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Chrome Sandbox Exploit, Cisco Jabber CVE, & Lea Snyder w/ BSides Boston – PSW #666

September 10, 2020

We welcome special guest Lea Snyder, BSides Boston Organizer, to talk all things BSides Boston 2020 for its 10 year anniversary! In the Security News, Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Jabber for Windows, Expert found multiple critical issues in MoFi routers, TeamTNT Gains Full Remote Takeover of Cloud Instances, Bluetooth Bug Opens Devices to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks, Former NSA chief General Keith Alexander is now on Amazon’s board, and the Legality of Security Research is to be Decided in a US Supreme Court Case!

Full episode and show notes

Announcements

BSides Boston is back in action for their 10 year anniversary! The conference will be held on Saturday, September 26th & tickets are only $10! Get yours at https://bsidesbos.org! Some of the Security Weekly team will be in our own channel on the BSides Boston Discord server answering questions and possibly doing some contests!

Guest

Lea Snyder

Lea Snyder

BSides Boston Organizer at BSides Boston

https://bsidesbos.org

Lea Snyder is the lead organizer for BSides Boston. She helped organize the conference in 2014 & 2015 and was the lead organizer for 2016 & 2017. She started volunteering for BSides Seattle in 2016 and quickly joined the organizing team. She is the co-founder of Layer 8 Conference with Patrick Laverty. Lea is passionate about giving back to the security community, creating an atmosphere that is welcoming to all participants, and learning something new along the way.

Hosts

Paul Asadoorian

Paul Asadoorian

Founder at Security Weekly

https://securityweekly.com

Jeff Man

Jeff Man

Sr. InfoSec Consultant – Online Business Systems at Online Business Sytems

https://www.obsglobal.com/

Joff Thyer

Joff Thyer

Security Analyst at Black Hills Information Security

https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/team/joff-thyer/

Larry Pesce

Larry Pesce

Product Security Research and Analysis Director at Finite State

https://www.finitestate.io/

Tyler Robinson

Tyler Robinson

Director of Offensive Security & Research at Trimarc Security, Founder & CEO at Dark Element

http://darkelement.io/

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