Episode 130 - The Jingle Free Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (11:48)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>24th November 1998: AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html">AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $4.2 billion</a>. At the time it was considered a good move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Microsoft in the browser and Internet provider markets. However, Microsoft’s dominance in the personal computer market could not be stopped and the Netscape browser lost almost all market share to Internet Explorer. </p><p>In 2003 <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2003/05/30/cx_da_0530topnews.html">Microsoft settled a monopoly lawsuit with AOL</a> (then merged with Time Warner) for $750 million over the loss of value of Netscape. AOL itself, once a dominant Internet Service Provider, slowly lost their subscriber base with the evolution of broadband Internet in the 2000’s and operates primarily as a media conglomerate, although their dial-up service still subscribes approximately 2 million users as of 2013.  In 2015 that went up to 2.1 million but is now <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html">reported to be in the thousands</a>.  </p><p>21st November 2017: It was reported that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/21/uber-data-hack-cyber-attack">Uber had concealed a massive hack that exposed data of 57m users and drivers</a> 13 months previously</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:17)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing">Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook</a></p><p>Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Faceboo