Episode 163 - The Sombre Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (11:56)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “Today in Infosec” Twitter account and further afield</p><p>4th August 1998: Microsoft published a critical security bulletin MS98-010, titled 'Information on the "Back Orifice" Program'.  </p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1998/ms98-010">Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 - Critical</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1423037189714219020">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1423037189714219020</a>   </p><p>27th July 2000: In security bulletin MS00-047, Microsoft thanked PGP's COVERT Labs and Sir Dystic of Cult of the Dead Cow for reporting NetBIOS vulnerabilities </p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-047">Patch Available for 'NetBIOS Name Server Protocol Spoofing' Vulnerability</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1287934373019385861">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1287934373019385861</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (18:31)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/03/nhs_ico_warning/">Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data</a></p><p>Staff at NHS Lanarkshire - which serves over half a million Scottish residents - used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children's names and addresses.</p><p>Following a probe, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has now issued a heavily redacted official reprimand to the organization, which <a href="https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/">oversees</a> three hospitals plus clinics and more across rural and urban Lanarkshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It said a group chat created in March 2020 – just as the UK government issued the first COVID lockdown – was in breach of Article 58 of the UK GDPR.</p><p>Information was shared between 26 staff for more than two years – from 1 April 2020 to 25 April 2022 – ov