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This Week in InfoSec (06:25)

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26th May 1995: Realising his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signalled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer — a development that he was assigning “the highest level of importance.”

21st May 2009: Following increasing concern about hackers taking advantage of security vulnerabilities in Adobe’s PDF-reading software, the company has announced that it will be making security updates available on a regular schedule.

Adopting a similar initiative to Microsoft (which releases security patches on the second Tuesday of each month), Adobe has declared that it will issue vulnerability fixes on the second Tuesday of every third month.

Adobe announces its own Patch Tuesday

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Rant of the Week (12:47)

DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689

“DuckDuckGo has a search deal with Microsoft which prevents them from blocking MS trackers. And they can't talk about it!

This is why privacy products that are beholden to giant corporations can never deliver true privacy; the business model just doesn't work.”

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Billy Big Balls of the Week (19:58)

New virus forces people to donate to the poor if they want their data recovered

Security researchers have identified a new kind of ransomware that forces victims to donate to the poor to recover their data.

Unlike typical ransomware, which cyber criminals use to extort money from people, this one – known as GoodWill – gives victims a choice.

In order to obtain the decryption key, they must choose to either donate clothes to the homeless, take under-privileged children to one of a number of restaurants for food or provide financial assistance to anyone needing medical attention that can’t afford it.

In each case, photos or videos of the action must be recorded and posted to social media as proof.

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Industry News (25:10)

US Car Giant General Motors Hit by Cyber-Attack Exposing Car Owners' Personal Info

ICO Fines Clearview AI £7.5m for Collecting UK Citizens’ Data

GoodWill Ransomware Demands People Help the Most Vulnerable

UK Government Cybersecurity Advisory Board Applications Now Open

Organizations Urged to Fix 41 Vulnerabilities Added to CISA’s Catalog of Exploited Flaws

Messages Sent Through Zoom Can Expose People to Cyber-Attack

Three-quarters of Security Pros Believe Current Cybersecurity Strategies Will Shortly Be Obsolete

18 Oil and Gas Companies Take Cyber Resilience Pledge

India's SpiceJet Strands Planes After Being Hit By Ransomware Attack

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Tweet of the Week (32:30)

https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1529000507037171713

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