The 443 - Security Simplified

We have reached week three of Cyber Security Awareness Month here on The 443 – Security Simplified which means its time for another special episode focusing on an industry. This week though, we're giving you a 'two-fer' by covering both the retail and hospitality industries. As with the last two weeks, we'll cover the top trends and provide some helpful tips for keeping your networks safe.

It is week two of Cyber Security Awareness Month which means we are coming at you with our second special edition episode of The 443 – Security Simplified focusing on securing specific verticals and industries. This week, we're covering the world of education and keeping students and faculty safe from cyber threats. We'll go over the top trends and pitch out some helpful tips for keeping school networks safe.

We’re kicking off Cyber Security Awareness Month with our first in a four-part series of The 443 – Security Simplified focusing on securing specific verticals and industries. This week, we start with healthcare. This week, we’ll cover some of the most important security topics to the healthcare industry including trends and defensive tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHWx2VWCdrE&feature=youtu.be We’ve cooked up something special for this week’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. To celebrate international podcast day, we’re bringing introducing The Vulnie Awards! We’ve curated 8 categories of awards, ranging from the worst breach response to the best vaporware and in this episode, we’ll present you with the winners!

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we have a news roundup for including the latest in mobile phone hacking, a hacking group targeting foreign IT service providers, and an update on one of the oldest banking trojans.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we cover the latest update on the BlueKeep Windows RDP vulnerability before jumping into an overview of four different protocols that were designed to improve DNS security and privacy. We’ll give you an overview of DNSSec, DNSCrypt, DoT and DoH and how they help secure one of the most used protocols on the internet.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we cover several news stories from the past few weeks including an unpatched zero day vulnerability in Android and the latest Facebook privacy failure. We’ll also cover the latest in security concerns from motherboard manufacturer SuperMicro, a data breach affecting the popular web comic XKCD, and an account takeover of Twitter’s CEO.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the latest ransomware attack targeting local governments, a new password protection feature being added to Google Chrome, and the latest tricks attackers are using to spam and phish.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week we cover the latest in infosec news including ransomware targeting a hospital and a recently discovered vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification. We’ll also cover our favorite talks from the last day of the Def Con security conference.

Welcome back to the last Hacker Summer Camp special edition episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. On this episode, we cover day 2 of the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. We’ll go over our favorite talks and takeaways from the day before heading back home tomorrow.

Welcome back to The 443 – Security Simplified. With Black Hat 2019 all wrapped up, on this episode we move on to Def Con 27, another security conference hosted every summer in Las Vegas. In this episode, we’ll cover our favorite talks and takeaways from the first day of the conference.

Welcome back to another special edition of The 443 – Security Simplified, (almost) live from Last Vegas! In this episode, we recap the second and final day of the Black Hat 2019 security conference. We'll cover some of our favorite talks and takeaways from the conference before transitioning to the Def Con conference tomorrow!

It’s Hacker Summer Camp season so we’re coming to you (almost) live from Last Vegas with daily recaps from the major security conferences. On this episode, we recap our favorite talks and findings from day 1 of the Black Hat conference.

It seems like the data breaches never end. This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we cover the latest data breach, Capital One. After that, we interview a Matthew Terry, a WatchGuard QA engineer, for an update on where the industry stands on wireless security.

The week on The 443, we cover stories of US Justice and Injustice. From the Equifax Breach Settlement to Facebook's record-breaking fine. We also cover a recent talk from US Attorney General William Barr on the topic of backdooring encryption. If you want to see whether you were a victim of the Equifax breach and are entitled to compensation, check out equifaxbreachsettlement.com.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we take a look at the popular social media photo manipulation app FaceApp. Is it a Russian-backed ploy to fuel a facial recognition database, or Just another fad with questionable terms of service? We also dive in to several new security stories and end with a discussion on the email address spoofing-prevention standard DMARC.

We have another bit news roundup day this week on The 443 – Security Simplified. In this episode, we cover an advanced fileless malware campaign, mobile malware targeting android devices, and an update on a script kiddie that tried to ruin Christmas.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified we cover the latest BGP accident and targeted attacks on managed service providers. Then, to celebrate America’s birthday, we turn back the clocks to look at ciphers used during the revolutionary war.

It’s been three months since the last WatchGuard Threat Lab Internet Security Report which means this week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we have another special edition for the latest report! We’ll cover the big takeaways and trends from the last quarter and how you can keep your network safe from the latest threats.

It’s been one year since episode #1 of The 443 – Security Simplified! On this week’s episode, celebrate the occasion by talking about some of our favorite topics from the last year. Before that though, we cover some news on new IoT security features and the latest in nation state attacks.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we sit down with biohacking pioneer Amal Graafstra to talk about implants, RFID technology, and the future of human/technology interaction.

It’s been about 6 months since we released our 2019 Security Predictions so this week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we re-visit them to see how we’ve done so far. We’ll cover which ones have been hits and which ones are on track complete with relevant news updates.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the latest updates on the Baltimore ransomware attack and changes to Google Chrome’s extension library for advertisement blockers. Then, we dive in to the world of facial recognition technology including its uses, and privacy concerns.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover another busy week of news updates. We start with a critical vulnerability in some versions of Windows that could allow network worming. Then we follow up with the latest in a series of CPU vulnerabilities, what they are, why they matter, and what it means to you.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This last week was a busy week in cybersecurity with multiple interesting news topics. Instead of trying to pick just one to discuss, we decided to cover them all in a big news roundup episode! In this episode, we’ll cover a massive cryptocurrency heist, a citywide ransomware attack, a resolution to a 4 year old data breach, and a couple interesting topics involving Mozilla Firefox.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we start with a quick update on ShadowHammer, the supply chain attack against ASUS hardware. Following the update, we combine two of our favorite topics, video games and hacking! We’ll cover a few big hacks and attacks from the early days of video game history to present Mobile games and end with some tips to keep you safe as you game.

Have you ever wondered how website advertisements always seem to know what you plan on buying next? This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we dive in to the world of browser fingerprinting and data tracking to explain how advertisements always seem to know what you were just thinking about.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we sit down with three members of the University of New Haven Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group to discuss their resent research into virtual reality application security. UNHcFREG recently discovered several vulnerabilities in the popular VR application BigRoom with results ranging from spying on users to code execution on the victim’s computer. We’ll chat with Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili, Martin Vondráček, and Peter Casey about this research project, and their thoughts on the future of VR and AR security. Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili is the Elder Family Endowed Chair of Computer Science & Cybersecurity at the Tagliatela College of Engineering, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Haven, CT, specializing in Cybersecurity & Forensics. He serves as the Assistant Dean and is the founder of the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG). Abe is also the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL). He received his BSc, MSc and PhD all from Purdue University where he worked as a researcher in CERIAS. Abe co-authored over 70 publications including books, peer reviewed articles, and conference papers and has received funding for his work from a variety of sources including the NSF, NSA, DHS and MITRE. Most recently, work with his students showed security issues in mobile social messaging applications that affect over 1 billion people worldwide they also found major Virtual Reality exploits that affect people globally. His research interests include cybersecurity and forensics from technical, social, and psychological perspectives. He has worked closely with law enforcement and private sector and has published work on real challenges facing cybercriminal investigators and has presented at a number of conferences worldwide. Abe’s work has also been featured in news outlets and on TV worldwide in over 20 languages. To learn more about Abe and his work you can visit http://www.baggili.com and http://www.unhcfreg.com. Martin Vondráček is an enthusiastic student researcher focused on cybersecurity and computer networks, currently (2019) pursuing his master's degree at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology (FIT BUT), Czech Republic. He has completed his Bachelor's degree with honors at the same university and has received several academic awards including dean's award and rector's award. Martin joined the Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group (UNHcFREG) and Virtual Reality Lab as a visiting scholar from the FIT BUT in 2018. During his studies at the FIT BUT, he collaborated with the Networks and Distributed Systems Research Group (NES@FIT). His previous research was focused on automation of Man-in-the-Middle attack on Wi-Fi networks. Martin has also participated in student exchange programs at the University of Malta and the University of South Wales. You can contact him at linkedin.com/in/vondracek-martin, find out more about his publicly available work at github.com/mvondracek, and follow him at twitter.com/VondracekMar. Peter Casey is a graduate researcher at the University of New Haven. He is a member of the Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group, Virtual Reality Lab, and the Hacking Team. While Peter is currently working towards his Master’s in Computer Science (May 2019), he will soon start his career at MITRE. Prior to his studies at the University of New Haven, Peter served several combat deployments with the 1st battalion 75th Ranger Regiment and received his Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we have a very special episode for you. We sit down for an interview with Ricardo Arroyo, current Product Manager for WatchGuard Technologies and former employee of the NSA. You’ve already heard our views on government intelligence gathering and hacking operations so this week we’ll give you the other side from someone with first-hand experience.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. We have another special episode this week coming from Manchester UK, where we sit down with Sr. Sales Engineer Martin Lethbridge to discuss the cyber threats that businesses are facing on this side of the pond. In the episode, we cover three main security concerns and how organizations across the world can combat them.

Today on The 443 – Security Simplified, we jump in to part two of our multi-part series on biohacking. In this episode, we focus on Grinders, the community of biohacker hobbyists that self-experiment with implants and chemicals to enhance their bodies and minds. We’ll cover a few notable individuals, some cool biohacks from the field, and safety concerns.

The WatchGuard Threat Lab just released our Internet Security Report for Q4 2018 which means this week we have a special edition of The 443 – Security Simplified! On today’s episode, we cover all of the stats and trends from the latest report along with some defensive tips to keep yourself safe from the most prolific and widespread attacks.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the latest news including downtime for Facebook, a new IoT security bill making its way through congress, and the latest on nation-state hacking. Then, we begin the first of several episodes on the topic of biohacking. We start the series with a general overview of what biohacking is from cybernetic implants to DIY home-gene splicing. We’ll cover its origins, its future, and where it’s at right now with different subgroups of human biohacking. If there is a specific topic in biohacking that you would like us to cover in this series, reach out to us in the comments on Secplicity.org or on twitter at #The443Podcast.

While Marc is on vacation, and Corey left the cozy confines of our podcast booth in Seattle, and spoke with the folks at WatchGuard’s booth at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. They discussed the top security concerns and trends at the event, including: IoT, MFA and secure Wi-Fi.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. This week, we preview the trends and buzzwords we expect to see at the 2019 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Before that though, we discuss the latest news, including a mobile phone forensics tool found on ebay and a cryptojacking company closing up shop.

In this week’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover two recent healthcare data breaches in the news. Following that, we’ll jump in to the world of artificial intelligence and a few applications with serious opportunities for misuse.

In this episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover a multi-factor authentication crackdown on Apple iOS app developers. Then, to celebrate Valentine’s day, we dive in to dating app security. We cover a few prominent hacks and security trends in the online dating world and how to not fall victim to attackers.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we discuss two news events involving bug bounties. The first event involves a security researcher withholding details of a critical flaw in Mac OS because of Apple’s lack of a bug bounty program, and the second involves a researcher that was allegedly assaulted by a vendor while following up on promises of a payment. After that excitement, we jump in to the world of CAPTCHA, including where it started and how its evolving.

This edition of The 443 – Security Simplified was recorded in front of a live audience at a recent WatchGuard event. Marc and Corey engage the crowd, and WatchGuard executives, in discussion about the state of information security at the beginning of 2019, and have fun with some security and pop culture trivia games.

In today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover the latest news where a group of researchers accidently triggered a bug, disrupting internet routing. We’ll then jump in to the 6 different categories of data breaches, how they occur, and how to defend against them.

In today’s episode, we cover the overlooked cybersecurity ramifications of the US government shutdown. From NIST to expired certificates, we’ll discuss the government agencies, programs, and tools that private organizations rely on every day which are most impacted by the US congress’s ongoing failure to pass a budget for 2019.

In today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover recent news of a mass account breach at Reddit and a global DNS hijacking campaign. We then discuss in to a group of hackers attempting to convince the world to subscribe to a popular YouTube personality’s channel by compromising printers and Chromecasts.

This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we sit down for an interview with authentication expert Roger Grimes, author of A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense. We’ll discuss the security benefits of multi-factor authentication and how attackers circumvent them.

What a year! Since launching The 443 – Security Simplified in June we’ve recorded over 30 episodes full of the latest news, interviews and breakdowns of complex security topics. In this episode, we share some fan-favorite segments complete with the latest updates on where the discussion topics stand today.

In this episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover WatchGuard’s Internet Security Report for Q3 2018. We’ll run through the latest malware and network attack trends, discuss the top security incidents from the quarter, and dive in to the WatchGuard Threat Lab’s latest research.

Are you planning on decking out your home with the latest "smart" gadgets this holiday season? In today's episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, discuss which smart home devices are more secure than others and how to keep your home networks safe while adding your new internet-connected lightbulbs. Before that though, we cover the latest in data breaches with two big ones disclosed in the last week.

Welcome back to another episode of The 443 - Security Simplified. This week in the news, we cover a supply chain attack against a popular Bitcoin wallet. For our main event, we've picked a few of our favorite predictions that didn't make the cut this year. We'll explain the trends behind each one and the reasons why they weren't included with the rest of them.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner (or just having just passed depending on when you listen to this), we wanted to take some time and talk about the things we are thankful for in the cyber security world. Before that though, we’ll cover the latest news in breaking biometrics where researchers out of New York University and the University of Michigan have developed a fingerprint master key.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, in today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we provide some useful cyber security tips to keep your bank account and home network safe while shopping for the latest holiday tech. Before that though, we cover a breach of over 23 million SMS messages and its impact on multi-factor authentication and account security as a whole.

In this special edition of The 443 – Security Simplified, we cover WatchGuard’s 2019 security predictions, available in video and audio formats! For this year’s predictions, the WatchGuard Threat Lab imagines a dystopian future caused by a cybersecurity apocalypse. Learn about Vaporworms, ransomware targeting industrial control systems, the Internet being held hostage, and more. But don’t worry, we’ll also discuss how it can all be avoided! See both our predictions teaser video, and the full video podcast, here: watchguard.com/2019predictions