Episode 78 - A Record Breaking Breaking Episode

This Week in InfoSec (13:03)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account20th October 1996: Twenty-five years ago today. Happy birthday, Ping of Death. Ping of Deathhttps://twitter.com/ajMSFT/status/1450833383597043713?s=2015th October 1985: 50 FBI agents raided more than 20 homes, seizing 25 personal computers (mostly Commodore 64s) after a group of at least 23 teenagers in San Diego County remotely broke into Chase Manhattan Bank computer systems that July and August.CHASE COMPUTER RAIDED BY YOUTHShttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1184283049204174849 On the Group Chat (20:27) From @maxsec friend of the show:Cybercrime gang sets up fake company to hire security experts to aid in ransomware attackshttps://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1451241038908121099 Billy Big Balls of the Week  (29:04)https://twitter.com/ImposeCost/status/1449738212696641538?s=20 Industry News (36:50)US Treasury Tracks $5.2bn of Ransomware Transactions in Six MonthsTwitch: No Passwords Were Taken in Data BreachUK in Midst of $200m Crypto Fraud EpidemicApple iCloud Hacker Steals NudesLightBasin Operation Compromises 13 Global Telcos in Two YearsMicrosoft, Intel and Goldman Sachs Team Up For New Supply Chain Security InitiativeTwitter Pulls Account After Argentinian Mega Breach ClaimsData Scrapers Expose 2.6 Million Instagram and TikTok UsersUS to Ban Export of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian States Tweet of the Week (46:02)https://twitter.com/ElJefeDSecurIT/status/1451232980463075332 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!