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* Singtel buys Trustwave

* Snowden does interview with John Oliver

* CheckPoint buys Lacoon



* Everyone’s trying to do everything, which gives the big people a major advantage


* China melted GitHub



* MiTM’d Baidu traffic and modified its analytics JavaScript to make constant requests to GitHub

* They did it because GitHub was hosting two mirror repos for content that is banned in China

* Also highlights the need for encryption, so that the JS couldn’t have been injected


* Obama just came out and said that if you attack us, we’ll sanction you



* How does that work exactly, when China makes everything we use?


* Then we just found out Russia hacked us through the State Department issue

* A major vulnerability was revealed in Inngate routers used in the US and Europe. 



* It allows attackers to browse and write to the root file system of the devices, changing configuration, distributing malware, etc.

* Mostly used in US and European hotels


* Attackers are compromising IRS accounts in large numbers. Claim yours to avoid it happening to you

* Featuring Brooks Garrett



* He’s a friend and co-worker going back 8 years

* He’s the smartest IT guy I’ve ever known: sick programmer, Linux ninja, database, networking, everything. Full stack, real deal.

* He’s a volunteer firefighter

* He blogs at http://brooksgarrett.com: latest posts are Remote Streaming with Pi and MPD, Nagios SMS alerts with Amazon SNS, Cleaning Passwords from Logs, Fixing OhMyZSH prompts in PuTTY

* His Twitter is @brooksgarrett

* If you’re not following his stuff, you should be




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* Intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.

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* Singtel buys Trustwave 
* Snowden does interview with John Oliver 
* CheckPoint buys Lacoon 
 
 
* Everyone&#8217;s trying to do everything, which gives the big people a major advantage 
 
* China melted GitHub 
 
 
* MiTM&#8217;d Baidu traffic and modified its analytics JavaScript to make constant requests to GitHub 
* They did it because GitHub was hosting two mirror repos for content that is banned in China 
* Also highlights the need for encryption, so that the JS couldn&#8217;t have been injected 
 
* Obama just came out and said that if you attack us, we&#8217;ll sanction you 
 
 
* How does that work exactly, when China makes everything we use? 
 
* Then we just found out Russia hacked us through the State Department issue 
* A major vulnerability was revealed in Inngate routers used in the US and Europe. 
 
 
* It allows attackers to browse and write to the root file system of the devices, changing configuration, distributing malware, etc. 
* Mostly used in US and European hotels 
 
* Attackers are compromising IRS accounts in large numbers. Claim yours to avoid it happening to you 
* Featuring Brooks Garrett 
 
 
* He&#8217;s a friend and co-worker going back 8 years 
* He&#8217;s the smartest IT guy I&#8217;ve ever known: sick programmer, Linux ninja, database, networking, everything. Full stack, real deal. 
* He&#8217;s a volunteer firefighter 
* He blogs at http://brooksgarrett.com: latest posts are Remote Streaming with Pi and MPD, Nagios SMS alerts with Amazon SNS, Cleaning Passwords from Logs, Fixing OhMyZSH prompts in PuTTY 
* His Twitter is @brooksgarrett 
* If you&#8217;re not following his stuff, you should be 
 
 
 
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Notes 
 
 
* Intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/zomby/id274329548">Zomby</a>. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.

Unsupervised Learning is a Security, AI, and Meaning-focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, and mental models to bring not just the news, but why it matters and how to respond.

Unsupervised Learning is a Security, AI, and Meaning-focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, and mental models to bring not just the news, but why it matters and how to respond.

Exploring the fascinating intersection of security, technology, and humans.

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