Episode 54 - A Life Half Lived

This Week in InfoSecLiberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account4th May 1990: Robert Tappan Morris was sentenced to 3 years probation, fined $10,000, and ordered to perform 400 hours of community service. Why? For releasing the Morris worm in 1988, then becoming the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_wormhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/12573523703354654724th May 2000: The ILOVEYOU worm spread worldwide, infecting an estimated 10% of the Internet-connected computers.Its author was never prosecuted because the Philippines didn’t have any relevant laws. He was recently tracked down and interviewed about the worm:https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-52458765https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1257833516454211584 A little Billy Bonus...https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6794950191586836480/A Little Cheap Plug:https://labs.sentinelone.com/cve-2021-21551-hundreds-of-millions-of-dell-computers-at-risk-due-to-multiple-bios-driver-privilege-escalation-flaws/ Rant of the WeekTwitter introduced a tip jar - except, when you use paypal to send the tip, it sends your registered address too! Noice. It’s not really an issue with twitter - more of a feature of PayPal cos that's how it sends receipts for goods and services. This threat exists with all users of PayPal. Not just tip jar. But this isn’t really a rant about privacy or tipjar… let’s talk about Whitney Merrill’s tweet…. https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1390444554587832324?s=20 Billy Big Balls of the WeekDashcam footage showed the moment a gang of armed robbers in South Africa attempted a cash-in-transit heist by chasing and firing shots into a bulletproof security vehicle.Members of a private security company were transporting money in a truck in the northern city of Pretoria on April 22 when they were attacked.In the three-minute video, a security officer is seen driving with a colleague. Both men are wearing bulletproof vests.https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388194148210167810https://www.insider.com/watch-video-shows-armored-cars-crew-in-daring-escape-under-fire-2021-5 Industry NewsBritish Prime Minister’s Cell Phone Number ExposedFake Vaccine Domain SeizedShoppers Choose Guest Checkouts Over Security FearsMisconfigs and Unpatched Bugs Top Cloud Native Security IncidentsCyber-Attack on Belgian ParliamentResearcher Claims Peloton APIs Exposed All Users DataHomecoming Queen Hacker to be Tried as an AdultCaptureRx Data Breach Impacts Healthcare ProvidersFinancial Firms Report Puzzling 30% Drop in Breaches as Incidents Rise Tweet of the Weekhttps://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/05/entertainment/tiger-king-carole-baskin-crypto-coin/index.htmlhttps://twitter.com/carole_baskin/status/1389662255747325955https://twitter.com/krypt3ia/status/1389948564411932676 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!