Episode 71 - Thank You For the Music

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account</p><p>1st September 1997: Nmap was first released as a simple port scanner via an article in issue 51 of Phrack magazine which included the source code.</p><p><a href="http://phrack.org/issues/51/11.html">http://phrack.org/issues/51/11.html</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1300864278497558528">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1300864278497558528</a></p><p>31st August 2014: A user of the message board 4chan posted leaked photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and numerous other celebrities.</p><p><a href="https://mashable.com/archive/celebrity-nude-photo-hack">https://mashable.com/archive/celebrity-nude-photo-hack</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1300537361676283905">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1300537361676283905</a>  </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/GazTheJourno/status/1431522811093430272">Guntrader site hacked and plotted onto Google Maps</a></p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mganAc38sfcZ7aL7RpRmLPehvXroojWxRGYGjrRmtaE_3-bqBFH31it90wMkeg0Q69mGX3yqlpNXDiWgdCu1fKd_0t851B79vTnltySQ0nwPeBZVPy6BUEGyktqKgMomnSqHWOkS=s0" /><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/scam-artists-are-recruiting-english-speakers-for-business-email-campaigns/">Scam artists are recruiting English speakers for business email campaigns</a></p><p>According to Intel 471, forums are now being used to seek out English speakers, in particular, to bring together teams able to manage both the technical aspects and social engineering elements of a BEC scam. </p><p>If a scam is to succeed, the target employee must believe communication comes from a legitimate source -- and secondary language use, spelling mistakes, and grammatical issues could all be indicators that something isn't right, in the same way that run-of-the-mill spam often contains