Episode 153 - The Poorly Planned Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (09:59)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>26th May 2006: BackTrack v1.0 was released.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1265471687761424384">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1265471687761424384</a></p><p>21st May 2012: Nmap 6.00 was released.<a href="https://t.co/mPEQrQY2pV"> </a><a href="https://nmap.org/6/">https://nmap.org/6/</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1263589918107791362">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1263589918107791362</a></p><p>23rd May 1997: Carlos Felipe Salgado Jr. (aka "Smak"), who allegedly stole 100,000 credit cards from an Internet provider was granted bail on the condition he not go "anywhere near a computer." He was arrested after trying to sell it to the FBI.</p><p><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-05-23-9705240078-story.html">Hacker gets conditional bail</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1264033568436568070">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1264033568436568070</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:25)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/dish_networks/">Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack</a></p><p>But don't worry – we know it was deleted.</p><p>Dish Network has admitted that a February cybersecurity incident and associated multi-day outage led to the extraction of data on nearly 300,000 people, while also appearing to indirectly admit it may have paid cybercriminals to delete said data.</p><p>Dish customers can rest easy, at the very least, as the telco <a href="https://apps.web.maine.gov/online/aeviewer/ME/40/ec8cf5c5-3048-4b22-baa9-10438a51e6f5.shtml">said</a> in a sample letter posted to the Maine Attorney General's breach notification website that customer databases weren't accessed and the stolen data belonged instead to employees both past and present, their family members, "and a lim