The Host Unknown Podcast Episode 40 - Mathematics Isn't Our Strong Point
This week in Infosec
19th January 2012: US federal authorities shut down /Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads, and arrested its leaders. Hours later, the hacktivist collective Anonymous, knocked the US Department of Justice website offline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Megaupload
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1219086142428999681?s=20
25th January 2003: The SQL Slammer worm was first observed. Slammer spread to the vast majority of all vulnerable hosts worldwide in 10 minutes. Yes, 10 minutes.
Though Microsoft released MS02-039 to patch the buffer overflow vuln in SQL Server six months earlier, many orgs hadn't patched.
https://www.wired.com/2003/07/slammer/
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1221132001501007873?s=20
Tweet of the Week
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bbc-wales-today-viewers-gobsmacked-23391438
https://twitter.com/Lovehoney/status/1354378061635063809?s=20
https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status/1354514912299593729/photo/1
Industry News
More Malware May Be Lurking on Govt School Laptops
Russian Government Agency Warns Firms of US Attack
Misconfigured Cloud Server Exposes 66,000 Gamers
TikTok Bug Gave Access to Contacts’ Profile Details
UK Spies Called on to Help in Fraud Fight
Manufacturing Giant Suffers Major Cyber-Disruption
More Security Vendors Admit to SolarWinds Attacks
Consumers Falling for $100m Clone Firm Scams
Remote Workers Could Offer Brexit Britain Cybersecurity Lifeline
Javvad’s Weekly Stories
Fears over cyber crime tool that can build phishing pages in real-time
Should We Be Cautious About Law Enforcement Requests for Digital Data?
Nefilim Ransomware Gang Hits Jackpot with Ghost Account
Laptops handed out by Department of Education found laced with malware
Billy Big Balls
The greatest pyramid scheme of 2021 so far...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55841719
https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1354482558147448835?s=20
Thom: Financial industry wrecks entire economy
Jav: "we must bail them out"
Thom: Senators do insider trading
Andy: "nothing we can do"
Thom: Covid shuts everything down
Jav: "bail out big company stocks with $4 trillion"
Thom: Random people do a stonk on reddit
Andy: "halt trading & bail out hedge funds they bankrupted"
Sticky Pickle of the Week
In October 2020, Kanye West bought Kim Kardashian West a hologram of her late father, Robert Kardashian, to celebrate her 40th birthday, bringing to the wealthy the idea of digital representations of the dead that can more authentically communicate with the living.
The hologram spoke for around three minutes, directly addressing Kardashian and her decision to become a lawyer “and carry on my legacy”.
Imagine you had a bank balance like Jav, and you wanted to do something for your loved ones when you’ve departed this life, how on earth do you get started with a trusted company to preserve your legacy?
What would you do in this situation?
This is what someone else is doing...
Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the company to make a chatbot using the personal information of deceased people.
The patent describes creating a bot based on the “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages”, and more personal information.
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