Episode 35 - The Triple Unicorn

The penultimate episode of the year, so only one more to go until you have the full set for 2020.This week in Infosec(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):3rd December 1980: The Australian Law Reform Commission chairman called for new laws to deal with "computer crime". He said the old definition of theft was not apt for a "fleeting, transient medium, the ephemeral flicker of a screen or information stored on a disc..."https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126161975https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1334231500448034824?s=201st December 2012: Pepsi Cola's official website in the Philippines has been hacked by the Malaysian hacker group Cyb3rSeC.The hackers did not come across any sensitive information, but changed the appearance of the website. https://www.flashback.se/artikel/2637/pepsi-cola-hackadehttp://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/18675231?hz=1https://www.securityfocus.com/news/389 Tweet of the Weekhttps://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1333150373599715329?s=19  Billy Big Ballshttps://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad3jm/watch-google-hacker-ha-26-iphones-with-zero-day-exploitWatch This Google Hacker Pwn 26 iPhones With a 'WiFi Broadcast Packet of Death'A Google security researcher found bugs that allowed him to take over nearby iPhones with a Raspberry Pi and just $100 in WiFi gear. Industry NewsExperts Call for Online Fake News to Be Addressed as #COVID19 Vaccine EmergesHow to Reduce Fake News in Online AdvertisingRemote Workers Admit Lack of Security Training#thinkcybersec: Reconsider Hiring Strategies to Meet 2021’s Digital Challenges#thinkcybersec: Don’t Presume Legacy Tech is a Negative ThingSalesforce Set to Acquire Slack for $27bnNative Cloud Security Controls Still “Not Good Enough”#WebSummit: Companies of the Future Should Focus on Data Privacy Rather than Data Collection Jav’s industry newsMicrosoft’s New Productivity Score And Workplace Tracking: Here’s The ProblemThere’s no vaccine for ransomwareRemote Workers Admit Lack of Security TrainingMicrosoft 365: Corporate Privacy Invader Masked As A Collaboration Tool?NHS Error Exposes Data on Hundreds of Patients and StaffSales of CEO email accounts may give cyber criminals access to the "crown jewels" of a company Infosec Stig is moving on from 17th December: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/editorial/final-shot-farewell/ Rant of the weekhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/02/microsoft-apologises-productivity-score-critics-derided-workplace-surveillanceMicrosoft has apologised for enabling a feature, “productivity score”, which critics said was tantamount to workplace surveillance.The company says it will now make changes to the service, which lets IT administrators “help their people get the most” from its products, in order to limit the amount of information about individual employees that is shared with managers. The Little PeopleIs it Leslie Show or William Lau? @lausecurity Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!