Episode 89 - Normal Audio is Resumed

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (06:23)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “Today in InfoSec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>19th January 1999: The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99">Happy99</a> worm first appeared. It invisibly attached itself to emails, displayed fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wished the user a happy New Year. It was the first of a wave of malware that struck Microsoft Windows computers over the next several years, costing businesses and individuals untold amounts of money to resolve. </p><p>19th January 1999: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry">RIM introduces the BlackBerry</a>. The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers.  It is alleged the name “BlackBerry” came from the similarity that the buttons on the original device had to the surface of a blackberry fruit.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry">London riots: how BlackBerry Messenger played a key role</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (18:01)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/singapores_monetary_authority_requires_banks/">Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security</a></p><p>A widespread phishing operation targeting Southeast Asia's second-largest bank – Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) – has prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to introduce regulations for internet banking that include use of an SMS Sender ID registry.</p><p>Singapore banks have two weeks to remove clickable links in text messages or e-mails sent to retail customers. Furthermore, activation of a soft token on a mobile device will require a 12-hour cooling off period, customers must be notified of any request to change their contact details, and fund transfer threshold will by default be set to SG$100 ($74) or lower.</p><p>MAS has also offered a vague directive re