Episode 209 - The Javvad Is In Big Trouble Episode

This week in InfoSec  (08:24)

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield

12th November 2012: John McAfee went into hiding because his neighbour, Gregory Faull, was found dead from a gunshot. Belize police wanted him to come in for questioning, but he fled to Guatemala where he was then arrested. He was never charged, though he lost a $25 million wrongful death suit.

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12th November 2000: Bill Gates demonstrates a functional prototype of a Tablet PC. Microsoft claims “the Tablet PC will represent the next major evolution in PC design and functionality.” However, the Tablet PC initiative never really took off and it wasn't until Apple introduced the iPad in 2010 that tablet computing was widely adopted.

Microsoft Declares Tablets Are the Future

 

Rant of the Week (15:41)

Amazon MOVEit Leaker Claims to Be Ethical Hacker

A threat actor who posted 2.8 million lines of Amazon employee data last week has taken to the dark web to claim they are doing so to raise awareness of poor security practice.

The individual, who goes by the online moniker “Nam3L3ss,” claimed in a series of posts to have obtained data from 25 organisations whose data was compromised via last year’s MOVEit exploit.

 

Billy Big Balls of the Week (24:12)

O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

Watch out, scammers. O2 has created a new weapon in the fight against fraud: an AI granny that will keep you talking until you get bored and give up.

O2, the mobile operator arm of Brit telecoms giant Virgin Media, says it has built the human-like AI to answer calls from fraudsters in real time, keeping them busy on the phone and wasting their time by pretending to be a potential vulnerable target.

"Daisy" is claimed to be indistinguishable from a real person, fooling scammers into thinking they've found perfect prey thanks to its ability to engage in "human-like" rambling chat, the biz claims.

For several weeks in the run-up to International Fraud Awareness Week (November 17–23), the AI has already frustrated scam callers with meandering stories about her family and talked at length about her passion for knitting, according to O2.

 

Industry News (28:20)

Amazon MOVEit Leaker Claims to Be Ethical Hacker

Bank of England U-turns on Vulnerability Disclosure Rules

Massive Telecom Hack Exposes US Officials to Chinese Espionage

Microsoft Power Pages Misconfiguration Leads to Data Exposure

Sitting Ducks DNS Attacks Put Global Domains at Risk

O2’s AI Granny Outsmarts Scam Callers with Knitting Tales

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