Talkin’ About Infosec News – 8/21/2023

Brought to you by Antisyphon Training — https://www.antisyphontraining.com (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Overarching Hot Takes (01:27) - BHIS - Talkin' Bout [infosec] News 2023-08-21 (04:30) - Story # 1: Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’ (06:18) - Story # 1b: What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots (08:46) - Story # 2: US lawmaker says FBI notified him of email breach linked to Microsoft cloud hack (11:18) - Story # 3: Elon Musk's army of inactive followers paints a bleak picture of X as a whole (12:42) - Story # 3b: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule (18:45) - Story # 4: Haggling With Hackers: Surprising Lessons From 50 Negotiations With Ransomware Gangs (23:42) - Story # 5: WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives (27:55) - Story # 6: CISA, experts warn of Citrix vulnerabilities being exploited by hackers (29:44) - Story # 7: Ongoing Duo outage causes Azure Auth authentication errors (30:38) - Story # 8: Phishing campaign steals accounts for Zimbra email servers worlwide (35:48) - Story # 9: WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs (38:35) - Story # 9b: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023 (42:07) - Story # 10: NYC Bans TikTok on City Devices (55:38) - Story # 11: IMAX Still Runs on PalmPilot Operating System (57:25) - Story # 12: Major LinkedIn Account Takeover Campaign Underway