Podcast for 8 January 2017

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/p/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2017-01-08.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:56 - Cindy Prior ordered to pay costs after trying to sue students under 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/cindy-prior-ordered-to-pay-costs-over-qut-racial-discrimination-case/news-story/466f3168375a6afec461b78e25c98154
  • Cindy Prior: Doctor casts doubts on QUT employee's 18C racism claim http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/doctor-casts-doubts-on-qut-employees-18c-racism-claim/news-story/acef2c0721cee62b98c564f837bdbeac
• 4:26 - Encrypted messaging app Signal uses Google to bypass censorship http://www.pcworld.com/article/3152769/security/encrypted-messaging-app-signal-uses-google-to-bypass-censorship.html
  • Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
• 11:10 - White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/did-russia-tamper-with-the-2016-election-bitter-debate-likely-to-rage-on/
  • Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/obama-tosses-35-russians-out-of-us-sanctions-others-for-election-meddling/

16:22 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The news media

• Russian malware detected in US electricity utility – report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/31/russian-malware-detected-in-us-electricity-grid-report
• Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
• US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/

25:04 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Manville, NJ Board of Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/01/02/anti-gun-control-presentation-on-high-school-students-flash-drive-leads-to-psychological-exam-litigation/

This Week's Quote: "The Second Amendment was written expressly to intimidate government officials and keep them in their place. The fact that politicians and bureaucrats, regardless of their party, detest it and want it obliterated proves that it works." —L. Neil Smith

[evensgrey]

How many websites would be infected with common malware like that if admins would just take the entirely reasonable precaution of periodically running one of the automatic vulnerability scanners for the applicable target type?  They've only been around for over 20 years, and attackers certainly will use them.  If you get rooted because of a known exploit detected by a free scanner, who's fault is that?  (It would be like not checking to make sure you've locked all the doors and windows of your house when you go away for a week-long vacation.)