010: The dolls must be destroyed
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A creepy teddybear leaks two million voicemail messages, Windows 10 pushes you into only installing vetted apps, and Boeing warns 36,000 employees their personal information could have been exposed after a worker sends a spreadsheet to his wife.
All this and more is discussed by computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault.
SHOW NOTES:
- Announcing the first SHA1 collision
- Tavis Ormandy: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
- Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
- List of Sites possibly affected by Cloudflare's #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak
- Quantifying the impact of "CloudBleed"
- CloudPets commercial
- Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
- Microsoft slaps Apple Gatekeeper-like controls on Windows 10: Install only apps from store
- Boeing Notifies 36,000 Employees Following Breach
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Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer.
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