This week in Infosec takes us back to a story about the Internet’s original Mods Rant of the week talks about an Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Yellow Trolling, Infosec meanie Billy Big Balls this week can be filed under “how not to win back your ex” Industry News brings you the latest and greatest infosec news from around the globe and Tweet of the week is just a reminder that teenagers gonna teenage (even in a pandemic)
This Week in InfoSec (08:03)
With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account
30th June 1998: AOL confirmed a leaked spreadsheet containing info of 1,300 AOL community leaders had been stolen from an employee's account.
Not around then? AOL was kind of a big deal - it bought Time Warner in 2000 and was worth $200 billion before imploding.
https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-volunteer-list-hacked/
https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1410396545896177668
Rant of the Week (22:15)
via @rootsploit
Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment
Infosec Community Posts Solidarity Bikini Pics After Twitter Troll Outburst
Cybersecurity professionals have come together on Twitter to show their support for an infosec worker who was trolled after posting a bikini pic.
Coleen Shane, founder and chief engineer for InfoSec Bad Girls and Hacker Spring Camp, was astonished when an anonymous follower reacted angrily to the shot.
The user, who follows over 200 infosec-related accounts, argued that there was "no warning" for the image, intimating that "otherwise respectable people" should not be doing such.
Coleen's response was widely praised.
"It's a bikini, and I'm a human being who is a lot more complicated than just Infosec - also I do whatever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want, however the hell I want. Adios," she tweeted.
Communications company got their support for the movement (horribly) wrong by creating a calendar of the bikini photos (without consent) for people to download
Their apology has gone as well as expected
Billy Big Balls of the Week (34:00)
Ronald Ilg, 55, was arrested in April and is being charged in federal court for hiring a hitman over the internet to abduct his wife and imprison her in a "secure location" for a week, all the while dosing her with heroin.
Dr Ilg apparently agreed to pay the would-be kidnapper in Bitcoin. The FBI traced the Bitcoin transaction, which led them to Dr Ilg's Coinbase account.
Industry News ( 41:41)
World’s Largest E-tailers to be Investigated Over Fake Reviews
US the Only Top Tier Cyber-power
Sensitive Defense Documents Found at Bus Stop
Pentagon CISO Suspected of Sharing Secrets
Salvation Army Hit by Ransomware Attack
Analyst Steals Millions by Spoofing Director
PrintNightmare: Windows Zero-Day Accidentally Disclosed by Chinese Researchers
New Charges Filed Against Alleged Capital One Hacker
Putin Orders Twitter to Open Russian Office
Tweet of the Week (48:25)
Teenagers are figuring out how to fake positive Covid tests using lemon juice and hacks from TikTok