Episode 76 - Our Best Episode Ever

Author: NOT Javvad Malik, Andrew Agnēs, Thom Langford
Published: Fri 08 Oct 2021
Episode Link: https://podcast.hostunknown.tv/episodes/episode-76-did-we-forget-something-8bS_a5hb

This Week in InfoSec (08:01)

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account

8th September 2009: FBI director Robert Mueller disclosed that his wife banned him from banking online after he nearly fell for an email phishing scam.

Wife bans FBI head from online banking

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1314002293226905600

3rd October 2017: A week after he retired as the result of Equifax's data breach, former CEO Richard F. Smith told members of Congress one person in the IT department was at fault.

Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former C.E.O. Says

How the Equifax hack happened, and what still needs to be done

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312589059559170050

Rant of the Week (16:35)

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

IKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the ceiling void while using the toilet.

As Seen on TikTok (24:59)

Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error

Facebook has admitted buggy auditing code was at the core of Tuesday’s six-hour outage – and revealed a little more about its infrastructure to explain how it vanished from the internet.

As described by rey.nbows on TIK TOK

Industry News (34:18)

Facebook Whistleblower to Testify Before Senate

Pandora Spills Secrets of Super Rich

DeepMind Technologies Sued Over Data Sharing

Facebook Blames Global Outage on Configuration Error

Text Message Giant Reveals Five-Year Breach

Squid Game Scenes Cut Over Data Exposure

NCSC: Revoke Admin Access for BYOD Users Immediately

Infosec Experts: Twitch Breach “As Bad as it Gets”

US Creates National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

Tweet of the Week (42:42)