Risky Business Podcast
November 02, 2012
Risky Business #261 -- Divide by zero, destroy power grid
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We've got a great feature interview in this week's show with a computer science undergrad in the US who worked on a paper dealing with GPS security. You'll find out how you can melt down power lines with GPS haxx! Fun for the whole family!
This week's show is sponsored by Tenable Network Security. We'll be having Tenable product manager Jack Daniel on the line to talk about the death of periodical vulnerbility scanning. Apparently continuous scanning is all the rage these days!
I've spent the entire week down with the manflu, as you will probably hear, so apologies if the energy levels are down a bit this week.
Show notes
VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/vupen-researchers-say-they-have-zero-d...
Deloitte audit report that makes NZ government look like jerks:
http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/newsroom/media-r...
NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/terrorism-homework/
Homeland Security chief: Banks 'under attack' by hackers | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57543300-83/homeland-security-chief-ban...
Huawei looks to German security researchers for help | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57542809-83/huawei-looks-to-german-secu...
Anonymous takes aim at Zynga | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541801-83/anonymous-takes-aim-at-zynga/
Millions of SSNs lifted from South Carolina database | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541481-83/millions-of-ssns-lifted-fro...
Feds charge 14 with making ATM cashouts appear like one - SC Magazine
http://www.scmagazine.com/feds-charge-14-with-making-atm-cashouts-appear...
Outages hit Google App Engine, Dropbox, Tumblr, and more | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541195-83/outages-hit-google-app-engi...
China blocks NY Times over story on leader's 'hidden fortune' | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541137-83/china-blocks-ny-times-over-...
U.S. looks to replace human surveillance with computers | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57540826-83/u.s-looks-to-replace-human-...
Cisco Patches Vulnerabilities in Data Center and Web Conferencing Products | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cisco-patches-vulnerabilities-data-cen...
ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/zeroaccess-botnet-cashing-click-fraud-...
Here's the paper discussed in this week's feature interview!
http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/courses/18487-f12/readings/Nov28_GPS.pdf
If you enjoyed the music in this week's show, buy it!
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