Infosec Decoded #75: Patching Feds

with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, @sambowne, and Alan Wennersten.

Nov 5, 2021

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

THE U.S. TREASURY IS BUYING PRIVATE APP DATA TO TARGET AND INVESTIGATE PEOPLE Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides 'It's not science fiction': New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 400,000 pounds per year

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

Microsoft warns Windows 11 features are failing due to its expired certificate NASA astronauts harvest green chile on ISS, make space tacos Cosmologically Coupled Compact Objects: A Single-parameter Model for LIGO–Virgo Mass and Redshift Distributions

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

‘Sideloading is a cyber criminal’s best friend,’ according to Apple’s software chief Cisco fixes hard-coded credentials and default SSH key issues The Mozilla Firefox logo isn’t a fox, it’s Red Panda

Alan Wennersten

Commerce Adds NSO Group and Other Foreign Companies to Entity List for Malicious Cyber Activities Iran says Israel, U.S. likely behind cyberattack on gas stations New study suggests SARS-CoV-2 spreading widely within wild deer population Multiple spillovers and onward transmission of SARS-Cov-2 in free-living and captive White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Sam Bowne @sambowne

US federal agencies ordered to patch hundreds of actively exploited vulnerabilities The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes The world will burn through its ‘carbon budget’ in 11 years without big emissions cuts, scientists say