Hello folks,
As I work on recovery, maybe its time that I put things together like today’s just completed TSB.
I’d like to thank Terry and Nick for coming up, and Preston sent a note saying he listened live.
Let’s put things in to perspective. The notations in Braille that I produced were not my best work, but we pushed forward and I’d like to thank Nick for his help.
We also want to let people across the country know we’re thinking of you. While I could complain about my 37 at home at 7 am or so in the morning, more people have it a lot worse.
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Coming soon, we’re going to update EMHS’s TSB page with these two episodes and I’ve already gotten it updated with the next scheduled date.
Thanks so much for listening and now for our show notes which include morons, our topic, things to ponder and of course, how to support and contact us.
Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 175. I’ve been out sick, and now we’re back to bring you what we wanted to bring you this past week. We’ve got news, notes, the landscape, two morons, things to ponder and a topic dealing with dark web threats targeting the airline industry. Thanks so much for listening and make it a great day!
Our Morons
We have to start with the moron who thought it would be a good idea that a database be left wide open for people to peruse the data. This database is a Mongo DB database, its similar to SQL where data is held and can be gotten at when needed. While this is a real estate app, this was definitely not done with security in mind.
If we’ve not had enough with Chat GPT, this aught to stand your hair right up. This data breaches article talks about how Chat GPT was made to give out ransomware software and now 4 are arrested. This aught to get more interesting.
ChatGPT-aided ransomware in China results in four arrests as AI raises cybersecurity concerns
Things to ponder
Carrying over some items that we just will run as part of this week’s program, we’ve got some doozies. We’ll blog anything we didn’t yack about as I continue to recover.
- 23 and me must be wanting to play the blame game. They claim that their incident is our fault, and they then are going to fix whatever security holes were caused by whathappened? Yes, we are at fault with reusable passwords, but you don’t have two-factor on any accounts, so its a double whammy and part of it is yours. Here’s my blog post from 2023 about this particular problem. I don’t think its gotten any better there and they haven’t really been better.
- Sans News Bites is back, and I still need to blog some others. My goal was to get two done, but I have the one from the 5th of January. As we move forward from my illness, we’ll record them as we get them. Check the blog for ones not covered in audio. Here’s my blog post for Jan 5th for those who want to find it easily.
- We’re interested in audio dealing with predictions and Trend Micro has one for their predictions. This comes from their trend talks threats podcast series on their youtube channel.
- We also have top breaches that I found from Have I been Poned that I recorded before my illness took over. This list changes, and we’ll bring this to you each week.
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Our topic
Our topic this week comes to us from Phishlabs. Dark Web Threats Targeting the Airline Industry is the article and we’ll step through this one. Hope you’ll find it of interest as everyone travels.
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Yeah I agree on the database.
A couple times a little while ago, a couple users with more data and time decided to have a couple ftp servers up for public use.
Same with torrent syncs, the plan was a community where things could be shared.
It was meant for design and such and yes it started like that.
Pritty soon cracks, viruses, hacking into systems, and all that eventually got them stopped.
In one case the isp shut it down, in another the law.
I was able to get some of the bad sadly from those but I did pick up a bunch of midis, some books audio and text and a few other things but still they failed.
In the beginning there were ftps of music and other stuff with passwords on them and I got a lot of stuff but thhat didn’t last long.
This was before spotify, netflix and other platforms though.