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Show notes
Welcome to the Security box, podcast 128. On this podcast, we probably have two morons of the podcast, one of which should’ve gotten it before we came up with the idea. We also ask the question, What’s going on over at CISA? This acronuym stands for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Seems as though they don’t know what’s going on, or at least might be confused.
Moron of the podcast
We have listed both morons of the podcast by listing the basics of the story and links to the stories themselves.
- It seems as though T-Mobile has had yet another breach with at least another estimated 37 million consumers, whether prepaid or postpaid.
- New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts Krebs on Security
- T-Mobile investigates yet another data breach, this one affecting 37 million accounts Cyberscoop
- The second moron goes to a guy in Russia that thought it would be fun to launder crypto currency. Not only was he funneling Crypto, but he was the founder of a crypto currency exchange. Russian founder of a cryptocurrency exchange known for funneling ransomware profits arrested comes to us from Cyberscoop and hasn’t been blogged as of yet, but will be.
Topic: What’s going on at CISA?
CISA has been known to send notifications via an email list that people can subscribe to. How I got on it, I don’t remember, but it has since changed the way things are sent. Regardless, the article Insiders worry CISA is too distracted from critical cyber mission is our article that will help us with our discussion. It also comes from Cyberscoop.
Other stuff
I know that Nick missed last week’s program so we’ll give him an opportunity to get on the program and talk about anything from last week. We’ll go through news, notes and other things too.
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Hello Shaun,
T-Mobile has been covered on this and other podcasts I’m sure. Having people being targets all 6 times leaves something to be concerned about.
As for the NVDA project, if it was truly malware, we’d all know it. I do agree it is comparable to the free readers out there now, and we’ll see how it evolves.
I don’t want to say that Crypto is bad. I like the idea, honestly. But Shaun, nobody takes it except for a few companies that I am aware of. One being Namecheap, the domain registrar. The other major company who allows you to buy and sell and pay for things using it is Paypal.
With that said, we always hear bad news about Crypto, this is why it is so bad in publications. Search out bitcoin’s discussion through Security Now. Its podcast 250 and covers the technological side of bitcoin. Its sound and works, but the only news we see is people staling founds, using it for ransomware and the like. I’d love to see it survive, cryptocurrency might be our future if people don’t abuse it.
There’s one thing about CRYPTO CURRENCY. That is, at least with Bitcoin, once the last coin is minted (around 2150 according to Mikko’s book) there will be no more bitcoin.
What about others? I can’t say and have no knowledge of it. Bitcoin is the most popular and is associated with cybercrime.
Hmmmph.
I rarely comment on this but I heard something about the breaches from t mobile from several customers on one of the lists I am on.
Some of them have been in those 6 times.
They have held out but there is a lot of bad service and to be honest half of them are over it and are leaving.
So if t mobile doesn’t pull its socks up, they won’t be that popular or even continue at all if people leave.
Next the crypto.
Question is why be dumb.
Cripto is, could be the way of the future.
However dumb asses like this pluss some bad apples could kill it.
I am sure the regulated financial industry as corrupted as it can be would be verry happy to nuke all crypto and say its a bad idea.
I had an article similar or at least in the same vain of mind to this which was concerning free software in schools and how data would be at risk malware etc.
However its slant which I am utterly against was that the obvious solution was that all free, opensource software and anything free in general was malware, bad and should be banned.
We should buy and use the comercial software which of course is secure as a house.
And we know how wrong that statement is.
I had issues with jaws and activations back at uni.
I just hope this doesn’t derail actual stuff that helps.
I mean nvda is a good reader.
For home use and if allowed in business, I’d never go back.
I do testing for 1 company not fs obviously and compaired to nvda I find it not as good as nvda is now.
Being nvda was built using modern web standards as its strongpoint well its good.
But its free and therefore full of malware and will give my data to china.
Now there are always bad apples but blanket statements are dangerous.
Sadly its happening in the government here which I really try to not get into sadly its in my personal but only because I live here.
Point is all these dumb people and all the rest of the bad guys are not helping.
They don’t care obviously but we are in a bad spot.
I don’t want the badguys to win but I don’t want the corperate bastards to either.
We are in the middle of a war of high prices and hackers.
The traditional side wants to snuff out the revolution before it gets started.
The others just want to get as much out of it as they can.
Now I am all for revolution but doing it for personal gain does make you the enemy I think.
Some don’t get that quite.