Episode 136 - The old man is in New York

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><ol><li>19th January 1999: BlackBerry Introduced</li></ol><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry">RIM introduces the BlackBerry</a>. The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers. They way the story goes, the name “BlackBerry” came from the similarity that the buttons on the original device had to the surface of a blackberry fruit. Those crazy Canadians!</p><ol><li>17th January 1994: Supreme Court Rules on Home VCR Recordings</li></ol><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.">US Supreme Court rules 5-4 </a>that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws. This ruling opens the floodgate for VCR sales, changing the landscape of TV watching forever.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/mailchimp_fesses_up_to_2nd/">Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months</a></p><p>Email marketing service Mailchimp has confirmed intruders have gained access to more than 100 customer accounts after successfully deploying a social engineering attack.</p><p>This is the second data spill in five months and yet the company, <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/14/intuit_mailchimp_acquisition/">bought by Intuit for $12 billion in September 2021</a>, continues to tell customers – with a straight face – that it takes the "security of users' data seriously."</p><p>The latest digital burglary happened on January 11 when the resident security team spotted an "unauthorized actor accessing one of our tools used by Mailchimp customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration," the <a href="https://mailchimp.com/en-gb/january-2023-security-incident/">company blog states</