ESW #281 – Aubrey Turner

Passwordless authentication is all the rage. And rightly so, given its promise of driving engagement and boosting productivity via more secure and frictionless user experiences. However, the path to passwordless often leads to more questions than answers. Don’t fret! We’ll offer a passwordless journey roadmap that delves into leveraging different risk signals like user behavior and device characteristics to make smarter authentication decisions.

Segment Resources: https://www.pingidentity.com/en/solutions/business-priority/passwordless.html https://download.pingidentity.com/public/assets/misc/en/3637-workforce-survey-passwordless-future.pdf

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Sick Codes hacked all four John Deere Telematics Gateway's, and the John Deere Gen4 Series Display. Without those, it's "just a tractor." However, this is Critical Infrastructure. In fact, without Tractors, Combines & Implements: farmers cannot plant, spray or harvest. No raw materials == no food & alcohol. You will see how long I persisted over multiple months, to gain access and was able to hack these devices to the absolute binary core, warts & all. What was the bounty? Source Code, Root File Systems, FPGA compiled binaries, the works. Agricultural Security is a serious issue. Multiple ransomware attacks last year showed exactly how destructive attacks on Food & Agriculture are, and how fragile the supply chain is.

Segment Resources: https://sick.codes https://github.com/sickcodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpouLO-GXLo https://hardwear.io/usa-2022/speakers/sick-codes.php

Finally, in the Enterprise Security News: HiveWatch raises $20M to protect the office, FORT Robotics raises $13M to protect the office from robots, Emproof raises €2M to secure embedded devices, Dutch startup OneWelcome acquired by Thales, Dutch startup Hatching acquired by Recorded Future, Pwnednomore aims to protect Web3, Cybersecurity vendors make us less secure And perverse incentives in whistleblowing!