Professionally Evil Lunch & Learn - August 2022
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Release Date: 08/29/2022
UK Says it's "Zero Cool" to Use Weak Default Passwords
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Nathan and Aaron discuss the UK's move to prohibit easily guessable default passwords. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Legends & Losers: The Cost of a Gaming Tournament Hak
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Nathan and Aaron discuss the Apex Legends hack that occured during a global esports tournament with a 5 million dollar prize pool. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Candy Cam: Vending Machine Facial Recognition
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Nathan and Aaron discuss the risk of vending machines using facial recognition software for targeted marketing. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Tik Tok: Swipe Right for Risk
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan assess the risk of Tik Tok and how they themselves use it. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Take This Breach And Cover It
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan discuss the challenging and vital role of CISO's and how the successes or failures of an organization's security program falls on them. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan discuss a whistleblower's claims that information about covert programs possessing intact crafts of non-human origin has been illegally withheld from Congress. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Byte-Size Expertise
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan discuss the SEC's proposed rules on public company cybersecurity, including the expertise of its board. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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The SSL Struggle Juggle
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan discuss SSL vulnerabilities and their challenges. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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What's AI Got To Do, Got To Do With It?
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan discuss the regulation of AI growth and development. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
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Slashdot Roulette: Rants That Matter
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Today on The Professionally Evil Perspective, Kevin and Nathan throw it back to Slashdot. Get ready to be entertained by some rants about security stories plucked from the OG user-generated content and community-driven news website. Got suggestions, complaints, or feedback? Tell us at or reach out on Twitter: or find us on Mastadon: Join our Professionally Evil Slack Team at Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!
info_outlineThis month we are joined by OpsHelm, Inc. Founding Security Engineer Lee Brotherston and Black Hills Information Security Content and Community Director Jason Blanchard to discuss current security news. From hacking John Deere combines to play Doom to Janet Jackson crashing laptops, this month was especially entertaining. Join us the last Friday of every month to discuss current events with a rotating list of security pros.
Today's Guests:
Lee Brotherston can be found on LinkedIn
Jason Blanchard can be found on Twitter @BanjoCrashland
Links:
- LastPass source code stolen in data breach
- Ex Twitter Exec Mudge blows the whistle on cybersecurity practices
- Janet Jackson can crash a laptop
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses
- Hacker jailbreaks John Deere combine and runs Doom
- Criminals mailing fake usbs and people are plugging them in
- Researcher find pro US campaigns on Twitter and Facebook
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Our real jobs pay for our time to do this, so if you have opportunities around penetration testing or risk management, we'd love the chance to work with you!