Holon Network Podcast for 2021-11-22

In The News This Week

1 Bitcoin equals $56,619.86 United States Dollar 

https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin   

Gold Price Per Ounce $1,817.70 

https://www.apmex.com/gold-price   

Oil Price Per Barl $76.33  

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=wti   

1 Dogecoin equals $0.2199 USD 

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/

This Week In Vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 8, 2021

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb21-319

 

Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 15, 2021

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb21-326

 

Researchers wait 12 months to report vulnerability with 9.8 out of 10 severity rating

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/vpn-vulnerability-on-10k-servers-has-severity-rating-of-9-8-out-of-10/

 

New Windows zero-day with public exploit lets you become an admin

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-zero-day-with-public-exploit-lets-you-become-an-admin/ 

 

Hands-On: Lynx R1 Mixed Reality AR/VR Headset!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoYTEZJucw 

This Week In Privacy Or Lack Thereof:

Rollout of Facebook Metaverse Plans Greeted With Privacy Concerns

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/rollout-of-facebook-metaverse-plans-greeted-with-privacy-concerns/ 

 

EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones

https://european-pirateparty.eu/eu-ministers-welcome-chatcontrol/

 

Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021 

 

EFF to Supreme Court: Warrantless 24-Hour Video Surveillance Outside Homes Violates Fourth Amendment

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-warrantless-24-hour-video-surveillance-outside-homes-violates

 

Costco discloses data breach after finding credit card skimmer

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/costco-discloses-data-breach-after-finding-credit-card-skimmer/ 

 

Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/21/meta-delays-encrypted-messages-on-facebook-and-instagram-to-2023

This Week In Security:

HPE says Aruba customer data compromised after data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/hpe-aruba-data-breach/ 

 

FBI Warns That Ransomware Gangs Target Companies During Mergers and Acquisitions, Threatening To Disclose Non-Public Information

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/fbi-warns-that-ransomware-gangs-target-companies-during-mergers-and-acquisitions-threatening-to-disclose-non-public-information/

 

Hackers access FBI email system, spam 100,000 accounts

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/581438-hackers-access-fbi-email-system-spam-100000-people

 

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/hoax-email-blast-abused-poor-coding-in-fbi-website/

 

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-incident-involving-fake-emails

 

Why are you still using QWERTY? 2021's most common passwords revealed

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-are-you-still-using-qwerty-2021s-most-common-passwords-revealed/

 

Miscellaneous Stories:

DEF CON 30 Theme Announced

https://twitter.com/defcon/status/1459247671395323909

Cool Tools We Found This Week:

Humble Python Programming by O'Reilly

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-programming-oreilly-books

 

CISA: New Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/11/16/new-federal-government-cybersecurity-incident-and-vulnerability

 

InfoSec Black Friday Deals

https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday

Projects For This Week:

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression

 

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4693818

 

https://docs.qmk.fm/#/newbs_flashing?id=flash-your-keyboard-from-the-command-line

(DT) Firefly III - https://www.firefly-iii.org/