The Security box, podcast 134: news notes and the landscape, as well as PBKDF2

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Hello folks, welcome to the Security box, podcast 134. This podcast is going to talk about PBKDF2, an encryption algorithm that is used in certain situations. We'll also have a moron of the week, maybe two, maybe more! We'll also dip our toes in the landscape and see what is on other folks minds.

Morons of the podcast

This first one is quite dumb. In fact, when I saw the boost which saw it, I had to title this the way I did. You Stupid F**k … its not going to look good for you now when you get picked up is my blog post on an article coming from a site called news24.com. Not only is this guy found guilty, you're going to read that he just chose not to even show up! How dumb can you be? This second one comes from this blog post about TikTok's newest challenge. There is some strong language with this post, and from at least two people, it is well warranted. I try not to use strong language in my posts, but this one is definitely beyond repair. The short of this, for those who may be offended by strong language, is that scammers will stop at nothing to either get their wares out or to cause as much harm as possible. In this latest twist, we have someone going aroudn claiming they can turn loved one's ashes to a sculpture or even a painting. They claim its free ... but it isn't. The article leads to this Kim Komando article talking about the TikTok Scam. If it isn't mentioned as part of this segment, which it just may, please feel free to weigh in on this one.

Our topic, PBKDF2

PBKdf2 is one of many encryption types for passwords and the like. Here's the Wikipedia article on it as we take from the first two sections for now. There are replacements for it and its covered within this article, but we'll let you look this up later.

Book Selection: Tracers in the dark

I chose my next book. Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg. During the podcast, we'll check in with folks to see where they are in this ... or other books that are on our list. This is my blog post talking about Tracers in the dark if you need it. I finally got my book review up for If it's smart, its vulnerable by Mikko Hypponnen. Here's that blog post if you're interested to see what I have to say about it.

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