Episode 127 - HU Lite the alcohol free edition

This week in InfoSec3rd 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 Applyhttps://twitter.com/todayininf....osec/status/13238078 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 affectedhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1323807889425895424   Rant of the WeekGovernment by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anywayThe 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 NewsRussia Suspected in Truss Phone Hacking ScandalOpenSSL Security Advisory Downgraded to High SeverityTwitter Verified Status Users Flooded with ScamsMobile Phishing Attacks on Government Staff SoarDropbox Suffers Breach, 130 GitHub Repositories CompromisedAndroid Apps With a Million Down