The Host Unknown Podcast

The usual malarkey of catching up on the boys, this week in infosec, rant of the week, billy big balls, industry news, and tweet of the week. All the goodness in one package. It's the host unknown podcast!  Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

19th February 1999: The movie "Office Space" was released. With a budget of $10 million, it grossed a measly $13 million worldwide, but became a cult classic with its homage to Superman III's salami slicing and Jennifer Aniston's rant against 37 pieces of flair. Now where's my stapler? It's a masterclass in a fraud , a segregation of duties failure, or a monitoring gap — but back in 1999, it was j...

This week in Infosec reminds us of the real reason we click on links Rant of the week is going to put a lot of Parisien street artists out of work Billy Big Balls proves that on the internet nobody knows you are a dog Industry News brings us the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And Tweet of the Week makes Thom wonder when Fat Thursdays are coming to the UK Come on! L...

Same format.  Banter, lame jokes, inside jokes, lame inside jokes.  This week in infosec  A weak rant. A billy big balls  Industry news Some tweet of the week. And closing thoughts Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

5th November 1993: Bugtraq was created by Scott Chasin as a full disclosure vulnerability reporting mailing list at the dawn of the World Wide Web. Bugtraq had an enormous influence on how orgs responded to vuln disclosure and paved the way for a shift which led to bug bounty programs. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1986164925039841770    24th October 2002: The worm-like Friendgreet propagate...

This week in InfoSec is a Mitnick/Android double act https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/27/#hacker-mitnick-indicted-on-charges https://thisdayintechhistory.com/09/23/the-first-android-introduced/  Rant of the Week is the future of the UK, the future I tell you… New digital ID will be mandatory for workers in the UK Billy Big Balls gives the best reason ever to go full speed ahead with...

18th September 2014: Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards. Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1968870469408309285 18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilizing 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread viru...

The notes go here. I really can't go and look for them right now.    This week in InfoSec is a sticky pickle Rant of the Week will have you guessing at who it could possibly be, again… Billy Big Balls is why british men need to take their passport to the bathroom these days Industry News is the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And Tweet of the Week is well... Thom go...

8th July 2008: Several DNS vendors released patches to mitigate an attack method discovered by Dan Kaminsky which could be used to cause DNS cache poisoning. Kaminsky had discovered the vulnerability 6 months prior and reported it to vendors privately so they could address it. RIP, Dan. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1942695691270193211 10th July 1999: Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member DilDog...

27th June 2007: Live Free or Die Hard was released. Cop John McClane partners with hacker Matt Farrell to stop cyberterrorists trying to take down the US's infrastructure. Traceroute (1337!) is used to find the ringleader's location, then McClane kills him by shooting HIS OWN shoulder. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1938731279937057144       1st July 2003: California's data breach notificatio...

17th June 1995: Spyglass goes public World Wide Web software producer Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it had begun distributing its Spyglass Mosaic software, an early browser for navigating the Web. With previous year's earnings at $7 million, Spyglass was founded by students at the Illinois Supercomputing Center, which also inspired Netscape Communications Corp. https://www.computerhist...

11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1932838235102716317 13th June 1994: A Russian hacker group led by Vladimir Levin stole $10.7 million from Citibank via X.25, in what was the first international bank robbery over a network to be made public. Levin was caught in London in 1995 and sentenced in the US to 3 years in prison in 1998. https://x.co...

26th May 1995: Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “ The Internet Tidal Wave ,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer — a development that he was as...

  Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line https://x.com/fesshole/status/1925815219655233765?s=46&t=1-Sjo1Vy8SG7OdizJ3wVbg And of course... can't NOT mention: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2lh/inside-the-high-street-cyberattacks  Come on! Like and bloody well subs...

As always we will bring you today in infosec, a rant, admire a billy big ball move, talk about industry news, and bring you a tweet or alternatively suitable social media post of the week. Hey, it's hard enough Thom being off that I have to edit and publish this, I need to find an AI to write the notes for me. Love you all, Javvad... now go an subscribe!  Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

Episode 219 of the Host Unknown Podcast covers a wide range of humorous and insightful discussions relating to both technology and personal anecdotes. Key segments include a nostalgic look back at significant moments in InfoSec history, as well as a critique of a poorly-constructed analogy between casino strategies and cybersecurity. The hosts also discuss the misadventures of an AI app that wasn'...

This week in InfoSec  (10:26) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 1st April 1998: Hackers changed the MIT home page to read "Disney to Acquire MIT for $6.9 Billion". https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1907094503552336134       1st April 2004: The now ubiquitous Gmail service is launched as an invitation-only beta service. At first met with skeptic...

This week in InfoSec  (11:22) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 27th February 2002: Timothy Allen Lloyd was sentenced to 41 months in prison for activating a logic bomb at Omega Engineering, 20 days after being fired as a network administrator. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1895255588881474024      18th February 2013: Burger King's Twitter...

This week in InfoSec  (11:10) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 4th December 2013: Troy Hunt launched the free-to-search site "Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP)". At launch, passwords from the Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo! Voices, and Sony Pictures breaches were indexed. Today? Billions of  compromised records from hundreds of breaches. https://twitter...

This week in InfoSec   With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 24th November 2014: The Washington Post published an article which included a photo of TSA master keys. A short time later functional keys were 3-d printed using the key patterns in the photo. Oops. https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1860803840620044356     22nd November 2010: Matt B...

This week in InfoSec  (08:24) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 12th November 2012: John McAfee went into hiding because his neighbour, Gregory Faull, was found dead from a gunshot. Belize police wanted him to come in for questioning, but he fled to Guatemala where he was then arrested. He was never charged, though he lost a $25 million wrongful...

This week in InfoSec (13:28) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 5th November 1993: Bugtraq was created by Scott Chasin as a full disclosure vulnerability reporting mailing list at the dawn of the World Wide Web. Bugtraq had an enormous influence on how orgs responded to vuln disclosure and paved the way for a shift which led to bug bounty programs...

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How does Thom also do the episode notes?  This week in infosec  was about a EULA Rant of the week https://securityaffairs.com/170125/laws-and-regulations/sec-fined-4-companies-misleading-disclosures-impact-solarwinds-attack.html Billy Big Balls https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/anthropic_claude_model_can_use_computers/ Some news articles from infosecurity-magazine.com  Tweet of the week  http...

This week in InfoSec  (08:29) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 10th October 1995: Netscape introduced the "Netscape Bugs Bounty", a program rewarding users who report "bugs" in the beta versions of its recently announced Netscape Navigator 2.0 web browser. Navigator was the dominant browser from 1995-1998, when it was overtaken by Internet Explo...