Episode 33 – Specter and Meltdown

Welcome to Episode 33! News • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lenovo-discovers-and-removes-backdoor-in-networking-switches/ • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/wpa3-wifi-security.html • https://www.infoworld.com/article/3246274/open-source-tools/20-years-on-open-source-hasnt-changed-the-world-as-promised.html • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/intel-amt-vulnerability.html • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/macos-dns-hijacker.html • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/everyone-made-themselves-hero-remembering-aaron-swartz Announcements • Episodes 30 – 32 ogg, iDevice problems? • Episode 31B – bad release, re-try, it‘s fixed now. • The Patron we lost months ago, is back! Chat Main topic • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-heres-what-intel-apple-microsoft-others-are-doing-about-it/ • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/bad-docs-and-blue-screens-make-microsoft-suspend-spectre-patch-for-amd-machines/ • https://www.sans.org/webcasts/meltdown-spectre-understanding-mitigating-threats-106815/success • https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/spectre-and-meltdown-patches-causing-trouble-as-realistic-attacks-get-closer/ Where can you find us? https://www.ironsysadmin.com https://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.ironsysadmin.com/youtube Tweets by ironsysadmin https://www.ironsysadmin.com/slack Apple Podcasts Stitcher! Google Play Podcasts Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/ https://s3.amazonaws.com/ironsysadmin/episodes/IronSysadmin-EP33.mp3