Episode 116 - Thom Can't Work The Buttons

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>10th August 1988: 34 years ago today, Dade Murphy aka Zero Cool crashed 1507 computers, causing a 7 point drop in the NY stock exchange. He was 11 and his family was fined $45,000. He was banned from touching a computer until he turned 18.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hakluke/status/1557242086423871488">https://twitter.com/hakluke/status/1557242086423871488</a></p><p>6th August 2014: A hacker announced the theft of 40 GB of data from the maker of FinFisher spyware, then leaked the price list, client list, and more.</p><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4mzze/a-hacker-claims-to-have-leaked-40gb-of-docs-on-government-spy-tool-finfisher">A Hacker Claims to Have Leaked 40GB of Docs on Government Spy Tool FinFisher</a></p><p><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-govt-spyware-company-hacked-gammas-finfisher-leaked/">Top gov't spyware company hacked; Gamma's FinFisher leaked</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1158956449248108544">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1158956449248108544</a></p><p>11th August 2015: A day after Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson posted a blog titled "No, You Really Can’t", security community blowback caused Oracle to remove the post.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t">No, you really can’t (Wayback Machine)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2969844/oracle-cso-mary-ann-davidson-itbwcw.html">Oracle has this Modest Proposal, via its CSO</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1293374259637768194">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1293374259637768194</a></p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jmZ8HIWxSSws7LfxEnUK5dqM4XdJTtqYMtfIIrade0aI1ZGakLHlmkCUoAYlGlkP8puZUM-W5an43OABIcGtEXc8mKHKALNOtBS5Sjw-zrIYLJtEi6oNawg8OjW0OL9LWM667dqlcaWCHraQrNj48yk" /><p> </p><p><strong>R