The Host Unknown Podcast

This week in InfoSec  (06:16) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 6th January 2014: Intel renamed its McAfee subsidiary Intel Security, distancing itself from the name of McAfee's founder, John McAfee. In 2017 Intel spun off McAfee as a separate company...then several months later John McAfee and Intel settled a lawsuit over Intel's use of the McAf...

This week in InfoSec (12:55) With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 11th December 2010: The hacker group Gnosis released the source code for Gawker's website and 1.3 million of its users' password hashes. After a jury found Gawker's parent company liable in a lawsuit filed by Hulk Hogan and awarded him $140 million, Gawker shut down in 2016.  https://...

This week in InfoSec (07:51) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 5th December 2011: Fyodor reported that CNET's http://Download.com had been wrapping its Nmap downloads in a trojan installer...in order to monetize spyware and adware. CNET quickly stopped, then resumed within days, it affected other downloads, and was a debacle. Download.com Caught...

This week in InfoSec  (09:40) 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.  https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1728048404452782497 26th November 2001: "In an e...

This week in InfoSec (06:40)  23rd November 2011: KrebsonSecurity reported that Apple took over 3 years to fix the iTunes software update process vulnerability which the FinFisher remote spying Trojan exploited. Evilgrade toolkit author Francisco Amato had reported it to Apple in 2008. Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Hole https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1727687798017106025 12...

6:48 This week in InfoSec   With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th November 1994: The earliest known example of the Good Times email hoax virus was posted to the TECH-LAW mailing list. Variants of the hoax spread for several years. In 1997, Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) claimed responsibility for initiating the hoax.. https://twitter.com/todayininfo...

This Week in InfoSec (05:41)  2002: In response to a report which insinuated Mac is less vulnerable than Windows, Microsoft suggested few focus on discovering Mac vulnerabilities and that products with more customers will have more vulnerabilities reported. https://t.co/WOUUDOB0g6 https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1721895407545143382?s=20   Rant of the Week (11:09) Photos of naked patients and m...

This week in InfoSec  (07:11) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 26th October 2006: Christopher Soghoian created a website allowing visitors to generate fake airlines boarding passes. A congressman called for his arrest, his ISP shut down his site, the FBI raided his home, and then the same congressman said DHS should hire him. His career since? N...

This week in InfoSec  (09:48) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 8th October 2018: Google announced that it exposed the private info of hundreds of thousands of Google+ users between 2015 and 2018, only disclosing it 7 months after discovery because it was reported by The Wall Street Journal. Social network Google+ launched in 2011 and closed in 2...

This week in InfoSec (08:56) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 2006: The http://wikileaks.org domain name was registered, though the first document wasn't posted to WikiLeaks until December. Assange taken from Ecuador embassy in April 2019, since been staying at his majesty’s pleasure at Belmarsh. 2005: The Samy worm, the first self-propagating c...

This week in InfoSec (08:45) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 25th September 1986: "The Hacker Manifesto" was published by The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) in issue 7 of the hacker zine Phrack. It was originally titled "The Conscience of a Hacker".  Phrack #7 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706364950623515017    26th September 1988: Time...

This week in InfoSec (09:32) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilising 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/worm after only 22 minutes. $ echo "admin" | rev nimda   https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1703760366688211041 16th September 2008: 20-year-old David...

This week in InfoSec (08:18) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 13th September 2011: Backup tapes containing info on 4.9 million TRICARE military health care customers were stolen from an SAIC employee's parked car which a burglar broke into by breaking a vent window.   TRICARE Breach Affects 4.9 Million https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1...

This week in InfoSec (11:51) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 6th September 1987: Thomas Haynie was accused of intentionally jamming Playboy's satellite network with a text-only message. Haynie was an uplink engineer at the Christian Broadcasting Network and was on duty at the time of the jamming. He received 3 years of probation.  CBN engineer...

This week in InfoSec (10:17) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 29th August 1990: The British Computer Misuse Act Goes into Effect   One of the earliest laws anywhere designed to address computer fraud, the Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers -- in one well-publicised case, two men hacked into a British...

This week in InfoSec (14:00) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 18th August 2003: The Nachi worm began infecting Windows computers with the goal of REMOVING the Blaster worm and patching the vulnerability exploited by both worms.    Worm aims to eradicate Blaster https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1692616573524050259 26th August 2008: It wa...

This week in InfoSec (11:56) With content liberated from the “Today in Infosec” Twitter account and further afield 4th August 1998: Microsoft published a critical security bulletin MS98-010, titled 'Information on the "Back Orifice" Program'.   Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 - Critical https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1423037189714219020     27th July 2000: In security bulletin MS00...

This week in InfoSec (05:54) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 18th July 2011: Microsoft Hotmail announced that it would be banning very common passwords such as "123456" and "ilovecats".   https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1416957326205100035    27th July 1990: The case of United States v. Riggs was decided. Robert J. Riggs (Prophet) had...

This week in InfoSec (09:59) With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 18th July 2011: LulzSec hacked the Sun newspaper's website, redirecting visitors to a hoax article claiming Rupert Murdoch died after ingesting palladium.   Hacked Sun site greatly exaggerates Murdoch's death https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1681469966527213568   14th July 20...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 13th July 2001: Code Red Worms its Way into the Internet The Code Red worm is released onto the Internet. Targeting Microsoft’s IIS web server, Code Red had a significant effect on the Internet due to the speed and efficiency of its spread . Much of this was due to the fact that IIS was often...

This week in InfoSec (11:06) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 6th July 1995: Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus IBM completes a $3.5 billion buyout of Lotus Development, the producer of the once-dominant Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software and the then-popular Lotus Notes groupware. IBM had hoped to leverage Lotus 1-2-3 to challenge the increasingly d...

This week in InfoSec (11:36)  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 26th June 1997: Communications Decency Act Declared Unconstitutional The US Supreme Court ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional on a 7-2 vote. The act, passed by both houses of Congress, sought to control the content of the Internet in an effort to keep pornography fr...

This week in InfoSec (10:26) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 17th June 1997: A group of users organised over the Internet cracked the Data Encryption Standard — the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States to that point — after only five months of work. The United States at the time banned the export of stronger enc...

This week in InfoSec (12:01)  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 12th June 1989: Callers to a Florida probation office were connected to a phone sex line. Southern Bell officials said it was the first time their switching equipment had been reprogrammed by a hacker.  Phrack #27 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1668417281112637441 15th Jun...

This week in InfoSec (10:21) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 8th June 1989: The beta release of the Bourne Again SHell (Bash) was announced as version 0.99. 2 months later Shellshock was introduced into the Bash source code and persisted in subsequent versions for over 25 years. v0.99 release announcement https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/stat...