SATAN, SAINT, SANTA and the demonisation of hacking tools, car testing and TIKTOK does something right. Thom dedicates this episode to his Mother and apologises for forgetting Mother's Day. These two statements are in no way related.
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This week in Infosec
Tweet of the Week
Billy Big Balls
Rant of the week
Industry News
There is no Little People, there has never been a Little People
Will we have a Sticky Pickle of the Week?
This Week in InfoSec
(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):
Fun fact: @neilhimself drew the tool's documentation artwork.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-01-fi-37458-story.html
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1240452423778308097
Rant of the Week
Check Point says it is seeing a doubling in ProxyLogon exploitation attempts every few hours.
Please, red teamers, explain it to us like we're 5 how releasing PoCs for highly-dangerous bugs too early doesn't help threat actors
We're listening!
Blaming red teamers is already an inaccurate statement as it's typically security researchers who publish these.
It was already actively exploited with hundreds of thousands of already compromised systems with little to no direction from Microsoft.
Yet offsec is to blame?
https://twitter.com/HackingDave/status/1370424240801996809?s=20
Billy Big Balls
TIKTOK INTRODUCES NEW ‘KINDNESS’ FEATURES AS IT URGES PEOPLE TO BE NICER TO EACH OTHER
TikTok has introduced new features in an attempt to make its users be “kinder” to each other.
They include a new prompt that will attempt to spot cruel comments and advise people to reconsider their posts before they are sent.
Video creators will also be able to filter comments – removing any comments at all, unless the owner of the video approves them.
That feature is called “filter all comments” and TikTok said it was an extension of existing tools that look out for “spam and offensive comments” so they can be filtered out, as well as a feature that allows for the hiding of specific keywords.
[That was this week's BILLY BIG BALLS]
Our source on probation over at the Infosec PA newswire has been very busy bringing us the latest and greatest security news from around the globe!
Industry News
Encrypted Comms Firm Denies Police Cracked User Messages
Encrypted Comms CEO Indicted in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
Exchange Exploit Attempts Surge Sixfold as Ransomware Lands
OVH Data Center Fire Impacts Cyber-criminals
UK Nurseries Get First Official Cyber-Attack Warning
Twitter Updates 2FA to Enable Use of Multiple Security Keys
Dropbox to Make Password Manager Feature Free for All Users
Security Consultant Indicted on Cyberstalking Charges
Mom Charged in Deepfake Cheerleading Plot
Javvad’s Weekly Stories
https://mashable.com/article/joe-biden-green-screen-conspiracy-debunked/?europe=true
https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfake-elon-musk-zoom-meetings
Tweet of the Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/hacking-cars-cybersecurity.html
https://twitter.com/WeldPond/status/1372530409536380931
Sticky Pickle of the Week
Theree is no Sticky Pickle of the Week