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Serious About Security

by Preston Wiley, Mike Hill, and Keith Watson

Preston Wiley, Mike Hill, and Keith Watson discuss interesting topics in information security and privacy. This biweekly podcast covers topics that range from the latest software vulnerabilities to security tools to legal issues. The Serious about Security Podcast is brought to you by the Greater Lafayette Security Professionals (GLSP) group, Secure Purdue, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University.

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  1. Serious About Security Episode 68: Disabling Webcam Lights and a Presidential Panel Recommends Changes for the NSA

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning by Ashkan Soltani and Timothy B.Lee (The Washington Post), FBI’s search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats,...

  2. Serious About Security Episode 67: Dial 00000000 for Launch and French Government Attempts to be Google

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code at All Minuteman Silos in the United States was 00000000 by Karl Smallwood (Today I Found Out), ‘Secret’ Nuclear Missile Launch Code During...

  3. Serious About Security Episode 66: Forward Secrecy and Botnet Gathered Passwords

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Forward Secrecy (Wikipedia), Twitter Enables Perfect Forward Secrecy Across Sites To Protect User Data Against Future Decryption by Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch), Forward Secrecy at...

  4. Serious About Security Episode 65: Yahoo! Encrypts and Healthcare.gov Has Some Security Issues

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information by Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!), After N.S.A. Disclosures, Yahoo Moves to Encrypt Internal Traffic by Nicole Perlroth (NY Times Bits Blog), Yahoo...

  5. Serious About Security Episode 64: Facebook Warns Adobe Users and IE 0-day Injects Payload into Memory

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach by Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security), Facebook mines Adobe breach data for reused passwords, warns users to change them or disappear by Liam Tung...

  6. Serious About Security Episode 63: The badBIOS Controversy and the NSA taps Google and Yahoo!

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica), badBIOS by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security), Security researcher says new malware can affect your...

  7. Serious About Security Episode 62: Steps to Avoid Internet Surveillance and Big Corp Social Engineering Fails

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance by Danny O’Brien (EFF) Major Corporations Fail to Defend Against Social Engineering by Michael Mimoso ()

  8. Serious About Security Episode 61: iCloud Insecurity and Avoid the Hacker Title

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Apple’s iCloud iConundrum - does convenience mean insecurity? by Chester Wisniewski (nakedsecurity), Cracking and Analyzing Apple’s iCloud Protocols by Vladimir Katalov (Hack in the Box...

  9. Serious About Security Episode 60: Let’s Audit Truecrypt and Beware of Ransomware

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Is Truecrypt Audited Yet?, The TrueCrypt Audit Project, New effort to fully audit TrueCrypt raises $16,000+ in a few short weeks by Cyrus Farivar (Ars Technica), Let’s audit Truecrypt! by Matthew Green (A...

  10. Serious About Security Episode 59: Tor Stinks According to the NSA and Microsoft Follows Yahoo!

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users’ online anonymity by Bruce Schneier (The Guardian), NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users by James Ball, Bruce...

  11. Serious About Security Episode 58: Kids Crack iPad Security and Circle Security Avoids NIST Crytpo

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week by Sam H. Sanders (NPR), LAUSD halts home use of iPads for students after devices hacked by Howard Blume (LA Times) Silent...

  12. Serious About Security Episode 57: Follow-ups on Java, Yahoo! recycling email addresses, and iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Oracle Java fails at security in new and creative ways by Chester Wisniewski (nakedsecurity blog) Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners - passwords...

  13. Serious About Security Episode 56: Apple’s iPhone 5S has a fingerprint reader

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles iPhone fingerprint scanner sparks privacy worries by Charlie Osborne (CNet), Fingerprint-Reading IPhone Seen as Protection Against NSA by Todd Shields & Allan Holmes (Bloomberg), How…

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  14. Serious About Security Episode 55: The NSA allegedly weakens and attacks cryptography

    Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security by Jeff Larson (ProPublica), Nicole Perlroth and Scott Shane (The New York Times), Revealed: how US and UK spy...

  15. Serious About Security Episode 54: Password Complexity and Apple Products Have Trouble with Six Arabic Characters

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Anatomy of a brute force attack - how important is password complexity? by Paul Ducklin (nakedsecurity blog), How Important is Password Complexity by Brien Posey (Redmond…

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  16. Serious About Security Episode 53: US Email Providers Close and Facebook Founder’s TImeline Hacked

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles To Our Customers by Silent Circle, Silent Circle follows Lavabit in shuttering encrypted e-mail by Steven Musil (CNet), Important Announcement by Ladar Levison (Lavabit LLC)…

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  17. Serious About Security Episode 52: Blackhat and DEFCON Review

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles iPhone Hacked in Under 60 Seconds Using Malicious Charger by David Gilbert (International Business Times), Apple Fixes Threat from Fake iPhone Chargers in iOS 7 by Bryan Chaffin...

  18. Serious About Security Episode 51: The Feds Hate Criminals using Tor and The Twitter Two-Step (Auth)

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Articles Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity by Kevin Poulsen (Wired), Freedom Hosting arrest and takedown linked to Tor privacy compromise by John Hawes (nakedsecurity blog) Take two: Twitter…

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  19. Serious About Security Episode 50: Data Breaches Galore!

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Personal data on 72,000 staff taken in University of Delaware hack by John Hawes (nakedsecurity blog), Stanford University hacked, becomes latest data breach victim by John Hawes...

  20. Serious About Security Episode 49: Apple Developer Site Hacked and Tumblr iOS Shared Their Passwords!

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Apple Developer Site Breached InfoSecurity Magazine, Apple takes Dev Center down for days, finally admits, “We got owned!” by Paul Ducklin (nakedsecurity blog), Researcher claims...

  21. Serious About Security Episode 48: Android App Packaging has a Hole and There’s Big Business in Exploits

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Anatomy of a security hole - Google’s “Android Master Key” debacle explained by Paul Ducklin (nakedsecurity blog), Relax: Google, Carriers Patching Android “Master Key” Exploit by...

  22. Serious About Security Episode 47: Club Nintendo has Hacked Accounts and the Emergency Alert System has a flaw

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Nintendo cracks after month-long, 15.5 million-strong hacker bombardment by Lisa Vaas (nakedsecurity blog), Nintendo’s fan site hit by illicit logins, 24,000 accounts accessed by...

  23. Serious About Security Episode 46: Privacy Tools!

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Tools Tor Using Tor and other means to hide your location piques NSA’s interest in you VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously, 2013 Edition Private Internet Access, VPN Service (used by Preston)...

  24. Serious About Security Episode 45: Facebook leaks and Microsoft pays out!

    Google+ Hangout Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Important Message from Facebook’s White Hat Program by Facebook Security (Facebook), Facebook issues data breach notification - may have leaked your email and phone number by Paul...

  25. Serious About Security Episode 44: Yahoo! to kick out deadbeat users and the FDA offers medical device guidance

    Youtube video Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Articles Yahoo’s going to boot us off our deadbeat accounts, but who is going to grab them? by Lisa Vaas (nakedsecurity blog), Yahoo tries to breathe life into dead pool of email accounts by offering IDs to newcomers by…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Preston Wiley, Mike Hill, and Keith Watson discuss interesting topics in information security and privacy. This biweekly podcast covers topics that range from the latest software vulnerabilities to security tools to legal issues. The Serious about Security Podcast is brought to you by the Greater Lafayette Security Professionals (GLSP) group, Secure Purdue, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University.

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Preston Wiley, Mike Hill, and Keith Watson

Produced by Keith Watson

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