This week in Infosec

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account12th January 1981: Time Magazine published "Superzapping in Computer Land". Its primary focus was four 13-year-olds from New York City who broke into 2 computer networks and destroyed 1 million bits of data. Yes, a whopping 0.125 MB. Have a read of the article.Superzapping in Computer Land - The ride of the "Dalton Gang"https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/148135276347683225613th January 1989: The “Friday the 13th” virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain. This is one of the most famous early examples of a computer virus making headlines.THE EXECUTIVE COMPUTER; Friday the 13th: A Virus Is Lurking Rant of the Week

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of appsUsers of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking.Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's much more to the story.The developer of these libraries intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects that depend on 'colors' and 'faker.'  Billy Big Balls of the Week

Info-saturated techie builds bug alert service that phones you to warn of new vulnsAn infosec pro fed up of having to follow tedious Twitter accounts to stay on top of cybersecurity developments has set up a website that phones you if there's a new vuln you really need to know about. Industry News

FlexBooker Reveals Major Customer Data BreachForensics Expert Kept Murder Snaps on PCRomance Scammers Stole £92m From Victims Last YearEuropean Union to Launch Supply Chain Attack SimulationEuropol Ordered to Delete Vast Trove of Personal InformationTeen Makes Tesla Hacking ClaimTwo Years for Man Who Used RATs to Spy on Women and ChildrenFCC Proposes Stricter Data Breach Reporting RequirementsNew "Undetected" Backdoor Runs Across Three OS Platforms Tweet of the Week