Author: inThirty

• side channel attacks – we’ve kind of covered this, but it’s probably good to revisit it a bit. Good food for thought.
• Google buying Fitbit
• Who is gathering data about you? (Loyalty cards, cable boxes, isp dns)

In today’s episode we plug Adversarialfashion.com. Clothing to thwart license plate readers.
Phishing scam: https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513
Backing up.

We just fly threw the news topics this week.

WhatsApp bug: https://amp.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/whatsapp-users-urged-to-update-as-hackers-break-into-phones-just-by-sending-them-a-gif/news-story/6fc5159ad8a406c9d7d7383067d8f645

Twitter 2FA issues: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-two-factor-logi.html

FBI spied on citizens: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905678/fbi-violated-americans-privacy-rights-court-ruling-fisc-surveillance-nsa

No more mixed content for TLS: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/10/no-more-mixed-messages-about-https_3.html

iterm2 software issue: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/

We had nothing overly general to talk about, so we decided to talk about Candy.

We used this picture:

Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey, was a victim of SIM Jacking.

We spend our show talking about why SIM jacking is a thing, and how you can protect yourself.