Episode 109 - The Helium Breather

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (12:04)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>24th June 1998: The NSA published the Skipjack encryption algorithm used by the Clipper chip, after the algorithm was declassified.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip">Clipper Chip</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1275882063753699328">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1275882063753699328</a></p><p>24th June 2012: In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Macs, Apple removed a statement from its website bragging that OS X isn't susceptible to viruses.</p><p><a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/669702/apple-removes-claim-that-macs-dont-get-pc-viruses.html">Apple removes claim that ‘Macs don’t get PC viruses’</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1275969494330949632">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1275969494330949632</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (19:12)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/government-employees-banned-from-using-vpns-in-india">Government employees banned from using VPNs in India</a></p><p>In the latest chapter of India's ongoing battle against online privacy software, government employees are now barred from using third-party VPN services.</p><p>The new directive came following the decision of some of the best VPNs to shut down their Indian servers amid <a href="https://www.techradar.com/features/this-is-how-new-indian-privacy-law-will-have-negative-impact-on-peoples-privacy">privacy concerns over new data law</a>. So far, ExpressVPN, Surfshark and NordVPN have all announced they will physically leave the country before CERT-in directives come into force on June 27.</p><p>All this was discovered because:</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/indian_government_infosec_guidance_leaks/">Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff – who leak it</a></p><p>India's government last week issue