Episode 142 -The Back in Safe Hands Episode

<p><strong>The one and only Andy (13:10)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>2nd March 2013: Evernote announced that it had reset 50 million users' passwords after hackers accessed users' email addresses and hashed passwords. </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1631302952395710467">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1631302952395710467</a></p><p>1st March 1988: The MS-DOS boot sector virus "Ping-Pong" was discovered at the Politecnico di Torino (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-Pong_virus">Ping Pong Virus</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1630965727128612864">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1630965727128612864</a>  </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (19:18)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/28/news_corp_dwell_time_breach/">News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years</a></p><p>The miscreants who infiltrated News Corporation's corporate IT network spent two years in the media monolith's system before being detected early last year.</p><p>The super-corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, UK publications including The Sunday Times, and a broad array of other entities around the world, first <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/news_corp_china_compromised/">reported</a> the intrusion in February 2022, saying the snoops got into email accounts and gained access to employees' data and business documents.</p><p>A year later, according to a four-page <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689861-news-corp-feb-2023-data-breach-notification">letter</a> sent to employees, News Corp executives said the unidentified cybercriminals likely first gained access to a company system as early as February 2020, and then got into "certain business documents and emails from a limited number of its personnel's accounts in the affected system."</p><p>Both News Corp and Mandia