Episode 58 - Ha Ha Ha

This week in InfosecLiberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account1st June 1864: The first record of electronic spam was broadly revealed. A recipient was so infuriated by the dentist's poppycock that he composed a letter to the editor of The Times about the telegram, begging the newspaper to kindly demand a stop to the nonsense.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/139986437741571277328th May 2014: The TrueCrypt website unexpectedly announced that the development of TrueCrypt had ended and that the tool wasn't secure.The Fall of TrueCrypt and Rise of VeraCrypthttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266260968004136962 Rant of the WeekDeadline draws near to avoid auto-joining Amazon's mesh network SidewalkOwners of Amazon Echo assistants and Ring doorbells have until June 8 to avoid automatically opting into Sidewalk, the internet giant's mesh network that taps into people's broadband and may prove to be a privacy nightmare.'A stalker can abuse it to stalk people better. There are no mitigations mentioned'Sidewalk privacy and security whitepaper by Amazon Bill Big Balls of the WeekAntivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling itNortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn’t want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite. Industry NewsNCSC: Act Now to Protect Streaming AccountsInterpol Seizes $83 Million Headed for Online ScammersMeat Processing Giant JBS Pulls IT Plug After Cyber-AttackScripps Notifying 147K People of Data BreachTeen Crashes Florida School District’s NetworkSextortion Lands Inmate in Federal PrisonBattle for the Galaxy: 6 Million Gamers Hit by Data LeakRansomware Disrupts Largest Ferry Service in MassachusettsMandiant to Re-Emerge After $1.2 Billion FireEye Sale Tweet of the Weekhttps://twitter.com/Cyber_Cox/status/1400082437095387137https://twitter.com/ryanaraine/status/1399724475092983812?s=20 (Edited 00:18 7the June 2020 to seed Apple Podcast update.) Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!