This Week in InfoSec (06:23)

With content liberated from the “Today in InfoSec” twitter account and further afield

19th January 1999: The Happy99 worm first appeared. It invisibly attached itself to emails, displayed fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wished the user a happy New Year. It was the first of a wave of malware that struck Microsoft Windows computers over the next several years, costing businesses and individuals untold amounts of money to resolve. 

19th January 1999: RIM introduces the BlackBerry. The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers.  It is alleged the name “BlackBerry” came from the similarity that the buttons on the original device had to the surface of a blackberry fruit.

London riots: how BlackBerry Messenger played a key role

Rant of the Week (18:01)

Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security

A widespread phishing operation targeting Southeast Asia's second-largest bank – Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) – has prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to introduce regulations for internet banking that include use of an SMS Sender ID registry.

Singapore banks have two weeks to remove clickable links in text messages or e-mails sent to retail customers. Furthermore, activation of a soft token on a mobile device will require a 12-hour cooling off period, customers must be notified of any request to change their contact details, and fund transfer threshold will by default be set to SG$100 ($74) or lower.

MAS has also offered a vague directive requiring banks to issue more scam education alerts, and to do so more often.

Billy Big Balls of the Week  (25:49)

Train Robberies Are Back

Freight trains loaded with valuable merchandise sitting on apparently unguarded tracks make for awfully inviting targets.

For months, Union Pacific freight trains have been getting systematically robbed in the Los Angeles area, according to local news reports, as thieves target valuable merchandise and online orders from retailers like Amazon sitting on delayed trains.

Superyacht Security: The 10 Best Ways To Protect From Pirates And Paparazzi

Industry News (33:12)

European Regulators Hand Out €1.1bn in GDPR Fines

NCA: Kids as Young as Nine Have Launched DDoS Attacks

Government to Regulate Crypto Advertising in New Crack Down

Man Charged with Smuggling Tech Exports to Iran

Researchers Hack Olympic Games App

Red Cross: Supply Chain Data Breach Hit 500K People

Eleven Arrested in Bust of Prolific Nigerian BEC Gang

Twitter Mentions More Effective Than CVSS at Reducing Exploitability

Biden Signs Memo to Boost National Cybersecurity

Tweet of the Week (42:00)

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