The 443 - Security Simplified

AI Bloggers

This week on the podcast, we cover Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 or GPT-3, an AI model that a UC Berkeley student recently used to generate blog posts that fooled humans enough to propel one of them to the top of Hacker News. Additionally, we'll discuss a P2P botnet that has been targeting SSH servers on the internet.

The Dark Web Rewind

This week on the podcast, we’re bringing back a favorite episode from the very beginnings of The 443 – Security Simplified where we dove in to the Dark Web and discussed how It works, where it came from, and who uses it now. This episode originally aired in 2018.

BlackHat 2020 Recap

With BlackHat’s online-only 2020 edition conference in the bag we take a look back at a few of our favorite briefings and discuss the takeaways as they apply to our industry. From a penetration test gone wrong to what security professionals can learn from an EMT, we cover the best talks from this year’s event.

BlackHat and DEF CON Online

With the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences starting this week, albeit in an online-only mode, we decided to take a look through this year’s agenda and pick some of the talks we are most looking forward to. We’ve picked out talks ranging from new research to updates on recent vulnerabilities to discuss on this week’s episode. Be sure to check out defcon.org this weekend since the conference is entirely free this year.

Meowing Databases

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we discuss yet another alert from the UK National Cyber Security Center, this time on cyber-attacks targeting sporting organizations. We also take a quick dive into Meowing, a wave of destructive hacking that’s been targeting exposed databases online. Finally, with only a few weeks to go before the online-only editions of Black Hat and DEF CON, we chat about our annual Capture the Flag contest and how to participate this year.
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Twoops

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we cover a massive security breach at Twitter that resulted in an attacker taking over dozens of high-profile accounts ranging from former presidents to Apple. We also discuss the latest Microsoft patch Tuesday which included a fix for a critical security vulnerability in Windows DNS Server.

Can We Trust Facial Recognition?

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week in the news, we cover an open source vulnerability scanner from Google and phishing campaign that combines Microsoft 365 and Zoom. After that, we dive in to the world of facial recognition and discuss recent research from WatchGuard Threat Lab and other concerns about the technology.

Don’t Trust the App

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we discuss the latest out-of-band security patch from Microsoft solving two potentially serious vulnerabilities, a cryptocurrency phishing campaign that made its way on to the Google Play app store, and a neat way that payment card skimming malware hide’s its malicious code.

Q1 2020 Internet Security Report

It’s that time of year again! This week on The 443 we cover the latest internet security report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab. In this episode, we’ll cover the stats and key findings from threat intelligence gathered from over 44,000 security appliances deployed across the world.

A New DDoS Record

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we discuss a new DDoS throughput record as reported by Amazon in their AWS Shield Therat Landscape Report for Q1 2020 as well as a history of reflective amplification DDoS attacks. Before that though, we cover an interesting macOS Gatekeeper bypass that involves a bit of social engineering and the latest Intel CPU technology that just might make ROP chains a thing of the past.
macOS Gatekeeper bypass - https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-mac-malware-reveals-google-searches-can-be-unsafe/
Intel Tiger Lake CET - https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-cet-answers-call-protect-common-malware-threats/
AWS DDoS Record - https://aws-shield-tlr.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-Q1_AWS_Shield_TLR.pdf