Unsupervised Learning With Daniel Miessler

Play Podcast START CONTENT * There was another SQL Injection bug found in SEO by Yoast * It required admins to click a malicious link * Was patched quickly * It’s the plugins that make WordPress vulnerable * Attackers are targeting gamers for ransomware * Virlock is one version of ransomware that not only locks the screen, but infects files * It’s also polymorphic, so it changes itself every time it runs * TeslaCrypt goes after gamers, which seems super smart because they are often addicted * The Hello Barbie doll is recording kids voices and sending the recordings over the Internet for voice recognition * I get asked a lot about what to do about this kind of stuff * Start by making a list of everything that can record voice or audio in your home, and determine what kind of controls you have on them * Assume the worst, even though it’s probably not that bad * US industrial systems attacked 245 times between October 2013 and September 2014 * Most attacks were against Critical