Episode 56 - The Post Birthday Blues

This Week in InfoSecLiberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account:15th May 1998: The first issue of Bruce Schneier's (@schneierblog) monthly Crypto-Gram internet newsletter was published. And The Secret Story of Non-Secret Encryption is a pretty pretty pretty pretty...good read.https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/0515.htmlhttps://www.schneierfacts.com/https://twitter.com/sirjester/status/867809572173602817https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1393708868304359426  22nd May 2010: A Floridian man named Laszlo Hanyecz, received what he thought was a “free lunch”.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0Bitcoin Pizza Day: Why Bitcoiners Are Celebrating Today By Eating PizzaBitcoin's surge beyond $60,000 means the famed programmer Laszlo Hanyecz effectively paid $613 million for 2 pizzas Rant of the WeekWe'd love to report on the outcome of the CREST exam cheatsheet probe, but the UK infosec body won't publish ithttps://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/crest_not_publishing_cert_exam_cheat_report/ Billy Big Balls of the WeekThe Military Is Creating a ‘Gig Eagle’ App to Uber-ize Its Workforce“We are creating a gig economy for the Department of Defense,” said one official.https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bzvw/the-military-is-creating-a-gig-eagle-app-to-uber-ize-its-workforce Industry NewsRapid7 Source Code Accessed in Cyber-attackQuarter of CISOs Self-Medicate as Pandemic Stress SpikesUS Sentences Cyber-Stalker Who Sent Sex Workers to Family’s HomeToshiba Business Reportedly Hit by DarkSide RansomwareCybercrime Forum Bans Ransomware ActivityAXA Faces DDoS After Ransomware AttackFamilies of Missing Persons Receive Fake Ransom DemandsDarkSide Gang Retires on $90mUSPS Reportedly Uses Clearview AI to Spy on Americans Tweet of the Weekhttps://twitter.com/WeldPond/status/1395151316809306114https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1395502236101451777 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!