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Oberammergau (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Oberammergau is a small town of 5,000 people in the Ammer Valley at the foot of the Kofel Mountain. The town is known primarily for it's Passion Play which is held every 10 years and to a lesser extent for it's woodcarvers (there are lots of them) but it deserves a mention too for once being the home of a certain Franz Zwinck.
Franz Zwinck was a house painter who focused mostly on exteriors and who lived in Oberammergau during the late 18th century. It was he who started painting the frescoes, common throughout Bavaria, which so enhance the appearance of the Region's pastel coloured buildings. The frescoes are known as Luftlmarelei and are named after the house he lived in and presumably painted: Zum Luftl. Not many people know that.
Almost all of the buildings in Oberammergau are covered in Luftlmarelei. Many depict religious scenes from the Passion Play while others reflect local pastimes or are simply decorative. All are striking and do much to enhance the buildings' appearance.
As already strated, Oberammergau is best known for it's Passion Play which was first performed in 1634 and has been performed during every year ending in a zero since then with exceptions only of 1920, 1940 and 2020. The play in 1920 was postponed to 1922 because of post World War 1 austerity. The play in 2020 has been postponed to 2022 because of Covid and the play in 1940 was cancelled because of World War 2 but, countering that, extra productions were staged in 1934 (300th anniversary) and 1984 (350th anniversary).
The Play came about after a man returning to the village in 1633 for Christmas brought the bubonic plague with him. He and countless others died until the surviving villagers made a pledge that, if God were to spare them any more deaths, they would stage a passion play every 10 years during which they would re-enact the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is said that the deaths stopped from that moment and that those then sick with the plague all recovered.
So began the Passion Play which now directly involves over 2,000 actors, singers, instrumentalists and technicians – all of whom must be residents of Oberammergau – and which nowadays attracts the best part of half a million spectators to 100 performances during the period May to October.
First held in the local church, the Passion Play is now performed in a modern theatre capable of accommodating some 5,000 spectators. If you're thinking of going, you might consider learning some German. The Play is delivered only in German (although I'm told there is an English translation available for those who do not speak German – How does one read the translation in the dark? The play goes on for hours with no less than a 3 hour dinner break)
Like so many places we have visited during this tour, Covid has seen to it that most places are empty of tourists. That proved to be the case in Oberammergau too. After a very pleasant wander around a remarkably empty town, Vanya and I adjourned to a baker coffee shop and enjoyed some quite wonderful cakes with our coffee – If I'm honest, I ate all the cakes.
Lot's of lovely cakes – Mine! All Mine!!
I'll finish with a few random photos of the town…
Oberammergau sits in the Ammer Valley on the banks of the Ammer River and under the Kofel Mountain. That's the Ammer River in the above photos with Kofel Mountain in the second photo.
It really is a beautiful little town
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 30, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories GermanyTags BavariaLeave a comment on Oberammergau (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Ettal (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is not the town it once was and proved a big disappointment; so much so we were in Ettal before noon.
Our next stop after GaPa was to be Oberammergau and weren't going to stop in Ettal but it is such a beautiful little village and it was on the road to Oberammergau, the Alpine road, that we simply had to pause.
The biggest surprise about Ettal is it's Benedictine Monastery. It dominates the village and I parked up to investigate this magnificent building (well, it's a collection of buildings really) and…
The front of an abbey which turned out to be a monastery with a difference
Ettal Abbey was founded in 1330 by the then Emperor Ludwig but is now a Benedictine Monastery with a community of 50+ monks. What is unusual about this monastery is that in 1618 the Duke of Bavaria granted a concession allowing the monks to produce and sell beer and since then increasing sections of the monastery have been given over to the production of beer on a commercial basis. Parts of the monastery are now a brewery!
That's quite a range of beers
And it doesn't stop there; it also has a distillery! Indeed, Ettal is almost as renowned for its spirits (as in spirits for drinking) as it's beer; some made with or at least flavoured with local fruits (e.g. various brandies and of course Kirschwasser) and others made with neutral grain spirits (vodka). What a find!
We couldn't stay long but there is a museum within the complex that I would very much like to visit when next passing through. I would also consider staying over in Ettal given it's close proximity to both Oberammergau (5 minutes drive) and the Lindhof Palace (10 minutes drive).
Ettal and the surrounding countryside was a delight. Last night's snow was very obvious on the mountains
And so to Oberammergau… Wow!!
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 30, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories GermanyTags BavariaLeave a comment on Ettal (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Krun (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Our next stop was to be Garmisch-Partenkirchen and we made it to Garmisch, passing through some pretty villages as we did so, and we did pause in the centre but parking was difficult and the weather was closing in (with snow forecast for the late afternoon and evening) and so we headed for a highly recommended camp site some 14 km down the road with a view to returning to GaPa the next day.
There were no shortages of churches in Oberau (all within 100 yards of each other) and, such a small village
The site was five star and while not cheap appeared to have everything we could possibly need. The shower block was unreal; sparkling clean and with underfloor heating, numerous separate shower cubicles, unlimited hot water and even a bathroom with a bathtub! I suppose I shouldn't have been so surprised given that the camp site is geared up for winter camping and skiing.
Impressive camp site with all mod cons including a dog bath
It's restaurant had plenty of good reviews and we decided to eat there that evening – the food and wine were good and not silly expensive.
And so to bed and, yes, it snowed throughout the night but it was that horrible cold slushy snow that fell and that was when camp site fell right down in my estimation. The Van wasn't parked on hardstanding but on soft mushy ground that became a cold shallow pond.
And so to GaPa…
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Rosenheim (Bayern), Germany October 2020
It was a beautiful morning in Schwand and we were sorely tempted to take the boat trip from St Gilgen to St Wolfgang during the afternoon. After checking the latest news, however, we thought better of it. It seems Austria is now considered by Germany to be of the highest Covid risk and there is talk of border restrictions. I don't know what that means and I'm not convinced it would be legal but these are strange times. Time to move on.
We set off in the direction of Salzburg and then picked up signs for Germany. At the border, which was manned by German police, there was a small queue of cars but absolutely nothing with Austrian plates. Time to worry? No, we were simply waved through. Bit of a relief though.
I don't know why we stopped at Rosenheim. I googled the place and stumbled upon the "Holiday In Bavaria" site but neither of us knew much about the place before and we perhaps still don't. For my part, I think it was relief at not being turned back at the border that made me want to pause and take a drink in Rosenheim. It is worth mentioning too that Vanya had found what looked on paper to be a good camp site in the Rosenheim area and the sun was shining.
We parked the Van up in a church car park and walked to the town centre, the Max-Josefs Platz, and sat outside a busy Gasthof and took a beer. It was marvellous sitting in the sun with that beer and if I didn't have to drive on to the camp site I could have been tempted to take another two or three. It's a shame Vanya has shown absolutely no interest in driving the Van because she was drinking water and then… well, no matter.
The sun continued to shine; I was precluded from drinking anymore; it was time to check out the town. For my part we had to move as quickly as possible from Max-Josefs Platz – there were two too many distractions – the cafe bars were tempting me and the designer shops were likely to tempt Vanya – I had forgotten it was a Sunday and few if any designer shops are open in this part of the world on a Sunday.
With a population of more than 60,000 Rosenheim is a large town but, I don't think there is much to the place and I certainly cannot agree with the "Holiday In Bavaria" website when it suggests that the town "delights visitors with its southern flair and Alpine charm". It has some colourful buildings but, so too does the rest of Bavaria. It has some interesting museums and some enticing looking shops but on such a sunny Sunday afternoon? I don't think so. As for the Alpine charm bit, I would suggest there are many more places in Bavaria much closer to the Alps that better qualify for that particular soubriquet.
There are a couple of things about Rosenheim I do very much like. On a warm sunny afternoon such as we enjoyed, the Max-Josefs Platz struck me as a wonderful place to sit and watch the world go by and, remember, this was on a Covid Sunday when there were but a fraction of the people out and about as normal.
I like Max-Josefs Platz…
… and there are some fine pastel buildings…
…on Ludwigplatz too
For much the same reason Ludwigplatz also appealed to me but sitting almost in between the two is the beautiful Kirche St Nikolaus. That place really impressed me.
While quite ornate on the outside, with some very interesting frescoes, it was stylish simplicity on the inside – a total contrast and wonderfully elegant. A truly beautiful church.
Reading this back I hope I don't come across as too hostile towards Rosenheim. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the place. I think perhaps I expected too much of the town in the first place (but I'll blame Holiday In Bavaria for that). Would I ever return? Yes, I would. It could be argued that I barely scratched the surface in the time I was there this time and, in any event, Rosenheim is supposed to have a fantastic Autumn Beer Drinking Festival which sounds far more authentic than Munich's Oktoberfest.
Oh, and the camp site Vanya found in the area was very good.
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 28, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories GermanyTags BavariaLeave a comment on Rosenheim (Bayern), Germany October 2020
Hallstatt (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Lonely Planet describes Hallstatt's beauty as bordering on the surreal and the sublime. Ordinarily it may be just like that but, prior to our arriving, it had been raining heavily and the mountains were covered in filthy clouds and the lake looked dark, cold and uninviting. That's not nice, let alone surreal and sublime.
The first photographs (from the coach stop)
No matter the village, with it's 800 inhabitants, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997; is one of the most photographed little towns in all Austria and; receives one million plus visitors every year (mostly from China). Indeed, the Chinese have been sufficiently impressed with Hallstatt to have built an exact scale copy of the old town at Luoyang in Guangdong Province. If that isn't enough, it wasn't raining as we arrived – so, we parked the Van and set off to look at the place for ourselves. We had no trouble parking despite it being a public holiday weekend in Austria and I'm not sure if that was because of the poor weather or Covid or both. Certainly, there were no Chinese while we were there.
The weather wasn't brilliant but the rain had stopped and the clouds provide "mood"
Squeezed into a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the western bank of what is often described as a looking glass lake (fairly big too at over 7 km long, 2 km wide and up to 125 metres deep) the old town with it's picturesque pastel coloured buildings is undeniably pretty. The market square with it's Holy Trinity statue, shops, cafes and small houses is the best part of the town but the two churches must also be seen.
I particularly like the first two photos; one is of the market square and the other is a small schnapps bar
In most photographs of the town it is the spire of the Evangelical Church of Christ which is most prominent. Ironically, the town's protestants weren't granted the freedom to practise their own faith until well into the 19th century and the church itself wasn't built until 1863. Call me a cynic but is it simply a coincidence that the protestant church sits directly beneath the Catholic Church?
The Evangelical Church Spire
The Catholic Church Spire
Catholic entrance…
… and inside
As the afternoon went on, the clouds started to lift
I'll tell you something. It is a nice place but you will not catch me here while it is being overrun with tourists.
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 27, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories AustriaTags Salzkammergut2 Comments on Hallstatt (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Bad Ischl (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Bad Ischl is a spa town with saline, iodine and sulphur springs which sits under Mount Katrin on the Traun River. It is some 30 miles east of Salzburg and just 10 miles east from Gschwand where we parked.
Our friend Gerhard was staying in Bad Ischl for a few weeks and a visit there gave us a chance to catch up with him and complete a number of routine tasks that were long overdue (find a jeweller capable of fixing some watches, stock up on dog food, general shopping before Austria's forthcoming National Day weekend and, most important, find Vanya some winter clothing which she had not brought along – hardly surprising since we had originally planned to be back in the UK some weeks ago). So it was that we set off to Bad Ischl.
It is a lovely little town full of old Imperial Grandeur. The Austrian Emperor (and King of Hungary), Franz Josef I was given a palace in Bad Ischl by his mother as a wedding gift when he married Elizabeth of Bavaria in 1854. This palace, subsequently named the Kaiservilla, became his summer residence and was used as such for the next 60 years. It was at the Kaiservilla on 28 July 1914 he wrote that fateful letter declaring war on Serbia which in turn started World War I- His letter has the Bad Ischl postmark on it. The Emperor left Bad Ischl the next day and never returned.
Enough history – Gerhard introduced us to a good jeweller (with whom we left our watches) and then took us on a whistle stop tour of the town…
The jeweller, Karl Rossman, has a small shop down by the River Traun. He did a great job, fixing two of the three watches that we left with him, at a very fair price.
Inside and around Bad Ischl – I love the clock with it's bells. The post office behind the white building in the second photo was originally built for the sole use of the Emperor. The monument in the third photo is one of many aspects of the town which celebrate the life of the Emperor and, in particular, his wife often known as Sisi.
Just two of many imposing buildings in Bad Ischl. The first is the beer hall – the other is a hotel.
The Church of St Nicholas is impressive inside and out. On more than one occasion Anton Bruckner played the organ inside the church for the Emperor.
Austria has a strong coffee house culture and, while Gerhard went off to attend to some business for a short while, Vanya and I took time out to visit the world famous Cafe-Restaurant Zauner for coffee and cakes. Established in 1832, the Konditorei Zauner was a great favourite of the Emperor Franz-Josef. It has since won numerous awards for both coffee and cakes and has even been immortalised on an Austrian postage stamp. The chocolate torte was wonderful.
We enjoyed a good Chinese meal that evening at the Asia Restaurant (with Tsingtao Beer and a glass of Gruner Veltliner) and agreed to return to Bad Ischl the next day for a further tour. Thanks Gerhard!
The next day, the weather was overcast and poor visibility precluded our ascending Mount Katrin in the cable car – not that Vanya could ever have been persuaded to make that particular 15 minute journey. Instead, we walked up the Siriuskogl (on the south side of Bad Ischl and just 20 minutes or so from the town centre) to an old wooden watchtower which provided good views down over the town but, more important, has an excellent little restaurant where we could get lunch.
It took no more than a 20 minute steep walk to get up the Siriuskogl to the watchtower
The views down over the town were fine but we were never going to see much else with all the cloud
Time for a couple of photos…
…and then lunch in the small restaurant. It's a cosy little restaurant with an incredibly powerful log burner that more than took the edge off the damp weather. The food, mine was the Fleisch Knodel (minced wild boar in dumplings served on a bed of crispy red cabbage infused with orange juice and beer), was fantastic; as was the local artisan beer.
After lunch it was time to move on. We were off on a short drive to beautiful Halstatt although, with the weather as it was, I wasn't convinced we would see it at its best.
A factoid: The author Roger Lewis lives in Bad Ischl. Amongst other things Roger Lewis writes biographies – "The Life and Death of Peter Sellars" (no prizes for guessing who that was about", "The Man Who was Private Widdle" (a biography of Charles Hawtrey from the Carry On films), "Anthony Burgess – A Biography" (about he who wrote A Clockwork Orange) and "The Real Life Of Laurence Olivier (I don't need to explain who Olivier is).
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 26, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories AustriaTags SalzkammergutLeave a comment on Bad Ischl (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Sankt Gilgen (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Saint Gilgen (Saint Giles in English) is a small town of less than 4,000 people at the Salzburg end of the Wolfgangsee, some 3 miles from where we were camped at Gschwand. Vanya wanted a rest day and I decided to walk the path besides the lake to Saint Gilgen for a look-see.
The views along the Wolfgangsee from St Gilgen are impressive
Saint Gilgen is really all about boat trips up and down the lake to St Wolfgang although the town also operates a cable car which for 28 euros will take you on a 16 minute ride up the Zwolferhorn Mountain. At 1,522 metres there ought to be some fine views from the summit over the Salzkammergut and it's many lakes but I can't say for sure because they had not long taken the old cable car out of operation and were testing a new one. I was advised it should be operational within the week. Timing is everything. Sadly, I didn't have time for the boat trip either because we had arranged to meet our friend, Gerhard, for dinner but; there was enough time to explore the town and enjoy a glass or two of Gruner Veltliner in one of the local bars.
The town is small and is focussed around two places; the pier (where the boats depart for St Wolfgang) and the Mozart Platz. Mozart's grandfather lived in St Gilgen, as did his mother (she was born there) and his sister (Maria Anna, better known as Nannerl). Wolfgang Amadeus never actually visited the place but the connection is plain to see and the town proudly celebrates the man and his works.
Directly in front of the town hall on Mozart Platz there is a statue of the man himself and; behind the town hall, down towards the pier, is the house where both his grandfather and (subsequently) his sister lived. It is now a museum dedicated to Mozart.
Time to get back to the Van for a shower. Wiener Schnitzel tonight.
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 25, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories AustriaTags SalzkammergutLeave a comment on Sankt Gilgen (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Schwand (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Arrived at a site, Paradiescamping Birkenstrand, at (G)Schwand on the Wolfgangsee (about 3 miles outside of Sankt Gilgen) which is amongst the best we have seen throughout the tour. It sits right on the lake and is clean and modern with everything you could want including a toilet block with underfloor heating… and all for 20 Euros.
Since Gerhard is currently staying in Bad Ischl just 15 kms away (and we hope to see him and Clare over the weekend) we have decided to stay on at Schwand and take in Sankt Gilgen, Bad Ischl and perhaps even Hallstatt. This latter town is reputedly the most beautiful village in Austria.
We arrived at Schwand late in the afternoon and had just enough time to quickly explore the local area before Gerhard joined us and took us to a fine restaurant in Gschwendt where we enjoyed a Wiener Schnitzel, the local beer and a nice Gruner Veltliner. We'll be buying a great deal more of the latter before we leave Austria.
The view over the Wolfgangsee from our site towards Sankt Gilgen
Our view in the other direction
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 24, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories AustriaTags SalzkammergutLeave a comment on Schwand (Salzkammergut), Austria October 2020
Villach (Carinthia), Austria October 2020
I recall staying near Villach last year, at a place called Ossiach, and making the 10 mile journey to Villach by bus to discover there was some kind of festival going on – the Villacher Kirchtag festival. I recall it was a very gay affair with many people dressed up in the national costume (lederhosen and dirndels) and numerous 'oompah' bands playing (almost competing with each other) and lots of beer was being drunk from about 9 o'clock in the morning. That was last August during Europe Tour 2 which I covered on Facebook but didn't do a daily blog on.
Some photos I took during last years visit to Villach.
The Villacher Kirchtag has been an event every year since 1936 (except between 1940 and 1947) and it is now a regional attraction that is known across Austria (and parts of Italy too judging by the number of Italian voices I heard last year). I don't know the significance of the festival or how it came about but it really is a fun affair. Sadly, because of the COVID pandemic and following the Austrian governments directive that no large event take place before the end of August 2020, the 77th Villacher Kirchtag did not take place in 2020. Next year perhaps.
Our visit to Villach this year happened purely and simply because Bled was almost totally closed because of COVID (see previous blog). Rather than search Slovenia for areas that were not categorised as COVID level 2 or 3 (shades of the lockdown which would close the bars) we decided to make the 33 mile drive to Austria knowing that we would at least be able to get out for a drink.
One feature worth mentioning is that police are now manning the borders between Italy, Slovenia and Austria because of COVID. Having said that, we haven't experienced any problems crossing borders. The Slovenians might have stopped us from entering (because we carry GB plates & passports and COVID is spiking in the UK) but because we have spent the last weeks in Italy we were okay. We were stopped too when crossing from Slovenia into Austria but again were waived through after explaining that we have been in Italy for several weeks and left Trieste that very morning. I trust we'll have no problems going forward.
We stayed in a basic but clean and pleasant camp site, Seecamping Plorz, overlooking Lake Ossiach. We had the site entirely to ourselves.
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 23, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories AustriaTags CarinthiaLeave a comment on Villach (Carinthia), Austria October 2020
Bled (Julian Alps), Slovenia October 2020
Bled was closed!
We arrived mid afternoon and parked the Van on an empty pay car park near where the 209 meets Kidriceva cesta (on the south east side of the lake) and then walked clockwise round the lake towards the town's centre, seeing very few people on the way.
First photo this tour of (a) the Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Maria and (b) Bled Castle
In the centre we saw even fewer people. With the exception of a small Mercado not far from where we had parked the Van, the casino, a health food store and one small restaurant doing take away food only, everything was closed. We couldn't get a drink anywhere, even in the local hotels. We walked from one hotel to another but most appeared to be boarded up; the only one showing any light had a sign up advising that only hotel residents would be served food and drink. It was unbelievable.
An elderly woman stopped to ask us about the dogs and I asked her why everything was shut. That started her off. In between slagging off the Croat tourists who had brought COVID to Bled and the Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, for letting them enter the country, she explained that COVID was rife and everywhere was on lockdown. She didn't stop at that but, to cut a long rant short, she politely suggested we find somewhere else in Slovenia that wasn't locked down and then apologised for leaving us saying that she had to get home. For what it is worth she wasn't wearing a face mask.
Having walked the entire 6 km circuit of the lake before meeting the lady, we decided to stock up on stores, pack up the Van and head off to Austria. Shame but Vanya has now been to Slovenia, seen Bled, walked all around the lake and the town (she covered 10 kms today) and taken countless stunning photographs of one of the prettiest places in Europe…Take a look for yourself…
There is more about Bled in the blog I made when I last visited the town in 2017 although in some respects the place has changed quite markedly. Certainly, the town has grown significantly and the lakeside has been further developed to cater for tourists. Indeed, work seems to be continuing in that regard.
Author DJmotortouringPosted on October 23, 2020 September 6, 2022 Categories SloveniaTags Upper CarniolaLeave a comment on Bled (Julian Alps), Slovenia October 2020


Special days have a way of sneaking up in our busy lives.
Young or old, married or single, we all have mothers, or hanai moms, in our lives who deserve some attention on Sunday, Mother's Day.
Here's an idea for how to celebrate: Holding a Mother's Day lunch — for your mother or for a group of them.
Because most mothers will be spending the day with their own children, you might consider having the event on Saturday and inviting all the moms and sorta-moms in your life.
Have the lunch at your house or pick it all up and take it to hers.
• Pick a theme or mood: Vietnamese, for instance. We've picked out a menu to illustrate how this theme could be carried out. It's from "Street Cafe Vietnam" by Annabel Jackson (Conran Octopus Press, London).
You can take this theme as far as you like, making it very ethnic, or simply using it to give a new twist to an American-style spring luncheon.
• Two or three days ahead: Shop for groceries, and/or order such things as summer rolls, baguettes and dessert (coconut cake) from a favorite Vietnamese restaurant and bakery such as Ba-Le or DeeLite Bakery.
Check your linen closet for spring-like napkins, placemats and tablecloths in lemon yellow, bright pink or electric blue. Mix them all together or with white.
Figure out which dishes you'll use for serving and put little stickie notes on them and leave them out.
Shop for small gifts for the mothers you've invited. Scented massage lotion (lemongrass scent) if she likes getting massages. Her own little gold box of gourmet chocolates from the Honolulu Chocolate Company. The latest pictures of her grandchildren framed. A pretty new address book.
• One day ahead: Set the table.
Buy and arrange fresh flowers or plants. You could re-pot colorful African violets in old teacups (with their saucers). Find odd, mismatched ones at a second-hand shop or just use small, inexpensive terracotta pots and group them for impact. Mix white or green orchids with roses or tulips in water glasses for a more exotic look.
Pick out CDs with songs Mom will love. Look for collections from her era.
Make as much of the food (such as the curry and salad prep) as you can ahead of time. Arrange to pick up what you can today if you've ordered out (or first thing on the morning of the luncheon).
• First thing on the day: Get up and eat something. We all have a tendency, when entertaining, to plunge into the work and end the day exhausted and starving. Do your kitchen prep — chopping or slicing, putting the rice in the rice cooker and so on.
Make sure the white wine or champagne is chilled and the kir makings are out on the counter or a separate table. You can serve sparkling water, iced tea or sparking cider for those who don't drink. Or offer fresh-squeezed orange juice with ginger ale, lots of ice and a dash of bitters.
• One hour before: Get dressed and put on some music. If you ordered a cake, decorate it with fresh spring flowers and place it on a cake plate (it could double as your centerpiece).
• Immediately before: Saute the clams and set out the pupu crackers. Push the button on the rice cooker. After people arrive and are diving into the drinks and pupu, reheat the curry, toss the salad.
Summer rolls can be served as pupu, or added to the luncheon buffet.
When you are ready to serve, place it all out on a side table or altar table and have fun.
Pour 1 teaspoon cassis into the bottom of a chilled champagne flute. Add 1 teaspoon of lime juice and top with white wine. Place a sliver of lime peel on the top and serve. Serves 5.
Grill or lightly bake the crackers until they are crisp and beginning to brown. Cool and store in an airtight container or zippered plastic bag. In a frying pan, heat the oil and saute the garlic for about 1 minute.
Add the clams and saute for 2 minutes, stirring. Add the sugar, half the Thai basil, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring for another minute. Sprinkle the clams with the remaining herbs and the sesame seeds. Serve the crackers with the warm clams. Serves 2 to 4.
In a saucepan, heat the oil and fry the potatoes until lightly browned. Drain and set aside. Heat a little oil in the pan and saute the shallots and lemongrass, garlic and chilies until soft.
Add the curry powder and stir for about 2 minutes. Add the chicken and stir until it is opaque. Add the potatoes, salt, coconut milk and chicken stock.
Bring to a boil, cover and simmer gently for about 30 minutes. Garnish with Thai basil leaves.


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Q: Generating HmacSHA256 signature in JUnit I'm trying to sign my message to Amazon AWS (inside JUnit test), but I encountered a problem.
Here's the code I'm using:
String secretAccessKey = "secret1234678901";
SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(secretAccessKey.getBytes(UTF-8), "HmacSHA256");
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance(this.MAC_ALGO);
mac.init(keySpec); // here it breaks
byte[] encoded = mac.doFinal(
    request.toString().getBytes(this.CHARSET));
return Base64.encodeBase64URLSafeString(encoded);

In the line marked (mac.init(...)) java throws exception:
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.crypto.provider.HmacSHA1 cannot be cast to javax.crypto.MacSpi
    at javax.crypto.Mac.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Mac.init(DashoA13*..)

Do you know why it happens? All the codes I've seen on the net look almost exactly like this, I also tried with HmacSHA1, with same results.

A: Sorry I didn't add everything. The code above was tested using junit and powermockito. But powermockito can't enhance javax.crypto classes so I had to add @PowerMockIgnore("javax.crypto.*") to the junit.

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Post (Paul Kelly album)
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Having delegated authority for .post, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) develops, implements and monitors governance rules for it. It is also responsible for attributing domain names for postal-sector stakeholders who meet the eligibility criteria.
The UPU, based in Bern, Switzerland, became the first United Nations organization to be granted the right to operate a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) by ICANN in 2004, in the first group of new TLD applications evaluated in 2004. The UPU was the only organization to pass all criteria by ICANN as a truly representative organization to sponsor a top-level domain.
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Post is a city in and the county seat of Garza County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,376 at the 2010 census.
Post is located on the edge of the caprock escarpment of the Llano Estacado, the southeastern edge of the Great Plains. It is at the crossroads of U.S. Routes 84 and 380.
The land belonged to John Bunyan Slaughter, as it was on his U Lazy S Ranch. In 1906, Slaughter sold it to Charles William (C. W.) Post, the breakfast cereal manufacturer, who founded "Post City" as a utopian colonizing venture in 1907. Post devised the community as a model town. He purchased 200,000 acres (810 km2) of ranchland and established the Double U Company to manage the town's construction. The company built trim houses and numerous structures, which included the Algerita Hotel, a gin, and a textile plant. They planted trees along every street and prohibited alcoholic beverages and brothels. The Double U Company rented and sold farms and houses to settlers. A post office began in a tent during the year of Post City's founding, being established (with the name Post) July 18, 1907, with Frank L. Curtis as first postmaster. Two years later, the town had a school, a bank, and a newspaper, the Post City Post, the same name as the daily in St. Louis, Missouri. The Garza County paper today is called the Post Dispatch. The railroad reached the town in 1910. The town changed its name to "Post" when it incorporated in 1914, the year of C. W. Post's death. By then, Post had a population of 1000, 10 retail businesses, a dentist, a physician, a sanitarium, and Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.
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Post is the first solo album by Australian singer-songwriter rock musician, Paul Kelly. Kelly had moved to Sydney by January 1985, after leaving his Melbourne-based Paul Kelly Band and the breakup of his marriage to Hilary Brown.
The album was produced by Clive Shakespeare (Sherbet guitarist) and Kelly, and was released in May 1985 by the independent White Records label, leased to Mushroom Records. The album failed to chart in Australia, with only one single, "From St Kilda to Kings Cross", released in April which also failed to chart. The name of the album, Post relates to both being 'after' significant changes in Kelly's life and to the sense of a 'signpost' to future directions. Kelly dedicated the album to Paul Hewson, keyboardist and songwriter for New Zealand/Australian band Dragon who had died of a heroin overdose in January. Kelly has described Post as a concept album dealing with addictions - not necessarily heroin addiction - but various forms, he has also denied that the songs were autobiographical but that he wrote about the world around him.
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Who Da Best, KRS-One
Odpust, Visaci Zamek
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Wie Du Bist, Max Herre
Who Da Best
[KRS-One:]
Time to clear out the bullshit!
We ain't gon' never give up this type of sound
I know what y'all, what y'all after
We ain't never leaving this space right here!
This is what it is
When we took the vow "I am Hip Hop"
This is what we swore to defend, this
Welcome to the Lyrical Ass Beating
I'm not in a mansion or a yacht
I'm right on your black man speaking, I keep teaching
Cats be like "How he still eating? "
Cause I build on skills that never weaken
I ripped a club just last weekend
Y'all sitting around playing XBox and internet freaking
Then you want to get what I got? You want to get in my spot?
You want to click, click and hold on my Glock?
Nah player get your own pistol
My arms become dealers when I'm holding up that mic missile
Stay back with your rap, it might clip you
I use smart mics, my words will hit you
As you can see I'm much realer
When the mic weapon is in my arm, I become that rap arms dealer
So who da best? Who da best out here?
Who claiming the crown when KRS out here
Who da best motherfucker today? My fans are here to stay
Sixteen albums, not one of my producers were fake
Who da freshest motherfucker in rap?
You better dig in your crates, who lives what they state?
Who's the most consistent to date?
If you're talking 2Pac or B.I.G. you late (KRS!)
I ain't got a Maybach but I takes it way back
Knowledge reigns supreme, watch how you say that
I slept where the World Trade at
Right at ground zero's where my head laid at
New York is where I'm raised at
When it comes to Hip Hop, we made that
We can never trade that, for any payback
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Episode 106: Cyber Security Monitoring & Incident Response with Pascal Ackerman
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Pascal Ackerman
This week's Pipeliners Podcast episode features cybersecurity expert Pascal Ackerman of ThreatGEN discussing security monitoring and incident response relevant to the pipeline industry.
In this episode, you will learn about the WannaCry ransomware attack, how to use tools to help prevent viruses in your network, the importance of getting the architecture right and maintaining that architecture over time, and more topics.
Cyber Security Monitoring: Show Notes, Links, and Insider Terms
Pascal Ackerman is a Principal Analyst in Industrial Threat Intelligence & Forensics and the author of Industrial Cybersecurity. Pascal is also part of the ThreatGEN team. Connect with Pascal on LinkedIn.
ThreatGEN is a virtual reality (VR) industrial cyber-physical range for physical threat response training, process improvement, and team events.
ICS (Industrial Control Systems) encompass the control systems and instrumentation used for industrial automation and process control. These systems are used in oil & gas and other key industries.
Network Traps use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) on a system network to duplicate traffic packets.
SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management System) provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware
I/O (Input/Output) Network is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, possibly a human or another information processing system.
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is a system of software and technology that allows pipeliners to control processes locally or at remote location. SCADA breaks down into two key functions: supervisory control and data acquisition. Included is managing the field, communication, and control room technology components that send and receive valuable data, allowing users to respond to the data.
WannaCry ransomware attack was a May 2017 worldwide cyberattack by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It propagated through EternalBlue, an exploit discovered by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for older Windows systems.
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ISO image is a disk image of an optical disc. In other words, it is an archive file that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, sector by sector, including the optical disc file system.
APT (Advanced Persistent Threats) is a stealthy computer network threat actor, typically a nation-state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period.
Ransomware is a type of malware from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.
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Cyber Security Monitoring: Full Episode Transcript
Russel Treat: Welcome to the Pipeliners Podcast, episode 106, sponsored by EnerSys Corporation, providers of POEMS, the Pipeline Operations Excellence Management System, SCADA compliance, and operations software for the pipeline control center. Find out more about POEMS at enersyscorp.com.
Announcer: The Pipeliners Podcast, where professionals, Bubba geeks, and industry insiders share their knowledge and experience about technology, projects, and pipeline operations. And now your host, Russel Treat.
Russel: Thanks for listening to the Pipeliners Podcast. I appreciate you taking the time, and to show that appreciation, we give away a customized YETI tumbler to one listener each episode. This week, our winner is Michael Burton with BP Pipelines. Congratulations, Michael, your YETI is on its way. To learn how you can win this signature prize pack, stick around 'til the end of the episode.
This week, Pascal Ackerman is returning to the Pipeliners Podcast to talk to us about cyber security monitoring and incident response. Pascal, welcome back to the Pipeliners Podcast.
Pascal Ackerman: Thank you. Thank you for having me again.
Russel: I wanted to follow up on our conversation last time, and in particular, I wanted to talk about security monitoring and incident response. Just to tee us off, I want to ask you the question, what is security monitoring?
Pascal: Security monitoring is basically all of the technologies and all of the efforts you put into keeping an eye out on your systems, specifically for something going wrong. Security monitoring could be a firewall that's reporting something going wrong.
It could be an intrusion detection system, and ICS, that says, "Hey, I'm seeing bad traffic." But it could also be a person sitting out on the production floor or in the operator station and telling you, "Hey, my computer is doing weird stuff. Can you take a look at it?"
All of that combined gives you an overview of the security posture, the stance of your security, the way it's implemented, and how well it works.
Russel: One of the things that you had mentioned in our previous podcast is that you believe that the monitoring is probably the most important part of an overall cyber security implementation. I wonder if you might tell us why you believe that to be so.
Pascal: From experience, I've noticed that the business we operate in, the technology we implement by itself often doesn't apply for security features or security extras very well.
These devices were designed with controls and operations in mind, and they don't have the overhead and resources to do the extra computation for authentication, for example, as well as the environment they're in. They don't lend themselves too well to be more secure in traditional ways.
A lot of times, it's also resources from a personnel perspective. You don't have the downtime, you don't have the people to implement patches to do all this stuff, so the next best thing you can do is keep an eye on stuff.
For example, you have a system that's been neglected for a while, but you just don't have the time or the money to fix it. Put a monitor on it, so if something does try to compromise it, if something does weird happens from it, you at least know this and then you can take action before it becomes a big problem.
Russel: I always try to come up with physical analogies for cyber security because I think it makes it easier for people that are not familiar with all of the electronics and the buzzwords and the software magic, if you will, that occurs.
The way I view this is doing an assessment is just understanding where I'm keeping all my valuables and then another portion of that would be doing security, which is kind of like putting locks on all the doors, if you will.
All of that's good, but if I've got something highly valuable, even if it's well locked inside a door and somebody wants it, if I'm not keeping an eye on it, somebody could come crack those locks, get in, and run off with my stuff.
I think the monitoring piece is really critical if you really want to keep things secure. Otherwise, how do you know until after the damage has been done? And then I'm just doing clean-up. I'm not actually preventing the bad outcome.
Pascal: That's so true. I'm taking note of your analogies because I'm going to use them later on. I really like them.
Russel: Good. Glad to help.
Pascal: That's exactly the point. How do you know if something is secure or not secure if you don't keep your eyes on it? We do the same with flows. We do the same with temperatures. We don't just rely on the control to make sure that our temperature is stable. We keep our eyes on it.
We put trending charts on it. We put some person on who's dedicated to watching those screens to make sure that our processes are functioning properly.
Russel: How do I keep my eyes on a computer software system or a computer network? What does that look like? What are the things I do to keep my eyes on things?
Pascal: The most effective way of doing that nowadays is to put an agent on either the network or an agent on the client itself. So you have a computer system, the agent will look at entries for files, see if there's new files or modified files coming, keep an eye on network connections that might be coming in.
Apart from that, if we cannot touch the end device directly, we look at traffic on the network and this can be passive. We can install Network Traps. That's basically an area of the network where you duplicate every single traffic packet that comes by.
You start inspecting it with specialized software and then the software can tell us the inventory, everything that it sees on the network, but it can also tell us anomalies it sees.
For example, somebody is trying to use a password over and over again on different machines or on the same machine, it's going to pop up with an alarm because it sees it in network traffic packets.
Russel: Right. To me, that's a really fascinating technology, and I know that there's people that are using analytical approaches to this. But the idea that through software I can monitor and see things that are unusual or unexpected — those kinds of things can be extraordinarily helpful. But that stuff has got to go someplace, right?
Pascal: Yeah. Like with everything, just because you now have something in place that monitors it that doesn't mean that you're safe because somebody has to look at it. It's the same with everything we do. If somebody isn't responsible for following up on findings then it's useless technology.
Russel: Yeah, to me, again, using a physical analogy, if I put cameras around my house and I capture lots of footage about everything that goes on around my house that in and of itself is not of any value.
Likewise, if I have to sit and watch all that footage that's kind of problematic too because I actually have a life to live and a job to go to, so I need something that helps me.
What a lot of people do or what a lot of systems do now is they incorporate motion detection with the cameras, and with the motion detection, they send a notification.
People have probably seen the commercials where somebody rings the doorbell, and then via a phone application, they're answering the door without actually opening the door as if they were home.
That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here where somebody gets notified when something weird is going on and then they look into it to figure out what's going on.
Pascal: In the cyber realm, there's a product for that. It's called a SIEM, or a Security Incident and Event Management System. It basically sits on an I/O network and it collects all of these logs, all of these events, and it goes through and then it puts analytics on there.
If it sees something weird, it sends out an email, so you no longer need somebody to constantly look at the events. But somebody will receive an alert by email or by text message that something's going on and then you have the means in place to go back and look at that incident.
Yeah, that's a new technology for the ICS environment. It's been used for a while now on IT. It's invaluable because once you start looking at stuff, you'll notice really quick there's a lot. You have events coming from everywhere.
Russel: Trying to manually monitor things like that, I view that as virtually impossible. It's just too much data. There's no way to go through it all.
Pascal: Yeah, absolutely.
Russel: Obviously, monitoring is important and there's tools and things out there that I can use. What happens when the monitor says, "Hey, you need to look at this?"
Pascal: That depends on, of course, what it is monitoring and what the reports are about. Most of the time, there's going to have to be some research behind what did we just see to rule out that it was a false positive or a false negative in the first place.
So you make a strategy on what you're going to do next and then you're going to have to go out there and actually address the finding.
For example, a vulnerability that's been picked up, it could be that it's on a system that you cannot touch for the next year because you're running a certain process, but you have to put a plan in place to eventually address that.
Or, as people might do, you mitigate the risk by accepting it. We know that that happens, and you look at the surrounding risk involved with it.
Let's say the vulnerability is that a certain port is accessible from the network. You might decide not to address it, but to put an extra monitor in place that says if anything tries to connect to through that port then I get another alert in my inbox.
Russel: Yeah, exactly. I guess what I'm trying to lead to and I'm thinking through as we're talking is at one level, I get alerts and I analyze alerts and then I take appropriate action about those alerts, which I would see as mitigation activity.
Pascal: It depends on the alert. Sometimes it's mitigation, or sometimes it's just mopping up because you're already too late because the attack happened.
And even the monitoring system informed you, but you're already too late because the system was compromised and you're going to have to do an incident response at that point.
Russel: Yeah, and that's really the thing I wanted to talk about next. I happen to be aware of a couple of oil and gas operators that within the last six months or so lost complete use of their SCADA systems because of a ransomware attack. They didn't know they had a problem until control systems quit working.
I just wanted to ask you, do you see those kinds of things escalating?
Pascal: Yes. Unfortunately, probably 90 percent of it, the vector that the attack occurred was in such a way it could have been detected and prevented before it hit the ICS or the control system. A lot of these will start in the enterprise, in the business systems.
I've seen many of them start on the active directory, on the domain side of an enterprise, and then eventually the operators or the attackers make it into what they call the domain controller.
They manipulate that in such a way that it starts spreading ransomware. Because all these systems are connected, it spreads down to the ICS system and you get a total compromise.
Russel: My experience with ransomware is more the spearfishing stuff where you get the email that looks like it's legitimate and it asks you to click on something, and you click on something and that opens up a vector to take an attack.
But what you're talking about is not that type of thing. It's more of a hacker gaining access at one point and then using that to contaminate a broader network. Am I understanding that correctly?
Pascal: Absolutely. You're putting the two types of attacks right in place. So the one is the drive-by. Somebody picks up a piece of malware or ransomware from the Internet and it spreads around on the network.
The other one we call a targeted attack where somehow your systems were compromised to begin with, and they use that leverage to pivot into your environment.
They've been sitting there for an X amount of time. The attack by itself is not geared towards putting ransomware out there, but the ransomware is basically a goodbye note.
They make sure by putting it on your systems, they wipe out any trace because what better way to hide evidence than to destroy it.
Russel: That's interesting.
Pascal: Those kinds of attacks are the most devastating, in my opinion. Sure, if you get a particularly well-written piece of malware like WannaCry a couple of years ago, it's very devastating.
But knowing that these operators have been in your system, have poked around for who knows how long, and then finally they decided to leave you with a big mess, I think that's more devious than anything else.
Russel: I'm not aware of anybody actually paying the ransom.
Pascal: I hope not because we're just helping them at that point.
Russel: Yeah. Generally, it's pull out all the infected equipment and either scrub it and rebuild it or buy new equipment and rebuild it. But in either case, it's a rebuild everything from scratch kind of thing.
Pascal: I agree. That should always be your way to go. Because even if you paid the ransom, what's preventing them from coming back and using the same infection over again and coming back for more ransom money?
Russel: Yeah. So what do you do when you discover something like that? We're talking about incident response, but really, what do you do?
Pascal: The most important thing, and that's what most people fail at, is don't panic. Don't start pulling plugs, shutting stuff down, rebuilding it. Make sure that you keep enough evidence to do forensics afterward.
Leave systems turned on, but unplug them from the network. If you have the means, start rebuilding your system from fresh hardware. So get new servers in. Install operating systems from the original install disk and start from scratch.
By all means, try not to get rid of the evidence. That's going to be very important later on if we decide we want to do forensics on this stuff and find out maybe even the key.
Maybe we can find the decryption key and get some data back. But as soon as you start rebuilding systems and reformatting hard drives, you're losing very critical evidence.
Russel: Yeah, well, that's certainly true. I guess the thing, as you're talking, that I'm thinking about is a lot these, particularly the smaller operators, they don't have the resources or the wherewithal really to do the forensics.
They've just got to get their operations back under control, up and operating and being monitored versus trying to protect machines and do forensics and all that. Those activities are complicated and can be expensive is certainly my experience.
Pascal: Yes, most smaller companies will either just rebuild and cut their losses, or they bring in an external company to help them with the forensics.
If anything, if you do nothing else, start from scratch. That's always my advice because you don't know what else was on that system. There could be any type of malware on there.
So always make sure you format your hard drive, you start from a known, secure medium. Even backups, depending on how long an attacker's been on your network, your backups can be compromised as well.
Russel: Exactly.
Pascal: You've got to assess what happened, what kind of attacker did we have on there, and then go back to a known state that you know you weren't infected yet, if you can completely prove that, or start from scratch. Get new install CDs, get new ISO images from the Internet that have your operating system, install your control software — everything from scratch; do it that way.
It's not a pleasant operation. I've done a few of them, and it's cost me a lot of hours to do it, but it is the only guaranteed way to make sure that you're completely clean again.
Russel: Yeah, I think you're making a couple of points that I kind of notionally understood but you're clarifying them for me. One, if I discover an attack, the bad actors have probably been poking around in my network for a while.
They probably didn't deploy an attack immediately after they gained access. They probably poked around for a while, which means anything that I restore as a backup or anything else I'm at risk of just giving them access again.
Pascal: Correct, yes, again, depending…
Russel: That's not a pleasant thought, Pascal.
Pascal: [laughs] And that's where forensics, or at least high-level forensics comes into play. So prove out what kind of attack you had. When WannaCry came out, it was quickly really clear what kind of attack it was.
It wasn't a targeted hacker who's been on your systems for a while. It was a piece of malware that used any kinds of means to spread through your network and cause mayhem.
So that's what you do. You look at the attack, you decide, okay, this was a drive-by, I'm not too concerned, or this was something targeted and I have to be very concerned.
Russel: Again, every time I talk to Pascal, yourself, or someone else I know that's a cyber security guy, I'm always learning stuff.
Pascal: I'm always learning stuff, too. That's just the nature of the beast.
Russel: But the idea that part of your immediate incident response should be some kind of high-level forensics and preliminary analysis and assessment to determine if you need to do something more detailed, I hadn't thought about it that way, but that certainly makes sense to me versus not doing anything and just rebuilding.
Pascal: Exactly.
Russel: Even if I rebuild a system, and I install fresh software — or restore my app, or I restore backed up data — I'm running the risk of putting the infection back into the system.
Pascal: And not only that, you're probably alarmed whoever was attacking you that you're on to them, unless they're already gone. But then they know, "Hey, we need to change our tactics," and it might come back in a different way and attack you again.
Russel: What's the motivation behind these attackers?
Pascal: It depends on who's attacking you. You have opportunity attackers who put in ransomware just to get your money out. Then you have state-sponsored attackers from China or Russia or whoever the other popular flavor is this month. They will go in and they will look for proprietary information for secret recipes.
There are known attackers, they call them APTs, or advanced persistent threats, who infiltrate systems just to be able to sit there and disrupt operations at some point for some reason.
Russel: Yeah. I guess if I'm competing with somebody, and I can steal their technology and then slow their ability to get a release out, I can beat them to market with their product.
Pascal: There you go. In all honesty, those are the kind of stories that people tell you to buy their products and to make you scared. Most of these attacks, they start with an opportunistic attack — somebody going to the wrong website and picking up a piece of malware that opens up a port that somebody picks up on.
They're curious to see what's going around. They poke and probe to the point that they break something and that's when you notice this.
From all of these attacks, from all of these ransomware outbreaks, there's only 10 percent that are really targeted attacks.
Russel: Right. I guess the summary here is monitor, make sure you've got some kind of mechanism to proactively alert people that can respond and mitigate and head things off.
And when you do have an incident, disconnect whatever you know that's infected from the network and do some level of forensic analysis to determine where you need to go from there.
Pascal: Yes, and that can be as simple as looking at the ransomware itself. So if you take the executable and you upload it to something called VirusTotal — it's virustotal.com — it will tell you what kind of ransomware it is and how it propagates and that's important.
For example, like I said before, WannaCry has the mechanisms to self propagate, so it can jump from system to system. But an incident response I was performing awhile back, they had a piece of malware that didn't auto propagate. It had to be installed and started by a person.
That difference tells a lot of details because if you have something that has to be installed by a person, that means that there was an attacker actually actively starting that on your system.
If you have something that's self-propagating, it could have come into your system in any way and just jump from system to system.
Russel: Yeah, and that goes to why the forensics are important even if you're doing something fairly fundamental because there are entities out there that full time are categorizing and logging and analyzing all these various types of tools and bots and stuff that these nefarious actors use.
Pascal: Yeah, and I can give two good resources in the show notes for the listeners. They are VirusTotal and AlienVaults OTX systems.
You basically go there with either the executable itself or a hash value, which is a computational value on the executable, and you can find all kinds of resources, all kinds of details about that. That's always the very first step I do when I'm involved with a new piece of malware.
Russel: Right. Interesting. If we're going to wrap this up, I guess there's a lot of people out there, probably more than we realize, they're running these automation and control systems and really don't have a lot of exposure to the details of cyber security and the threat and the mechanisms that are available.
If you were going to say here's two or three things that I'd tell you that everybody needs to know about cyber security, what would that be?
Pascal: Make sure your architecture is up to date. If nothing else, your architecture allows for looking at network packets, doing packet inspection. Make sure you have a comfortable setup to look at alarms and make sure you actually look at these things. Those are my three most critical points to point out.
Russel: Well, you know what, that sounds really easy, Pascal, but I know enough to know that's not easy to do.
Pascal: [laughs] No, that is not. Getting to the point where you can actually look at these events is probably fairly complicated depending on how your architecture is laid out right now. A lot of the companies I've been involved with, they have pockets of automation or pockets of network systems where they have a switch, they go, "Oh, that's handy to put here. And now, I can hook up all of these things."
But that doesn't give you the visibility for that particular area, so getting your architecture to actually report on all of these findings is probably the hardest part.
Russel: Yeah. I know too that particularly when you go look at the smaller operators and those that are quickly building new stuff, or quickly acquiring stuff, the level of complexity around doing this and doing it well grows exponentially.
Pascal: Yes, absolutely.
Russel: So getting the architecture right and maintaining that architecture over time, very, very important.
Pascal: Yes.
Russel: All right. Well, look, Pascal, this has been helpful. I've certainly learned some things today, and I very much appreciate you coming back on the podcast. We'll certainly have you back again as time moves forward.
Pascal: I'm looking forward to it, thank you.
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After years of slowly gaining traction, telemedicine exploded during the pandemic. Now companies are using that momentum to usher in the next wave of remote health, by moving beyond just chats with doctors to a high-tech world of healthcare access without leaving the home.
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One company rethinking televisits is Tyto Care, an on-demand medical exam company that aims to replicate in-person visits with home medical kits. CEO and co-founder Dedi Gilad came up with the concept eight years ago when his daughter suffered from recurring ear and throat infections. "I found myself doing a lot of unnecessary travels to the pediatrician to really take care of her," he told CNN. "And then the thinking was, how can I make this entire interaction from home?"
Tyto Care kits allow doctors to remotely monitor symptoms in a patient's ears, heart, lungs, and throat, as well as take basic vital signs. The devices, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, have small built-in cameras so doctors can virtually see inside the ears or throat, and help identify cardiovascular respiratory conditions.
While the kits were originally developed for pediatric use, interest among adults surged during the pandemic. Gilad said demand for Tyto Care's home diagnostic kits among consumers increased 500% — and 400% by physicians — in recent months and has been used by 350,000 patients to date.
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