If you missed the show from today (10/11/2016) or just want to review it again, we’ve got it edited and posted to our YouTube channel!
On this episode we go over some of the recent random news with our awesome IRC chat.
Yahoo Disables Email Auto-Forwarding; Making It Harder for Users to Move On:
http://thehackernews.com/2016/10/yahoo-email-auto-forwarding.html
Searching for Best Encryption Tools? Hackers are Spreading Malware Through Fake Software:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/sSttzbQ4AEU/best-encryption-tools.html
Challenge! WIN $50,000 for Finding Non-traditional Ways to Detect Vulnerable IoT Devices:
http://thehackernews.com/2016/10/iot-security-scanner.html
Say good-bye to individual patches on Windows 7 and 8:
New JavaScript Malware Shuts Down Your PC If You Terminate Its Process:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/new-javascript-malware-shuts-down-your-pc-if-you-terminate-its-process-509097.shtml
Fakenet: monitor network traffic of programs:
LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’:
Tech Support Scams use new Tricks to Hold Browsers Hostage via Fake Mouse cursor :
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tech-support-scams-use-new-tricks-to-hold-browsers-hostage/
Shady Practices with Web Site Deindexing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/
Samsung discontinues Galaxy Note7 after battery debacle:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3130189/samsung-discontinues-galaxy-note7-after-battery-debacle.html
Burned Galaxy Note 7 from Southwest flight seized by federal regulators for testing:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/11/13241032/samsung-galaxy-note-7-subpoena-seizure-cpsc
NSA could put undetectable “trapdoors” in millions of crypto keys, Diffie-Hellman to be exact:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/how-the-nsa-could-put-undetectable-trapdoors-in-millions-of-crypto-keys/
imPcRemote:
https://remote-control-desktop.com/
Robot vid of the day:
FreeBSD 11.0 is now available:
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-takes-open-source-to-11-with-latest-release/
Awesome moon pics from Japan:
Robot wants to be immortal:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/10/10/2027219/talking-sofia-robot-tells-60-minutes-that-its-sentient-and-has-a-soul
GoPro safe while watching $1k fall off the car roof:
https://gizmodo.com/kids-filming-drive-with-gopro-forget-that-they-left-a-v-1787635459
Raspberry Pi for a home hub:
https://lifehacker.com/use-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-hub-for-all-your-connected-devi-1787624110
I.T. is a terrible movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2679552/
Demon Seed (1977):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/
War World II time capsule including bomb:
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/top-secret-world-war-ii-bomb-tech-discovered-in-time-ca-1787531278
Dxxd ransomware:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-dxxd-ransomware-displays-legal-notice-before-users-login/
FUN LINK:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/
UK Cabinet bans Apple Watch:
https://gizmodo.com/uk-cabinet-bans-the-apple-watch-because-the-british-are-1787617702
Google Search shows you colors:
https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/10/google-s-search-engine-now-converts-color-values/
Chrome 55 supposed to use 50% less RAM, now we’re wondering why it was using that much in the first place:
https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/09/chrome-55-reduces-memory-use/
O’reily giving away free programming books:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/10/09/1855202/oreilly-gives-away-free-programming-ebooks
New Power Rangers Movie is coming out:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-power-rangers-trailer-is-here-and-its-super-s-1787568031
Power Rangers Trailer:
WikiLeaks dumps another trove of email, allegedly from Clinton aide:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3129733/wikileaks-dumps-another-trove-of-email-allegedly-from-clinton-aide.html
Cops surveying cars at gun shows at Feds request:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/10/08/0029212/feds-convinced-police-to-use-license-plate-scanning-tech-at-gun-shows
Amazon said to be planning physical convenience stores for grocery goods:
Amazon said to be planning physical convenience stores for grocery goods
Germany to ban internal combustion engines in 2030:
https://gizmodo.com/german-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-the-internal-combustion-en-1787574000
Oldest computers and hardware in use by the US Gov:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/10/08/0445208/muckrock-identifies-the-oldest-us-government-computer-still-in-use
Netgear tweaks its home security camera line by introducing the Arlo Pro:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3129467/security-cameras/netgear-tweaks-its-home-security-camera-line-by-introducing-the-arlo-pro.html
Windows 10 new build will allow more active hours and make changes to svchost:
Windows 10 Build 14942: hide app listing, Registry Editor, svchost changes
We’ll be back on the air tomorrow (10/12/2016) at 2pm EST! Join us at http://www.foolishtechshow.com to join our live chat and talk with us directly!
