Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts
353 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFeaturing the gear, people, places, and trends of lightweight wilderness travel.
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281: Make Fire & Burn Meat
April 29, 2023 06:11 - 38 minutes - 18 MBJon 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
280: Sprinkle Security Dust
April 22, 2023 15:52 - 47 minutes - 34.4 MBHappy 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...
279: Do Battle with the Mice
April 15, 2023 01:13 - 30 minutes - 14.3 MBJon 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
278: Skittles Popcorn
April 08, 2023 12:22 - 39 minutes - 29.1 MBEric 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 - ...
277: Field Trip Episode
March 31, 2023 15:56 - 33 minutes - 16.2 MBJon 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
276: Waggle Dance For Fun
March 25, 2023 04:18 - 37 minutes - 27.4 MBJon 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...
275: Humans Are The Squishy Bits
March 18, 2023 16:25 - 40 minutes - 19.3 MBEric 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 -...
274: Day Of Struggle
March 11, 2023 16:38 - 31 minutes - 23 MBEric 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
273: Everybody's A Critic
March 04, 2023 19:20 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBSnow 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...
272: Don't Steal Whale Food
February 25, 2023 19:11 - 41 minutes - 29.7 MBSnow in Oregon! Eric refuses to buy a truck at 20%+ markup, Jon works on building a trebuchet. An old article about Advanced Persistent Manipulators, Twitter deploys an interesting 2FA "strategy," the largest breach of medical records so far in 2023, and the City of Oakland is still coping with their ransomware attack. For fun we have the "cheapest" way to space (so far) and the largest observed gathering of whales in potentially centuries. 0:00 - Intro 16:29 - Advanced Persistent Manipul...
271: I Live To Disappoint You
February 17, 2023 17:58 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBEric sits in the middle of a play and Jon laments over bees while the both of them watch sportsball for the commercials. Eric's sister chimes in with her review of the podcast and mocks his something fun from last week. For topics this week, walk through the process of decoding a UK Rail Ticket and opine on the FBI's use of Section 702. For fun, Eric talks about Open Source Seeds and Jon goes through the top 5 best Super Bowl commercials. 0:00 - Introduction 11:07 - Decoding UK Rail Ticke...
270: A Burger Too Far
February 11, 2023 18:06 - 37 minutes - 28 MBEric visits the car show and Jon replaces a 17 year old entertainment setup. Ubiquiti Insider pleads guilty, the US secretly passed a medical cybersecurity law, 5 Guys is hit with BlackCat ransomware, and the ESXiArgs campaign enters a new phase. For fun we have a (shaken) new form of (space?) ice and a visual depiction of the dramatic reduction in working poor over the past 30 years. 0:00 - Intro 13:06 - Followup 15:59 - Inadvertent(?) Law 21:12 - 5 Guys Ransomed 23:54 - ESXiArgs ...
269: Completely and Utterly Brainless
February 03, 2023 06:03 - 33 minutes - 15.7 MBEric roasts a chicken and watches a show...(booooring!) Jon reads some stuff without his brain, listens to a violinist, copies home movies, and forgets about this pesky thing called "time zones". Eric piles on LastPass' parent. Jon acknowledges AI assisted articles are an activity allowed and an adumbration of the demise of human authored advice. (Whew...) Also, update GitHub Desktop. Finally, Eric plays Snakes in HD and Jon and Eric argue (well, Eric mostly) over whether a Tractor Beam is j...
268: Half Of Silicon Valley
January 28, 2023 04:45 - 42 minutes - 30.9 MBEric's kitchen is (finally!) complete, and hell froze over as he bought a (Windows) PC. Jon gets to (finally!) hear Itzhak Perlman after the concert gets delayed since covid. Malware using Android devices to hack wifi hotspots, a VAST ad fraud takedown, and a financial transaction surveillance program that is (mysteriously!) still funded long after the settlement money has run out, providing multiple law enforcement agencies and departments unfettered access to transaction data without due p...
267: It's a Physics Joke
January 21, 2023 17:53 - 30 minutes - 14.4 MBEric has a new car he admires from afar and revisits his Hash/Check app. Jon doesn't do much beyond reading and, something something, peaches. GTP3 takes away phishing indicators. AWS Cloudtrail IAM bypass exposed. Eric ponders poorly photoshopped cats and Jon appreciates shellsplaining... 0:00 - Introduction 10:56 - GPT3 Phishing Emails 17:51 - CloudTrail Bypass 24:38 - Poorly Phototshopped FTW 27:05 - Internet Cats 27:48 - explainshell.com
266: Very Seriously
January 14, 2023 16:38 - 40 minutes - 30.5 MBEric has another fabulous week, and Jon ... also has a week. Eric's done with his Van Gogh Lego and both get to watch Harry Potter and the OR Symphony. Slack attempts to hide its breach disclosure from indexing, Apple isn't exactly transparent when it finds malware on a device, and an app to coordinate law enforcement agencies that exposed data about suspects, raids, and officers. For fun we have new learnings from JWST, the first ever bee vaccine, and a startup trying to use CRISPR to devel...
265: Flying Bulldog
January 07, 2023 05:52 - 40 minutes - 19.6 MBThe holidays are over and its back to work. Eric talks about using facial recognition to deny paying customers entry to entertainment and cheating your Tesla on the autobahn. Jon chats package oopsies with PyTorch updates and hacked Google Home devices. Eric finds science immitating art in the atmosphere while Jon makes ice cream and admires a really big bee. 0:00 - Intro 9:32 - No Rockettes For You! 14:13 - Autopilot on the Autobahn 19:01 - PyTorch Oopsie 23:16 - Hacking Google Hom...
264: A Bigger Nerd
December 31, 2022 17:16 - 41 minutes - 31.2 MBEric has a fabulous Christmas, and Jon's still without power. But both relish nerdly gifts. We learn more about the LastPass breach, men arrested for using hacked Ring doorbells to record (and taunt) police swat teams, a potentially huge data leak from Twitter, and TikTok verified to be tracking journalists. For fun we have printable binary posters and ultra thin solar cells. Happy new year everyone! 0:00 - Intro 13:03 - LastPass Data Breach 16:27 - Taunting while Swatting 22:14 - Twi...
263: Picks You'd Like To Nit
December 24, 2022 18:45 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBGearing up for the break - Happy Holidays to All! Eric does some christmas light wardriving, Jon has a cookie party and has gifts delivered. Apple introduces new security features and Google encrypts some emails. NIST retires SHA1 and Apple fixes another zero-day. Eric rains on Jon's fusion parade and Jon relives 6 times his mind was blown. 0:00 - Intro 11:00 - Apple Security Features 16:29 - Gmail Encryption 18:26 - NIST Retires SHA1 21:02 - Apple Zero Day 23:44 - Why Fusion Will...
262: Space Toy
December 17, 2022 17:43 - 42 minutes - 31.5 MBEric and Jon prep for Christmas and Christmas Concerts; Apple may allow third party app stores, what happens when satellites are compromised, blind users of a medical implant left hanging when the company folds, and (hopefully) future end to end encrypted iCloud backups. For fun, a site about the satellites around earth and fusion ignition: more energy out than was put in. Happy holidays everyone. 0:00 - Intro 6:25 - YOU get an AppStore, and YOU ... 14:13 - Criminals in Space 19:16 - ...
261: Intentionally Chaotic
December 10, 2022 20:37 - 34 minutes - 16.3 MBJon has a musical week, Eric decorates for the holidays. Android signing certs are compromised, LastPass breach continues and CrowdStrike blogs an attack on telecom companies. Launch Asteroids at Earth and check out the Pillars of Creation. 0:00 - Introduction 9:01 - Android Compromised 13:32 - LastPass Breach Continues 17:21 - Attack on Telecom Companies 25:18 - Astroid Launcher 30:45 - Pillars of Creation
260: What's Opera Doc?
December 03, 2022 06:22 - 38 minutes - 29.7 MBEric and Jon both have good Thanksgiving meals and breaks, Looney Tunes at the Oregon Symphony, and a recommendation for Glass Onion. iSpoof takedown in the UK, significant fines down under, and trusting your laptop to a repair shop may result in privacy violations. For fun we have a video teaching lockpicking to blind students, and Roal Road, an online portal for authors. 0:00 - Intro 13:00 - Glass Onion 14:39 - iSpoof No More 21:40 - That's not a Fine, this is a Fine 25:13 - Repai...
259: Acerbic and Dry
November 25, 2022 19:41 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBIt's Thanksgiving week in the US. More FTX nonsense. Apple's "privacy" is not what you think. Zeppelin ransomware keys. TwitterIsGoingGreat.com is exactly what you think it is. Chicken chicken chicken. Help for Honeybees. Mother Learning books. 0:00 - Intro 11:19 - FTX Nonsense 14:15 - Apple's "privacy" 21:24 - Zeppelin ransomware 26:35 - Twitter is going great 27:15 - Chicken chicken chicken 29:25 - Help for Honeybees 33:40 - Mother Learning
258: Bespoke Second
November 19, 2022 16:58 - 49 minutes - 36.4 MBEric and Jon both go on road trips, Eric goes stargazing, Jon fails to fix his mule. The FTX debacle continues apace, an "accidental" 70k lockscreen bypass bounty, a russian mobile software company masquerading as a US company, and 15k wordpress sites compromised to boost SEO for worthless Q&A sites. For fun we have minutia about the definition and measurement of time, and an AI model trained on scientific papers and textbooks.
257: This Does Not Math
November 11, 2022 02:30 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBEric goes to a High School play while Jon plays with a laser engraver over a soggy weekend. Eric chats about MFA in Antarctica. Jon talks simple CVEs and order of operations. Web3 is still going great, FYI. Finally, check out a Submarine Cable Map online and decide for yourself if bees have feelings. 0:00 - Intro 0:53 - The Play That Goes Wrong 11:07 - Antarctic MFA 18:15 - Simple CVEs 23:47 - Cryptocurrency Fun! 30:56 - Submarine Cable Map 33:59 - Do Bees Have Feelings?
256: Dogs And Chocolate
November 05, 2022 13:44 - 37 minutes - 28.2 MBHalloween passes quickly this year; Eric finishes his kitchen magnetic board project, and Jon finally sets up the laser engraver. Three years later (was episode 70!) Amazon finally builds Eero into 5th gen Echo devices. An act may pass to help the government use open source software better, the FTC takes steps against Drizly CEO to enforce better security practices, and Android droppers found on Google Play. For fun, we have a nearly 2km long train in Switzerland and an obituary for Kathleen...
255: Boom Boom Boom, You Login
October 29, 2022 21:22 - 32 minutes - 15.4 MBJon's Fridge Saga Continues, Eric attends the Oregon AMS Winter Weather Conference. Passkeys are finally(?) here and GitHub Exploit PoCs should come with warning signs. Finally, check out Mark Rober's Squirrelimpics and Nikon's Small World. 0:00 - Intro 12:57 - Passkeys Are Here! 17:56 - GitHub PoC Exploit Fakes 25:43 - Squirrelimpics 3.0 27:51 - Nikon Small World
254: Dishbrain
October 22, 2022 14:29 - 35 minutes - 26.1 MBJon enjoys Panic! and Eric goes to the pumpkin patch. Equifax uses their data to detect (and fire) the overemployed, a history of the Google Plasma Globe Affair, and how not to encrypt messages. Why some people are more attractive to mosquitos, and how to train a few hundred thousand brain cells to play pong. 0:00 - Intro 11:28 - Equifax Fires Overemployed 15:40 - Google Plasma Globe Affair 19:04 - Failed at Crypto 25:50 - Mosquito Attraction 29:48 - Dishbrain
253: Acerbic and Challenging
October 15, 2022 05:35 - 34 minutes - 16 MBJon and Eric are in Texas, eating brisket. Eric's car insurance is about to spike and Jon's symphony visit takes a medical turn. Eric talks about Ikea Smart Lighting, Jon shares info on the US Airport Website hacks and Thermal Attacks for password discovery. Eric talks about Safer Nuclear Energy and Jon trolls Eric with "Fix Wasps". Finally, can CRISPR be used to cure HIV? 0:00 - Intro 10:54 - Ikea Smart Lighting 15:30 - Airport Websites Taken Down 17:30 - Thermal Attacks 22:55 - Sa...
252: Splitting Nachos
October 08, 2022 03:45 - 48 minutes - 35.2 MBEric has a new driver and hutch-free-garage, and Jon has AAPL frustrations. Both Google and Facebook ahem Meta release AI driven text-to-video examples this week. The EU votes for USB-C, wifi cameras are easy to jam, Microsoft copes with two new Exchange zero days, and Mandiant finds novel malware VIB files loaded into ESX servers. For fun we have the longest running webcam on the internet (SFO Fog Cam) and the Steam game Slipways. 0:00 - Intro 19:25 - Imagen Video 22:25 - EU Votes for ...
251: Not with a Whimper, but a Bang
October 01, 2022 18:23 - 43 minutes - 20.8 MBEric rambles about photography, teaching his boy to drive, furniture items nobody wants, endangered flowers and sleeping with the watch. Jon has a boring, beeless, bachelor weekend. Deep Fakes with Real People, Python bugs from 2007 and License Plate tracking for Fun and Profit. Eric eyes a new island while Jon denotes the DART damage. Finally, read up on the Tripitaka Koreana. Magnificent. 0:00 - Intro 12:47 - Deep fakes with Real People 22:05 - Trellix (re)finds bugs from 2007 27:...
250: Speed Pillows
September 24, 2022 15:02 - 46 minutes - 33.8 MBEric battles CO2 and gets his Speed Pillows installed, and Jon's fridge is still broke. Beware remote controlled insulin pumps, and congrats (?) to the Solarium Commission; a story of industrial sabotage, and a critical Oracle Cloud vulnerability. For fun we have the makeup and history of a QR code, and can we use AI to understand whales? 0:00 - Intro 17:04 - Insulin Pumps Vulnerable 18:32 - Solarium Commission 23:48 - Industrial Espionage 30:25 - Oracle Cloud #AttachMe 36:03 - Ma...
249: Texts and Cat GIFs
September 17, 2022 17:51 - 41 minutes - 29.1 MBEric is haunted by spiders and Jon is on a hunt for jeans. US Congress hears from Mudge, Apple introduces Lockdown Mode, the US Government sanctions people and entities for their roles in conducting cyber attacks, and Glassdoor has a Cache Poisoning. Eric follows up with how spiders fly, Jon finshes with a Cosmic Tarantula and the Phases of Water. 0:00 - Intro 11:58 - Twitter Whistleblower 15:45 - Lockdown Mode 22:40 - Sanctions 26:20 - Cache Poisoning 32:05 - Electric Flight of S...
248: Thumbtack And String Covered Corkboard
September 10, 2022 15:26 - 42 minutes - 31.2 MBEric's back in the kitchen and the kids are back in school. Apple holds an event to #takeJonsMoney, and USB4 naming can get more complicated -- who knew? The IRS lets taxpayer data sit in the open for a year, and Facebook tweaked its URLs so the tracking parameters can't be removed by browsers. A 14 year old boy cracked the Australian Signals Directorate challenge coin in an hour, and rest in peace Peter Eckersley. Far too young. 0:00 - Intro 15:10 - Apple Event 21:47 - USB4 Version 2.0...
247: Punch Us In The Face
September 02, 2022 05:35 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBEric walks his week backward from hiking Mt. St. Helens to becoming a Twitch celebrity. Jon gets a Dream Machine. Krebs follows up on Ubiquiti, Eric tweets #TwitterWhistleblower and notes that Plex is Too Good. Jon eyes an 0ktapus and then the whole show goes hilariously awry. Eric goes nuclear. Jon finds soft body physics and admires CO². 0:00 - Intro 4:18 - Eric on Twitch 10:21 - Ubiquiti followup 12:01 - #TwitterWhistleblower 15:15 - Plex Password Reset 20:00 - Phishing, Contin...
246: Honey Hand Sanitizer
August 26, 2022 15:16 - 42 minutes - 32.2 MBEric cooks and desperately waits for a kitchen, and Jon harvests his honey for the year and goes camping. Go look at the JWST images of Jupiter! Amazon releases cybersecurity education videos, Apple releases patches for serious vulnerabilities across all its platforms, a long standing heap reuse bug to get priv escalation in Linux, and Cellebrite has years of emails exposed in a legal filing. For fun join Rocket League Old Farts or play Call to Adventure. 0:00 - Intro 17:29 - JWST Jupiter...
245: Reminiscent of Meat
August 20, 2022 00:43 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBEric crosses a bridge and Jon's bees escape. Twilio and Cloudflare disclose on phishing attempts while Deere, well, its not a good look. Eric tempts Jon with Fake Bacon and Jon talks about GPS Jamming which is neither GPS nor Jamming. 0:00 - Intro 6:37 - St. John's Bridge 14:38 - Phishing Targets 19:22 - Deere in the Headlights 26:00 - Fake Bacon 32:08 - GPS Jam
244: Dead Spider Claw Machines
August 12, 2022 22:28 - 39 minutes - 29.5 MBEric paints and Jon does #nothingMuch. Riot profits more from *not* mining BitCoin (thanks #texas!), Microsoft releases 121 fixes for patch Tuesday, and a way to read uninitialized memory from CPU cache. For fun we have the Ig Nobel Prizes, and (thanks #science) how to use dead spider bodies as claw machines. 0:00 - Intro 11:57 - Riot Power Credits 13:47 - Hacking Fuel Pumps 19:43 - Patch Tuesday 23:07 - Æpic Leak 29:55 - Ig Nobel Prize 35:06 - Dead Spiders
243: Game Of Thrones In Space
August 05, 2022 13:21 - 45 minutes - 33.7 MBEric and Jon are both back from vacation; Jon still recovering from Covid. Apple shows how Passkeys will be used outside the Apple ecosystem, a dating site for the unvaxxed has its data exposed, some practical suggestions to assist in the fight against ransomware, and some interesting malware stats and search tips from VirusTotal. For fun we have the series Red Rising by Pierce Brown, and Jon gets his DALL-E invite. 0:00 - Intro 12:30 - Practical Passkeys 15:48 - Unjected Exposed 20:1...
242: Mostly Fun, Vol. 1
July 29, 2022 00:34 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBJon and Eric were unable to connect this week - so Eric takes a look back at a few of the "Something Fun" topics over the last several years. Enjoy! 0:00 - Intro 0:32 - Episode 8 1:11 - First Amazon Purchases 4:51 - Jon's Beekeeping Journey Begins 6:30 - Episode 42 6:51 - 42 9:23 - Episode 96 9:53 - Hacking Passwords 13:48 - Crazy Sauce 18:42 - Episode 156 19:27 - Star Wars Scroll Creator 22:20 - Arecibo Collapse 25:18 - Chapel of the Ancients 28:15 - Human Nature ...
241: Kafkaesque
July 23, 2022 15:58 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBJon is in Germany touring cathedrals and Eric is unable to spend money. Cybersecurity apprenticeship programs, Rust-based ransomware and yet another breach. Eric finds hacking fly brains interesting and Jon admires Reims Cathedral. 0:00 - Intro 8:27 - No Sale for NSO Group 9:15 - Cybersecurity Apprenticeships 12:42 - Rust Ransomware 16:09 - Debt Collection Ransomware 20:25 - Hacking Fly Brains 23:28 - Reims Cathedral
240: Mystery Pipes
July 15, 2022 15:24 - 43 minutes - 31.8 MBEric enjoying summer and Jon stressed out. Honda key fobs vulnerable to replay attacks, if you mine bitcoin in texas you're cut off, and how to sell a billion dollars in fake Cisco hardware. And (drumroll....) the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are in, and they're stunning. Enjoy! 0:00 - Intro 21:37 - Rolling-PWN 27:51 - Bitcoin Shutdown in Texas 32:48 - Fake Cisco Hardware 38:49 - First Images from JWST!
239: Humans are Expensive
July 09, 2022 15:47 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBEric has a rollercoaster week, Jon counts his bees. Instagram is a ghost, North Korea adds targets to ransomware attacks, and Lawyers hire hackers to get information for litigation. Eric share Absurd Trolley Problems and Jon asserts Code is Just. 0:00 - Intro 14:54 - Boo, Instagram 24:38 - NK Ransomware Attacks 28:56 - Hacking for Lawyers 33:54 - Absurd Trolley Problems 36:21 - Code is Just
238: Washing Dishes In The Bathtub
July 01, 2022 22:16 - 40 minutes - 30 MBEric feeling better and reading more, Jon fighting squirrels and bees. Are mass resignations incoming? How about some job applicants using Deepfakes then. The price of bitcoin may be hurting North Korea, and if you own the webview you can extract critical data. For fun we have a media hat trick: a podcast (The Joy of Why), a video (Japanese nail-less (de-)construction), and a book (Kaiju Preservation Society). 0:00 - Intro 14:58 - Resignations Incoming? 19:47 - Deepfake Job Applicants ...
237: Stop Whacking the Mole
June 24, 2022 23:21 - 38 minutes - 27.1 MBJon got surprised by last minute concert tickets and has moar internet. Eric gets ill and reads a lot. A US defense contractor wants NSO group tool and some Modified Elephant followup. FBI chases a LinkedIn cryptocurrency scam, scammers chase unpatched Confluence servers, and the US DOJ catches a Russian botnet. Eric appreciates Lava Lamp Encryption and Jon follows up again on CRISPR. 0:00 - Intro 13:35 - NSO technology takeover 15:20 - Elephants planting evidence 18:44 - LinkedIn cry...
236: Dripping Blue
June 18, 2022 14:35 - 43 minutes - 31.6 MBEric builds bee boxes and Jon's bees aren't doing so well. Oh, and bees "can be included under the law's definition of 'fish'." Three named vulnerabilities this week: PACMAN, SynLapse, and Hertzbleed. Although two of them shouldn't be much of a concern for most of the #realWorld. For fun we have a frustrating game, a beaver internet outage in Canada, and a faceID patent to detect the veins in your face. 0:00 - Intro 10:56 - Bees Are Fish? 13:52 - PACMAN 18:14 - SynLapse 27:00 - Hert...
235: A Leaky Bike Bucket
June 11, 2022 17:01 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBEric has no kitchen, Jon misses the symphony and almost catches a swarm. More "Death to Passwords" talk from Apple, an S3 Bucket exposed, and CISA warns about the top PRC exploits. Eric dives into a new book series and Jon watches more YouTube. 0:00 - Intro 16:00 - Apple Passkey 29:46 - Mobike Bucket 33:52 - CISA Alerts 38:49 - Cradle Series by Will Wight 43:39 - Out of the Woods YouTube
234: Mutant Tree Ent Overlords
June 04, 2022 14:40 - 47 minutes - 34.5 MBJon fails at grafting and a Weekend at Eric's. Come for the Bad Guys, stay for the animation. Future cyber predictions, WSL malware, and the Polonium actor group. For fun we have lab grown wood products and the new AI artist in town. 0:00 - Intro 9:15 - The Bad Guys 15:54 - Cybersecurity in the Future 25:09 - WSL Malware Increasing 30:09 - Exposing Polonium Activity 35:54 - Lab Grown Wood 40:51 - AI Can't Spell
233: A Pleasant Trip To The DMV
May 28, 2022 19:04 - 41 minutes - 29 MBJon talks bees, Eric has a boring weekend. Good news for "Good Faith" hackers. How to steal open source libraries "for science" and the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Eric ponders stolen NFTs and Jon considers Viking Ships. 0:00 - Intro 13:08 - Good Faith Hackers 16:41 - Library Theft 19:13 - Sock Puppets 25:55 - Verizon Report 31:36 - Stolen NFTs 36:43 - Viking Ship
232: Artificial Fixation
May 21, 2022 14:50 - 44 minutes - 32 MBEric returns from Disneyland and Jon goes back to Corvallis. iPhones could potentially be attacked even when turned off, executives also use bad passwords, and protocol downgrade attacks abound. For fun we have the world's most inconvenient convenience store, and a way to trick your brain into understanding more of what you read. 0:00 - Intro 15:28 - Eric Topic 21:00 - CEO Passwords 25:11 - Correct Horse Battery Staple 26:15 - Protocol Downgrade Attacks 36:18 - Inconvenient Conven...