But Wait, Where's the Logjam Logo?!

Welcome back to the Hurricane Labs InfoSec Podcast. 

This is Episode .03: The "But Wait, Where's the Logjam Logo?" Edition, featuring Kelsey Clark (Marketing Person), Corey Ham (Penetration Tester), Tom Kopchak (Senior Security Engineer & Operations Team Lead), and Amanda Berlin (Network Security Engineer). 

Listen in to this animated and informational discussion, for the latest InfoSec Hacks and Headlines, Hot Topic Talk, and What We're Arguing About this week.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Ian Gillespie has published the first part of his new blog-screencast tutorial series. So, check it out: 

Custom Error Viewing in Splunk Part 1: Listening for Search Events

Awesome job to Amanda Berlin for being featured in a CSO Online article. See what she has to say on the topic of Social Engineering: 

Social Engineering: Even Shakespeare understood security's weakest link 

Have you developed an impressive Splunk app? Enter the Splunk Apptitude App Contest for the chance to gain bragging rights for your innovation, along with some nice pocket change. 

Enter the Splunk Apptitude App Contest

TOP INFOSEC HACKS & HEADLINES HOT OFF THE PRESS

Logjam Vulnerability 

Logjam Encryption Flaw Threatens Secure Communications On Web

NSA "Irritant Horn" Hacking Project 

NSA hijacked app stores to hack phones 

NetUSB Flaw

NetUSB flaw leaves 'millions' of routers, IoT devices vulnerable to hacking

VENOM Bug 

The VENOM "virtual machine escape" bug - what you need to know 

New Google Chrome Extension 

Google's latest experiment brings new superpowers to Chrome browsers 

Washington Post Hacked

Washington Post Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army 

Uber Plain Text Password Problem 

Uber in hot water again - this time over plaintext passwords in emails

TODAY’S HOT TOPIC TALK

Thanks to Logjam, we are diving into the topic of 'Encryption.' 

During this discussion, we will be talking about tech giants urging the US government to retain strong encryption, how often should things and/or what things should be encrypted, whether or not encryption is going to be dead eventually, and more. 

Amanda also gives a brief overview of her recent blog post about vsftpd (very secure FTP daemon). If you're interested in finding out more, take a look: 

Dealing with the Dinosaurs of IT: Setting up vsftpd on Ubuntu

Other related articles: 

Tech Firms, Activists Press US on Encryption 

When Encrypted Communication Is Not Good Enough

6 questions to ask when choosing an encryption solution 

READY TO ARGUE?

Question of the day: Are airplane hackers good or bad? 

Aviation experts dispute hacker's claim he seized control of airliner mid-flight

Corey also suggested a Carnal0wnage article that does a good job describing 'stunt hacking.'

Check it out: 

Let's Call Stunt Hacking What it is, Media Whoring

UNTIL NEXT TIME!

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