Episode 148: Highly Reputable Pirates

Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Highly Reputable Pirates
Episode 148
Ransomware, Hook and Kr00k WiFi, and squirrel nut TLS

Hosts
Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Longer Topics
Ransomware… that’s bad right?

• Combatants: MalwareBytes, Comparitech, and even the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Should I pay the ransom?
  • The Baltimore City Government famously lost about $18 million in damages over a ransom of $75,000
  • Danish company Demant had an even bigger breach, and recovering from a ransomware attack cost them upwards of $85 million
  • The average ransom demand is going up, along with the amount of attacks reported
• How can protect myself?
  • Secure RDP
  • Everis left “hundreds of RDP servers” open to the internet, and as a result were shut down by ransomware
  • CVE-2019-2725 in Oracle WebLogic

Lightning Round

• Good new everyone! We can all be hacked together.
• Now for a bit of good security news
• DNS over HTTPS enabled by default in newest releases of Firefox
• Unexpected effects of the Coronavirus on the workforce

Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B