Mostly Security

Jon King and Eric Wuehler

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

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S1 · E459
Friday · 20 min
459: Welcome to the Jungle
Eric rides the rails and Jon fishes the seas. A NightmareStresser is powered off and your favorite bands "never before heard bootleg" might be AI. Scientists name a new snake after Slash and archaeologists uncover 38 people in an unlooted tomb. 0:00 - Introduction 7:57 - NightmareStresser 10:48 - AI music in your feed 14:36 - Welcome to the Jungle 17:24 - Chimú Tomb
S1 · E458
September 19 · 21 min
458: Twitch Streamer
Eric reads and one of Jon's dogs has a vet scare. A Zero Click Zero Day on Pixel phones, and a third party Twitch Chrome extension harvesting bearer tokens. For fun we have the Nikon small world (in motion!) and what happens after a dinosaur eats a bird that ate a fish. 0:00 - Intro 7:13 - Zero Click 10:45 - "Enhanced" Viewing 14:47 - Nikon Small World 16:42 - DinoBirdFish
S1 · E457
September 11 · 33 min
457: Be Skeptical
Coyote vs ACME and frustration then fishing. Faster Chrome updates. Identity verification company breach. Big Patch Tuesday. Breaking Botnets. Teaching fruit flies to play DOOM and Mario 64. Bee relics in fossilized Owl pellets. 0:00 - Introduction 10:59 - Faster Chrome 13:40 - ID Verification Oops 19:23 - Big Patch Tuesday 23:28 - Breaking Botnets 26:25 - Fruit flies play DOOM 29:56 - Bee relics
S1 · E456
September 4 · 21 min
456: Unhinged
Eric complete's another road trip and listens to a "book". Jon gets some electrical work done. ClickFix has a sibling, TerminalFix. Chrome fixes a lot of things and more details emerge from the Hugging Face incident. Scientists may or may not have discovered a WIMP. Jon observes a partial lunar eclipse. 0:00 - Introduction 5:35 - TerminalFix 8:52 - Chrome 152 11:39 - Hugging Face fallout 15:39 - WIMP discovery 18:39 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
S1 · E455
August 29 · 27 min
455: Monty Python Sketch
Eric wraps up his latest app, and Jon finishes his latest project. Half a million Californians have signed up for DROP so far, Botnets in your car, and Ring's new encrypted video strategy. For fun you can make your own Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck or check out NASA's latest Dish. 0:00 - Intro 6:49 - Half a Million 9:28 - Head (Unit) Botnet 12:31 - Throw Away the Key 18:46 - Cyberdeck 23:36 - Dish Muscle
S1 · E454
August 22 · 29 min
454: Saw Talk
Eric celebrates and Jon debugs saws. NASA captures images of impact site, CISA warns of four exploits across Microsoft, VMWare, and Apple, and OpenAI pauses Astra training to harden model containment. Voyager I nears one light day distance, and Moderna/Merck announce promising, personalized melanoma vaccine results. 0:00 - Intro 9:48 - Lunar Impact 12:21 - Exploits in the Wild 14:59 - Astra Paused 22:07 - Light Day Approaching 25:23 - Cancer Vaccine (??)
S1 · E453
August 15 · 31 min
453: Ruptosis
Eric rediscovers a love of time. Jon returns from Alaska and fixes a trailer. California drops DROP on the public. Update your Zoom client, folks. Flatworms with exploding cells and the Kenai Fjords are cool. 0:00 - Introduction 11:39 - DROP 15:30 - Zoom Bug 21:25 - Exploding Cells 24:28 - Kenai Fjords
S1 · E452
August 8 · 31 min
452: 100% Chance Of Impact
Jon's on Vacation and Eric holds down the Oregon (Coast) Fort. Agents are getting their own wallets and identity, while the last two Chrome milestones release more security fixes than the previous 23 combined. For fun [?] NASA tracks SpaceX rocket debris impacting the moon, and Jon visits Denali National Park. 0:00 - Intro 10:29 - Stable Agent Coins 15:02 - Chrome Fixes 19:50 - Lunar Impact 23:28 - Denali National Park
S1 · E451
August 1 · 34 min
451: Fahrenheit
Eric tests health bands, Jon makes pickles. More on OpenAI playing a game of thermonuclear war. Logos are back! The Scam Economy is bigger than you think. Lost civilizations discovered beneath the Amazon. Octopuses are cool! 0:00 - Introduction 11:35 - OpenAI Revisited 16:44 - Squidbleed 19:48 - The Scam Economy 26:57 - Hidden Amazon 30:34 - Octopuses are cool
S1 · E450
July 25 · 24 min
450: AI Finds A Way
Eric's on vacation making apps, and Jon deconstructs a tree. Ransomware targeting Coca Cola's protein milk, and OpenAI's next model escapes to HuggingFace. The wonders of prehistoric squirrel coprolites, and the coming launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. 0:00 - Intro 7:57 - Shredded Protein Milk 11:37 - Motivated Model Mayhem 18:09 - Squirrel Coprolites 21:04 - Nancy Grace Roman Telescope
S1 · E449
July 17 · 25 min
449: Space Raspberries
Eric needs a vacation. Jon discovers industrial sprinklers. Humans are optional. Grok takes it all. World Cup memes are fun. Space tastes like raspberries. 0:00 - Introduction 4:39 - Humans are Optional 9:24 - Grok All the Things 16:34 - World Cup Memes 21:03 - Space tastes like raspberries
S1 · E448
July 11 · 30 min
448: Plunar Eclipse
Eric and Jon on the road again. HalluSquatting ... is a thing (?). Agents can be extremely persistent and exhibit malware like behaviors. The FBI seizes domains from NetNut residential proxy hosting botnet infrastructure. For fun you have a monthly Satellite Puzzler and New Horizing waking up from a nice long nap far past Pluto. 0:00 - Intro 4:09 - HalluSquatting 12:21 - Agent Persistence 15:59 - NetNut Proxy Seizure 23:45 - Satellite Puzzler 26:00 - New Horizons Wakes Up
S1 · E447
July 3 · 37 min
447: Redonkulous
Eric's watching World Cup while Jon is driving his tractor in the dark. Fable 5 is back. Blocking the bad guy is dead. Hide My Email doesn't. Phantom squatting is now a thing. Eric describes the Great Giraffe Escape. Jon synthesizes a spud cell. 0:00 - Introduction 6:04 - Fable 5 is Back! 9:17 - Let's Work Together! 14:32 - !(Hide My Email) 19:02 - Phantom Squatting? 27:51 - Giraffe Escape! 31:48 - Spud Cell?
S1 · E446
June 27 · 33 min
446: Skin Of Banality
Eric and Jon both return from travels, and the World Cup proceeds on Telemundo. UniFi issues exploited in the wild, and WhatsApp used as a malware delivery vehicle via hacked accounts. Google Wallet will allow TSA Touchless ID and if you're in NYC, visit the Frick Collection. 0:00 - Intro 13:54 - Network Issues 16:42 - WhatsApp Delivery Vehicle 24:39 - TSA + Google Wallet 29:16 - The Frick Collection
S1 · E445
June 19 · 32 min
445: Law of the Tongue
Jon sees a movie. Not to be outdone, so does Eric. World Economic Forum reports on AI Fraud. Microsoft patches a Rogue Planet. A zombie spider may be the Last of Us. Whales have a phonetic alphabet. Humans and Orcas used to work together until #Greed. 0:00 - Introduction 9:07 - AI Fraud is Number One 17:08 - Rogue Planet 23:09 - Zombie Spiders 25:49 - Whale Speak 30:02 - Greedy Humans
S1 · E444
June 13 · 41 min
444: Malicious Beaver
Eric sleeps and the ad experiment goes poorly. Jon does too much driving and not enough email reading. Meta's support AI hands out accounts when prompted, Microsoft releases another record breaking patch Tuesday, and what it's like working with Fable (and an unlimited token budget?). Toronto releases the Beavers, and why shouldn't a robot have All The Legs? 0:00 - Intro 15:00 - AI Blunder 21:14 - Record Breaking Tuesday 24:39 - Fable Studio 32:16 - The Great Beaver Quest 36:30 - Dynamic Isotropy Maximization
S1 · E443
June 6 · 38 min
443: Pump Up the Volume
Eric is in the home wedding stretch, or, something like that and tries out Apple Ads. Jon has eight queens and eventually ended up at the symphony. Checking in with the rise of inference theft and account token theft (unrelated) with a quick Hermes sidetrack. Eric puts out fires with sound and Jon digs down near Notre Dame. 0:00 - Introduction 15:05 - Rise of Inference Theft 20:07 - Lows of Token Theft 26:13 - Hermes 28:31 - The Sound of Fire Suppression 33:01 - Notre Dame Dig
S1 · E442
May 30 · 27 min
442: Potato Tomato
Eric passes a life milestone, and Jon does not (yet). The foam peddler might get stuffed, and Mythos consequences continue. Multiple (useless?) web funs, and the greatest (currently) living composer. 0:00 - Intro 8:27 - Shredded Foam 11:31 - More Mythos 18:29 - Discernment 19:18 - Edge Experiment 20:28 - Cursor Camp 22:00 - Jon Fun
S1 · E441
May 23 · 29 min
441: Old School Hacker Flex
Wedding day week for Eric, and Jon may have a 7th hive (NB: Nope, didn't happen). Mythos + MacOS == 55 page hand delivered report to Apple Park, a contractor at CISA dumps creds in an open GitHub repo, and Cloudflare runs Mythos for exploit PoC generation. Journalists found the answer for K4 by Journalisting, and arXiv announces publishing bans for AI slop. 0:00 - Intro 6:30 - 55 Pages, Hand Delivered 10:27 - Private-CISA 13:11 - Cloudflare + Mythos 20:28 - Journalists vs. K4 24:21 - Slop Ban
S1 · E440
May 16 · 26 min
440: Metalheads
Eric experiences the good, the bad, and the indifferent, while Jon is full on into spring chores. Firefox is the first (?) company to fix a massive haul of mythos identified vulnerabilities and Cloudflare posts an interesting response to Copy Fail. Scorpions incorporate metal into their stingers and pincers, and the clearest map to date of > 164,000 galaxies from the JWST. 0:00 - Intro 9:43 - Mythos + Firefox 14:40 - Cloudflare vs Copy Fail 19:27 - Heavy Metal Scorpions 23:10 - 164,000 Galaxies

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