Episode 52 - The Boys Are Back In Town

Thom’s l33t crypto coin investments This week in InfosecLiberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:18th April 1995: proff (Julian Assange) published "The Dan Farmer Rap", about SATAN author, Dan Farmer.Yes, that Julian Assange.Yes, the same one.Yes.https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Apr/19519th April 2010: The OWASP Top 10 for 2010 was officially released.http://web.archive.org/web/20100628190859/http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASPTop10-2010-PressReleasehttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/125189502259880345719th April 2011: Microsoft published a policy requiring employees to follow specific procedures when reporting vulnerabilities in 3rd-party products.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1252023386026340352 Rant of the WeekThey Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold Warhttps://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/ Billy Big BallsCellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices.https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/ELI5: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1385020198697291777?s=20 Industry NewsGoogle to Delay Publishing Bug Details for 30 DaysICO Issued Over £42 Million in Fines Last YearFIN7 Sysadmin Gets 10 Years Behind BarsGoogle Trumpets New Mobile App Security StandardMI5: 10,000+ Brits Approached by Spies on Social SiteDating Service Suffers Data BreachTikTok Sued Over Use of Minors’ DataDoJ Launches Ransomware Taskforce as Apple Hit by Extortion AttemptStallone Classic a Password Favorite Tweet of the Weekhttps://twitter.com/H3KTlC/status/1385232019387404296?s=20Related:Add another cause of mental health concern from the past year’s Pandemic-induced, work-from-home requirements.  New research from Microsoft shows the potential downside of the virtual workplace, confirming that stress increases over the course of back-to-back virtual meetings.https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2021/04/20/our-brains-need-breaks-from-virtual-meetings/?sh=6de6770a21e9 Sticky Pickle of the WeekHat-tip to Martin @maxsec Hepworth for bringing this story to our attention (and the reason Smashing Security missed it is because they record on Tuesday and spend a day and a half editing their show before releasing it):“Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on”https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1384785747874656257?s=20https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%[email protected]/ Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!