Episode 104 - The Late Late Show

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (07:03)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>15th May 2003: In the Friends episode "The One in Barbados, Part One", Ross Geller's laptop was infected by the Kournikova worm when Chandler Bing checked his email on it and opened an email claiming to contain nude images of tennis player Ana Kournikova.</p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Hj0BO4A5oX7bI8rOjycusLDEIO6UHZjJi1S_9FHEi22heCapih2sk0kHEutI87-rNlpyFXaOY6H1Q-9ezbv5thJPAyQ5cOGNAZbO2HfjOOaigFoKJz7EE-HcVQg3TJiZR5Wov2tEeCvx7n-2ag" /><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1523719745555648514">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1523719745555648514</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (09:34)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-new-policy-charging-cases-under-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act">Department of Justice Announces New Policy for Charging Cases under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/justice-department-good-fatih-hackers-cfaa/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACwtOLjL0jbTl6BItyiCw_AB0djBk6W-xECBw3_d0ctoNRk_eGO0B9w1kDRwTXrqNyW9rQ2lwNZ_Ud5xfjymj4qhf_XMZC0OmCxFF4SvPrLSfmj5EMkWRIhX-tQZFEQ2YG9A5_ynjPcR5UM1SYbpvRkMPgTqEosoWm2R3WN3tc61">DOJ says it will no longer prosecute good-faith hackers under CFAA</a></p><p>The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it will not bring charges under federal hacking laws against security researchers and hackers who act in good faith.</p><p>The policy for the first time “directs that good-faith security research should not be charged” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a seismic shift away from its previous policy that allowed prosecutors to bring federal charges against hackers who find security flaws for the purpose of helping to secure exposed or vulnerable systems.</p><p>The Justice Department said that good-faith researchers are those who carr