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. From beekeeping adventures to hiking mountains to favorite shows, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.
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337: Your Flap Is Dangling
05/24/2024
337: Your Flap Is Dangling
Eric hangs out downtown and plans a trip to the symphony. Jon is hitting the end of the high school concert season, has opinions on iPad and notes that the bees both giveth and taketh away. While recovering from a long trip, they ask themselves many important questions... Who knew college students would want free laundry services? When did your WiFi routers become Apple AirTags? Who wants Patch Tuesday details? Was there anything non-AI related at BUILD? Why won't more people buy Marshmallow Sky Ice Cream? What is that underground near the Giza Pyramids? When will this podcast end? 0:00 - Introduction 12:18 - 16:53 - 23:14 - 27:05 - 35:42 - 38:41 -
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336: Edward Abbey
05/18/2024
336: Edward Abbey
Eric has superlative steak and Jon has ... pizza. Northern lights, concerts, and grafting bees oh my. Microsoft's security priorities, FCC designates Royal Tiger, and Ascension hospitals attacked with/by Black Basta. A Vampire Drone and Wallets everywhere. 0:00 - Intro 16:05 - 23:15 - 27:28 - 32:09 - 36:20 -
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335: Cacophony of Sound
05/11/2024
335: Cacophony of Sound
Eric's on the road again and has irrelevant opinions about Taylor Swift's new music. Jon is surrounded by music and actually watches a show Eric recommended. LockBit gang is doxxed by the FBI. Microsoft's top priority is security. Eric is suprised by Sugar and Jon discovers a new show: Doctor Rakus, Medicine Primate. 0:00 - Introduction 11:58 - 15:57 - 22:05 - 26:43 -
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334: Recurrent Nova
05/04/2024
334: Recurrent Nova
Eric wins the exercise challenge and Jon's iPad is busted. The FCC is (attempting to) fine carriers for sharing your location data, stats on Google's android app store protections in 2023, and GitHub comments are abused to host malware. For fun we have a Netflix series of the Three Body Problem, and an every-80-years-not-a-normal-nova. 0:00 - Intro 14:07 - 18:12 - 21:05 - 26:22 - 31:19 -
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333: Blow Your Reality Mind
04/27/2024
333: Blow Your Reality Mind
Jon and Eric make it back from Texas, despite airport security. Nespresso has an open redirect vulnerability, eScan AV delivers updates via HTTP and Cisco has Zero-day fun time. Eric admires vaporizing water without heat while Jon is impressed with a pushing firmware updates to a spacecraft 15 billion miles away... 0:00 - Introduction 2:29 - 6:01 - 9:20 - 14:50 - 19:27 - 23:36 -
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332: Aging And Eclectic
04/20/2024
332: Aging And Eclectic
Eric performs Digital Spring Cleaning and Jon mostly works outside. Open source groups are worried about other 'XZ Style' hacks, Roku announces a second security incident, LastPass employee is deepfaked, and LG TV vulnerabilities. Don't expose your TVs to the internet folks. For fun we have an amazing article about deep sea cable repair ships and a performance by Drum Tao. 0:00 - Intro 13:34 - 14:46 - 17:21 - 20:31 - 26:50 - 29:57 -
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331: Bonsai Herbs
04/13/2024
331: Bonsai Herbs
Eric pulls out the BBQ, taunting the Rain Gods. Jon checks on his bees and deserves a third wire. Hackers lure folks with AI promises from hijacked social accounts while a software supply chain narrowly avoids a big oopsie. Eric dips his toes in hydroponic herb gardening while Jon eyes smart contact lenses (and narrowly avoids an April Fools oopsie). 0:00 - Introduction 9:42 - 12:29 - 20:11 - 26:09 -
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330: Robust Investigation
04/06/2024
330: Robust Investigation
Eric gets back home from vacation and Jon (tries to) defy range anxiety in his new car. Google has a proposed settlement for their harvesting of incognito browsers and the big AT&T breach has 'encrypted' PINs but are easily reversed. The first Neuralink transplant recipient pulls an all nighter playing Civ6, and we (may) have a record number of bee colonies in the US. 0:00 - Intro 11:02 - 14:52 - 23:47 - 26:49 -
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329: It Looks Exactly Like the License Plate
03/30/2024
329: It Looks Exactly Like the License Plate
Eric and Jon chat about vacations, Jon looks for whales in Washington while Eric searches for license plates in Utah. Eric finds 3 million hotel room doors can be opened while Jon finds a company playing boths sides. Eric discovers he's a Lightweaver while Jon is an Elsecaller who also likes a whale museums. [NOTE: Eric's travel mic was having issues - sorry for the audio!] 0:00 - Introduction 4:30 - 5:46 - 10:45 - 15:35 - 21:20 - 23:57 - 26:50 -
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328: Taunting Spring
03/22/2024
328: Taunting Spring
Pi day, wasps about, new 3d printer, Dune 2, and a bee update. Stroustrup objects to the characterization of (modern) C++ as unsafe (but are any projects in C++ fully modern??), Apex Legends tourney participants forced to cheat, swappers come for the eSIMs, and your connected car is probably selling your driving behavior data to insurance companies. For fun we have a sick tulip identification and eradication robot and the Voyager 1 was POKEd in early March and is returning its FDS memory for analysis. 0:00 - Intro 15:54 - 18:55 - 23:03 - 28:28 - 35:21 - 39:16 -
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327: I'm Not Confused
03/16/2024
327: I'm Not Confused
Eric survives a birthday at Benihana, laments the inability to game the system and looks forward to building a new 3D Printer. Jon is giddily gearing up for bee season and educates Eric on Yellowjackets. Roku discovers what its user accounts are worth on the dark web and Jon needs to update his QNAP. Again. The British Library is under-appraised the consequences of a cyber attack. Learning to program a computer is similar to learning a spoken language and Jon shares plans on how to build a Langstroth Hive. 0:00 - Introduction 11:24 - 15:49 - 17:35 - 28:07 - 33:19 -
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326: 3d Printer Brick
03/09/2024
326: 3d Printer Brick
Eric's 'things are breaking' woes continue and Jon has a nice trip to UW. Info stealers are targeting ChatGPT creds, beware cheap IOT devices (like that's new advice), and Anycubic's cloud MQTT service is hacked (or misconfigured). Bumblebees exhibit cumulative culture (!!), Eric says to watch Resident Alien, and Colossal scientists manage to induce pluripotent (asian elephant) stem cells in their quest to resurrect mammoths. 0:00 - Intro 17:04 - 21:38 - 28:23 - 34:00 - 37:12 - 39:36 -
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325: Building a Sarcophagus
03/01/2024
325: Building a Sarcophagus
Eric has a phone again! AT&T: 1, Apple: 0... then discovers wind chimes are not awesome at 4am. Jon puts his woodworking skills to ancient use and starts housing chickens in the bathroom. Don't miss the private lander relaxing on the moon. The White House says "Use Memory Safe Programming Languages" (and there was much rejoicing). Jon does a Hugging Face-Palm and asks why can't we have nice things - Eric immediately blames JavaScript. Did you celebrate Leap Day? And finally Jon discovers the Eddington Limit needs a rethink. 0:00 - Introduction 12:12 - 14:27 - 18:45 - 23:59 - 26:35 -
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324: Atomic Freeze Frame
02/24/2024
324: Atomic Freeze Frame
Eric wardials and Jon fails to locate. Falling for scams is easier than you think and how threat actors are using LLMs. Oregon fails to adopt standard time, NASAs new moon landing, and snapshotting activity on the attosecond scale. 0:00 - Intro 12:48 - 18:26 - 29:47 - 33:28 - 35:20 -
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323: Wallow into a Hole
02/16/2024
323: Wallow into a Hole
Sportsball weekend. Jon can't pause TV and he's annoyed. Eric still has negative opinions of JavaScript and adds cell towers to the list. Followup on political ad clones. Eric uses ChatGPT to find missing US States. Almost. LassPass is not a Dating App. Phishception is the word of the day. FTC says Fraud Losses top 10 Billion in 2023. For fun, Eric reminds you about XKCD and some random math facts about the number 323. Jon reads up on Lake Kivu's Potential Energy. 0:00 - Introduction 8:17 - 10:42 - 12:12 - 16:10 - 18:54 - 21:52 - 26:19 - 29:09 -
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322: No Words Minced
02/10/2024
322: No Words Minced
Eric Laser Tags and Jon's bees are (mostly) alive; arrests in a 400m crypto heist that may or may not have been from FTX, and the FBI cleans up old routers infected with a PRC botnet; a Chinese company announces new hyperloop speed record, and the winners of the Scrollprize demonstrate extracting text from papyrus charred by Vesuvius. 0:00 - Intro 10:01 - 15:05 - 22:47 - 25:37 -
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321: Bacterial DOOM
02/03/2024
321: Bacterial DOOM
Eric has an eye for pain while Jon admires his bees and discovers upgrade issues with his TV. Google ads can send you to malicious software and Facebook has 2000+ companies send them your data. Doom runs everywhere, including bacteria while gene therapy treats hearing loss for kids. 0:00 - Introduction 9:06 - 15:57 - 19:51 - 24:19 -
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320: Onion Volcano
01/27/2024
320: Onion Volcano
The Oregon Thaw has happened and Eric and Jon can leave their houses. There was much rejoicing. Are or will AI Sleeper Agents be a thing, a President Biden Deepfake encouraging New Hampshire voters to stay home, and an extremely large data breach posted to Have I Been Pwned. For fun, the soon to be demise of the Leap Second, and a hidden city discovered in the Amazon thanks to lidar. 0:00 - Intro 10:20 - 16:44 - 22:20 - 27:23 - 30:59 -
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319: Ice Skating in the Backyard
01/20/2024
319: Ice Skating in the Backyard
It is all about the Ice. Kids out of school, but no Snow Days for the WFH crowd - and Jon avoids walking out his front door. Serving a court summons via Bitcoin is now a thing and irritating Mandiant is generally not a good move. Eric shares fun facts about Ice and Jon talks Noble Gas Clusters. 0:00 - Introduction 13:26 - 19:42 - 25:38 - 29:51 -
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318: Cloudy With A Chance Of Cellphones
01/13/2024
318: Cloudy With A Chance Of Cellphones
Eric struggles with plane and weather issues (thanks Alaska!), and Jon drives in the Snow. Researchers demonstrate Denial of Wrench, the SEC is hacked to promote Bitcoin ETFs so they join the party, and Ransomware in 2023. For fun we have the Peregrine lunar lander and the first (?) person to beat Tetris on the NES. 0:00 - Intro 12:54 - 18:47 - 23:45 - 30:07 - 35:48 -
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317: Not A Pleasant Noise
01/05/2024
317: Not A Pleasant Noise
Happy New Year! Adult Diapers, what? Eric jumps a car, Jon eats brisket and has a stinkin' dishwasher. Security Best Practices for Earth and Beyond with more Triangulation Details. Eric likes a space picture and Jon shares a handful of the Good Stories you missed in 2023. 0:00 - Introduction 12:31 - 19:39 - 28:22 - 29:55 -
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316: A Firestick, Hotel TV, And A Mobile Phone
12/30/2023
316: A Firestick, Hotel TV, And A Mobile Phone
Jon has a relaxing Christmas while Eric faces More Water Issues. Also, tire size matters. The first two Lapsus$ teens are sentenced in the UK, Japan plans to crack down on app stores, Ukraine hacks back for Kyivstar, and SSH servers under attack. What is a Flow Battery and is it better than Lithium Ion, and the Juno space probe will pass close to Io Dec 30th. Happy New Year! 0:00 - Intro 16:02 - 18:25 - 22:48 - 26:08 - 29:11 - 35:28 -
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315: Poprocks are next...
12/22/2023
315: Poprocks are next...
Eric recounts a 2500 mile roadtrip that includes a kidnapping while Jon enjoys concert week. Eric has a secret shoe shopping habit that has been compromized while Jon moots about a map mess. Garage chemists powered by ChatGPT and the world revolves around checks. 0:00 - Introduction 10:36 - 18:40 - 24:53 - 29:40 -
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314: Magic Is Real
12/16/2023
314: Magic Is Real
Eric and Jon depart in two directions on road trips, Vans, Zoo Lights, and Bee Hives. Binance will be scoured for {evil,taxes}, Beeper Blues, and Push Notification spying by governments. A fun bonanza with We Are Bob, Humane, and Cassiopeia A in stereo(-ish). 0:00 - Intro 11:23 - 18:07 - 24:34 - 30:10 - 32:00 - 35:02 - 36:00 -
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313: A Spinny Router
12/09/2023
313: A Spinny Router
Eric gets a new toy and installs a license plate holder thanks to Amazon - and no thanks to Amazon subscriptions. Jon gets his new router table set up and finds a photo frustration. Eric uses an (invalid) excuse to be annoyed with JavaScript while Jon checks in on iOS zero-days and Citrix bugs. The Internation Space Station turns 25, Charlie Munger passes on and we'll see you at CosMc's! (Maybe... or maybe not...) 0:00 - Introduction 15:24 - 20:27 - 22:22 - 25:46 - 26:46 - 28:49 -
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312: Nice And Cozy
12/02/2023
312: Nice And Cozy
Eric travels for Thanksgiving and Jon goes there and back again. Adversarial ML against LLMs, whether generated code is secure (it's not), the demise of a Crypto Drainer, and a complaint against Meta's new policy of pay-us-so-we-don't-track-you. For fun we have the California Railroad Museum and a video explaining just how Apple's Thunderbolt 4 USB-C cable can cost $130 (with CAT scans!). 0:00 - Intro 7:16 - 8:11 - 14:58 - 17:43 - 22:04 - 25:50 -
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311: The Next Domino
11/24/2023
311: The Next Domino
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Eric goes to visit family in California, Jon does a lot of driving and preemptively eats pumpkin pie. Fidelity National Financial has an ooopsie. Something something OpenAI something something. Binance is fined despite not being a US company. Eric takes the family to see the aftermath of the Oroville Dam and Jon explores the volcanic Io. 0:00 - Introduction 7:55 - 11:40 - 14:56 - 20:01 - 23:41 -
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310: Squintworthy
11/18/2023
310: Squintworthy
Jon constructs and Eric cleans house. Let google send your spam, bipartisan (??) surveillance reform bill, and how AI may change democracy. Quantitatively adults have better attention spans now than 30 years ago, and you should read Seth Ring's novels (start with the Titan series). 0:00 - Intro 10:41 - 15:32 - 21:27 - 31:44 - 35:10 -
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309: Nothing Untoward Going On
11/10/2023
309: Nothing Untoward Going On
Eric wrote some code and was reminded what "at the speed of government" means while Jon did some travel and acquired discount Halloween candy. Google introduces a real-time code analysis for side-loaded Android apps and Krebs drops some education on how criminal reshipping services work. Eric suggests you check out neal.fun again while Jon avoids fun for a landmark real estate ruling. 0:00 - Introduction 8:11 - 15:04 - 25:23 - 29:14 -
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308: Pollute The Internet
11/03/2023
308: Pollute The Internet
Eric hobnobs with forecasters and Jon has an Electrical Mystery. How Kaspersky intercepted 'Operation Triangulation', Apple's new iMessage contact security, what if YouTube just used the <video/> tag, and maybe Microsoft shouldn't be putting 'generative AI engagement polls' next to *all* articles. For fun we have the wild flavors of Coke Creations, and the first CRISPR treatment (for sickle cell) is up for FDA approval Dec 8th. 0:00 - Intro 15:07 - 21:05 - 24:31 - 32:32 - 40:31 - 43:50 -
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