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In today's episode, Microsoft reveals the "Dirty Stream" attack impacting Android apps, recognizing vulnerabilities in apps with over four billion installations like Xiaomi's File Manager and WPS Office. Meanwhile, a new SOHO router malware named Cuttlefish targets cloud accounts and enterprise resources, allowing criminals to steal credentials and establish persistent access to cloud ecosystems. Law enforcement shuts down 12 fraudulent call centers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Lebanon, arresting 21 suspects and preventing thousands of scam calls. Find more information using these URLs: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-warns-of-dirty-stream-attack-impacting-android-apps/, https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/05/02/cuttlefish-soho-routers/, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-shuts-down-12-fraud-call-centres-arrests-21-suspects/ tags: Dirty Stream attack, Microsoft, Android apps, developers, Cuttlefish, malware, SOHO routers, cybercriminals, law enforcement, call centers, fraud, apprehended search phrases: Preventing Dirty Stream attack in Android apps Cuttlefish malware and SOHO routers Protect devices from Cuttlefish malware Law enforcement crackdown on fraudulent call centers Stopping fraudulent calls in Europe Cybersecurity measures against malware attacks Securing Android apps from malicious attacks Preventing data theft in Android applications Law enforcement actions against cybercrime Measures to apprehend cybercriminals May3 Law enforcement officials in Europe shut down 12 call centers that were behind thousands of daily scam calls. They apprehended 21 individuals and seized assets of over 1 million euros. How will this affect the amount of spam calls you get on a day to day basis? The Cuttlefish Malware is infiltrating SOHO routers and stealing account credentials for cloud services. Creating a potential gateway. For cybercriminals into company resources. If you work from home,. How can you prevent this malware from expanding throughout your own network? And finally, the dirty stream attack discovered by Microsoft poses a threat to Android apps by allowing malicious apps to overwrite files in other applications home directories. How can Android developers prevent this type of attack? You're listening to The Daily Decrypt. Law enforcement conducted coordinated raids in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Lebanon. Resulting in the closure of 12 fraudulent call centers responsible for thousands of scam calls each day. German authorities, alongside international counterparts, arrested 21 individuals and seized approximately 1 million euros worth of evidence, including data carriers, documents, and cash. This operation was named Operation Pandora, and it targeted a criminal network. engaged in various fraudulent activities, but most notably fake police calls, investment fraud, and romance scams. There have been over 28, 000 fraudulent calls that have been traced back to the arrested suspects, all within a 48 hour time frame, which just highlights the scale of this criminal enterprise. so this whole project started back in december of 2023 When someone came into a bank and attempted to withdraw 100, 000 euros. The bank teller was slightly suspicious, so they reported it to the actual police, and it was later discovered that the individual attempting to withdraw that money was involved in a fake police officer scam. From there, more than a hundred German investigators got down to work and intercepted and monitored conversations in real time. They secured over 1. 3 million conversations and blocked 80 percent of all financial fraud attempts, which they claim could have led to damages of up to 10 million euros. So I'm sure we all hate scam calls just as much as I do, but I often forget the motives behind these scam calls are to cheat you out of money, usually. It's become so easy to just Grab a list of numbers and create robot calls to just see who bites. But this is proof that there is a lot of money out there to be had by just calling people and asking for Certain things or pretending to be a police officer and saying well, I can actually let you go for a thousand bucks which has actually happened to me before or Unpaid fines at the courts things that generally have confusion around them and Involve money and urgency people are more likely to pay But I don't know what this guy was getting into with a hundred thousand euros. He must have been really rich or something I'm not sure but I'm Glad this is getting more and more attention. Because I would love for scam calls to be a thing of the past. Alright, we're back with some more news on SOHO routers. And if you don't remember what that is, that stands for small home Nope. I can never get it right. That stands for small office, home office. Which is where I work every day. So I'm going to be paying particular attention to this one. But criminals are utilizing a new malware. called Cuttlefish to target SOHO routers to steal account credentials for various cloud based services like AWS, Cloudflare, and Docker, just to name a few. And like I had mentioned, if you're working from home like I do, your router is the gateway to your office or whatever resources you need to access to get the work done. And what this malware will essentially do is listen for any time you're entering in credentials to a cloud service, most likely part of your company's infrastructure and they're going to harvest those credentials and use them against you or against the company. Up until this point, the only SOHO vulnerabilities we were reporting on was botnets and Being part of something that doesn't particularly affect your data, . It was mostly being used for the resources offered by the router, but attackers got smart and they're starting to realize that double edged sword, right? They have access to the router, they might as well leverage the data that's flowing through it, as well as Holding onto it for the potential of creating a botnet or DDOSing one of their targets. And the article by HelpNet Security linked in our show notes will have some more specifics about how the attack works and how you can prevent it. So, I highly encourage you to check that out. But, if you're a SOHO router user, which you likely are to some degree, Make sure you change the password on your router. Don't just use the one that came with it. Go in there, set it up, store it in a password manager for later. And a lot of these SOHO routers make it pretty tough to use persistent storage, so this malware is likely living in RAM or a temporary storage, so if you just restart your router from time to time, it will decrease the odds that this affects you long term. These routers are notoriously bad for security, and leave it up to the consumer almost entirely. So, if you're listening to this, make sure you take this seriously because it is a very easy attack vector. Especially if your router is public facing, like has an open port to the internet. Which I'd highly recommend once you change your password, go check to make sure that you can't access your router from the internet. And finally, Microsoft has identified a new attack known as DirtyStream that targets Android apps, allowing malicious apps to overwrite files in another app's home directory, potentially leading to code execution and data theft. This vulnerability stems from improper use of Android's content provider system, which manages access to shared datasets among different apps. And this system is supposed to incorporate security measures like data isolation or path validation to keep each app sort of self contained, kind of like a virtual machine or a docker instance so that it's really hard for other apps to talk to each other. Because in most cases, they shouldn't need to. So incorrect implementations of Custom intents, messaging objects facilitating communication between app components, can bypass these security measures, tricking apps into executing or storing files from malicious sources. Now if you've made it this far in the episode, I likely don't have to explain to you more use cases for this vulnerability or why it's bad. But the Google Play Store can be a little bit more Wild Wild West y than the Apple App Store. it's much more common for Android users to download apps they found on the internet that weren't through the Play Store. Which leads to these malicious apps being now able to communicate with your bank app, or your social media app, or your password manager, etc. Like, all these things that should not be touched by other apps. Now, for the end users, there's not much you can do other than making sure your apps are up to date and you're not downloading sketchy apps for any reason from unknown developers or anything. And keep listening to the Daily Decrypt for your updates. It looks like Google has added a section to their risks documentation for Android app developers that outlines this risk. But nothing has been done about it so far. So I'm sure Google will get on this and push out a fix, so remember to make sure your device stays up to date so you can receive that security patch.

This week we crashed by friend of the show Hawkslay3r who has a cunning idea to share with us and the community. Perody breaks down what went down this past week with the weapon crafting insanity and what Bungie's explanation of how they went about fixing it. We look at latest info from This Week at Bungie for September 21st 2023 and we give you the rundown of the upcoming sixth weeks ritual rotations in This Week in Destiny commencing September 26th 2023. Plus we have more email feedback and have a few tips, tricks, guides and builds to recommend from the land of YouTube. 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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on July 1st, 2023.Wondercraft launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wondercraft-ai(00:36): Twitter Is DDOSing ItselfOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553236&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:22): Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rulesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556228&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:05): Gping – ping, but with a graphOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548676&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:13): A child's privacy is worth more than likes (2022)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550582&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:04): VUDA: A Vulkan Implementation of CUDAOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549637&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:08): Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of COriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:42): Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreadingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551212&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:30): Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in GoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551617&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:23): TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac wouldOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548055&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(17:09): To make more stingers, U.S. needs to revive production technology from scratchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549466&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

It was a disastrous week for cryptocurrency in the United States, as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit against the two biggest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on a theory that makes it nearly impossible to run a cryptocurrency exchange that is competitive with overseas exchanges. Nick Weaver lays out the differences between “process crimes” and “crime crimes,” and how they help distinguish the two lawsuits. The SEC action marks the end of an uneasy truce, but not the end of the debate. Both exchanges have the funds for a hundred-million-dollar defense and lobbying campaign. So you can expect to hear more about this issue for years (and years) to come. I touch on two AI regulation stories. First, I found Mark Andreessen's post trying to head off AI regulation pretty persuasive until the end, where he said that the risk of bad people using AI for bad things can be addressed by using AI to stop them. Sorry, Mark, it doesn't work that way. We aren't stopping the crimes that modern encryption makes possible by throwing more crypto at the culprits.  My nominee for the AI Regulation Hall of Fame, though, goes to Japan, which has decided to address the phony issue of AI copyright infringement by declaring that it's a phony issue and there'll be no copyright liability for their AI industry when they train models on copyrighted content. This is the right answer, but it's also a brilliant way of borrowing and subverting the EU's GDPR model (“We regulate the world, and help EU industry too”). If Japan applies this policy to models built and trained in Japan, it will give Japanese AI companies at least an arguable immunity from copyright claims  around the world. Companies will flock to Japan to train their models and build their datasets in relative regulatory certainty. The rest of the world can follow suit or watch their industries set up shop in Japan. It helps, of course, that copyright claims against AI are mostly rent-seeking by Big Content, but this has to be the smartest piece of international AI regulation any jurisdiction has come up with so far. Kurt Sanger, just back from a NATO cyber conference in Estonia, explains why military cyber defenders are stressing their need for access to the private networks they'll be defending. Whether they'll get it, we agree, is another kettle of fish entirely. David Kris turns to public-private cooperation issues in another context. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission has another report out. It calls on the government to refresh and rethink the aging orders that regulate how the government deals with the private sector on cyber matters. Kurt and I consider whether Russia is committing war crimes by DDOSing emergency services in Ukraine at the same time as its bombing of Ukrainian cities. We agree that the evidence isn't there yet.  Nick and I dig into two recent exploits that stand out from the crowd. It turns out that Barracuda's security appliance has been so badly compromised that the only remedial measure involve a woodchipper. Nick is confident that the tradecraft here suggests a nation-state attacker. I wonder if it's also a way to move Barracuda's customers to the cloud.  The other compromise is an attack on MOVEit Transfer. The attack on the secure file transfer system has allowed ransomware gang Clop to download so much proprietary data that they have resorted to telling their victims to self-identify and pay the ransom rather than wait for Clop to figure out who they've pawned. Kurt, David, and I talk about the White House effort to sell section 702 of FISA for its cybersecurity value and my effort, with Michael Ellis, to sell 702 (packaged with intelligence reform) to a conservative caucus that is newly skeptical of the intelligence community. David finds himself uncomfortably close to endorsing our efforts. Finally, in quick updates: Nick talks about Tesla's Full Self Driving, and the accidents it has been involved in I warn listeners that Virginia has joined the ranks of states that require an ID proving age to access Pornhub. I predict that twenty states will adopt such a requirement in the next year Download 462nd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@gmail.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.  

It was a disastrous week for cryptocurrency in the United States, as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit against the two biggest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on a theory that makes it nearly impossible to run a cryptocurrency exchange that is competitive with overseas exchanges. Nick Weaver lays out the differences between “process crimes” and “crime crimes,” and how they help distinguish the two lawsuits. The SEC action marks the end of an uneasy truce, but not the end of the debate. Both exchanges have the funds for a hundred-million-dollar defense and lobbying campaign. So you can expect to hear more about this issue for years (and years) to come. I touch on two AI regulation stories. First, I found Mark Andreessen's post trying to head off AI regulation pretty persuasive until the end, where he said that the risk of bad people using AI for bad things can be addressed by using AI to stop them. Sorry, Mark, it doesn't work that way. We aren't stopping the crimes that modern encryption makes possible by throwing more crypto at the culprits.  My nominee for the AI Regulation Hall of Fame, though, goes to Japan, which has decided to address the phony issue of AI copyright infringement by declaring that it's a phony issue and there'll be no copyright liability for their AI industry when they train models on copyrighted content. This is the right answer, but it's also a brilliant way of borrowing and subverting the EU's GDPR model (“We regulate the world, and help EU industry too”). If Japan applies this policy to models built and trained in Japan, it will give Japanese AI companies at least an arguable immunity from copyright claims  around the world. Companies will flock to Japan to train their models and build their datasets in relative regulatory certainty. The rest of the world can follow suit or watch their industries set up shop in Japan. It helps, of course, that copyright claims against AI are mostly rent-seeking by Big Content, but this has to be the smartest piece of international AI regulation any jurisdiction has come up with so far. Kurt Sanger, just back from a NATO cyber conference in Estonia, explains why military cyber defenders are stressing their need for access to the private networks they'll be defending. Whether they'll get it, we agree, is another kettle of fish entirely. David Kris turns to public-private cooperation issues in another context. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission has another report out. It calls on the government to refresh and rethink the aging orders that regulate how the government deals with the private sector on cyber matters. Kurt and I consider whether Russia is committing war crimes by DDOSing emergency services in Ukraine at the same time as its bombing of Ukrainian cities. We agree that the evidence isn't there yet.  Nick and I dig into two recent exploits that stand out from the crowd. It turns out that Barracuda's security appliance has been so badly compromised that the only remedial measure involve a woodchipper. Nick is confident that the tradecraft here suggests a nation-state attacker. I wonder if it's also a way to move Barracuda's customers to the cloud.  The other compromise is an attack on MOVEit Transfer. The attack on the secure file transfer system has allowed ransomware gang Clop to download so much proprietary data that they have resorted to telling their victims to self-identify and pay the ransom rather than wait for Clop to figure out who they've pawned. Kurt, David, and I talk about the White House effort to sell section 702 of FISA for its cybersecurity value and my effort, with Michael Ellis, to sell 702 (packaged with intelligence reform) to a conservative caucus that is newly skeptical of the intelligence community. David finds himself uncomfortably close to endorsing our efforts. Finally, in quick updates: Nick talks about Tesla's Full Self Driving, and the accidents it has been involved in I warn listeners that Virginia has joined the ranks of states that require an ID proving age to access Pornhub. I predict that twenty states will adopt such a requirement in the next year Download 462nd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@gmail.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.  

Cuba ransomware pulls in $60 million. CISA releases three ICS advisories. DDoSing the Vatican. Andrea Little Limbago from Interos on the implications of Albania cutting off diplomatic ties with Iran. Our space correspondent Maria Varmazis speaks with Brandon Bailey about Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis matrix. And how Google supports Ukrainian startups in wartime. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/230 Selected reading. Alert (AA22-335A) #StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware (CISA) Novel News on Cuba Ransomware: Greetings From Tropical Scorpius (Palo Alto Networks Unit 42) New ways we're supporting Ukraine (Google) 25 new startup recipients of the Ukraine Support Fund (Google) Vatican shuts down its website amid hacking attempts (Cybernews)

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It is not even five.Unknown Speaker  0:47  My goodness.Colleen Schnettler  0:48  So I think this week, I would like to talk to something I talk about something a little more serious. And I want to talk about you. Because you have been going through some stuff.Michele Hansen  1:02  Yeah, I have. It kind of occurred to me this week that I I don't I don't know, I might be going through burnouts. Or at least I have, like, way too much stress. Like, like, I feel like I'm DDoSing myself.Colleen Schnettler  1:22  I love that line, by the way. So first of all, I guess your best friend and podcast host has been telling you this for like eight months.Michele Hansen  1:33  Like, we're like you're gonna burn out. I'm like, I'm fine. And then our friends of ours were like, you know, after like, I launched something like, you know, especially infoproduct people, they're like, I went through like a depression after that I really burned out like, and I was like, I hear you but like, I'm special. I'm not gonna that's not gonna happen to me. You know, all think we're special. We all think we're special. And we all are special. But there are also things that everyone goes through. Um, yeah, I have so much going on in my life right now. And, and I think this, I mean, I Okay, so you've known this for a long time. But like, I I think it really started to become apparent to me that like, given everything I'm doing I have really like down prioritized taking care of myself. That was something I got really thinking about at founder Summit. And it's not just like a work life balance problem or a, you know, need to like join a gym problem. Like, I think it's like, bigger than that. But I don't really know, like, how do you unburn out? How do you do though?Colleen Schnettler  2:43  Let's take a step back. When you say you haven't deprioritize taking care of yourself, what did you use to do that? You don't do like you have stopped doing over the past year. And like what led to that. I'm curious how you got to where you are.Michele Hansen  3:00  I mean, so I really don't first of all, like I really don't work out as much like and I used to be someone who was like super active, like, I used to run to work, bike to work, play tennis, do gymnastics, soccer on top of that, like super, super active and have really become less active. And I don't know if that's the pandemic or like moving countries and my habits like change, you know, you have to establish entirely new habits. As I was talking to people about it founder summit who are nomads, they were saying that they didn't realize until COVID and they were forced to stay in one place. how stressful it had been to like, move places every couple of months and have to like refigure it all over again. Like oh, like where's the grocery store that I like? And like, can I get the food I like and you know, where's the gym that I like? Where can I work? Like all those kinds of like basic everyday questions become sort of stressful. Like I definitely feel like that like I didn't go to the dentist for 18 months. Mostly because it's like so like hack I have a package I've been trying to mail for three months and I'm just so overwhelmed by the idea of like figuring out the Danish postal system that it's still sitting at my desk. So like basic everyday things become really overwhelming when you're abroad. Yeah, I think like one of my habits changed but then I think I just have so much going on also that like you know I think the great thing about working for yourself is like if you want to take an hour lunch break and read a book like you can do that but like I have been feeling like I don't even have time to eat I don't have time to make myself healthy food like the idea of just like even cooking a piece of salmon or whatever like seems overwhelming and so like I have really allowed my health to like totally slip because I just feel like I don't have time for it but I also don't have those like sort of habit triggers I guess that I used to have you know if I was in my environment I was in you know, do Two years ago, for sure. And I think with everything that I have going on, that's like become really acute.Colleen Schnettler  5:09  So and you would lump. I mean, that's your physical health. But also you said you don't read books for pleasure. I mean, I think that's what you just said. So that's not that's your whole, not just do it like I do. Okay. Yeah. I mean, have you also, like, what about your, your mental health are you also are you still not having time to do the things you used to love that brought you joy.Michele Hansen  5:33  So I differentiate that, and I think this is like I've been, you know, so I'm obviously not an expert in this, I'm just somebody who's going through differentiating between burnout and depression, where, like, I actually feel like my mental health is pretty good. Like I've done I've done a lot of work on my mental health the past couple of years. Um, and, you know, depression is like, when you try to, you know, you try to get the energy to do the things that you liked, and then you don't get any enjoyment out of it, it's like the dopamine just doesn't even fire. Or if it does, it only lasts for a second. So whereas you know, a non depressed person, maybe you can go for a walk, and, and then you or you see a friend, and it kind of brightens you for the rest of the day, and at least helps you get through it. You know, when I've gone through depression, it's like, that enjoyment you get from that, like, you get like 30 seconds of enjoyment out of it, and then it's just gone. And you even feel worse than you did before, because you were expecting to make you feel good. And then it didn't, and then it just like spirals. I'm not in that state right now. It's more just like this constant feeling of stress. And like, I don't have enough time for anything. And feeling exhausted by that constant stress. But it's also not anxiety, either. Because an idea I guess I'm not I don't really know how to explain this. But like it's, it's not like worrying. And it's not like a tension, or No, I don't, I don't know how to explain it. But yeah, it's kind of it's gotten me to Google X. It's like, I don't know what this feeling is. And then I kind of, you know, I mentioned it to some friends of ours. And they're like, that's, that's the burnout. We were telling you was going to happen. And I'm like, oh, and then I'm like, so like, what is like the plan to like, get out of this? Like, is there like, what does your schedule look like when you were getting out of burnout? They're like, yeah, that's kind of like, you're trying to, like, make a schedule of it. Like, right. And one of our friends was, like, I Googled, you know, how to be a type B personality when I was going through.Unknown Speaker  7:49  It's amazing.Michele Hansen  7:51  Um, yeah, but I think it's kind of it's kind of weird. I was like, I don't even talk about this on the podcast, because it's like, I don't have a solution here. You know, I almost feel like, you know, I should have some sort of solution to give people but I don't I'm just kind of stuck in the middle of it. And, and just sort of talking it out, because I also, I don't, I feel like if people heard met, people mentioned, like having burnout, but like, and I guess if people know of like a good podcast or blog posts on the experience of burnout and how someone got through it, I would really love to read that. Because I feel like we don't really talk about it enough. So I'm kind of, I guess, trying to talk about it as a way of giving visibility to this thing that it turns out, a lot of my entrepreneur friends have gone through.Colleen Schnettler  8:46  Yeah, well, I think it's, I mean, as much as you're comfortable, I think it's good that you're talking about it. I you know, the one of the things. One of my takeaways from founder summit was I actually talked to quite a few people who went through massive burnout. And it seems to be just something that happens to us in our field in modern day, a lot, probably because we can work anywhere at any time. So we could theoretically be working all the time. But also, I, again, I think it's I'm sure it's a very personal journey to get out of it. But I feel like you need to take like, a month off. Let's talk about that.Michele Hansen  9:26  Yeah, and I think that's really where I'm struggling because I feel like I can't and but I'm also sort of, you know, somebody who's drowning and like, people are saying, hey, stop flailing. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, that like, and that just makes me panic even more. But like, so where I, you know, the stuff I have going on, like, you know, so we have to co do and like, I want to stress that like, I still really enjoy working on geocode do and I think actually Mateus and I were talking about this last night, and he's like, you know, we've been running this for almost eight years. And he's like, I'm even still surprised that we still find it interesting, we still find it challenging, we still enjoy working on it we enjoy the customers we work with, we enjoy, you know, helping them and like, it's still a problem we're really, like, excited about solving. And, you know, it does not feel like a drag. And so like, so I have to do going on. Of course, there's this podcast and all of my book stuff and like, and that's a joy. But also, I've been putting pressure on myself to sell it when I don't really have to, like, you know, like that. Like, there's not like I purposely didn't pitch it to a publisher, I purposefully didn't want someone telling me, you need to sell this many books, and you need to go out on this book tour and like, do all these things like I wanted that, you know, that decision for myself of how much time I spent on it. But now I'm in this situation where I feel like I have to justify all the time I spent on it some spending all this time promoting it. SoColleen Schnettler  10:56  let's go back. So yeah, so my my business partners, you haven't even gotten through the whole list. But sure, yeah. Okay, so let's go back a little bit. So my business partner Sean has, in the past experienced incredible, massive burnout. And one of the things he said to you yesterday was, like, the number one symptom of burnout is thinking, you can't work less. Like, there's no way around it, I can't solve this problem, because I cannot work less. So I challenge that, first of all, okay, but I don't know if we're here to problem solve, or if we're just here to talk. SoMichele Hansen  11:32  we're kind of a mix of both. But I mean, so I think so here, let me get through the full list of things.Colleen Schnettler  11:36  Okay, keep going. So just to go do,Michele Hansen  11:38  there is what I term my extracurriculars, which is the book like this podcast being on other podcasts, like, you know, the fun business stuff. Um, and then there's also I'm in Danish class all day, Monday and Friday. Right. And then also, I have a family and, you know, another stressors on top of that is, you know, I'm in a foreign country, and, you know, again, talking to people founder Summit, you know, talking to other people who moved abroad, during the pandemic, there was a universal Zero out of 10, do not recommend on that. And then also, you know, we're in a pandemic, so like, there's all sorts of reasons to be burned out. But then the reason why I feel like I can't do less is because like, just I mean, quite frankly, like, for immigration reasons, like I have to be in Danish class, and I have to be working full time. And so I'm squeezing in basically, a full work week, you know, on the edges on Monday and Friday, and then working as much as I can, to say, Wednesday, Thursday, plus, you know, like, replying, the email, you know, when I wake up in the morning, and you know, at night, you know, normal entrepreneur, lack of boundaries with email stuff. And so like, that's why I feel like I can't work less because like, my life necessitate necessitates that I'm in language school twice a week, which feels like a part time job. And then, like, just for legal immigration reasons, like I have to be working full time at the same time. So I feel kind of backed into a corner almost. And then so then, like, the last thing to let go, because obviously, I can't drop family off of that. I guess one benefit of being somewhere where I don't really have a lot of friends in daily life is it like social is, you know, there's, there's zero there. So there's really nothing to drop. But I'm like this, doing this podcast and the book and everything. Like, that's the easiest stuff to fall back on. But that's the thing I like, really enjoying. And so I guess I could sensibly work less and not do this, but like, I quite enjoy this. And like, I enjoy talking to people on their podcasts. And I enjoy doing stuff about my book, and I enjoy talking to you and doing this podcast. And so like, so the only thing I'm left with is, you know, the taking away the thing I enjoy the most and I, you know, like, I wish I could only be in Danish class one hour a week, but that's just not an option. And I think that's the thing. That's the biggest drag on myself. But also there's just the general I mean, stress of the pandemic, right, like, you know, you've probably heard that Europe, several European countries are locking down again, like so it's like, are we facing another lockdown, where I have to balance between working and feeling like a bad parent, because I'm like, you know, balancing homeschooling and working and everything. And so that's like, even stressing me out even more because it's like, Oh, my God, I have to get even more out of each day when I already feel like I'm getting trying to get so much out of each day. And I think just all of that is just kind of making me feel just sort of stressed and exhausted. Just likeColleen Schnettler  14:57  that's a lot. I mean, especially the foreign country. To me, we move to California. And it's so annoying slash stressful. Find a new doctors and dentists. And we're in the same country, they still speak English,Michele Hansen  15:08  they tend you're in like constant sunlight. Oh, that makes aColleen Schnettler  15:12  huge difference. By the way, everyone should move to California, because I'm happy every day because the sun is shining every day. But no, that's a lot, Michelle. I mean, you end this has been so prolonged for you, right? Because it was the pandemic, and then you move to a foreign country. That was that was a lot to take on at once you left your friends you left, you know, the place where you were comfortable and you loved you left the language. You left the healthcare system, like everything that that was really American healthcare system youMichele Hansen  15:42  like it's, it's terrible, but at least at least they knew how it worked. Yeah, at least you know how to go to the doctor, I could go to the doctor and feel confident I could communicate with the brain. But I wasn't like going, like practicing, you know? How to say, you know, yes, sure. I floss my teeth. You know?Colleen Schnettler  16:03  The change over the past? Gosh, is it been two, three years now? How long has this pandemic been going on? The, the amount of stress you have taken on is tremendous. And I feel for you, because it's just it sounds really, really hard.Michele Hansen  16:29  And everybody who said they went through burnout, like they're like, the thing I did was, you know, I fired all my clients, and I didn't work for two months. Yeah, or I didn't work for a year, like I just lived on savings for a year. And I'm like, I don't feel I can do that. And like also, like people, like, you know, I traveled or whatever. And it's like, I have a family. So I can't just like do nothing all day. Like, even if I wanted to, like I have responsibilities like that, you know, do not change regardless of how I'm feeling. And then, like, legally, I have to be working. And so I feel I mean, I don't know,Colleen Schnettler  17:10  it sounds to me like you feel stuck, or trapped. Yeah. And the situation superMichele Hansen  17:14  stuck. And I don't know how to get unstuck.Colleen Schnettler  17:19  So it seems like the first step is decrease your stress level. Yes. I mean, here's the thing, you're in the middle of it. And so don't freak out. But let's just let's just think outside the box. Okay. So you're in the middle of this super, super high, intense, stressful situation. But I'm going to still say that a lot of it is of your own making. And yeah. And I understand that you don't want to give up the book promo, or you don't want to do our podcast less because these are things you really enjoy. But your health, you know, has to be your happiness. That should be number one.Michele Hansen  18:02  But like why do I take away the things that make me happy? Oh, IColleen Schnettler  18:06  didn't say take them away. You aren't ready for Collins great ideas. Oh, God, what is Collins great ideas. Okay, so I'm just gonna throw these things out there not to scare you. Just to and I don't want you to problem solve or tell me why you can't do them. Just to show you that. Like, there are options even if they seem absolutely crazy. Okay,Michele Hansen  18:28  are you ready? Okay, okay, I will I will play along. Okay, just play along with Romani. Okay,Colleen Schnettler  18:33  you could move back to the United States. Now listen, one, okay, could sell geocoder do and take two years off and you don't work at all. You could hire someone to be you. And I know the onboarding of that you had you don't want it. You've told me a million times. I know you don't want to hire someone. But if you could get a system in place where you only work, you don't have to work on geocode do you'd still be working full time in the eyes of the Danish government? But you yourself wouldn't have to be managing the contracts and putting in the hours. There's like they don't you know as long as you're they think you're working ish. The full I have toMichele Hansen  19:12  be working. Hello. Danish government people listening.Colleen Schnettler  19:17  I wait. I mean, I would be working because you would be managing okay, you would be working. Because you would be managing a person who was doing the things for you? What if you just stopped doing what would happen? If you did nothing for God? Oh, except like legally required things like, like, you What if you just on your website, you go to your website today? You say we are not taking any more customers for six months. Shut it down. I mean, don't shut it down. But like, what if you were just like, No, no one else gets to come on six months. I mean, there's options. I know these sound crazy to you. Okay, no idea. Okay. I'm just trying to I'm just like trying to help you see that, like, roll their eyes.Unknown Speaker  19:57  You're like, I see it. See?Colleen Schnettler  20:03  You and I know you love promote. And so then of course, then there's the smaller things, but I don't think not like depending on your, your rate of promoting the book. Yeah, you could just totally stop again, it's a book, it's not going to go anywhere, totally stop for six months. Right? All this stuff will be here, once you are recovered, but your health and your happiness that is your life, this is your life. And Michelle, you have made it. And you, you're so stressed. And that makes me sad.Michele Hansen  20:36  You know, I remember I always remember hearing, you know, money doesn't buy happiness when I was a kid. And, you know, he always interpreted that to mean Oh, yeah, you can't just you know, I don't know, go buy yourself something and then feel happy. And they don't tell you how bitter it is, when you're in a situation that can't be solved by money.Colleen Schnettler  21:02  Yeah, that's intense,Michele Hansen  21:05  even when you could have it and, you know, I mean, money by as, you know, therapy and coaches and, you know, help with cleaning the house and or, you know, employees for that matter. You know, whatever else, but you know, money truly doesn't buy happiness. And that is a bitter pill to swallow.Colleen Schnettler  21:25  Yeah. Yeah. And there's a lot of other small things you can do, which may help but they might just be bandaids. And so I really think you need to take a good look at like you, you're so happy in in what you have built with your husband, the work your work environment, and what you are building with the book like, but it doesn't seem right now. And it's been this way for a while, right? This hasn't been a month, this hasn't been two months, it's been this way for a while where it doesn't seem like it's bringing you overall happiness to the extent maybe you thought it would, and it might just be have too much going on. But like, I'm worried about you. That's there. I said it.Michele Hansen  22:09  I think the fact that I have so much going on right now is like bringing these other issues to the fore like we have talked in the past about how I really struggled with work life balance, and like, if like, like I really love working on giuoco do and both of us like we're not selling the business, we we both really enjoy working on it and working on it together. Like, but if I could work 12 hour days on do co do and book stuff like I would do that and be totally happy to do that. Yes, I could blame this on Okay, the extra stress of spending 10 hours a week in language school is like, really adding a lot of stress to this. But I don't think that gets to the bottom, like, like, I don't think I'm being honest with myself. If I say that, that is the problem like that is just like the straw that's breaking the camel's back here. That's, like I struggle with work boundaries. I struggle with, you know, prioritizing myself, like, and giving myself a break and feeling like I deserve a break. Like I think this is this conversation here is like, I don't feel like I can take a break. I don't feel like I deserve a break. I don't feel like it's something that's available to me. Um, I definitely consider myself a recovering workaholic and somebody who wrapped up way too much of their self worth and self identity in work. Which is not as bad as it used to be but like, like, I feel like those things are the real issues and like you know, we kind of talked about how doing that exercise at like well that exercise at founder summit, but also like when it comes to like business like I'm like super competent, and like confident and and like I just make decisions and I feel very self assured and I find it easy to move forward. You tend to like doubt yourself and do a lot of research and feel stuck and like really struggle with that but like when it comes to taking care of yourself and your work life balance and your social life and your your health and everything like you are like so decisive and confident and just make decisions and implement things and do things. And I'm like totally the opposite. Like we're completely opposite.Unknown Speaker  24:38  Yep. On these two things,Michele Hansen  24:40  and you're like, you have to have better work life balance and I'm like, like, how, how do like what's like, I don't know what that means. Like, I think I need to read a book on how to relax like, you know, like, Where where is this guide? Where is this schedule of like,Unknown Speaker  24:59  I can Please be the episode of this. I need to read a book about how to relax. Please title the episode like, that's amazing.Michele Hansen  25:07  Seriously, like, I feel like if you ever got to a point where like you were like I'm too stressed out, like you would immediately cut back on working and feel no guilt or shame or reservations and like just make it work.Colleen Schnettler  25:21  Yeah, absolutely. I think maybe my I mean, I think my experience is a lot different from yours being a military spouse with three kids. If I can't, I have to take care. I mean, they're older now. But like when they were little, like if I wasn't healthy, mentally, physically, whatever, I could not care for all these little people. And so I think part of it is I learned that years ago, like, if I don't have my shit in order, this whole thing falls apart. Because Nick was gone all the time. My husband, you know, he travels a lot for a long, long, long period of time. So I have learned over the years how important it is to prioritize myself really. And it's my life. Right? Let's get back to that. Like, this is your life. Like, how do you want to live it? I mean, right. Not the way you're living it right now. Not with this incredibly burdening like anvil of stress on your shoulders.Michele Hansen  26:19  Yeah, I mean, I feel I like something you said to me at founder Summit, one of our I don't know if this was our debrief knife, when we we ordered guacamole at midnight, I did some self pampering so good. That like you're like, you know, I met all these people who are super successful, and their businesses are where I want to be. And they're, like, I'm happier than them. Like, they're all miserable. Like,Unknown Speaker  26:47  I'm a little embarrassed that you shared that on the podcast, but I did. So we can love you all, thank you for chatting with me. Because not all of your character.Michele Hansen  26:59  Not all of them were miserable. But like they had a lot of, you know, business problems. And it created a lot of like, personal problems, and you didn't want to have those problems, like the stress of managing employees and just, you know, all this other stuff like, but like, you know, you're saying how like your work life balance is really good. Your family life is really good. Like, you've talked about how you're hesitant to work more because you don't want to disrupt how good your personal and then like family life is. And like Yeah, I like I just, I don't even I don't even know how to wrap my head around that. So that's it my family life is bad, or I don't like them. Like I do. Like it's just I don't know, like, it'sUnknown Speaker  27:48  a lot. You're like, well, I you know,Michele Hansen  27:51  what if there's nights when you know, Nick wanted to hang out, and then I'm working and I'm like, What is this world where like, the default is not like, one of your like, is that what you thought? Like I said, your laptop? Like what is that? Like, I was just like, that's like so normal for us that like, you know, one of us has some sort of work to do we have to do all the time. Like and we're better than we used to be but like Yeah, and like, I don't know, hanging out with your spouse. Like I just I don't I don't even know like I don't know. i Our marriage is so funny. Our marriage is very different. Um, I just really I don't know, I feel very stuck. And I feel like all these solutions everyone is giving me I'm still like, Well, that was work wouldn't work because this and this wouldn't work. Isn't that like, I'm still I don't know what yeah, that but I'm being very obstinate. I'm not being very, very compliance person to be helped.Colleen Schnettler  28:53  That's what I think that was Shawn's point about, like, when you say I cannot change anything, that's when you know, you need to change something.Michele Hansen  29:00  Yeah. Yeah.Colleen Schnettler  29:04  Yeah, yeah. And it's a whole mindset shift. So actually, I was talking to my other business parent, partner Aaron about this yesterday. And I said that same thing where I was like, I feel like I'm happier than most people. And he was like, Why do you think that is? And I had a couple I had many reasons, but like one of them to like, again, as, like we, as a military spouse, like our friends actually die. I mean, that's like, in real life, like people die. Close friends of ours have died. And I think, you know, when that happens, like my good friend down the street is a widow. She was widowed at 29 with two kids. That really gives you perspective. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, I think that really, really helps. I think I'm really good at keeping perspective because I live in this world that is so much more dangerous than everyone else's world. It's like what is really important. You get one life, you don't know how long it's going to be. How do you want to spend it?Michele Hansen  29:57  It sounds like you take that perspective. Not as you know that your problems don't matter because you're not dead, or that your spouse isn't dead, it's more, which I think is often how that comes across. But it's more so that being surrounded by death, or having it, surrounded by it, but yeah, that was a little. Having it, having it be this kind of looming part of the community kind of like having having it be a presence in the community in a way that it's really not in mind. Like, it forces you to reevaluate those things, and to not take your time for granted. Which, you know, I mean, like, I mean, and, and I don't know, and he's also sort of an ADHD person thing, where, like, we struggle with the concept of time, and like, there's these great talks about how like, ADHD is this disorder of how you perceive time, and like, Hmm, you know, we let things expand to the amount of time allotted, and then some and so we need, like, deadlines for this stuff, like, and so if I feel like there's no deadline on me feeling better, or prioritizing myself, or whatever it is, like I just, I will just fill that time with other things because, and it has been externally set deadline to like, if I make up my own deadline, like, I will blow through it, like, it just, it's like, it doesn't exist, because I know it's made up, like I like outsmart the deadline, like, to my own detriment. Um, you know, but that doesn't, that time doesn't last forever. And it sounds like you get reminders that, you know, none of us are guaranteed any amount of time.Colleen Schnettler  31:38  So, and to be fair, like, on the other side of that coin, I sometimes I'm not, I want to say convinced, but I am sometimes concerned that like all of my businesses will not be successful, because I'm not willing to sacrifice everything else in my life. And, you know, so there's two sides to that, right? Like, I might always have a SAS that makes $1,000 a month and just hang out here, because I'm not willing to work 8090 100 hours a week to make it happen. So you know, trade offs, butMichele Hansen  32:10  I also I don't feel like I'm sacrificing everything because I still do have like, like, family life is also something I'm not going to sacrifice because I think it's something that I did in the past. And now I don't you know, I mean, like today's like, kind of a totally packed day for me, schedule wise. And I was like, you know, tonight, I'm just gonna, like, put our daughter to bed and probably, like, fall asleep with her. Like, but you know, we hadColleen Schnettler  32:41  her, but it is 530 Your time right now already. So, you know, I have something after that. Right. And you're going to do another podcast as soon as we get off this podcast. So and I know a lot of that is timezone stuff. ButMichele Hansen  32:53  which suck. I hate them. Yeah. Like not being able to do anything with customers until like 8am at the earliest, or at sorry, like 2pm if they're an early riser, usually 3pm Six, if it's California, like, yeah, that isColleen Schnettler  33:11  rough. Okay, so let's go back. Let's circle back circle back to you. Because we got a little distracted. And how we get the circle back. I know we're running out of time to solve all your problems. So in 30 minutes,Unknown Speaker  33:30  I think we have five minutes left till your next podcast.Colleen Schnettler  33:35  But seriously, like, what what is your? I'm so happy. Okay, so when you brought this up yesterday with our group, I was so happy to see that, because it showed me that you were fine. You were finally seeing it. And so what is your plan?Michele Hansen  33:52  Dude, I don't have one. I we I'm stuck in the middle of this like,Colleen Schnettler  33:56  so you don't know. You're still young? No idea, I think. Yeah.Michele Hansen  34:00  I mean, I was like, trying this week. I was like, maybe I can like, you know, dude, you could do stuff like Tuesday, Wednesday, and then do extracurricular stuff Thursday, but then it kind of ended up meshing together. And I'm like, actually, I really need to, like, sequester myself and like, get several focused hours of work done on like, Monday afternoons, like, I don't know, that just sounds like more like planning and scheduling. And when it does sound like that sounds like you know, sort of optimizing within the current bounds rather than like actually stepping back and taking time to like, reflect and focus on myself, which is just I think that's the bigger thing is I don't know how to do that. Like, well, and I was like, should I hire a coach, but then I was like, I feel like I don't have time for more meetings. Like, you know, it's just like a coach. IColleen Schnettler  34:51  hire a relaxing coach. How do I relax, coach? Yeah, I think you're right, like trying to over optimize your schedule is not the solution. You have to fundamentally changed the box, right? And I knowMichele Hansen  35:02  the paradigm is wrong. And I'm just working within the current paradigm because I don't know anything else. I just got it. It's not working.Colleen Schnettler  35:11  Right? Like, I know those ideas I threw out, I know you're not going to sell the company or hire someone or move to the United States. But my point is like, you could I mean, there are other options that are available to me. So try to think outside the box because you have to change the box because the box is not working for you. Yeah.Michele Hansen  35:31  Yeah. Well, that's a lot for me to,Unknown Speaker  35:37  you're gonna think about it. You promise?Michele Hansen  35:39  I'm gonna think about it. I'm gonna buy some books about stuff. I don't know. I don't know.Unknown Speaker  35:52  Okay, I was giving myselfMichele Hansen  35:53  homework not the solution, either.Unknown Speaker  35:55  That's not not the solution is read a book about how to relax, read a book about how to stop writingMichele Hansen  36:02  about relaxing, right? Like, it's not like, relaxing without meditating. Like,Colleen Schnettler  36:06  it's not the right word. You know,Michele Hansen  36:08  I already meditate anyway. Like, it's not like it's, yeah, it's I don't know, I don't know what it like, I don't know anybody listening. You've gone through burnout. You have some the, I feel like at this point, I less need like solutions from people. And I more need, like, hope thinking about it, if that makes sense. Like framing a problem. Right? Yeah. So anyway, if anyone's gone through this, like, let me know, and you want to, you know, DM with me or something about it, and, or you have a book that like really helped you when you went through it. I feel like burnout is I've gathered that's very different for everyone. And the solutions are very different from everyone. So think I'm intentionally not asking for solutions, because that needs to be something that I figure out, right? Otherwise, because I'm just gonna sit here. Yeah, no, it's gonna work. That's gonna work and then I'm not gonna do what the problem, right? I need to I don't know. I need to think different think outside the box. You did new box.Colleen Schnettler  37:13  You need a new box. Okay, well, I wish you luck. Keep me posted on how it goes. And I think with that, we will wrap up this week's episode of the software Show podcast. Please reach out to Michelle on Twitter. If you have any advice or you yourself have gone through burnout. I think those would be welcome conversations. And let us know what you thought of the show. We're at software slash pod till next week.Michele Hansen  37:40  This episode was also brought to you by tele tele is a browser based screen recorder. For videos that showcase your work and share your knowledge. You can capture your screen, camera and present slides. You can also customize your videos with backgrounds layouts and other video clips. Tella makes it easy to record updates for your teammates, launch videos for your followers and demos for your customers. Record your next product demo with tele visit tele.tv/software Social to get 30% off tele proMichele HansenThis episode was also brought to you by Tella.Tella is a browser-based screen recorder for videos that showcase your work and share your knowledge.You can capture your screen, camera, and present slides. You can also customise your videos with backgrounds, layouts, and other video clips.Tella makes it easy to record updates for your team mates, launch videos for your followers, and demos for your customers.Record your next product demo with Tella.Visit tella.tv/softwaresocial to get 30% off Tella Pro

This week, we discuss the newly announced Nintendo Switch OLED Model and the recent Apex Legends DDoSing Attacks!

Corey Martin values storytelling. It's just one way developers can share their experiences in order for others to take lessons. To that end, this episode takes a close look at production issues from two different applications to examine what went wrong and how it was fixed. Meg Viar is a Senior Software Developer at Nomadic Learning, an e-learning platform. One day, they noticed that, for a certain group of users, a column of information in their database row was nulled. It didn't look like any user--either internally or externally--intentionally changed these values, and there hadn't been any new code deployed in days. The only clue was that the data was all changed at the same time. It turned out that a weekly cron job was deleting some data on an in-memory list. However, the database ORM they use also overloads the delete keyword, and was actually deleting the production data. Restoring the data from a backup was easy, and reworking the code to not use the data was a quick fix. However, going forward, Meg and her team came up with several ways to adjust the process around code changes like this from occurring again. Brendan Hennessy is the co-founder and CTO at Launchpad Lab, a studio that builds custom web and mobile applications. One of their clients is an SAT/ACT test prep app, and students complained that the app was extraordinarily slow. Brendan was accustomed to seeing such feedback on testing days, when heavy volume brought added strain to servers, and they accounted for this by increasing capacity. But this was different: there weren't any tests scheduled during the period. Instead, one of their own services was inadvertently DDOSing an endpoint, expecting a response; when one didn't arrive, it just kept making requests. They reworked this code to make a request once and simply wait for a response without trying again. In the future, they committed themselves to doing more in-person blitzes of new features, since issues like this only arise after multiple users use the app--something automated tests have trouble simulating. Links from this episode Nomadic Learning builds digital academies Launchpad Lab builds custom web and mobile applications for startups and established businesses

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This week's episode we talk about the announcement from Ubisoft about DDoSing, and how the hostage has evolved. Plus we talk about fake operator buffs with Twitch, Valkyrie, and Glaz. For the Esports we give our predictions on who will make it to the finals this later half of the pro league season.opening:Abyss by | e s c p | https://escp-music.bandcamp.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/closing:Coffee Shop by PYC Music | https://soundcloud.com/pycmusicMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

In today’s podcast, we hear that Nokia routers have been found vulnerable to man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service attacks. As one would expect, the  US and North Korean summit in Hanoi this week summons up some hacking. Ukraine accuses Russia of DDoS attacks in the service of election disruption. US Cyber Command played some chin music for St. Petersburg during US midterm elections. And if you’re going to hack into an embassy, wouldn’t you want to do more than install a cryptojacker? David Dufour from Webroot with insights on their pending purchase by Carbonite. Guest is Randy Vanderhoof from the Secure Technology Alliance on managing identity and fraud in the payment space.  For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/February/CyberWire_2019_02_27.html  Support our show

On this episode, ScoJo, Churba, and Victor talk about: Harvey Weinstien stuff. Is the parochialness of American news damaging to Americans? Our homes are being fractured technologically by smart devices into multiple walled gardens. Should there be some sort of mandate to force, say, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Home to play nice together? Or should […]

On this episode, ScoJo, Churba, and Victor talk about: Harvey Weinstien stuff. Is the parochialness of American news damaging to Americans? Our homes are being fractured technologically by smart devices into multiple walled gardens. Should there be some sort of mandate to force, say, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Home to play nice together? Or should […]

ERoss talks about how Ddosing ourselves, or denying ourselves from acting out on destructive patterns is a key to personal liberation, healthier relationships and ultimately peace. https://spiritualphoenixstudios.com https://oracleatmushin.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritual-phoenix-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spiritual-phoenix-podcast/support

In this episode we have a new member to the Podcast, our friend Tre. And we all talk about Hacking groups that have been DDOSing Xbox Live and PSN in the past.

In today’s podcast, we hear about patched vulnerabilities in widely used products—the consensus among experts is that you should patch without delay. A new ransomware variant—“HolyCrypt”-is discovered in development. OurMine hacks the Playstation boss’s Twitter account. Hackers get ready to go after US Presidential campaigns (and some have already started). ISIS information ops continue to concentrate on recruiting and inspiration. Pokemon-GO is too Darwinian for some. The University of Maryland's Jonathan Katz describes a TOR alternative.

This week we talk about the quest to reveal the identity of Bitcoin's creator, DDoSing the root name servers and much more!

02:35 - John-Daniel Trask Introduction and Background Twitter GitHub Blog Mindscape @MindscapeHQ 04:57 - Raygun.io @raygunio 06:23 - Crash Reporting The Right Way Error Grouping Suppress Notifications 10:06 - Most Common Errors 12:05 - Source Maps 19:16 - Managing Error Reporting in Gross Environments 22:17 - Determining Where The Issue Is 24:45 - Do People Write Their Own Errors? 26:23 - Frameworks Support 28:28 - Collecting Data: Privacy and Security 30:01 - Does working in error reporting make you judgemental of others’ code? “DDOSing Yourself” 32:42 - Planning for Rare Exceptions 33:36 - Tactics to Cut Down on Messages 35:53 - Gathering Basic Debugging Information 37:58 - Getting the BEST Information Promises Stockholm Syndrome 42:24 - The Backend: Node.js The raygun4node provider 43:24 - “Creating an Application” Picks LDS Connect (AJ) LDS I/O (AJ) TED Talk About Nothing (Dave) OlliOlli 2 Soundtrack (Jamison) Jurassic Park (Joe)  ng-vegas (Joe) WASD CODE 87-Key Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with White LED Backlighting - Cherry MX Clear (Chuck) Grifiti Fat Wrist Pad (Chuck) Thank You Rails Clips Kickstarter Backers! (Chuck) Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck) The Pirates of Silicon Valley (John-Daniel) littleBits (John-Daniel)

02:35 - John-Daniel Trask Introduction and Background Twitter GitHub Blog Mindscape @MindscapeHQ 04:57 - Raygun.io @raygunio 06:23 - Crash Reporting The Right Way Error Grouping Suppress Notifications 10:06 - Most Common Errors 12:05 - Source Maps 19:16 - Managing Error Reporting in Gross Environments 22:17 - Determining Where The Issue Is 24:45 - Do People Write Their Own Errors? 26:23 - Frameworks Support 28:28 - Collecting Data: Privacy and Security 30:01 - Does working in error reporting make you judgemental of others’ code? “DDOSing Yourself” 32:42 - Planning for Rare Exceptions 33:36 - Tactics to Cut Down on Messages 35:53 - Gathering Basic Debugging Information 37:58 - Getting the BEST Information Promises Stockholm Syndrome 42:24 - The Backend: Node.js The raygun4node provider 43:24 - “Creating an Application” Picks LDS Connect (AJ) LDS I/O (AJ) TED Talk About Nothing (Dave) OlliOlli 2 Soundtrack (Jamison) Jurassic Park (Joe)  ng-vegas (Joe) WASD CODE 87-Key Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with White LED Backlighting - Cherry MX Clear (Chuck) Grifiti Fat Wrist Pad (Chuck) Thank You Rails Clips Kickstarter Backers! (Chuck) Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck) The Pirates of Silicon Valley (John-Daniel) littleBits (John-Daniel)

02:35 - John-Daniel Trask Introduction and Background Twitter GitHub Blog Mindscape @MindscapeHQ 04:57 - Raygun.io @raygunio 06:23 - Crash Reporting The Right Way Error Grouping Suppress Notifications 10:06 - Most Common Errors 12:05 - Source Maps 19:16 - Managing Error Reporting in Gross Environments 22:17 - Determining Where The Issue Is 24:45 - Do People Write Their Own Errors? 26:23 - Frameworks Support 28:28 - Collecting Data: Privacy and Security 30:01 - Does working in error reporting make you judgemental of others’ code? “DDOSing Yourself” 32:42 - Planning for Rare Exceptions 33:36 - Tactics to Cut Down on Messages 35:53 - Gathering Basic Debugging Information 37:58 - Getting the BEST Information Promises Stockholm Syndrome 42:24 - The Backend: Node.js The raygun4node provider 43:24 - “Creating an Application” Picks LDS Connect (AJ) LDS I/O (AJ) TED Talk About Nothing (Dave) OlliOlli 2 Soundtrack (Jamison) Jurassic Park (Joe)  ng-vegas (Joe) WASD CODE 87-Key Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with White LED Backlighting - Cherry MX Clear (Chuck) Grifiti Fat Wrist Pad (Chuck) Thank You Rails Clips Kickstarter Backers! (Chuck) Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck) The Pirates of Silicon Valley (John-Daniel) littleBits (John-Daniel)

The MacNN Podcast hits its second episode and engages on a wide variety of topics! Join this week's hosts, MacNN Editor Charles Martin, alongside staff writer Michelle Elbert, reviewer William Gallagher, and news writer Malcolm Owen as they discuss the GSA adoption of Apple Pay, Thunderbolt displays DDoSing local networks, Apple's market capitalization, and more! Editor's note - you may see this one out of sequence. We tried other hosting solutions, and we're set now. Going forward, there won't be any time warps!

We talk about our picks of the year for our favorite games, we talk about DRM going bad and how many copies of Mass Effect 1 Dan has bought. Last is DDoSing- what is it? Who's doing it? Why?

DDoSing and Killer Instinct update.

From the Bradley Manning sentencing to DDOSing your former employer, the guys at PSW cover all the interesting stories of the week.

EPISODE 177 - FLAGSHIP 70 This week's top story - Tether is in trouble again. Is this a tale of sound and fury signifying nothing like the Bitcoin Maximalists such as Adam Back would like you to believe? Or is there something more going on here? Before we get to that story we talk about Vitalik, Elon, some scams and more. Rapid Fire Coinbase Custody now offers their first chain swap with KIN. Offline storage and insurance coverage Mainnet KIN is now available on Coinbase Custody NYTimes is now routinely reporting on crypto. In this case it's 1q thefts—roughly 1.2 billion Cryptocurrency Thefts, Fraud Hit $1.2 Billion in First Quarter-Report Electrum wallet botnet infects 152,000 users, steals $4.6mill USD In response to this, attackers then started DDoSing legitimate Electrum servers in an attempt to trick older clients into connecting to malicious nodes, while legitimate nodes becoming overwhelmed. Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million Ethereum.org has gone through a redesign relaunching as a work in project like Ethereum itself being iterated by the community just like Ethereum. r/ethtrader - ethereum.org completely redesigned Bitcoin whale moved $212 million in cryptocurrency - for just $3.93 Vitalik and Elon chat on Twitter (Story 1) Elon Musk on Twitter Elon Musk on Monday sent out a one word tweet, Ethereum. Then apparently said jk. Then Vitalik got involved and said to come to Devcon in Denver. THe internet erupted. How absurd is it that someone can just say one word on the internet and have the internet in an uproar. Then Elon asked what should be developed on Ethereum and Vitalik replied with a mini tweet storm on projects with different use cases he likes on the Ethereum platform MolochDAO, Ethereum Name Service, Ethresear.ch, Hurricaneguard.io were all named. then a bunch of trolls on twitter said dumb things about tesla and crypto. Justin Sun got in there to mention Tron, all the regulars (Pomp, Ari David Paul, Neeraj) hope something comes of it at some point Crypto_Brahma Scam - Brent I don't know anything about who this was before - but I looked into it a little bit because of this letter I came across on Twitter to his "group" . He ran a paid Discord group where you could join and get some trading advice and get gems from him. ONLY 35 MONTHLY MEMBERS....but he was actually running two of these exclusive groups simultaneously. It was called the fucking Moon Club Apparently at some point he decided to do a fund. ANNNNNNNND It's gone. https://twitter.com/The_CryptoArnie/status/1123215814998540289/photo/1 Literally he took everyone's money, gambled it via a bad call on Margin trading, and then sent a letter saying that he'd totally get everyone their money back. He just needed to clear his head so that he could trade in a stress free environment. Timeline - 5 Months. LOLOL Millions in Crypto Stolen first quarter 2019.... and its gonna need laundering (Karim) Article based on a report by company called CipherTrace, 'Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency AML Report' Estimates $356 million stolen, and payments from US based exchanges to offshore crypto wallets up 46% $16m from Cryptopia in January CoinBene and DragonEx (Singapore) combined $46m in March (ETH backed) Bithumb in S Korea $13m in EOS stolen and (allegedly) another $6m in Ripple Company described it as an "accident involving insiders" lol Coinbin also S Korea forced into bankrupcy after loosing $26m, blamed an insider And then there's QuadrigaCX... The report 'tentatively' categorized the $190m as theft as opposed to hack or exit scam Bottom line this money has to be cashed out in innovative ways to turn it into cash, and a lot of ways to exit US and European jurisdictions. Article concludes with a warning that "A tsunami of tough, global antimoney laundering and counter-terror financing regulations will “roll over” the cryptocurrency ecosystem throughout the coming year", Even links to an article showing Finland just recently adopted AML regulation for crypto But one thing to keep in mind...... Austin Transportation Partners With Iota Foundation to Develop Interoperability Ecosystem ADAM visions of a system in which every transit system can interact with the same payment app and a single digital identity this is the second partnership this week. the other is United Kingdom car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover will use Iota’s distributed ledger to reward drivers with cryptocurrency for data reporting Iota and internet of things (IoT) firm Evrythng announced a partnership to combine and apply their distributed ledger and IoT technologies to provide greater transparency for consumer goods supply chains Bank of America secures patent for risk assessment of cryptocurrency transactions; (Karim) BOA secured a patent on April 30 for a cryptocurrency risk detection system. On the basis of the system, a risk score will be levied on cryptocurrency transactions between a customer and a third party. 'Processor' would receive request for transaction with third party, then it can "perform a slew of functions, retrieve blockchain information, determine the value of crypto in the transaction or calculate the “risk score” of the transaction based on the preceding factors." BOA also filed for a patent for crypto storage system for business transactions (Aug 2018) CoinMarketCap turned 6 yesterday - Adam Happy 6th Birthday! DATA Alliance, Block Explorers and more - CoinMarketCap transparency alliance for cryptos and exchange. Basically KYC list of 17 things for crypto and 24 for exchanges starts in june 14th CMC blocks explorers much like etherscan which will help users have more visibility into the blockchain merch shop finally have an Android app ios updated version (so the search function ACTUALLY works) Main Story - Tether situation - Brent The NY Attorney General released a statement saying that, among other things, Bitfinex used Tether to mask a missing $850 Million of their assets. The response to the NYAG releasing this from Tether? Decidedly hand wavey - First it was from Bitfinex not Tether, but they're the same. They basically say that the money was "seized" and not hidden. They're setting up for the ol' "if they hadn't said anything it all would have been fine" defense. Lets do a recap of the Tether red flags, YES red flags. The original white paper is unequivocal in the backing of Tether - it will be backed on a 1:1 basis The Paradise Papers leak showed that Phil Potter and Giancarlo Devasini are both a part of There and Bitfinex. $30 Million dollars was "Stolen" but don't worry Tether won't be redeeming those Tethers so it's all fine. They hired and fired an auditor named Friedman LLP. They took any promise of getting audited out of their FAQ. A few months ago we reported this but it bears mentioning again - Tether took down it's 100% backed statement and replaced it with a new one. "Every tether is always 100% backed by our reserves, which include traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties, which may include affiliated entities (collectively, “reserves”). Every tether is also 1-to-1 pegged to the dollar, so 1 USDâ‚® is always valued by Tether at 1 USD." Now it gets even worse. The Lawyer for Tether has admitted to the court in plain english that as of April 30, Tether is only about 74% backed by fiat equivalents, which is cash and short term securities. It looks like this "seized" amount is a line of credit from Tether to Bitfinex, which is most likely going to function as one of those cash equivalents. Tether did say that the terms of this credit line were negotiated "on an arms length basis on commercially reasonable terms" Both agreements were singed by the same guy - Giancarlo Devasini. Attorneys are arguing that Tether doesn't have to be 100% backed, it totally says so on the website. If BSV got delisted because CSW is an asshole, I'm really hoping the community would put pressure on the exchanges to delist Tether. They aren't. Bitcoin maximalists like Adam Back seem to be aligned with Tether her, even comparing it to fractional reserve banking saying that it's way better than them. Sometimes the Bitcoin community makes it really hard to like them. Finally - the ETH wallet on Bitfinex has been drained of 800k ETH in the last week, and they only have 1.1M ETH left. Good luck to all that have funds on there :( LINKS https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalentshttps://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/b0wmuo/tether_once_again_pulls_a_sneaky_update/ coindesk.com/tether-claims-30-million-stable-token-stolen-attacker https://news.bitcoin.com/paradise-papers-reveal-bitfinexs-devasini-and-potter-established-tether-already-back-in-2014/ https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod https://www.tetherreport.com/ https://www.allcryptowhitepapers.com/tether-whitepaper/ Shots Fired! Reddit User M0ountainDew - Dear Justin sun this is not a "comprehensive developer guide" this is just a list of where to buy Tron. It's literally a list (barely any of them linked) in alphabetical order - but Binance is at the top over aBCC Exchange. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bjl2b9/dear_justin_sun_this_is_not_a_comprehensive/ https://archive.is/50Uxm You know we like to keep you up to date on Substratum bullshit Brian and William were posting again this week. Substratum Deleted the Team Members page of their website. Originally it could still be accessed directly just not clicked on from the main site. Now it's gone completely They also took down their whitepaper. Only "technical paper" is left.