IoT SSH SOS SOL

IoT SSH SOS SOL
Number	2879
Broadcast Date	OCTOBER 14, 2016
Episode Length	48:29
Hosts	Scott Johnson, Shannon Morse
Guests	Len Peralta

Are IoT devices the new backdoor for cyber attacks, criminals and miscreants ? Shannon Morse joins Scott Johnson to discuss.

Guest

• Scott Johnson
  • Frogpants
• Shannon Morse
  • TekThing
    • Hak5
• Len Peralta
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Top Stories

• U.S. bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from air travel

Samsung said Friday it expects losses related to the discontinuation of the Note 7 to end up in the mid-2 trillion won range for Q4 and 1 trillion won in Q1. That would be a total of about US$3 billion. Wednesday Samsung estimated third quarter losses at around US$2.3 billion making the total loss more than $5 billion. Samsung plans to expand sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge to make up some of the gap. Samsung also said it will make, "significant changes in its quality assurance processes."

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• Google News battles era of spin with fact check label

Google will start adding a "Fact Check" tag next to news stories in the expanded story box in Google News in the UK and US as well as on Android and iOS Google News and Weather apps. The tags are similar to the existing Highly Cited or In Depth tags. Sites must add proper markup and follow commonly accepted criteria to be considered fact checking articles.

• IBM, Google, others to unveil new open interface to take on Intel

IBM, Google, Nvidia, AMD and five other companies have partnered on an open specification to improve data center server performance. Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI) promises to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics and more by up to 10 times. The spec will be available publicly by the end of the year with servers and related products expected in the second half of 2017. Intel is not part of the consortium.

• 48 U.S. lawmakers request briefing on Yahoo email scanning program

A bipartisan group of 48 Congressman, organized by Republican Representative from Michigan Justin Amash and Democratic Representative from California Ted Lieu, sent a letter today addressed to the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence requesting “information and a briefing as soon as possible” regarding a Yahoo’s 2015 email scanning activities stemming from a court ordered search.

• That Nike-branded Apple Watch arrives October 28

Nike+version of the Apple Watch will release Oct 28th according to the updated Apple Store page. The Nike+version of the Apple Watch comes with a perforated band and comes in black with yellow, silver, or gray colored perforations. It will be priced at $369 for the 38mm version and $399 for the 42mm version. The Apple Store is also now selling SIM Free iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Pricing starts at $649 for the 32GB iPhone 7, and at $768 for the 32GB iPhone 7 Plus.

• The Universe Contains 10 to 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought

A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham with support from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), has determined that the universe contains at least two trillion galaxies, 10 times more than the highest previous estimates. The previous estimate was 100 to 200 billion. 90 percent of all galaxies are hidden from us, and only the remaining 10 percent can be seen. The paper detailing the study was published today in the Astrophysical Journal.

Discussion

• Akamai Finds Longtime Security Flaw in 2 Million Devices
• SSHowDowN: Exploitation of IoT devices for Launching Mass-Scale Attack Campaigns
• Europe to Push New Security Rules Amid IoT Mess
• Commission plans cybersecurity rules for internet-connected machines

Pick of the Day

• HyperX Cloud Headset

Scott's headphones he mentioned Wednesday.

Submitted by Scott

Messages

Scott Scott Scott

nvdia is a big part of cloud based implementations at this point as well as those other companies you mentioned on DTNS. both AWS and azure have VMs that can have a GPU are possible. GPU is vital for large data analysis (like medical or science might use) and media (video rendering, editing, etc) in the cloud can all be improved with GPU support. If you were nvidia, would you rather sell geforce cards to consumers or thousands of tesla cards to a server farm?

all the best,

Sent by Andy Beach

Hey Tom and team,

Was listening to yesterday's podcast and Adonis's concern about all those accessories he bought for the Galaxy Note 7.

Want to report that Amazon is giving refunds to all those who bought Note 7 accessories even if outside the 30 day return period.

More about that here: http://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-refund-note7-accessories-outside-return-window-721768/


While it may not apply to Adonis since he may not be an Amazon customer for those particular parts, hopefully this helps anyone else who is facing a similar predicament.

Cheers,

PS - GO CUBS!!

Sent by Ashank

Hi

I'm a little behind on the show
I just was listening to you and Patrick talk about the Samsung Notes issue
I just flow back from
Toronto to Moncton on an Air Canada 🇨🇦 flight
The attendants didn't just ask for Notes to be turned off, but collected all Samsung phones.
It goes to your point about Samsung brand being affected
None tech people really don't know the difference between one model and the next. This will affect mine share in the future for them.

Keep up the great work

Sent by Alan

Tom and team;

As a public health worker (and grad student) this caught my eye from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37646474

Basically, a company called Zipline has set up in the country to deliver blood by drone to places that may not have an on-site blood bank. They mention in the story that this has the blessing of Rwanda’s President and the country’s Technology Minister (I think that’s who it was?). I’d love to get Darren’s perspective on this, as well as anyone else on the show.

As a public health worker, this is really exciting to me because of the specific application they’re using it for. In hospitals in the US and other highly developed nations, there are often on-site blood banks. This means (in my experience, anyway) that you can store blood in, say, an ER trauma room, and then replenish it from downstairs after you’re done working on the current patient. In many less developed places (Disclosure: I have no experience in Rwanda), they may have issues replenishing through anything other than a once-a-day truck delivery. That’s highly simplified, but you can see the problem. The fact that they have been given what looks like a license to work out the kinks, so to speak, makes me very, very happy.

Keep up the good work, and as both your boss and a Chicago fan...stop trying to jinx the Cubs, Tom. Please.

Sent by Jon Lawson

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