This week in InfoSec

1. 3rd November 2000: A Dutch hacker gained access to Microsoft's network by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft issued a patch for 10 weeks earlier. 

The Patch MS Forgot to Apply

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1323807889425895424

1. 25th October 2013: Adobe revealed that a breach of 2.9 million customer accounts made public 3 weeks earlier actually affected 38 million users.

Adobe breach THIRTEEN times worse than thought, 38 million users affected

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Rant of the Week

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

The UK's Home Secretary – the minister in charge of policing and internal security – has been forced to apologize for breaching IT security protocols in government.

Suella Braverman, who had already resigned for the breach, was reinstated in the UK's merry-go-round approach to government. She has written to the chair of Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee to explain her actions and how she planned to avoid repeating them.

Billy Big Balls of the Week 

The Hunter Cat is a bodyguard for your credit card (not an advert)

See if this sounds familiar: You are in a weird part of town and get cash from a sketchy ATM. 

The next day, you pay for gas at a pump-side terminal that doesn’t look quite right.

Against such a common problem, what are your options? For the particularly paranoid, enter the Hunter Cat.

Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’

A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers.

CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa interviewed two people who identified themselves as Twitter employees and were seen near the company’s San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes.

Skepticism immediately emerged on social media. One of the pranksters said his name was “Rahul Ligma” — a reference to a popular internet meme — and held a copy of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” aloft while speaking to reporters. The other said his name was “Daniel Johnson.”

Industry News

Russia Suspected in Truss Phone Hacking Scandal

OpenSSL Security Advisory Downgraded to High Severity

Twitter Verified Status Users Flooded with Scams

Mobile Phishing Attacks on Government Staff Soar

Dropbox Suffers Breach, 130 GitHub Repositories Compromised

Android Apps With a Million Downloads Led Users to Phishing Sites

Threat Actor "OPERA1ER" Steals Millions from Banks and Telcos

UK Security Agency to Scan the Country for Bugs

Bot Warning for Retailers Ahead of Busy Shopping Season

Tweet of the Week

https://twitter.com/Joelmpetlin/status/1587417968664752129

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