Episode 36 - IT'S CHRIIIISTMAAAAS!

<p>This might be the last episode of the week, but that doesn't mean we scraped the barrel (except maybe for The Little People, but Jav has had a written warning for that already). Andy misunderstands the concept of "this week in infosec" and Thom tries to hold it together while juggling his newly acquired career in the security industry.</p><p>Your usual tasty festive treats this week are:</p><p>This Week in Infosec</p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:</p><p>5th December 2013: Troy Hunt launched the site "Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP)". At launch, passwords from the Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo! Voices, and Sony Pictures breaches were indexed. Today? The identification of 10.5 billion compromised accounts.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1335020238765744129?s=20">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1335020238765744129?s=20</a></p><p>8th December 2020: December 8, FireEye, a well-known security firm, announced that they had experienced a security incident that involved the theft of  FireEye Red Team tools – the date of the incident was not revealed. Reportedly, evidence suggests that the compromise may have been carried out by a Russian nation-state threat actor “with top-tier offensive capabilities.” Per the blog post announcing the hack and authored by FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, it appears that the attackers were also interested in the details related to FireEye customers that are government agencies. FireEye has engaged the FBI for this investigation.</p><p><a href="https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/unauthorized-access-of-fireeye-red-team-tools.html">https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/unauthorized-access-of-fireeye-red-team-tools.html</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Tweet of the Week</strong></p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/5lDfVwVGjVU-nOqisBLyNWVLcVc3TDda8Y0FInZMgJw4-mc1bPc2NNNoWQL0Nwz6dC12Od5QD5UtZnRqrvoGKT-4J7HiNTDj0lxTt4eFlwaQLfxFn-3aPZsWHXQxvIU3Khw2rirN" /><p>https://twitter.com/GrazianoDennis/status/13367962