Episode 141 - You know why this is late

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>20th February 2003: Alan Giang Tran, former network admin for 2 companies, was arrested after allegedly destroying data on the companies' networks. Two months later he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140106220344/http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/state/20030221-0515-ca-computerhacker.html">Man arrested for allegedly shutting down employers' computers</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1627748857856593931">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1627748857856593931</a></p><p>18th February 2008: 2013: Burger King's Twitter account was compromised, had its name changed to McDonalds, and shared offensive tweets.</p><p><a href="https://mashable.com/archive/burger-king-twitter-account-hacked#.V7psulxyOqy">Burger King Twitter Account Hacked</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1627115690577608707">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1627115690577608707</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/accidental_whatsapp_account_takeover/">Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing</a></p><p>A stranger may be receiving your private WhatsApp messages, and also be able to send messages to all of your contacts – if you have changed your phone number and didn't delete the WhatsApp account linked to it.</p><p>Your humble vulture heard this bizarre tale of inadvertent WhatsApp account hijacking from a reader, Eric, who told us this happened to his son, Ugo.</p><p>"This is a massive privacy violation," Eric said. "My son had long-lasting access to that person's private messages as well as group messages, both personal and work related."</p><p>The security hole stems from wireless carriers' practice of recycling former customers' phone numbers and giving them to new customers.</p><p>WhatsApp acknowledges that <a href="https://faq.whatsapp.com/334746960552396