Infosec Decoded Season 2 #51: GitGoat

with @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, and @sambowne.

June 28, 2022

A discussion with Sam Bowne, Kaitlyn Handelman, and Irvin Lemus.

Sam Bowne @sambowne

Tesla bundles battery users to make it look like lower power demand

From milligrams to gigatons: Startup that sucks carbon dioxide from the air is building a big plant in Iceland

After Bruen, the Supreme Court will likely target victims of gun violence
Supreme Court allows Louisiana to use congressional map that lower court said likely violates Voting Rights Act
U.S. Supreme Court takes aim at separation of church and state
How the U.S. Supreme Court could hobble Biden's climate efforts

40 cryptography libraries are impacted by same Ed25519 misconfiguration/misimplementation, allowing extraction of private cryptographic keys

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

AMD investigates RansomHouse hack claims, theft of 450GB data

GitGoat idemonstrates common configuration errors that can potentially allow adversaries to introduce code to production

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro M2 has slower SSD speeds than its M1 counterpart

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data

The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand Over Data Without a Warrant
Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight

Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

A mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

China has plans to make Minority Report a reality for its citizens

School shootings rose to highest number in 2 decades, federal report shows