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?
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
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