Episode 194

This week in InfoSec  (07:29)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield28th May: 2014: LulzSec hacker Hector Monsegur, known as Sabu, was sentenced and released the same day on time served for his role in a slew of high-profile cyberattacks. He had served 7 months in prison after his arrest.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/179522873073588665025th May 2018: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU) to strengthen and unify data protection became effective - just over 2 years after it was adopted by the EU.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1794461551534936503 Rant of the Week (18:34)Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasBing, Microsoft's search engine platform, went down in the very early morning 23rd May. That meant that searches from Microsoft's Edge browsers that had yet to change their default providers didn't work. It also meant that services relying on Bing's search API—Microsoft's own Copilot, ChatGPT search, Yahoo, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo—similarly failed.If dismay about AI's hallucinations, power draw, or pizza recipes concern you—along with perhaps broader Google issues involving privacy, tracking, news, SEO, or monopoly power—most of your other major options were brought down by a single API outage this morning. Moving past that kind of single point of vulnerability will take some work, both by the industry and by you, the person wondering if there's a real alternative. Billy Big Balls of the Week (26:56)IT worker sued over ‘vengeful’ cyber harassment of policeman who issued a jaywalking ticketIn an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a "destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge" against a police officer and his family after being issued a ticket for jaywalking. Industry News (34:44)Check Point Urges VPN Configuration Review Amid Attack SpikeCourtroom Recording Software Vulnerable to Backdoor AttacksNew North Korean Hacking Group Identified by MicrosoftInternet Archive Disrupted by Sustained and “Mean” DDoS AttackAdvance Fee Fraud Targets Colleges With Free Piano OffersUS-Led Operation Takes Down World’s Largest BotnetFirst American Reveals Data Breach Impacting 44,000 IndividualsEuropol-Led Operation Endgame Hits Botnet, Ransomware NetworksBBC Pension Scheme Breached, Exposing Employee Data Tweet of the Week (47.14)https://twitter.com/DebugPrivilege/status/1795823939631067165   Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!