Episode 106 - God Its Early

This Week in InfoSec (07:52)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield31st May 1999, Sega released the video game Zero Wing for the Sega Mega Drive system in Europe. The game was never released in North America, and was relatively unknown until years later when the poorly translated opening scene was popularized on the Internet. The most famous mistranslation is the phrase “All your base are belong to us,” which went on to become a very popular Internet meme.1st June 1999, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker released the filesharing service Napster. The service provides a simple way for users to copy and distribute MP3 music files. It became an instant hit, especially among college students. Just over 6 months later, on December 7, 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against the service, alleging mass copyright infringement. Eventually this lawsuit forced the shutdown of the company on September 3, 2002, but not before the popularity of downloading digital music was firmly entrenched in a generation of Internet users.A year later, on 2nd June 2000: Napster Inc., makers of controversial MP3 file-sharing software, slapped pop-punk band the Offspring with a legal order Friday (June 2) to stop selling merchandise imprinted with the Napster logo, a source close to the band confirmed. NAPSTER TELLS OFFSPRING TO STOP SELLING BOOTLEG MERCHANDISE The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 - Vote Here!We’re the 5th category down: “The Underdogs - Best Non-Vendor Cybersecurity Podcast” Rant of The Week (18:19)Vodafone plans carrier-level user tracking for targeted adsVodafone is piloting a new advertising ID system called TrustPid, which will work as a persistent user tracker at the mobile Internet Service Provider (ISP) level.The new system is in test phase in Germany and is intended to be impossible to bypass from within the web browser settings or through cookie blocking or IP address masking.The mobile carrier plans to assign a fixed ID to each customer and associate all user activity with it. The ID will be based on a number of parameters, so that the system will be able to maintain persistence.Then, the mobile ISP creates a personal profile based on that ID and helps advertisers serve targeted ads to each customer without disclosing any identification details. The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 - Vote Here!We’re the 5th category down: “The Underdogs - Best Non-Vendor Cybersecurity Podcast” Billy Big Balls of the Week (29:08) ExpressVPN moves servers out of India to escape customer data retention lawVirtual private network operator ExpressVPN will pull its servers from India, citing the impossibility of complying with the nation's incoming requirement to record users' identities and activities.ExpressVPN offers software that routes traffic through servers that load their operating systems entirely into RAM and therefore leave no trace of users' activities on persistent media. The outfit suggests that's a point of difference to other VPN providers.ExpressVPN refuses to participate in attempts to limit internet freedom.But that design is a problem given India's recently introduced requirement that VPN providers verify customers' identity, retain their contact details, and store five years worth of data describing their "ownership pattern". The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 - Vote Here!We’re the 5th category down: “The Underdogs - Best Non-Vendor Cybersecurity Podcast” Industry News (35:21)Third of UK Firms Have Experienced a Security Breach Since 2020US Academic Credentials Displayed in Public and Dark Web ForumsAirline in Turkey Exposes Flight and Crew Info in 6.5TB LeakThree BEC Suspects Arrested in “Killer Bee” StingMagniber Ransomware Now Targets Windows 11 MachinesEuro Cops Bust $47m Money Laundering OperationTwice as Many Healthcare Organizations Now Pay RansomEuropol Confirms Takedown of SMS-based FluBot SpywareConnecticut Becomes Fifth US State to Enact Consumer Privacy Law The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 - Vote Here!We’re the 5th category down: “The Underdogs - Best Non-Vendor Cybersecurity Podcast” Tweet of the Week (40:46)https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1532207368062132224 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!