for fun, TikTok gets banned in Montana, Suzuki shuts down in India and TrendMicro informs us on the Lemon Group. Eric still enjoys playing Rocket League and Jon catches up on the Mistborn series. 0:00 - Introduction 11:56 - The .zip TLD is fun! 13:22 - TikTok banned in Montana 16:32 - Suzuki India 19:50 - Lemon Group 28:34 - Rocket

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38:54

284: Jellies and Sponges

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2023/05/20

Jon listens to concerts, the bees are doing well, and Eric avoids the heat and gets his sprinklers and AC working. The many scam apps claiming ChatGPT, new confusing top level domains, the FBI takes out a Snake with Perseus, and MSI has its firmware signing keys stolen by ransomware. Earth is probably safe from an asteroid for the next thousand years, and which came first, the (comb) jelly or the sponge? 0:00 - Intro 11:53 - ChatGPT Scams 15:39 - File Extension or TLD? 19:04 - Perseus vs. Snake

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36:18

283: Brag about it on Social Media

Mostly Security ·

2023/05/13

Eric survives a flash flood in his backyard and Jon's bees are alive. Wyoming will have a Nuclear Power Plant soon and ICS Patch Tuesday is a thing. The Spanish arrest a bunch of Phishing Pholks and there's 10 million bucks in easy money for somebody... Eric finishes The Three Body Problem series and Jon recommends the Paternus Trilogy. 0:00 - Introduction 11:04 - Nuclear Power is Back 13:55 - ICS Patch Tuesday 19:44 - Phishing Arrests 22:31 - Who wants $10,000,000? 28:53 - The Three Body Problem

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37:50

282: Disappointed Face

Mostly Security ·

2023/05/06

Spring Grilling begun for both Jon and Eric, and Jon got his bees, and it's a Google Night for topics. First, Google fails to encrypt Authenticator secrets when synchronizing across devices, invalidating the security premise; and then Google enables support for passkeys across all its accounts. For fun we have a recipe aggregator and interface: Super Cook, and an undisturbed, ancient tomb found in Ireland. 0:00 - Intro 12:32 - Authenticator Exposes Secrets 17:26 - Passkeys for Google 28:26 -

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38:58

281: Make Fire & Burn Meat

Mostly Security ·

2023/04/29

Jon attempts to go fishing and repair a small engine. Eric attempts pest control. LockBit Ransomware code specific to Apple Silicon found and Kubernetes RBAC finds Monero "friends". Eric admires weed killing robots and Jon finds life deep in antarctic caverns. 0:00 - Introduction 16:40 - LockBit Ransomware for Mac 21:07 - Mac Ransomware 22:31 - Klever Kubernetes Exploits 29:12 - Weed Killing Robots 33:28 - Antarctic Caverns

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47:28

280: Sprinkle Security Dust

Mostly Security ·

2023/04/22

Happy Tax Day (in the US). Read the latest Brandon Sanderson novel, Eric's going to coldplay, Jon tried a pottery class. Smooth Operator source is 'high confidence' North Korea, and it was still in the gathering stages (probably). Is Juice Jacking (again?) a thing, and principles of secure software development from CISA and supporting agencies. For fun, what your climate may be like in 60 years, and a talented potter on YouTube. 0:00 - Intro 14:13 - Smooth Operator Source 15:22 - Smooth Operator

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30:49

279: Do Battle with the Mice

Mostly Security ·

2023/04/15

Jon is unable to split bees and is still working out a cough. Eric drives half way to Seattle because Amtrak decided to stop functioning. Cars can now be stolen by popping out a headlight and no package manager is safe from supply chain attacks. Eric shares a Stitch and Jon gives credit to Einstein's first wife. 0:00 - Introduction 7:54 - Car Stealing 11:40 - NuGet Package Manager 20:35 - Stitch 23:22 - Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife

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39:17

278: Skittles Popcorn

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2023/04/08

Eric and Jon are both back from their respective road trips. Samsung will patch for the Exynos flaws in April, the Biden administration issues and executive order limiting the government use of some forms of spyware, the RESTRICT act to ban tik tok is 'insanely broad' and could easily sweep other software into its net, and the 'Smooth Operator' supply chain vuln from last week hit the mac too. For fun we have two vacation happenings: freeze dried skittles and the shuttle Enterprise. 0:00 - Intro

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33:37

277: Field Trip Episode

Mostly Security ·

2023/03/31

Jon drives across the US, Eric takes his boy on college tours. ChatGPT has a bug, AirTags are used by the government, Bitcoin ATMs get hacked and Android Developers can better avoid fraud if they use the right APIs. Eric finally finishes book 2 of The Three Body Problem and Jon checks out a T-Rex. 0:00 - Introduction 9:27 - ChatGPT Outage 11:41 - AirTag Surveillance 14:42 - Bitcoin ATM Hack 18:47 - Android Fraud Abuse Help 23:46 - The Dark Forest 27:56 - Sue the T-Rex

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37:12

276: Waggle Dance For Fun

Mostly Security ·

2023/03/25

Jon and Eric prepare for road trips; the trebuchet is (mostly) done, and spring may have started in Oregon. Project Zero finds a modem vuln in modern android phones and watches, Lionsgate streaming left an ElasticSearch instance wide open, and LinusTechTips YouTube channel was taken over. For fun we have Charlie Chaplin (and Einstein!) and a study on how bees learn the waggle dance. 0:00 - Intro 12:33 - Disable Voice over LTE 17:24 - Lionsgate Leak 21:35 - LinusTechTips Hacked 26:44 - Charlie

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40:37

275: Humans Are The Squishy Bits

Mostly Security ·

2023/03/18

Eric does car things and watches a musical from 1875, Jon has trebuchet updates and enjoys the local High School production of The Addams Family. Telehealth company (legally) sells your medical data to advertisers. Cybercriminals are arrested in Europe and CISA will port scan your website. Eric is the only one who likes a 3 wheeled car and in the wake of SVB, Jon (after a sidebar on his Tablo woes) shares a great banking system explainer. 0:00 - Introduction 7:09 - Trial by jury 14:52 - Cerebral

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31:00

274: Day Of Struggle

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2023/03/11

Eric projects around the house and Jon gives a trebuchet update. LastPass hits keep coming, changing someone else's address, the (good!) network consequences of a DDoS takedown, and Wednesday was International Women's Day. 0:00 - Intro 11:05 - LastPass via Plex 13:56 - Address Change 21:42 - DDOS Seizure Fallout 26:53 - International Women's Day

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37:01

273: Everybody's A Critic

Mostly Security ·

2023/03/04

Snow happens and disrupts everything except Eric's shiny new Rocket League Old Farts Season 8 Championship title. Scammy authenticator apps. AI generated voices breaking into banks. Typosquatting on PyPi. Electricity thieves for Crypto. Eric discovers Tatooine could exist and Jon speculates on how smart ChatGPT actually is...

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