Episode 120 - The End of an Era

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>6th September 2011: Luis Mijangos received a 6 year prison sentence. His crimes included sextortion, stealing financial info, and webcam monitoring. </p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120527145121/http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16308-Californias-Sextortion-Hacker-Sentenced-to-Prison.html">California's "Sextortion" Hacker Sentenced to Prison</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1302770088471298049">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1302770088471298049</a></p><p>3rd September 1995: The online auction site, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay">eBay</a>, is launched as “AuctionWeb” by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar">Pierre Omidyar</a>. The first item sold, a broken laser pointer, wasn’t actually intended to sell, but rather to test the new site, itself started as a hobby. Surprised that the item sold for $14.83, Omidyar contacted the buyer to make sure he knew the laser pointer was broken, to which was replied, “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.” </p><p>From that first $14.83, Omidyar is now worth billions of dollars.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/halfords_ico_email_breach_pecr_fine/">Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws</a></p><p>Bike and car accessory retailer Halfords has found itself in the wrong lane with Britain’s data watchdog for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing emails to members of the public.</p><p>According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, it fined the business £30,000 for dispatching 498,179 messages to folk that hadn’t provided consent - equating to a £0.06 penalty per each email.</p><p>The decision relates to a direct marketing mailer that Halfords sent electronically on July 28, 2020 concerning a ‘Fix Your Bike’ government voucher scheme. This gave recipien