Bluetooth Mayhem: Firewalls Fail & Insulin Pumps Panic

Forecast = Expect heavy BTLE storms with a high chance of UUID leaks. Pack your Faraday umbrellas and watch out for rogue packets raining from the cloud.

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On this episode of Storm⚡️Watch, we're diving into some major cybersecurity developments that have been making waves. We'll start by unpacking the ongoing saga of the Columbus, Ohio cyberattack, which has turned into a complex web of legal battles, data leaks, and questions about municipal cybersecurity preparedness. We'll explore how this incident is affecting the city's tech aspirations and what it means for residents' data security.

Next, we're excited to bring you our Cyberside Chat, where we'll be discussing a fascinating topic: BLUUID. We'll explore how Bluetooth vulnerabilities are impacting everything from insulin pumps to firewalls. We'll break down the technical details of extracting BTLE UUIDs from Android APK files and how this process can be used to identify devices. We'll also delve into some serious vulnerabilities discovered in Firewalla firewall products, including potential remote code execution risks.

As always, we'll be sharing some of our recent work in the cybersecurity field. We've got some intriguing analyses from Censys, including a deep dive into Fox Kitten infrastructure and a challenging look at securing internet-exposed industrial control systems. VulnCheck has been busy too, with a new blog post about the Flax Typhoon botnet. And don't miss our GreyNoise blog, where we're questioning assumptions about ICS security.

We'll wrap up with our regular "We Need to Talk About KEV" segment, where we'll round up the latest additions to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. It's a packed episode that you won't want to miss, so tune in to stay on top of the latest in the world of cybersecurity.

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