The Eff It Bucket

By: Ashley Keski Paul Ruffalo Alex Gallegos
  • Summary

  • Have you ever been frustrated by technology? Has a family member or friend ever been the victim of a scam? Has your IT department ever made you think, "Eff it," in frustration as you hang up the phone and scream? We are a podcast exploring the realms of cybersecurity and our daily human interactions with digital innovations. We are three amateurs when it comes to podcasting, but we are professionals in the technology and cybersecurity space. Join us every two weeks, as we share our views on news stories and technological developments with a focus on cybersecurity - and most importantly, how we expect them to affect everyday users of technology from all walks of life (not just nerds).
    Copyright 2024 Ashley Keski, Paul Ruffalo, Alex Gallegos
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Episodes
  • Delayed Episode This Week
    Dec 5 2024

    Unfortunately one of our hosts decide it would be more fun to get the plague and cough up a lung than it would be to record a new episode. How rude!

    Connect With Us:

    Twitter: @theeffitbucket

    Reddit: r/theeffitbucket

    E-mail: theeffitbucket@gmail.com

    Musical Attribution:

    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 min
  • Burn(out), Baby, Burn
    Nov 21 2024

    This week in the bucket, researchers can get LLM-driven robots to kill us by telling them they are action movie stars, hackers hang out at the Library of Congress for months, and Ivanti poops the bed (again).

    News Stories for Reference:

    "Out of 29 Billion Cybersecurity Events, Phishing was the Primary Method of Initial Attack"

    https://blog.knowbe4.com/out-of-29-billion-cybersecurity-events-phishing-was-the-primary-method-of-initial-attack

    "It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots - Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception"

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm

    "Library of Congress Says an Adversary Hacked Some Emails"

    https://www.securityweek.com/library-of-congress-says-an-adversary-hacked-some-emails/?is=19abe664615d20ad53fe7fe2b8af273540b98afc9232f728b7e898b0c73a80ad

    "Ivanti Patches 50 Vulnerabilities Across Several Products"

    https://www.securityweek.com/ivanti-patches-50-vulnerabilities-across-several-products/

    Connect With Us:

    Twitter: @theeffitbucket

    Reddit: r/theeffitbucket

    E-mail: theeffitbucket@gmail.com

    Musical Attribution:

    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Trump Won. Now What?
    Nov 7 2024

    This week in the bucket, thoughts about what the next four years could look like from a cyber perspective, general complaints about the election, and some comfort shows that make us happy.

    News Stories for Reference:

    "Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure"

    https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cybersecurity-best-practices/executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal-networks-and-critical-infrastructure

    "President Trump Unveils America’s First Cybersecurity Strategy in 15 Years"

    https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/president-trump-unveils-americas-first-cybersecurity-strategy-15-years/

    "Project 2025’s Plan for Cybersecurity Agency Threatens Election Security"

    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/project-2025s-plan-cybersecurity-agency-threatens-election-security

    "How Trump could change cybersecurity"

    https://www.axios.com/2024/09/03/donald-trump-2024-cybersecurity-agenda

    "4 tech issues to watch in Trump’s second term"

    https://www.ciodive.com/news/4-tech-policies-donald-trump/732196/

    "Platform | Profile or Channel"

    Hyperlink URL to YouTube Channel, Instagram Feed, etc.

    "Colorado Libertarians sue Secretary of State Jena Griswold over leak of voting equipment passwords"

    https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2024/colorado-libertarians-sue-secretary-of-state-jena-griswold-over-leak-of-voting-equipment-passwords/article_0a27e3f2-98aa-11ef-8cb3-a7da55f4f664.html

    "Ballot boxes were set on fire in Oregon and Washington. What happens to the votes?"

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ballot-box-fires-oregon-washington-early-voting-safety-rcna177743

    "Bomb threats disrupted what was otherwise relatively smooth voting on Election Day"

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181834/election-day-voting-bomb-threats

    A Little Something Extra

    "Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible | Veritasium"

    https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk?si=sQNRhBWELxyC6cbe

    Connect With Us:

    Twitter: @theeffitbucket

    Reddit: r/theeffitbucket

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    1 hr and 16 mins

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