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This week in InfoSec

(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):

3rd February 2007: A former Coca-Cola secretary to a executive was convicted after stealing documents and unlaunched product samples, then conspiring with coworkers to sell them to Pepsi, which warned Coca-Cola.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2007/02/03/former_coke_secretary_convicted_in_spy_case.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1224522561653919744

1st February 1952:

A new method for tracking down users of unlicensed television sets was unveiled in the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521357.stm

5th February 1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain

Children all over Britain have been emptying out their piggy-banks and heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today.

Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also disappearing fast.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm

Rant of the Week

The Biggest Threat to Facebook Isn’t Apple, It’s Mark Zuckerberg

During Facebook's earnings call, the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made a point of talking about the risk Apple's upcoming iOS 14 changes pose to Facebook's business. Those changes will require apps to ask permission before they are able to track users across apps and the internet. 

For Facebook, a company whose entire business model is built on the ability to track users, collect their data, and then sell targeted ads based on all of that information, losing the ability to track users could be a real problem. The thing is, Apple isn't stopping any app from tracking any user. It's only requiring that apps ask permission first. 

The real problem is that now everyone will be given a choice about whether to let Facebook track them, and the company logically assumes that most people will opt out. 

Suddenly people will be confronted with the reality that Facebook isn't free at all--it's just that most people weren't aware of the cost.

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/mark-zuckerberg-is-worried-apples-privacy-changes-could-be-end-of-facebook.html

Tweet of the Week

https://twitter.com/TatianaDior/status/1357178566413287426

Almost ran: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1356291273255227392?s=20

Industry News

Apprenticeships Could Solve Cyber-Skills Crisis, Say Experts

Global Government Outsourcer Serco Hit by Ransomware

Trickbot Trojan Back from the Dead in New Campaign

Man Charged in $11m Crypto Scheme that Featured Steven Seagal

Social Media Oversharing Exposes 80% of Office Workers

Data on Thousands of Foxtons Customers Posted Online

Over Three Million US Drivers Exposed in Data Breach

US Shipping Giant Loses $7.5m in Ransomware Attack

Three More Vulnerabilities Found in SolarWinds Products

Javvad’s Weekly Stories

Foxtons rejects claims of slow reaction to data leak

SMS Bandits owner arrested for carrying out large-scale phishing scams

Ransomware attack disrupts UKRI services and web assets

Billy Big Balls

Ransomware: A company paid millions to get their data back, but forgot to do one thing.

A cautionary tale shows how organisations that fall foul of ransomware should concentrate on finding how it happened before anything else 

A company that fell victim to a ransomware attack and paid cyber criminals millions for the decryption key to restore their network fell victim to the exact same ransomware gang under two weeks later after failing to examine why the attack was able to happen in the first place.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-this-is-the-first-thing-you-should-think-about-if-you-fall-victim-to-an-attack/

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