Episode 29: Your data is trying to kill you

Direct download link: Episode 29.

This week Audrey and I chat about all the ways the Internet and your data are trying to kill you, including Cloudbleed, SHA-1 collisions, CloudPets, and Amazon S3. tldr; stay away from anything connected to the cloud! Just kidding, kinda…Enjoy!

 Show Notes

CloudFlare / Cloudbleed

• Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
• Here Are The Passwords You Should Change Immediately – BuzzFeed News
• Cloudbleed: How to deal with it – Medium

Amazon S3 Outage

• Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
• That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits / Boing Boing

SHA-1 Collision

• SHA-1 – Wikipedia
• At death’s door for years, widely used SHA1 function is now dead | Ars Technica

Creepy CloudPets

• Creepy IoT teddy bear leaks >2 million parents’ and kids’ voice messages | Ars Technica
• Troy Hunt: Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids’ voice messages

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• We Were Always Here: Absences at the Intersection of Identity and Data Collection by Valerie Collins and Nicole Contaxis
• Exploring an SQL Database by Amy Farrell
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