Episode 123 - Incident Adjacent

<p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/hostunknowntv" target="_blank">@HostUnknownTV</a></p><p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>2nd October 1998: BUTTSniffer Beta 0.9 was released by Cult of the Dead Cow. Developed by DilDog.</p><p>The big question is "When can we expect the long-awaited version 1.0 release?" 24 years is kind of a long wait. </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312179619659874305">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312179619659874305</a>  </p><ol><li>3rd October 2017: A week after he retired as the result of Equifax's data breach, former CEO Richard F. Smith told members of Congress one person in the IT department was at fault.</li></ol><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312589059559170050">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312589059559170050</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Ranty Balls Tweet of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/uber_cso_sullivan_guilty/">Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft</a></p><p>Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief security officer, has been found guilty of illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers and customers' personal information.</p><p>Sullivan, previously a cybercrime prosecutor for the US Department of Justice, was <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/20/uber_sullivan_concealment_charges/">charged two years ago</a> with obstruction of justice and misprision – concealing a felony from law enforcement. He was convicted on both counts today.</p><p>On November 21, 2017, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/22/uber_2016_data_breach/">issued a statement</a> acknowledging that in late 2016, miscreants had broken into the app giant's infrastructure and made off with 57 million customer and driver records. Sullivan, along with Craig Clark, legal director of security and law enforcement, were fired as a result.</p><p>Sullivan, according to court documents, learned of the theft in November 2016, a