Episode 62 - Bikini Bottom

This Week in InfoSec (08:03)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account30th June 1998: AOL confirmed a leaked spreadsheet containing info of 1,300 AOL community leaders had been stolen from an employee's account.Not around then? AOL was kind of a big deal - it bought Time Warner in 2000 and was worth $200 billion before imploding.https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-volunteer-list-hacked/https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1410396545896177668 Rant of the Week (22:15)via @rootsploitCybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest HarassmentInfosec Community Posts Solidarity Bikini Pics After Twitter Troll OutburstCybersecurity professionals have come together on Twitter to show their support for an infosec worker who was trolled after posting a bikini pic.Coleen Shane, founder and chief engineer for InfoSec Bad Girls and Hacker Spring Camp, was astonished when an anonymous follower reacted angrily to the shot.The user, who follows over 200 infosec-related accounts, argued that there was "no warning" for the image, intimating that "otherwise respectable people" should not be doing such.Coleen's response was widely praised."It's a bikini, and I'm a human being who is a lot more complicated than just Infosec - also I do whatever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want, however the hell I want. Adios," she tweeted.Communications company got their support for the movement (horribly) wrong by creating a calendar of the bikini photos (without consent) for people to downloadTheir apology has gone as well as expected Billy Big Balls of the Week (34:00)Doctor arrested for trying to hire a hitman to kidnap and inject ex-wife with heroin in bizarre bid to win her backRonald Ilg, 55, was arrested in April and is being charged in federal court for hiring a hitman over the internet to abduct his wife and imprison her in a "secure location" for a week, all the while dosing her with heroin.Dr Ilg apparently agreed to pay the would-be kidnapper in Bitcoin. The FBI traced the Bitcoin transaction, which led them to Dr Ilg's Coinbase account. Industry News ( 41:41)World’s Largest E-tailers to be Investigated Over Fake ReviewsUS the Only Top Tier Cyber-powerSensitive Defense Documents Found at Bus StopPentagon CISO Suspected of Sharing SecretsSalvation Army Hit by Ransomware AttackAnalyst Steals Millions by Spoofing DirectorPrintNightmare: Windows Zero-Day Accidentally Disclosed by Chinese ResearchersNew Charges Filed Against Alleged Capital One HackerPutin Orders Twitter to Open Russian Office Tweet of the Week (48:25)Teenagers are figuring out how to fake positive Covid tests using lemon juice and hacks from TikTokhttps://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1410526468577411072 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!