Mostly Security

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

404: Not Found 09/06/2025

404: Not Found Eric returns and Jon has a flat tire. Kuiper achieves a gigabit, Google releases fixes for 84 vulns in android, and prompt injection in Comet, Perplexity's AI browser. The Pixel 10 has a crazy good camera, and the third interstellar object ever discovered. 0:00 - Intro 10:02 - 13:13 - 16:00 - 25:57 - 33:04 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/38113505

403: Forbidden 08/29/2025

403: Forbidden Eric plays with epoxy resin, Jon has a new calf. Cybersabotage on your ex-employer will get you 4 years. There are 1200 fewer robocallers thanks to the FCC. Password manager plugins for web browsers can be fooled. The Commodore 64 is back and really old honey is discovered in Italy. 0:00 - Introduction 8:53 - 10:22 - 12:57 - 18:39 - 22:47 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/38022605

402: Payment Required 08/23/2025

402: Payment Required Eric prints and Jon fixes washer. The Noodlophile stealer propagates via legal infringement claims, and portal auth issues allow control of connected cars. For fun we have book four of the Lady Astronaut series, and using generative AI to create targeted antibiotics for drug resistant diseases. 0:00 - Intro 12:32 - 16:51 - 23:39 - 27:33 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37930460

401: Unauthorized 08/16/2025

401: Unauthorized Eric makes it home from vacation, Jon goes fishing. Tough time to be graduating in Computer Science. DrawAFish.com security incident. AOL discontinues down dial up service. Mendenhall Glacier makes the local news. 0:00 - Introduction 8:24 - 14:34 - 21:48 - 25:06 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37847255

400: Dredge Operator 08/09/2025

400: Dredge Operator Eric's on vacation and Jon wrangles cows. Cloudflare accuses perplexity of stealth scraping tactics, Google tweaks their disclosure policy, Microsoft studies AI impact on jobs, and OpenAI shared chats disclose a little (lot) too much. For fun, how about a hike in the Tetons, and Potatoes from Tomatoes. 0:00 - Intro 11:55 - 16:24 - 20:29 - 29:49 - 39:42 - 41:56 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37743155

399: Cut the Black Wire 08/01/2025

399: Cut the Black Wire Eric has a problem with "smart" smoke alarms. Jon feeds happy cows round bales of hay (but not the fermented kind). Debian making 64 bit time work with 32 bits. A woman is unaware she is working for North Korea. Eric plays tower defense with CSS. Jon finds scarecrow spiders. 0:00 - Introduction 11:31 - 17:30 - 23:21 - 25:14 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37631895

398: Beautiful Bird Songs 07/26/2025

398: Beautiful Bird Songs Eric publishes a book, and Jon is trepidacious. The National Nuclear Security Administration is affected by the Sharepoint attack, and DNS is used as a file transfer system. Amazon buys Bee (Echo, coming soon to a wrist near you), and we're one step closer to a universal cancer vaccine. 0:00 - 14:29 - 18:54 - 26:26 - 30:07 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37561670

397: Schrödinger’s Myrmecophagy 07/19/2025

397: Schrödinger’s Myrmecophagy Eric gets new doors (almost) and Jon gets A/C. Amazon launches more Kuiper satellites with the help of SpaceX. You can use Passkeys to encrypt files and Android get's Gemini whether the user wants it or not. GPS is not the only location game in town and lots of mammals evolved into ant eaters? 0:00 - Introduction 12:22 - 14:56 - 18:13 - 23:11 - 29:10 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37466555

396: Gnawing on Wax 07/12/2025

396: Gnawing on Wax A 4th of July was had by both. An extension hijacking campaign that infected as many as 2.3 million users and software to protect the small web from AI scrapers with computational overhead. For fun we have car tipping (off a cliff!?), and evidence for even more water on Mars. 0:00 - Intro 13:06 - 16:33 - 22:41 - 25:41 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37384080

395: Alliteration is Fun 07/04/2025

395: Alliteration is Fun Hay is Jon's nemesis and Eric has pictures taken. Cloudflare blocks AI Bots by default. After 7 years, Ubuntu disables Spectre protections. ERYAT (Eric reserves yet another truck) and stumbles nostagically across Make Magazine. Jon finds a 4,800 year old Egyptian. 0:00 - Introduction 6:27 - 11:19 - 18:05 - 21:48 - 24:29 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37284555

394: Whether The Weather 06/29/2025

394: Whether The Weather Eric paints and Jon drives. SparkKitty is a new mobile malware searching photo libraries for crypto passphrases, and when is a 16 billion password breach not a breach. Honda has been quietly working on its own rocket, and the JWST images its first new exoplanet. 0:00 - Intro 7:55 - 12:06 - 16:09 - 19:02 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37206155

393: Less Need for Me Right Now 06/20/2025

393: Less Need for Me Right Now Ex? Un? Post? Father's Day activities and Eric tries Vibe Coding. Gemini 2.5 is out of beta. Phone wallets can(?) be hacked. Italy loses its Paragon license. Spaceballs 2! A microbe may be evolving into virus. 0:00 - Introduction 10:34 - 14:03 - 17:58 - 23:53 - 26:54 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37091810

392: Vibe Coding 06/14/2025

392: Vibe Coding Summer is here. WWDC has ... liquid glass? And many android features, evidently. Vibe coding is the "remarkably insecure" inevitable future, and a simple (dumb?) github policy bypass. For fun there's a new season of Phineas and Ferb on Disney+, and researchers discover a way to fully expose HIV in white blood cells. 0:00 - Intro 8:09 - 13:08 - 18:34 - 26:32 - 30:46 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/37010455

391: Potentially Being the Operative Word 06/07/2025

391: Potentially Being the Operative Word Graduation and Spring Cleaning. Solar Power systems on the internet. Oregon bans the sale of user's (precise) location data. IRS Direct File both in limbo and on GitHub. A Japanese company sets itself up for "third times a charm" landing on the moon and a brain-computer interface is tested on humans. 0:00 - Introduction 10:53 - 13:56 - 16:00 - 22:58 - 25:20 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36901675

390: Scammer's Paradise 05/31/2025

390: Scammer's Paradise Springtime work and bathroom 'renovations'. Why prompts are the new IOCs and a tool to detect malicious prompts, a guilty plea in the PowerSchool breach from last year, and sanctions against a Philippines based company involved in pig butchering scams. For fun we have the Tianwen-2 launch to collect asteroid samples, and a desktop UV printer on kickstarter that looks amazing. 0:00 - Introduction 14:59 - 17:04 - 18:56 - 22:22 - 27:42 - 30:47 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36799530

389: Spider Overlords 05/24/2025

389: Spider Overlords Eric solves a printing problem with money, Jon follows a band and gardens. Google uses ART to attack Gemini, o2 fixes an oopsie, genetically modified spiders produce red fluorescent silk, and Harvard's copy of the Magna Carta isn't what they originally thought. 0:00 - Introduction 9:56 - 14:36 - 21:28 - 25:02 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36699380

388: Notoriously Difficult 05/17/2025

388: Notoriously Difficult Mother's Day door painting and flower planting. The damages for the NSO hack of WhatsApp (6 years ago!) are now in, how passkeys work, and the breach of the Signal Clone in widespread use by the US Government. A Soviet satellite launched more than 50 years ago crashes back to earth (Finally?!), and livestreaming a volcano off the Oregon coast. 0:00 - Introduction 9:15 - 12:45 - 18:29 - 22:06 - 25:09 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36603925

387: All The Phalanges 05/09/2025

387: All The Phalanges Eric and Jon both had very boring* weekends. Reckless Rabbits and Scattered Spiders discussed along with xAI private keys. Amazon achieves space pinecone and astrophysicists track down the origin of heavy metals (well, some of them, at least). 0:00 - Introduction 7:04 - 10:56 - 13:53 - 17:54 - 20:43 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36514145

386: Prompt Kiddies 05/03/2025

386: Prompt Kiddies Jon mows and auctions, Eric's thinking of game development. Misuses of Claude, World Passkey Day, and the FBI's IC3 report of scam impact in 2024. For fun we have the 'blank slate' -- a small EV truck coming soon, and making geometry dash with redstone in vanilla minecraft. 0:00 - Introduction 10:51 - 15:48 - 19:54 - 27:36 - 32:30 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36419210

385: Dairy Adjacent 04/26/2025

385: Dairy Adjacent Eric makes it home and tries smoking a ham. Jon gets into his front door and the bees are good. Record breaking botnets. Cybersecurity reports. Peep origins. Extraterrestrial life. 0:00 - Introduction 7:38 - 11:23 - 22:46 - 30:12 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36322470

384: Farm Macgyver 04/19/2025

384: Farm Macgyver Jon farms and Eric drives. Apple case in the UK won't be secret, don't blow up systems on your way out the door, and CVE gets a new maintainer. Ramp meters proven to work, and who doesn't need a little carrot cake in their life? 0:00 - Intro 7:40 - 9:23 - 13:12 - 19:55 - 24:57 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36229790

383: Very Much Bombastic 04/11/2025

383: Very Much Bombastic Jon and Eric mull over a new podcast idea, Door Talk. Eric looks forward to a drive and Jon has bees, seedlings, and fond memories of an Explorer. AI is making password hacking easier while Patch Tuesday slides through with plenty of folks riding side-saddle. Question: Is bringing back extinct species a Good Thing? 0:00 - Introduction 9:59 - 13:21 - 18:40 - 23:31 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36093665

382: Strong Sitting Muscles 04/05/2025

382: Strong Sitting Muscles Jon returns from spring break, and Eric's getting (house) improvements done. Bezos' Kuiper project has to launch a lot of satellites in the next year, Wikimedia's bot problem and AI data poisoning projects, is there actually a Signal vulnerability, and 23 and Me's bankruptcy declaration. For fun we have the Artemis 2 patch reveal, and a (RISC-V compatible!) computer built inside the game Terraria. 0:00 - Intro 12:58 - 15:26 - 21:54 - 25:57 - 31:30 - 33:31 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/36019365

381: Hi! ...aaaand we're done 03/28/2025

381: Hi! ...aaaand we're done When is a podcast not a podcast? Eric answers that question. /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35895850

380: Get Myspaced 03/22/2025

380: Get Myspaced Eric and Jon do #notMuch over the weekend; Apple's hearing over ADP begins, AI Search (referrals) are growing rapidly, Apple will support e2ee RCS (blue+green=teal?), and now (not?) to roll back CISA firings. Eric enjoys Real (Tasty) Ramen, and maybe we can regrow our teeth in a couple years. 0:00 - Intro 8:05 - 10:05 - 14:48 - 19:18 - 24:59 - 28:58 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35819725

379: Backhanded Compliment 03/14/2025

379: Backhanded Compliment Jon takes care of bees and Eric finds AI fun in his spam folder. Apple declines to comment while hackers launder more crypto. Beware of Trump-themed cryptocurrency scams and knock-off Android TV boxes. Eric drops another reservation fee on an "ugly" vehicle while Jon makes swords. For middleschoolers. What could possibly go wrong. 0:00 - Introduction 9:32 - 11:26 - 13:19 - 15:53 - 21:07 - 25:01 - Jon Makes Swords /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35681510

378: Tidyification 03/08/2025

378: Tidyification Eric tidies and Jon may have two hives. A US Army soldier is arrested in relation to the AT&T breach last year, scam compounds are using Starlink, and a huge info stealer dump loaded into HIBP. For fun we have the next step in cloning a mammoth ... gene edited mice, and potential genetic factors in how Greenland sharks live for more than 400 years. 0:00 - Intro 9:07 - 14:27 - 20:32 - 29:09 - 32:38 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35587355

377: Competitive Puzzling 03/01/2025

377: Competitive Puzzling Eric finishes a magic puzzle and Jon checks in on his bees. GitHub hosts GitVenom while a TraderTraitor "borrows" more cryptocurrency. Apple drops its Advanced Data Protection in the UK but not because it wanted to. Eric finds fun things to print and Jon watches Gaia disappear. 0:00 - Introduction 11:12 - 15:54 - 18:59 - 23:38 - 26:00 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35491120

376: Rebooting Works 02/22/2025

376: Rebooting Works Eric on the road, Captain America, Power Drama, and Civ7 impressions. Do we need an American Salt Typhoon? Does Argentina need to pump & dump crypto? Maybe we should all eat some frozen custard and make sure to recycle (our car batteries). 0:00 - Intro 14:29 - 19:53 - 24:27 - 27:32 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35390210

375: It May Be Fun To Play 02/15/2025

375: It May Be Fun To Play Eric is on a roadtrip, Jon watched the Super Bowl. Mozilla is still using a partner not aligned to their values. Google updated their AI principles. Mandiant posts about Cybercrime. Its always DNS, oops, I mean S3 Buckets. Neutrino detection is a thing and Civilization VII is out! 0:00 - Introduction 8:38 - 10:41 - 11:37 - 16:37 - 20:47 - 23:45 - /episode/index/show/secrandom/id/35295265

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