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Watch Mr. Robot

Discovered it on Friday, then mainlined the 10-episode series over the weekend.

The premise:

A techno thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, ‘The Pacific’), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroad when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group (Christian Slater, ‘The Adderall Diaries’) recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world. – Showcase.ca

It’s the stuff I’ve been blogging for years – social engineering, phishing, ransomware, my Security section really.  And maybe I don’t seem so weird anymore… how I kept my last name offline for 5 years, the frequency and content I post, not having geolocation turned on…

When have you ever heard me talk about a TV show? Never. It’s that good.

Why? Clever twists, how it incorporates real-life websites, the accuracy of the tech (Kali went by?!) and the cliffhanger ending. Just the premise alone – one of the best depictions of how the world really works, 1% of 1%.

It’s from the USA Network, but we Canadians can watch it on Showcase.

 

 

Can Someone Please Send Me a Printer to Test

I don’t own one. Happy to test it out and blog my findings.

Because it’s a 30-minute round trip, with a specially formatted USB key, just to print a few pages, and in black&white at that.

This is out-of-hand.

Look how much it costs to invoice the newspaper – $8.

Regardless – remember to password protect your WiFi printer, especially if it’s connected to your corporate network.

 

 

My 1st Public Speaking Engagement

Last night I spoke at a TASK meeting (Toronto Area Security Klatch – Canada’s longest-running get-together of Information Security professionals.)

It was their annual Black Hat / DEF CON review session.

I covered the Jeep hacking talk, but tailored my presentation to illuminate areas of the auto industry that need security help – because if you want to be employed forever, go into the auto security industry.

There were about 170 people, I had 14 slides and spoke for 8 minutes.

(don’t know why the picture quality is crap, on my 3-week-old iPhone?)

A friend filmed it, but no no that’s not going online… watched the footage, sorry TASK for all the ummmms!

It started like that even, “Hi I’m Keri, ummm.” Literally cringed while typing that. I’m more eloquent and better paced that that, nor so verbose, that was 4 minutes too long; I was SO nervous.

But first one done! I enjoyed it. Think I could get good at this.

Go too.

TASK.to

Meets the last Wednesday of Every Month, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Metro Hall, Rotunda (On main floor, just past the elevators)
55 John Street, Toronto
SE corner of King St. & John St.

 

 

Have a Job for Life – Go into Auto Security

It’s an emerging industry that’s growing ridiculously quickly, auto companies have endless money, and there’s many verticals being created to choose from.

New Job Possibilities

– fix CAN bus, that thing is a mess

– get good at D-Bus 

– work for the companies that build the infotainment units eg. Harmon Kardon

– cellular companies, there’ll be a vertical dedicated to securing connected cars

– learn the QNX Operating System, 75% of cars use it

– figure out how to mass update older cars

– develop a penetration test for cars

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And with this post, I’ve now summarized a talk, that summarized another talk about that talk HAHA

 

 

OEMs – Please No More Interior Chrome Trim

It refracts sunlight too well.

It’s morning or afternoon > sun comes in on an angle > bounces off chrome > into driver’s eye > and temporary blinds them

Happened to me 3 times in 1 week. It’s only half a second but it’s jarring and catches you off guard, and hopefully you don’t jerk the wheel when it does.

Not picking on Jaguar here, tons of manufacturers use it, and to all: please no more.