The Host Unknown Podcast

Episode 173 - The Are We Still Doing This Episode

Episode Summary

This Week in InfoSec proves Macs don't get viruses Rant of the Week contains naked pictures Billy Big Balls is about your car snooping on you Industry news brings you the latest and greatest infosec news stories from around the globe, and Tweet of the Week is an attack on the American financial system

Episode Notes

This Week in InfoSec (05:41) 

2002: In response to a report which insinuated Mac is less vulnerable than Windows, Microsoft suggested few focus on discovering Mac vulnerabilities and that products with more customers will have more vulnerabilities reported.

https://t.co/WOUUDOB0g6

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https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1721895407545143382?s=20

 

Rant of the Week (11:09)

Photos of naked patients and medical records have been posted online by extortionists who hacked a Las Vegas plastic surgery, driving victims to file a lawsuit claiming not enough care was taken to protect their private information.

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/women-sue-plastic-surgery-after-hack-saw-their-naked-photos-posted-online/

  

Billy Big Balls of the Week (20:48)

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuitalleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

 

Industry News (29:28) 

SentinelOne to acquire cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group

NATO allies express support for collective response to cyberattacks

Council for Scottish islands faces IT outage after ‘incident’

Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper using alternative payment options after cyberattack

Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ darknet marketplace

Japan Aviation Electronics says servers accessed during cyberattack

 

Tweet of the Week (42:39)

https://twitter.com/j4vv4d/status/1722916507653394575?s=61&t=0s-EyC1T6uSS3Lo_cyqI4w