Episode 28 – News Updates shownotes
Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin
HeartBleed – ep019
Google Project Zero started as an initiative against future heartbleeds
How a high profile exploit actually helped
https://www.cbronline.com/news/security/5-reasons-heartbleed-has-been-good-for-cyber-security-4322739
Currently, there are about 309,197 systems still vulnerable to Heartbleed, which is a slight drop from the 318,239 Graham discovered in early May. The slow drop indicates that Heartbleed patching has more or less ended.(Jun 27th)
Making a fix is easy, Getting people to apply it…
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/07/why-heartbleed-is-still-a-problem/
Bug bounty topic: Seque Valve: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-responds-to-steam-developers-security-concer/1100-6421214/
Target Breach – ep016
In January 2014, Target announced that the contact information — full names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers — of 70 million customers had also been compromised. Some of those customers probably also had credit-card data compromised in the earlier breach, but it’s possible that as many as 110 million people were affected by the Target breaches.
Literally nothing has changed over all
except maybe now people know that CC compromise is easy so more people are doing it?
https://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/six_months_after_the_target_se.html
It’s driving change but change is a fancy car with a large price tag
A 2011 white paper from ATM manufacturer Triton Systems put the estimated cost of upgrading ATMs in the U.S. at about $500 million and point-of-sale terminals across the country somewhere around $6.8 billion.
CIO resigned, CEO in trouble: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2134444/security-leadership/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html
PoS compromises https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/21/ebayed_point_of_sale_terminal_leak_peril/
CellPhone OS adoption – ep022
Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
2.2 | Froyo | 8 | 0.7% |
2.3.3 – | Gingerbread | 10 | 13.5% |
4.0.3 – | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 11.4% |
4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 27.8% |
4.2.x | 17 | 19.7% | |
4.3 | 18 | 9.0% | |
4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 17.9% |
Data collected during a 7-day period ending on July 7, 2014.
Any versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown.
https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Ios iOS 7 adoption reaches 90 per cent ahead of iOS 8
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ios-7-adoption-reaches-90-per-cent-ahead-of-ios-8
iPhone Worm
https://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/11/jailbroken-iphones-hit-with-rickroll-worm.html