This week in Infosec takes us back to the earliest reported spam complaint (probably older than you realise) Rant of the week tells another story of big tech chipping away at privacy like it’s no big deal Billy Big Balls this week sees Norton doing something either really smart or really stupid, we haven’t made our minds up yet Industry News brings us the latest and greatest infosec news from around the globe Tweet of the week resurfaces the debate on the difference between conferences We no longer bring up the topic of Little People on this show but when we do have something to say, we like to keep it short (to confirm, the Little People will never be returning) (Edited 00:20, 7the June 2020 to seed Apple Podcast update.)
This week in Infosec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account
1st June 1864: The first record of electronic spam was broadly revealed. A recipient was so infuriated by the dentist's poppycock that he composed a letter to the editor of The Times about the telegram, begging the newspaper to kindly demand a stop to the nonsense.
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1399864377415712773
28th May 2014: The TrueCrypt website unexpectedly announced that the development of TrueCrypt had ended and that the tool wasn't secure.
The Fall of TrueCrypt and Rise of VeraCrypt
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266260968004136962
Rant of the Week
Deadline draws near to avoid auto-joining Amazon's mesh network Sidewalk
Owners of Amazon Echo assistants and Ring doorbells have until June 8 to avoid automatically opting into Sidewalk, the internet giant's mesh network that taps into people's broadband and may prove to be a privacy nightmare.
'A stalker can abuse it to stalk people better. There are no mitigations mentioned'
Sidewalk privacy and security whitepaper by Amazon
Bill Big Balls of the Week
Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling it
NortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn’t want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite.
Industry News
NCSC: Act Now to Protect Streaming Accounts
Interpol Seizes $83 Million Headed for Online Scammers
Meat Processing Giant JBS Pulls IT Plug After Cyber-Attack
Scripps Notifying 147K People of Data Breach
Teen Crashes Florida School District’s Network
Sextortion Lands Inmate in Federal Prison
Battle for the Galaxy: 6 Million Gamers Hit by Data Leak
Ransomware Disrupts Largest Ferry Service in Massachusetts
Mandiant to Re-Emerge After $1.2 Billion FireEye Sale
Tweet of the Week
https://twitter.com/Cyber_Cox/status/1400082437095387137
https://twitter.com/ryanaraine/status/1399724475092983812?s=20
(Edited 00:18 7the June 2020 to seed Apple Podcast update.)