57: MS08-067

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows. Guest Thanks to John Lambert for sharing this story with us. Sponsors Support for this episode comes from ProCircular. Use the team at ProCircular to conduct security assessments, penetration testing, SIEM monitoring, help with patches, or do incident response. Visit www.procircular.com/ to learn more. This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25. Support for this episode comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Sources https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnla/2015/09/26/the-inside-story-behind-ms08-067/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/payment-processor-scareware-cybercrime-ring-sentenced-48-months-prison https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/conficker-worm-ukraine.html https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0601 https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-windows-10-vulnerability-disclosure/ Book: Worm Attribution Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider. Episode artwork by odibagas. Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jack, host of the show.
0:02.0	Let me ask you a question.
0:03.2	Whose job is it to keep the roads you drive on safe?
0:06.6	Is it the drivers' sole responsibility?
0:09.8	What about the car makers?
0:10.8	Are they responsible for keeping the roads safe for other drivers?
0:15.0	What about the cops?
0:16.1	Maybe they need to come by and watch everyone
0:18.0	to make sure they're obeying the law and keeping everyone safe.
0:20.9	Or wait, maybe it's the job of the civil engineers,
0:23.6	the people who design the roads.
0:25.6	I mean, a crazy curvy bumpy road with a speed limit of 100 miles per hour
0:29.5	is obviously not safe.
0:31.4	So it must be their job to design it to be as safe as possible, right?
0:36.1	So whose job is it to keep the roads safe?
0:38.0	All these people, we need drivers to drive safe.
0:40.6	We need cars to be built with safety in mind.
0:42.7	And we need cops to catch people who aren't being safe.
0:45.2	And we need civil engineers to design us safe roads.
0:48.1	And I think this analogy applies to keeping our networks
0:51.6	and computers safe too.
0:53.4	We need users to be smart at what they click on and do.
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