DtR Episode 115 - NewsCast for October 20th, 2014

Topics covered

• The FBI paid a visit to the "researcher" who revealed (and tinkered with) the hacked Yahoo! servers - we discuss the various aspects of this case, which we've been going round and round on lately
  • http://www.wired.com/2014/10/shellshockresearcher/
• US Cyber Security Czar Michael Daniel wants us passwords gone, replaced by .... "selfies"; We wish we were making this one up or the link was to an Onion article, but sometimes the jokes write themselves in a sad, sad way
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/15/forget_passwords_lets_use_selfies_says_obamas_cyber_tsar/
• Pres. Obama has issued an executive order that all government payment cards now must be "chip & pin"; once again underscoring that "just do something" may be worse than actually doing nothing -- we'd love to hear your thoughts?
  • http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/executive-order-improving-security-consumer-financial-transactions
• Notable data breaches discussed:
  • K-Mart - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/12/kmart_cyber_attach/
  • Dairy Queen - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/10/dairy_queen_restaurants_hacked/
• POODLE, the latest OMG SSL vulnerability; is this really that big a deal that there is a public vulnerability in a protocol that should have become extinct at the turn of the century? (Hint: Sadly, yes)
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/10/dairy_queen_restaurants_hacked/

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