Episode 154 - The Broom-cupboard Episode

<p><strong>Voting has closed for this years European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards has closed. Did you vote with your conscience, or did you vote for us?</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>This week in InfoSec (08:33)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>30th May 1972: John Postel published RFC 349, Proposed Standard Socket Numbers.</p><p><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc349">RFC 349</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266805406707232768">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266805406707232768</a></p><p> 1st June 1999: Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker release the filesharing service <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster">Napster</a>. The service provides a simple way for users to copy and distribute MP3 music files. It became an instant hit, especially among college students. Just over 6 months later, on December 7, 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against the service, alleging mass copyright infringement. Eventually this lawsuit forced the shutdown of the company on September 3, 2002, but not before the popularity of downloading digital music was firmly entrenched in a generation of Internet users.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:32)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/01/ftc_alexa_ring_amazon_settlement/">Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine</a></p><p>America's Federal Trade Commission has made Amazon a case study for every cautionary tale about how sloppily designed internet-of-things devices and associated services represent a risk to privacy – and made the cost of those actions, as alleged, a mere $30.8 million.</p><p>The regulator on Wednesday <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ftc-doj-charge-amazon-violating-childrens-privacy-law-keeping-kids-alexa-voice-recordings-forever">charged</a>, via the US Dept of Justice, two Amazon outfits with