Speaker 1: All right welcome to episode two twenty five starting of
Speaker 1: security news in coronavirus the US Department of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services ran a flu pandemic simulation in 2019 called
Speaker 1: the Crimson contagion.
Speaker 2: And the key findings from the report. Sound awfully familiar.
Speaker 2: It was basically things like we are prepared we aren't
Speaker 2: communicating well enough we don't have enough supplies.
Speaker 3: So all the standard fare Amazon has deployed thermal cameras
Speaker 3: to detect fevers faster than with thermometers.
Speaker 4: Facebook will start telling users if they've interacted with harmful
Speaker 4: misinformation around covered 19 it's kind of like contact tracing
Speaker 4: for better information.
Speaker 3: Over fifty three mobile phone towers have been attacked in
Speaker 3: the UK by 5G. Conspiracy theorists and by the way
Speaker 3: I got an email from one of these people and
Speaker 3: they were like Yeah you're wrong about the Facebook story
Speaker 3: wrong about the 5G thing because it's really dangerous and
Speaker 3: it just went down the list of conspiracy theories and
Speaker 3: said I was wrong about them because they're all true.
Speaker 5: So definitely tested out my spam future my mail client.
Speaker 4: India has instituted mandatory checks on Chinese investments during the
Speaker 4: crisis in order to avoid China basically buying the country
Speaker 4: while nobody is looking got a cool story here on
Speaker 4: visualizing the occupations with the highest who virus risk Google
Speaker 4: is slowing hiring for the rest of 2020 Amazon is
Speaker 4: hiring 75000 more workers to keep up with demand.
Speaker 3: There are multiple conspiracy groups spreading the narrative that Bill
Speaker 3: Gates wants to use his vaccine research as a cover
Speaker 3: to microchip people.
Speaker 5: Oh by the way this this reader also sent me
Speaker 5: that and said that was incorrect and said that Bill
Speaker 5: Gates wants to kill everyone on the planet. Facebook has
Speaker 5: canceled all large events through June of 2021. And frame
Speaker 5: is a mental health gateway out of Los Angeles that
Speaker 5: connects patients and mental health professionals. It's kind of a
Speaker 5: two sided portal. Pretty cool idea.
Speaker 3: Riot Games is offering up to one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to people who can find vulnerabilities in their VA Laurent
Speaker 3: anti cheat system great team over there at Riot Games.
Speaker 5: Know a bunch of bunch of them. It's a really
Speaker 5: really solid team.
Speaker 4: Zoom has hired Kate my sources Luda security to revamp
Speaker 4: their bug bounty program congrats to Katy for that rapid
Speaker 4: 7 has launched something called attacker K.B. which is a
Speaker 4: service for crowdsourcing vulnerability assessments.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting entry into the quasi bounty market where
Speaker 2: you're using collections of experts to solve tedious problems. And
Speaker 2: yeah this is really interesting it's different than the standard.
Speaker 2: Standard approach they're what they seem to be doing is
Speaker 2: reading a vulnerability by how practical it is to actually
Speaker 2: attack it in the real world and using a group
Speaker 2: of actual attackers to do that reading they might be
Speaker 2: doing more than that but seems pretty interesting. Attacker QB.
Speaker 2: Advisories Patch Tuesday address 3 0 days and 15 credit
Speaker 2: goals for one hundred and thirteen and total there's a
Speaker 2: DNS Hijacking attack going around targeting links this router users
Speaker 2: and links this is notifying customers to reset their passwords.
Speaker 2: As AP patch five critical volumes. And there's a nasty
Speaker 2: bug in VM or center view Center which allows you
Speaker 2: to grab sensitive data and also add admin users. If
Speaker 2: you're on the network without credentials. Companies are weak. Security
Speaker 2: has raised 36 million to identify threats on the network
Speaker 2: interface look pretty cool but knows how good it is.
Speaker 4: Similar interesting technology news left is pivoting to delivering groceries
Speaker 4: and other essential items while people were locked down. Stripe
Speaker 4: continues to do well and they just raised six hundred
Speaker 4: million at a nearly thirty six billion dollar valuation github
Speaker 4: is now free for teams really strong power move here
Speaker 4: by GitHub. I think everyone else is freaking out who
Speaker 4: competing against them. For rising has purchased blue jeans to
Speaker 4: get in on the video conferencing hype house party has
Speaker 4: had 50 million sign ups in the last month. Human News.
Speaker 2: San Francisco is experimenting with the relaxation of laws as
Speaker 2: a pandemic coping mechanism crowds are gathering around the country
Speaker 2: to protest social distancing hilarious ideas trends and analysis coded
Speaker 2: will accelerate trends that were already coming. This is the
Speaker 2: piece I wrote.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: Within the last week or so a vaccine won't return
Speaker 2: us to normal basic concept here's another essay I wrote.
Speaker 2: It's basically that the way people were sick before like
Speaker 2: getting the common flu or being constantly surrounded by people
Speaker 2: who are sneezing and coughing at work and people sneezing
Speaker 2: coughing on public transportation basically all around us people were
Speaker 2: sick all the time. We had the flu vaccine because
Speaker 2: people got the flu all the time which means cold
Speaker 2: symptoms flu symptoms coughing and sneezing and just generally being sick.
Speaker 2: Was just kind of normal. And it was the type
Speaker 2: of dangerous that people ignore when they're exposed to it.
Speaker 2: And suddenly when we get back to whatever. That is
Speaker 2: not an old normal anymore that is going to look
Speaker 2: super crazy. No one's going to know if that's a cold.
Speaker 2: If it's the flu. If it's cover 19 or if
Speaker 2: it's cover 20 no one is you'll know and that
Speaker 2: I think is going to cause more friction than people
Speaker 2: realize right now.
Speaker 6: So I don't think the vaccine by itself is really
Speaker 6: going to help with that.
Speaker 4: Colm how C.G. ping new era should have ended US
Speaker 4: debate on Beijing's ambitions sharp pronounced that wrong. The leader
Speaker 4: of China basically yeah.
Speaker 2: His new era should have ended US debate on Beijing's ambitions.
Speaker 2: This is a deep level analysis on what China's actually
Speaker 2: trying to do and so is the next paper which
Speaker 2: is China's vision for a new world order. So these
Speaker 2: two papers basically a deep view into what China's actually
Speaker 2: trying to do on the world stage.
Speaker 4: So really good reading and forget the time Marc Andreessen
Speaker 4: says it's time to build. This is a really popular essay.
Speaker 4: He just went around the Internet last week or so.
Speaker 4: And he's basically saying that builders matter right. And builders
Speaker 4: should be prioritized and we should just you know nose
Speaker 4: to the grindstone and build stuff make stuff pretty compelling.
Speaker 4: Although I did see on Hacker News already a pretty
Speaker 4: strong like counter response to it. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: Probably nothing.
Speaker 2: You know how the main characters in spy movies are
Speaker 2: always changing identities. And like they just walked through another
Speaker 2: checkpoint and they give a different passport. That's always confused
Speaker 2: me and annoyed me for like the last 15 years.
Speaker 2: But it's definitely becoming hard to do in real life
Speaker 2: because the technology of facial recognition and identity tracking have
Speaker 2: advanced so much so you could basically subscribe to I'm
Speaker 2: probably a very cheap service and be able to identify
Speaker 2: people by their faces. Updates. So this is really cool
Speaker 2: really excited about this. I'm releasing a new podcast interview
Speaker 2: episode this week and the guest this time is Renee
Speaker 2: de Resta. She's my absolute favorite researcher in the space
Speaker 2: of misinformation campaigns. We had a really great conversation on
Speaker 2: multiple topics and you will get an email with a
Speaker 2: direct link later in the week when it goes live.
Speaker 2: Discovery jumping Fox notebooks. So one of my passions which
Speaker 2: probably now is her world of writing pens notebooks and
Speaker 2: of course typography. And my partner and I took a
Speaker 2: calligraphy class with brown fox calligraphy which no relation brown
Speaker 2: fox vs. jumping Fox to foxes but it was a
Speaker 2: really cool class we got to learn calligraphy and everything
Speaker 2: was right here in San Francisco. That was a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago and she just saw her doing like
Speaker 2: an unboxing and a talk through of this notebook which
Speaker 2: is called Jumping Fox notebooks and they're super nice. The
Speaker 2: best way to describe me I would say is they're
Speaker 2: like most keen plus plus they're just just higher quality.
Speaker 2: Most teens just much better. We got ours in the
Speaker 2: mail today and it's extremely high quality all around. Cover
Speaker 2: paper bookmarks. So if you have a fetish for writing
Speaker 2: in pens and pencils and notebooks should definitely have a
Speaker 2: look download networks. This is a script to download shown
Speaker 2: and data for a list of networks and a text
Speaker 2: file and this was released by John himself.
Speaker 3: The opening eye microscope how to massively overengineered a WordPress
Speaker 3: install and NWS thing is hilarious PR is a vulnerability
Speaker 3: prioritization scheme from tenable that uses machine learning to forecast
Speaker 3: how bad the actual threat will be for a given vulnerability.
Speaker 2: Interesting approach and recommendations if you absolutely must learn everything
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Speaker 2: possible news you get conjecture but it's informed educated conjecture
Speaker 2: because it's you know actual experts. And the aphorism for
Speaker 2: the week. Had a few drops of venom to a
Speaker 2: half truth and you have an absolute true.
Speaker 4: Add a few drops of venom to a half truth
Speaker 4: and you have an absolute truth. Eric Hoffer.