This podcast is brought to you by the Greater Lafayette Security Professionals (GLSP) group, SecurePurdue, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University.

Show Notes

Hosts

• Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA
• Mike Hill, CISSP
• Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA

Announcements

• Many thanks to the Purdue community and its participation in the Purdue National Cybersecurity Awareness Month event on October 5th. Many of the Greater Lafayette Security Professionals were presenters and attendees. Thank you for making it a success. A video stream of the main track and the technical track are available on the SecurePurdue site.

• The Fall CERIAS Security Seminars continue:
  

  • October 17, Edmund Jones, The Boeing Company
  • October 24, Mark Guido, MITRE
  • October 31, Vaibhav Garg, Indiana University

  The seminars begin at 4:30pm in Stewart Center G52 and will also be shown on the Purdue channel. These seminars are recorded and made available as podcasts through iTunes and on YouTube.

Security Updates

• Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were updated to 16.0.1 after the 16 release of Firefox was pulled due to a vulnerability, October 11
• Adobe Flash Player was updated with a security bulletin. Multiple versions are affected. See the bulletin for more details and updated version numbers, October 8
• Microsoft released several updates on Patch Tuesday. Only one was critical and affected Microsoft Office. The other six updates were categorized as Important and affected Office, Windows, and SQL Server, October 9

Articles

• SHA-3 Selection Announcement (PDF) from NIST, Keccak by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche, Crypto-Gram Newsletter by Bruce Schneier
• US court overturns judgement against ex-wife who read cheating hubby’s emails by Lisa Vaas (nakedsecurity blog), Sex, lies and backup tape by Caron Carlson (FierceCIO), Jennings v. Jennings Justia.com
• U.S. Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks by Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger (NY Times), US suspects Iran behind cyberattacks in Middle East by Agence France-Presse, Investigative Report on the U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE A report by Chairman Mike Rogers and Ranking Member C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence