Episode 167 - The Sweaty B***s Episode

This week in InfoSec (08:18)

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield

13th September 2011: Backup tapes containing info on 4.9 million TRICARE military health care customers were stolen from an SAIC employee's parked car which a burglar broke into by breaking a vent window.  

TRICARE Breach Affects 4.9 Million

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1701936923579732231

12th September 2001: MafiaBoy (Michael Calce) was sentenced in Canada to 8 months of open custody, 1 year of probation, and restricted Internet use for crimes related to DoS attacks he performed against numerous high profile websites at age 15 the year prior.

Cyber Attacks

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1701628591262302571

Rant of the Week (17:27)

[Responsible disclosure?  Even close competitors share threat intel]:

https://twitter.com/vegasstarfish/status/1702076730075492739 - video in link too

Billy Big Balls of the Week (25:21)

10 years ago, Apple finally convinced us to lock our phones

Every phone you pick up today has a fingerprint scanner, a face scanner, an option for PINs with four, six, or more digits, and often all of them at once. Phones prompt you to set up a scan and a passcode the first time you turn them on, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t have some form of security set up.

But go back just 10 years, and the story was very different. Back when our phones were still used almost entirely as phones and not teeny personal computers, most of the “locking” features on mobile devices were designed more to prevent you from butt-dialing anyone than to protect your sensitive information.

It wasn’t until the iPhone 5S came along — 10 years ago this month — that everything changed.

It just goes to show how much of an innovator and an investor in security Apple always has been. 

They removed the headphone jack and called it courage…

Just a couple of days ago they pushed the boundaries of innovation even more and introduced USB C to the latest iphones. Now that’s real courage

Industry News  (34:29)

Ransomware Attack Wipes Out Sri Lankan Government Data

Europol: Financial Crime Makes “Billions” and Impacts “Millions”

Cyber-criminals “Jailbreak” AI Chatbots For Malicious Ends

UK ICO and NCSC Set to Share Anonymized Threat Intelligence

MGM Criticized for Repeated Security Failures

New Microsoft Teams Phishing Campaign Targets Corporate Employees

Lazarus Group Blamed For $53m Heist at CoinEx

Elon Musk in Hot Water With FTC Over Twitter Privacy Issues

Manchester Police Officers’ Data Breached in Third-Party Attack

Tweet of the Week (41:54)

https://x.com/Marlebean/status/1308858471106871298?s=20

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