Infosec Decoded #68: Slow Moving Coup

with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, @sambowne, and Alan Wennersten.

Oct 12, 2021

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

Borrowed a School Laptop? Mind Your Open Tabs Facebook and Google’s new plan? Own the internet Apple quietly patches yet another iPhone 0-day – check you have 15.0.2

Alan Wennersten

European Parliament backs ban on remote biometric surveillance Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law

Sam Bowne @sambowne

A Pentagon official said he resigned because US cybersecurity is no match for China, calling it ‘kindergarten level’ Slow Moving Coup Andrew Yang & Sam Harris on the Future of American Democracy

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

US nuke sub plans leaked on SD card hidden in peanut butter sandwich, claims FBI A Pro-Choice Hacking Team Defaced the Texas GOP Website. So We DM’d Them Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever BioNTech begins Phase 2 trial of mRNA-based vaccine against cancer mRNA-Based Personalized Cancer Vaccines Sophia, the first android with citizenship, now wants to have a robot baby