Episode 175 - The Sam Altman Free Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (06:40) </strong></p><p>23rd November 2011: KrebsonSecurity reported that Apple took over 3 years to fix the iTunes software update process vulnerability which the FinFisher remote spying Trojan exploited. Evilgrade toolkit author Francisco Amato had reported it to Apple in 2008.</p><p><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/apple-took-3-years-to-fix-finfisher-trojan-hole/">Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Hole</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1727687798017106025">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1727687798017106025</a></p><p>12th November 2009: John Matherly announced the public beta launch of Shodan (<a href="https://twitter.com/shodanhq">@shodanhq</a>) - the first search engine for internet-connected devices.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1727462790330232951">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1727462790330232951</a>  </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (10:51)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/former_infosec_coo_pleads_guilty/">Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business</a></p><p>An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches.</p><p>Under a plea deal he signed last week, Vikas Singla, a former business leader at network security vendor Securolytics – a provider to healthcare institutions, among others – admitted that in September 2018 he rendered the Ascom phone system of Gwinnett Medical Center inoperable.</p><p>Gwinnett Medical Center operates hospitals in Duluth and Lawrenceville and the deliberate disablement of the Ascom phone system meant the main communication line between doctors and nurses was unavailable to them.</p><p>More than 200 phones were taken offline, which were used for internal communications, including "code blue" incidents that often relate to cardiac or respiratory eme