The Southern Fried Security Podcast
Join Andy Willingham, Martin Fisher,Steve Ragan, Yvette Johnson, and Joseph Sokoly as they discuss information security, news, and interview interesting people. Get in the discussion at www.southernfriedsecurity.com.

Tonight Martin, Steve, and Joseph took the opportunity to get a little ranty. It must be a slow news week in the weeks leading up to Security Summer Camp, so there was some great fodder for the guys tonight.

 

Elon Musk - Dreamy Hero or Dreamiest Hero?

http://news.hitb.org/content/tesla-model-s-hacked-security-contest

 

It's time to schedule another World Cup final, it seems.

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/website-hacks-dropped-during-world-cup-final/d/d-id/1297370

 

Great post by Spencer Hsieh on the realities of targeted attacks.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2456221/security-awareness/misconceptions-about-targeted-attacks.html

 

"We're like sheep waiting to be slaughtered" apparently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/business/a-tough-corporate-job-asks-one-question-can-you-hack-it.html

 

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Tonight Martin, Yvette, Steve, and Joseph tackled some fun topics, stories are below.

 

Is this the end of password managers? No.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/severe-password-manager-attacks-steal-digital-keys-and-data-en-masse/

 

Bitcoin isn't Money

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/silkroad-bitcoin-isnt-money/

 

What can you do to help your security budget?

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2369048/security-leadership/do-these-3-things-to-get-the-security-budget-you-want.html

 

Clearly we should track all of our special snowflakes. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/10/330406463/a-new-device-lets-you-track-your-preschooler-and-listen-in

 

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Tonight went a little off the rails, but Martin (@armorguy), Steve (@steveD3), and Joseph (@jsokoly) had some fun talking about stories.

DNS is important
http://www.darkreading.com/microsofts-seizure-of-no-ip-domains-disrupted-criminals-and-innocents-alike/d/d-id/1279079

Are CISOs too confident?
http://net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17047

Has the Internet of Things gone "mainstream"?
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/05/328888392/from-thermostats-to-prison-security-more-things-going-online

Can we finally kill Comic Sans?
http://theuniversaltypeface.com/home

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Episode 136 - Let's talk about pri-va-cy

 

Tonight Joseph, Andy, and Steve continued their theme of talking about themes. Joseph brought up a discussion of privacy and got the guys talking. The stories that they discussed are below.

 

http://www.macworld.com/article/2366921/why-apple-really-cares-about-your-privacy.html

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/usable-security/

 

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2393044/security/german-government-to-drop-verizon-because-of-us-spying.html

 

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