Security Stack Sheet #106

Word of the Week

Covid 19 – a shortcut to “Surveillance Capitalism”?

Links HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and book HERE and twitter thread HERE

AND

How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid

Link HERE

Word of the Week Special

“API Security 2020”

Links HERE and HERE and API Security Top 10 from OWASP HERE and print HERE

AND

“3 Secure Moments: A Tranquil Trio of Security Haiku”

Placid poems to quiet the infosec pro’s harried mind. (Or placid, by infosec standards.)

On Cyber Space

Cyberspace in space,

bits floating in the abyss;

Who can hack the stars?

On Pandemic Cybercrime

In the pandemic

Lures dangled just out of reach.

Names stolen for cures.

Normal

I miss coffee shops.

Cozy VPN tunnels,

Work on caffeine clouds.

Link HERE

Bonus

Thanks to Javan

Link HERE

Link HERE

Thanks to Marek

Thanks to Ben

Crypto challenge of the week

Link HERE

Dates

• May 25th 2018: Over 2 years of GDPR Live! See incidents section below GDPR Enforce Tracker Link HERE – thanks to Marius
• 1st January 2020 – The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) becomes effective Link HERE
• Now: TLS1.2 mandatory for proper security HTTPS everywhere HERE
• DO NOT DELAY TLS1.2 migration LATER THAN JUNE 2020 or A FEW THINGS WILL STOP WORKING! [Browsers, Office365, Cisco and many others]
• January 2020 – Qualys SSLLabs will rate your TLS1.0 setup as B – Qualys will de-grade you HERE
• June 2020 – Microsoft plans to deprecate TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 in Office 365 and Office 365 GCC – HERE
• 31^st of December 2020 – Brexit Finalised?
• 1^st of July 20201 – Freedom from viruses?

Link HERE

• November 3rd 2020: Trump’s second term start

Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping

A vital connection for the Chinese diaspora, the app has also become a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. The United States has proposed banning it

Link HERE

“Yourefired” was Donald Trump’s Twitter password, claim hackers

Link HERE

• 2022 – First trip to Mars according to Elon Musk
• 2023 – 3DES is deprecated for all new applications and usage is disallowed after 2023 HERE
• 2024 – Back to the Moon according to Trump and NASA

After a tantalizing discovery at Venus, what could an astrobiology mission look like?

Link HERE

• December 31st, 2020 Flash End-of-Life
• US Government Websites Will be Accessible Through HTTPS Only, After September 1

Book of the month

Security Engineering (coming in December 2020, draft available)

Link HERE and drafts available HERE

Comic of the week

##Some OWASP stuff first

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