Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 12

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* Singtel buys Trustwave
* Snowden does interview with John Oliver
* CheckPoint buys Lacoon

* Everyone’s trying to do everything, which gives the big people a major advantage

* China melted GitHub

* MiTM’d Baidu traffic and modified its analytics JavaScript to make constant requests to GitHub
* They did it because GitHub was hosting two mirror repos for content that is banned in China
* Also highlights the need for encryption, so that the JS couldn’t have been injected

* Obama just came out and said that if you attack us, we’ll sanction you

* How does that work exactly, when China makes everything we use?

* Then we just found out Russia hacked us through the State Department issue
* A major vulnerability was revealed in Inngate routers used in the US and Europe.

* It allows attackers to browse and write to the root file system of the devices, changing configuration, distributing malware, etc.
* Mostly used in US and European hotels

* Attackers are compromising IRS accounts in large numbers. Claim yours to avoid it happening to you
* Featuring Brooks Garrett

* He’s a friend and co-worker going back 8 years
* He’s the smartest IT guy I’ve ever known: sick programmer, Linux ninja, database, networking, everything. Full stack, real deal.
* He’s a volunteer firefighter
* He blogs at http://brooksgarrett.com: latest posts are Remote Streaming with Pi and MPD, Nagios SMS alerts with Amazon SNS, Cleaning Passwords from Logs, Fixing OhMyZSH prompts in PuTTY
* His Twitter is @brooksgarrett
* If you’re not following his stuff, you should be

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Notes

* Intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.