Eric's garage has a beep, Jon makes his way to India. Phish n' Ships is a great name, but really it should be Phish n' Not-Ships... An EMERALDWHALE makes its way through exposed Git configurations. Eric appreciates Wind Turbine Art and Jon discovers Mayan ruins via LiDAR. 0:00 - Introduction 12:24 - Phish n' Ships 15:17 - EMERALDWHALE 21:37 - Micro…

Eric Ikeas and Jon ... does stuff. The quantum breaking of RSA was a mite early (1002 bits shy of 1024), Landmark Admin suffers a data breach, and Spectre is still a thing (6!) years later. For fun we have the source of all meteorites and 'compelling evidence' of an Exomoon. 0:00 - Intro 15:52 - Quantum Overblown 18:52 - Landmark Data Breach 22:41 …

Jon installs an automatic chicken door, Eric does some more 3D printing. Quick update on a SIM swap hack while checking in on the EU throwing a hand grenade at software liability and apparently people are wardriving for Redbox kiosks. Eric shares a shameless plug for a friend's Kickstarter. Jon goes old school with some Hubble telescope goodness. 0…

Eric pays to recycle and Jon has much ado about not very much. How to break RSA with D-Wave, North Korea gets job applicants to install malware as part of coding tests, and Cloudflare stops a 3.8Tbps DDoS attack. For fun we have King the Land, a Korean rom-com, and two pioneers of machine learning get the Nobel prize in physics. 0:00 - Intro 17:20 …

Eric has no rhythm and went for a hike, Jon works on luxury apartments for chickens. License plate readers see more than just license plates. Smart glasses make doxxing super easy. Eric eyeballs an incoming solar storm while Jon drops in on a treasure hunt. 0:00 - Introduction 8:52 - License Plates and More! 14:10 - Sunglasses and More! 19:28 - Sol…

Jon builds an arbor and rents a bull (?) and Eric does driving for styrofoam recycling. Meta fined for storing passwords in plaintext, Google continues its march against passwords, remote controlling any kia just from its license plate, and Kaspersky swaps itself out in the US. For fun we have the largest mapped brain to date (a fruit fly), and val…

Both Jon and Eric have mic issues, but Eric gets a new monitor and Jon goes fishing again. Everyone should start looking at Passkeys. Jon finds a ClickFix and ways to attack LLMs with math. Eric discovers 3600 year old cheese and Jon shares some poetry. 0:00 - Introduction 11:01 - Passkeys are In! 14:54 - Social Engineering with a ClickFix 18:47 - …

Eric's nest has emptied, and Jon's pantry is full of asian pear derivatives. Temu denies (rightly?) that the data didn't come from them, Transport for London has to restore 30k employee creds in person, and why not to let the authoritative server for a domain expire. For fun we have another word puzzle by the NYT, and estimating an avatar's gaze at…

Eric has some travel news and Jon smells like plums. Eric's beloved Yubikey is unpatchable. AT&T want VMWare security updates and Android malware uses OCR to find cryptocurrency creds in your photo album. Eric doesn't understand transparent flesh while Jon looks at a diamond making machine. 0:00 - Introduction 10:24 - Yubikey Vuln 14:08 - Security …

Eric gets productive, while Jon goes to the fair. An airline service to register crew can be SQL Injected, scammers combine location data and photos in sextortion emails, and Microsoft's Mac apps are vulnerable-ish. For fun Eric will be visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Ganymede had a smashing past. 0:00 - Introduction 12:46 - Pilot Test Test…

Eric finishes his chess set project, Jon goes camping. Claude shares some of it's AI internals. Google fixes a zero-day exploit. Slack's AI allows extraction of unexpected data. 3D Printing with Glass?!?! Finally, a Grace Hopper YouTube video you should watch. 0:00 - Introduction 9:46 - System Prompts 14:09 - Browser CVE 16:13 - AI Exfil 22:36 - Pr…

Eric moves daughters to college, Jon extracts honey. The Oregon Zoo is compromised for ~6 months, a 60 million dollar BEC, and a new flavor of Mac Malware. Restoring and repairing an old Chess set, and Scientific American stories from 50, 100, and 150 years ago. 0:00 - Intro 9:38 - Zoo Heist 14:17 - Sixty Million Dollars 16:51 - TodoSwift 20:37 - C…

Eric is sending kids to college, Jon has four peaches, small green lemons (not limes), and other harvest bounty. Using 0.0.0.0 to attack local networks. Using SEC filings to disclose a breach. Using AI to craft content for Phishing Attacks in real time. Using non conductive liquid as a heat sink. Using Medieval Gibberish as a reference book. 0:00 -…

Lazy(-ish) summer weekends for both. Crowdstrike releases their RCA (20!=21), an MDM vendor wipes 13k student devices in Singapore, and the results of a comprehensive audit of Homebrew. For fun we have electrostatics based propulsion and a long lost branch of the Nile likely used to help build the pyramids. 0:00 - Intro 8:20 - Missing Argument 13:4…

Eric is afraid of getting his car washed. Jon has blackberries. Bits about Money has a humorous take on CrowdStrike and Banks. Google misplaces users' passwords for the better part of a day. Secure Boot isn't as secure as the name suggests. Forget Tamagotchi, here's a Friend. Blaze Star go Boom. Finally, Eric had way too much fun with the chapter t…

Jon made it home, and Eric's away. Telegram has a zero day 'EvilVideo' allowing APK installation, and Crowdstrike's content update outage over the past weekend that caused mayhem. For fun we have a new game from Panic and the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. 0:00 - Intro 7:47 - Telegram Zero Day 12:22 - Crowdstrike Content Update 30:43 …

Jon's about done with travel, Eric's about done with nothing. Quick Snowflake/Ticketmaster recap (Eric got his Ticketmaster breach notification). AT&T shared "nearly all" phone numbers with hackers (Eric got his AT&T breach notification). Squarespace shared unauthorized access to cryptocurrency domains. The football field sized ISS is set to burn u…

Jon is away on vacation and Eric retreats from the heat. The FCC is cracking down on a robocall purveyor and the DoJ takes down an RT 'botnet' of fake social media accounts. Eric gets an unprompted 5* review to brighten his day, and Jon visits 'the largest ancient castle in the world.' 0:00 - Intro 11:53 - Mandatory FCC Block 17:58 - RT Botnet Take…

Jon makes some hay, Eric goes to a ball game. Authy inadvertently plays fast and loose with an API while polyfill.io loses control of their javascript, but Cloudflare steps in to save the day. Old man Eric rejoices in advances in hearing science and Jon discovers what Denisovans ate for dinner. 0:00 - Introduction 9:43 - Authy API Ooops 13:42 - pol…

Eric returns from vacation and Jon makes Hay. Microsoft retires its under sea data center experiment, YouTube attempts to get artists onboard for AI Music, Apple may (or may not) be compliant with the DMA, and a Krebs master class in OSInt. Sleep cleans your brain, and how to make hay. 0:00 - Intro 13:24 - No More Barnacled Servers 16:36 - AI Compo…

Eric is on vacation, so Jon is up late. Panera lost some employee data and Snowflake is updating stuff. Eric enjoys the South Pacific Epcot while Jon looks forward to going to a library. 0:00 - Introduction 9:09 - Panera Fallout 12:04 - Snowflake Fallout 18:22 - Polynesian Cultural Center 23:14 - Klementinum…

Eric graduates his last, and Jon hosts a field trip. Club Penguin fans post inside documents from Disney (among others) and Apple announces how they will securely and privately execute LLMs in the cloud. Wyoming nuclear power plant breaks ground, the Civ7 trailer is released, and Astronaut William Anders passes away in his plane. 0:00 - Intro 14:32…

Eric says goodbye (sorta) to Coke Zero just in time for Chaos Week; aka Last Child Graduating High School. Jon cleans out his barn and discovers the bees are making him honey. Polish Hackers call out train repair shenanigans and Ticketmaster loses 560 million(ish?) user accounts due to(?) a Snowflake database misconfiguration? So many questions. Pa…

Eric grills ribs for Memorial Day, and Jon finds a goose. The internet archive under attack (literally and legally), and essays on programming. Two Mayan fun things ... books and bees. 0:00 - Intro 12:05 - Wayback Attack 16:20 - Essays on Programming 31:25 - Doomsday Match 35:13 - Stingless BeesBy Eric Wuehler and Jon King

Eric hangs out downtown and plans a trip to the symphony. Jon is hitting the end of the high school concert season, has opinions on iPad and notes that the bees both giveth and taketh away. While recovering from a long trip, they ask themselves many important questions... Who knew college students would want free laundry services? When did your WiF…

Eric has superlative steak and Jon has ... pizza. Northern lights, concerts, and grafting bees oh my. Microsoft's security priorities, FCC designates Royal Tiger, and Ascension hospitals attacked with/by Black Basta. A Vampire Drone and Wallets everywhere. 0:00 - Intro 16:05 - Top Priority 23:15 - Royal Tiger 27:28 - Ascension Land 32:09 - Vampire …

Eric's on the road again and has irrelevant opinions about Taylor Swift's new music. Jon is surrounded by music and actually watches a show Eric recommended. LockBit gang is doxxed by the FBI. Microsoft's top priority is security. Eric is suprised by Sugar and Jon discovers a new show: Doctor Rakus, Medicine Primate. 0:00 - Introduction 11:58 - Loc…

Eric wins the exercise challenge and Jon's iPad is busted. The FCC is (attempting to) fine carriers for sharing your location data, stats on Google's android app store protections in 2023, and GitHub comments are abused to host malware. For fun we have a Netflix series of the Three Body Problem, and an every-80-years-not-a-normal-nova. 0:00 - Intro…

Jon and Eric make it back from Texas, despite airport security. Nespresso has an open redirect vulnerability, eScan AV delivers updates via HTTP and Cisco has Zero-day fun time. Eric admires vaporizing water without heat while Jon is impressed with a pushing firmware updates to a spacecraft 15 billion miles away... 0:00 - Introduction 2:29 - Briske…

Eric performs Digital Spring Cleaning and Jon mostly works outside. Open source groups are worried about other 'XZ Style' hacks, Roku announces a second security incident, LastPass employee is deepfaked, and LG TV vulnerabilities. Don't expose your TVs to the internet folks. For fun we have an amazing article about deep sea cable repair ships and a…

Eric pulls out the BBQ, taunting the Rain Gods. Jon checks on his bees and deserves a third wire. Hackers lure folks with AI promises from hijacked social accounts while a software supply chain narrowly avoids a big oopsie. Eric dips his toes in hydroponic herb gardening while Jon eyes smart contact lenses (and narrowly avoids an April Fools oopsie…

Eric gets back home from vacation and Jon (tries to) defy range anxiety in his new car. Google has a proposed settlement for their harvesting of incognito browsers and the big AT&T breach has 'encrypted' PINs but are easily reversed. The first Neuralink transplant recipient pulls an all nighter playing Civ6, and we (may) have a record number of bee…

Eric and Jon chat about vacations, Jon looks for whales in Washington while Eric searches for license plates in Utah. Eric finds 3 million hotel room doors can be opened while Jon finds a company playing boths sides. Eric discovers he's a Lightweaver while Jon is an Elsecaller who also likes a whale museums. [NOTE: Eric's travel mic was having issu…

Pi day, wasps about, new 3d printer, Dune 2, and a bee update. Stroustrup objects to the characterization of (modern) C++ as unsafe (but are any projects in C++ fully modern??), Apex Legends tourney participants forced to cheat, swappers come for the eSIMs, and your connected car is probably selling your driving behavior data to insurance companies…

Eric survives a birthday at Benihana, laments the inability to game the system and looks forward to building a new 3D Printer. Jon is giddily gearing up for bee season and educates Eric on Yellowjackets. Roku discovers what its user accounts are worth on the dark web and Jon needs to update his QNAP. Again. The British Library is under-appraised th…

Eric's 'things are breaking' woes continue and Jon has a nice trip to UW. Info stealers are targeting ChatGPT creds, beware cheap IOT devices (like that's new advice), and Anycubic's cloud MQTT service is hacked (or misconfigured). Bumblebees exhibit cumulative culture (!!), Eric says to watch Resident Alien, and Colossal scientists manage to induc…

Eric has a phone again! AT&T: 1, Apple: 0... then discovers wind chimes are not awesome at 4am. Jon puts his woodworking skills to ancient use and starts housing chickens in the bathroom. Don't miss the private lander relaxing on the moon. The White House says "Use Memory Safe Programming Languages" (and there was much rejoicing). Jon does a Huggin…

Eric wardials and Jon fails to locate. Falling for scams is easier than you think and how threat actors are using LLMs. Oregon fails to adopt standard time, NASAs new moon landing, and snapshotting activity on the attosecond scale. 0:00 - Intro 12:48 - Eric Topic 18:26 - {color}{weather event} use of LLMs 29:47 - (Not) Standard Oregon Time 33:28 - …

Sportsball weekend. Jon can't pause TV and he's annoyed. Eric still has negative opinions of JavaScript and adds cell towers to the list. Followup on political ad clones. Eric uses ChatGPT to find missing US States. Almost. LassPass is not a Dating App. Phishception is the word of the day. FTC says Fraud Losses top 10 Billion in 2023. For fun, Eric…

Eric Laser Tags and Jon's bees are (mostly) alive; arrests in a 400m crypto heist that may or may not have been from FTX, and the FBI cleans up old routers infected with a PRC botnet; a Chinese company announces new hyperloop speed record, and the winners of the Scrollprize demonstrate extracting text from papyrus charred by Vesuvius. 0:00 - Intro …

Eric has an eye for pain while Jon admires his bees and discovers upgrade issues with his TV. Google ads can send you to malicious software and Facebook has 2000+ companies send them your data. Doom runs everywhere, including bacteria while gene therapy treats hearing loss for kids. 0:00 - Introduction 9:06 - Google Ads are Risky 15:57 - All your d…

The Oregon Thaw has happened and Eric and Jon can leave their houses. There was much rejoicing. Are or will AI Sleeper Agents be a thing, a President Biden Deepfake encouraging New Hampshire voters to stay home, and an extremely large data breach posted to Have I Been Pwned. For fun, the soon to be demise of the Leap Second, and a hidden city disco…

It is all about the Ice. Kids out of school, but no Snow Days for the WFH crowd - and Jon avoids walking out his front door. Serving a court summons via Bitcoin is now a thing and irritating Mandiant is generally not a good move. Eric shares fun facts about Ice and Jon talks Noble Gas Clusters. 0:00 - Introduction 13:26 - Here's some bitcoin: Oh, a…

Eric struggles with plane and weather issues (thanks Alaska!), and Jon drives in the Snow. Researchers demonstrate Denial of Wrench, the SEC is hacked to promote Bitcoin ETFs so they join the party, and Ransomware in 2023. For fun we have the Peregrine lunar lander and the first (?) person to beat Tetris on the NES. 0:00 - Intro 12:54 - Hacking Con…

Happy New Year! Adult Diapers, what? Eric jumps a car, Jon eats brisket and has a stinkin' dishwasher. Security Best Practices for Earth and Beyond with more Triangulation Details. Eric likes a space picture and Jon shares a handful of the Good Stories you missed in 2023. 0:00 - Introduction 12:31 - Security in Space 19:39 - Triangulation Continuat…

Jon has a relaxing Christmas while Eric faces More Water Issues. Also, tire size matters. The first two Lapsus$ teens are sentenced in the UK, Japan plans to crack down on app stores, Ukraine hacks back for Kyivstar, and SSH servers under attack. What is a Flow Battery and is it better than Lithium Ion, and the Juno space probe will pass close to I…

Eric recounts a 2500 mile roadtrip that includes a kidnapping while Jon enjoys concert week. Eric has a secret shoe shopping habit that has been compromized while Jon moots about a map mess. Garage chemists powered by ChatGPT and the world revolves around checks. 0:00 - Introduction 10:36 - VF Corp's 8-K 18:40 - Google Maps History 24:53 - Chemists…

Eric and Jon depart in two directions on road trips, Vans, Zoo Lights, and Bee Hives. Binance will be scoured for {evil,taxes}, Beeper Blues, and Push Notification spying by governments. A fun bonanza with We Are Bob, Humane, and Cassiopeia A in stereo(-ish). 0:00 - Intro 11:23 - Binance Scouring 18:07 - Beeper Woes 24:34 - Push Notifications Spyin…

Eric gets a new toy and installs a license plate holder thanks to Amazon - and no thanks to Amazon subscriptions. Jon gets his new router table set up and finds a photo frustration. Eric uses an (invalid) excuse to be annoyed with JavaScript while Jon checks in on iOS zero-days and Citrix bugs. The Internation Space Station turns 25, Charlie Munger…

Eric travels for Thanksgiving and Jon goes there and back again. Adversarial ML against LLMs, whether generated code is secure (it's not), the demise of a Crypto Drainer, and a complaint against Meta's new policy of pay-us-so-we-don't-track-you. For fun we have the California Railroad Museum and a video explaining just how Apple's Thunderbolt 4 USB…