Episode 38 - Oh No He's Back

The boys are back in town. Jav's return has also reduced the average age of this podcast by roughly twenty years. The good news though is that we not only have a full program, but also new jingles too!This week in InfosecLiberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:16th January 2007: Jeffrey Goodin became the first person convicted under the US CAN-SPAM Act. He sent emails pretending to be AOL's billing department. He could have faced...wait for it...wait for it...101 years in prison! Instead, he was sentenced to 70 months. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/technology/17spam.htmlhttps://www.lawdonut.co.uk/business/marketing-and-selling/marketing-and-advertising/your-email-marketing-and-anti-spam-lawhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/121796248290962636812th January 1984: The first issue of 2600 was mailed to several dozen people. At the time, it was a 3 page monthly newsletter. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is still published today.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterlyhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1216431003721293825?s=20 Rant of the WeekTech companies have grown a pair of balls in Trump’s last days in office.  Host Unknown remembers.Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Shopify are just some of the companies finally taking a stand. AirBnB have cancelled reservations in DC during the week of Biden’s inaugurationhttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-ban-facebook-twitter-parler-first-amendment-b1785631.html Tweet of the WeekWhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram usersThe company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update“We want to be clear that the policy update does not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family in any way. Instead, this update includes changes related to messaging a business on WhatsApp, which is optional, and provides further transparency about how we collect and use data,” the company writes on the new FAQ page.https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarificationhttps://twitter.com/nickstatt/status/1349029486734565380 Industry NewsCEO Refutes Reports of Involvement in SolarWinds CampaignRyuk Ransomware Attackers Have Made $150mJav: Emotet Tops Malware Charts in December After RebootHigh Court Rules Against Government Bulk HackingOver 100,000 UN Employee Records Accessed by ResearchersUS Announces Controversial State Department Cyber-BureauChinese Startup Leaks Social Profiles of 214 Million UsersNew Malware Implant Discovered as Part of SolarWinds AttackNew Zealand Central Bank Breach Hit Other CompaniesHealthcare Hit by 187 Million Monthly Web App Attacks in 2020Microsoft Fixes Windows Defender Zero-Day BugMimecast Cert Abused to Target Inboxes in “Sophisticated” AttackEuropean Regulator: #COVID19 Vaccine Data Leaked OnlineCISA Warns of Cloud Attacks Exploiting Poor Cyber-HygieneRing Rolls-Out End-to-End Encryption to Bolster Privacy Javvad’s Weekly StoriesVulnerable Database Exposed UN Employees' DataWill the National Cyber Force make the UK safer? Industry respondsUnited Nations suffers potential data breachBest practices for building a security culture programFive Key Cybersecurity Themes from 2020 Billy Big BallsDark Market taken offlineDarkMarket, the world's largest illegal marketplace on the dark web, has been taken offline in an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (the National Crime Agency), and the USA (DEA, FBI, and IRS). Europol supported the takedown with specialist operational analysis and coordinated the cross-gender collaborative effort of the Host Unknown countries involved.DarkMarket in figures:almost 500 000 users;more than 2 400 sellers; over 320 000 transactions;more than 4 650 bitcoin and 12 800 monero transferred. At the current rate, this corresponds to a sum of more than €140 million. The vendors on the marketplace mainly traded all kinds of drugs and sold counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card details, anonymous SIM cards and malware.https://gizmodo.com/the-internets-biggest-darknet-just-got-taken-down-1846044148https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/darkmarket-worlds-largest-illegal-dark-web-marketplace-taken-down Will we have a Little people today?No Sticky Pickle of the weekImagine the year is 2009 and you’re sitting at home eating your lunch over your laptop as you always do and you spill your drink.Laptop stops working due to the spillage, you salvage the parts you can and over time you forget about them and they get thrown out with the household rubbish.Thinking nothing of it, you hear that this particular thing you threw out is now worth money.  Over time, you watch it’s value increase phenomenally.  You attempt to follow the trail and realise that what you threw out is sitting in the council landfill site.There are no guarantees that you’ll find it but you know in your heart it’s in there and if you can rummage through the landfill, you are sure you can find it.What would you do in this situation?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55658942  Come on! 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