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This week in Infosec

Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:

18th April 1995: proff (Julian Assange) published "The Dan Farmer Rap", about SATAN author, Dan Farmer.

Yes, that Julian Assange.

Yes, the same one.

Yes.

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Apr/195

19th April 2010: The OWASP Top 10 for 2010 was officially released.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100628190859/http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASPTop10-2010-PressRelease

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1251895022598803457

19th April 2011: Microsoft published a policy requiring employees to follow specific procedures when reporting vulnerabilities in 3rd-party products.

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1252023386026340352

Rant of the Week

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

Billy Big Balls

Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices.

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

ELI5: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1385020198697291777?s=20

Industry News

Google to Delay Publishing Bug Details for 30 Days

ICO Issued Over £42 Million in Fines Last Year

FIN7 Sysadmin Gets 10 Years Behind Bars

Google Trumpets New Mobile App Security Standard

MI5: 10,000+ Brits Approached by Spies on Social Site

Dating Service Suffers Data Breach

TikTok Sued Over Use of Minors’ Data

DoJ Launches Ransomware Taskforce as Apple Hit by Extortion Attempt

Stallone Classic a Password Favorite

Tweet of the Week

https://twitter.com/H3KTlC/status/1385232019387404296?s=20

Related:

Add another cause of mental health concern from the past year’s Pandemic-induced, work-from-home requirements.  New research from Microsoft shows the potential downside of the virtual workplace, confirming that stress increases over the course of back-to-back virtual meetings.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2021/04/20/our-brains-need-breaks-from-virtual-meetings/?sh=6de6770a21e9

Sticky Pickle of the Week

Hat-tip to Martin @maxsec Hepworth for bringing this story to our attention (and the reason Smashing Security missed it is because they record on Tuesday and spend a day and a half editing their show before releasing it):

“Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on”

https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1384785747874656257?s=20

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%[email protected]/

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