Unsupervised Learning With Daniel Miessler

START CONTENT * New SSL attack called FREAK * Has to do with falling RSA back to a deprecated and weak level * Requires the client and server are both vulnerable * The solution is to patch * Many orgs will also want to note which servers were vulnerable * The lesson is that you don’t reduce security to increase it * Backdoors x time = regret * Using Ruby’s Open-URI could be dangerous * open-uri monkeypatches kernel.open * open(params[:url]) can execute |ls * Hilary Clinton used a personal email address and did not store correspondence on government servers for her entire 4 years as Secretary of Defense * This seems highly suspect * First you’re putting that data at risk in a personal system * Second you’re obviously trying to hide your conversations * Facebook can access your account without your password * Google no longer encrypting Lollipop by default * Was one of the main selling points for 5, and now it’s gone * They said it was simply a driver issue * DLink