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

• The first Greater Lafayette Security Professionals meeting of 2013 will be on January 10th at 11:30 in Young Hall. The topic has not yet been decided.
• The CERIAS Security Seminar have concluded for this year. However, they will return again in January. In fact, the January 9th seminar slot is currently available you are interested in presenting. The seminars begin at 4:30pm in Stewart Center G52 and will also be shown on the Purdue channel. The seminars are recorded and made available as podcasts through iTunes and on YouTube.

Security Updates

• Microsoft released updates today to patch seven vulnerabilities. Five are critical. Two are important. The affected software include Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer, December 11th.
• Adobe released a security bulletin regarding several 1 critical vulnerabilities for Flash Player, December 11th.
• Google released an update to Chrome that fixed 1 critical and 3 high vulnerabilities, December 11th.

Articles

• Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore by Mat Honan (Wired magazine), Regrettably @Mat Honan is Entirely Wrong about “Killing Passwords” /cc @Wired by Alec Muffett (dropsafe blog), The New York Times Is Wrong: Strong Passwords Can’t Save Us by Mat Honan (Wired Gadget Lab)
• Malicious QR codes pop up on traffic-heavy locations by Zeljka Zorz (Help Net Security), That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it’s not a sticker by John Leyden (The Register)
• From January 16, Instagram can sell your photos without permission by Matthew Humphries (geek.com), What Instagram’s New Terms of Service Mean for You by Jenna Wortham and Nick Bilton (NY Times Bits), Facebook’s Instagram Changes May Exploit Teen Content by Brian Womack (Bloomberg and Business Insider), Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by Declan McCullough (CNET), Instagram Privacy Policy