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Voting has closed for this years European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards has closed. Did you vote with your conscience, or did you vote for us?   This week in InfoSec (08:33) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 30th May 1972: John Postel published RFC 349, Proposed Standard Socket Numbers. RFC 349 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/12668054067...

This week in InfoSec (09:59) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 26th May 2006: BackTrack v1.0 was released. https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1265471687761424384 21st May 2012: Nmap 6.00 was released. https://nmap.org/6/ https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1263589918107791362 23rd May 1997: Carlos Felipe Salgado Jr. (aka "Smak"), who...

European Security Blogger Awards 2023 Vote for us (and Thom and teissTalk) here: https://forms.gle/o6LwY6t5bSY9Fp5CA    This week in InfoSec (11:24) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th May 2011: Sony Begins Restoration of Its PlayStation Network after Cyber Attack After a malicious cyber attack compromises Sony Computer Entertainment's data ce...

This week in InfoSec (09:16) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 11th May 1997: Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov in Tournament Match The IBM computer and artificial intelligence Deep Blue defeats reigning chess champion and one of the greatest chess players of all time, Garry Kasparov , in the 6th and deciding game of a tournament match, thus becoming th...

Vote for us here! -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepvnj8b7QzMdLh7vWEDQDqohjBUsHyn3x3xRdYGCetwVy2DA/viewform This week in InfoSec (08:15) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 3rd May 1978: Earliest known case of spam.  Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative for Digital Equipment Corporation, sends out an e-mail promoting an open house f...

This Week In InfoSec (09:00) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 23rd April 2008: Microsoft announced that some of its antivirus tools had mislabeled Skype as adware for several days due to a bad definition update. 3 years later Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion. Microsoft mislabels Skype as adware https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/12...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 19th April 1965: Electronics magazine publishes an article by Gordon Moore , head of research and development for Fairchild Semiconductor and future co-founder of Intel, on the future of semiconductor components. In the article, Moore predicts that transistor density on integrated circuits wi...

This week in InfoSec (08:48) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 5th April 2002: A hacker compromised a server containing California's payroll database. The state's Controller's Office waited 2 weeks to warn victims. As a result angry lawmakers reacted by passing the first state data breach notification law in the US, SB 1386.    https://twitter.co...

This Week in InfoSec (08:33) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 29th March 2010: OpenSSL version 1.0.0 was released. It's easy to take for granted how pervasive the open source library is in the myriad of technologies used to transmit data over the internet and other networks. Take a moment to think about it.  https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/st...

This week in InfoSec (12:47) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 22nd March 2018: The city of Atlanta announced it was victim to a ransomware attack. The attackers demanded $51,000 worth of bitcoin to release the encrypted data, but Atlanta didn't pay the ransom. Whether or not to pay ransom isn't a simple or easy matter, but this proved to be expe...

This week in InfoSec (06:13)  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th March 2000: The movie "Takedown" was released in France as "Cybertr@que". It is based on the capture of Kevin Mitnick  Takedown on IMDb https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1636083404117557248   16th March 1971: The first computer virus, Creeper, infected computers on the A...

This week in InfoSec ( 11:47) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 4th March 1989: The article "COMPUTER DETECTIVE FOLLOWED TRAIL TO HACKER SPY SUSPECT" was published. It covers how Clifford Stoll's discovery of a 75¢ accounting discrepancy led to the arrest of Marcus Hess. It was also the topic of Stoll's book, The Cuckoo's Egg.  COMPUTER DETECTIVE...

The one and only Andy (13:10) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 2nd March 2013: Evernote announced that it had reset 50 million users' passwords after hackers accessed users' email addresses and hashed passwords.  https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1631302952395710467 1st March 1988: The MS-DOS boot sector virus "Ping-Pong" was discovered...

This week in Infosec 20th February 2003: Alan Giang Tran, former network admin for 2 companies, was arrested after allegedly destroying data on the companies' networks. Two months later he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer. Man arrested for allegedly shutting down employers' computers https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/162774885785659...

This week in InfoSec (10:48) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 14th February 2001: In a presentation at Black Hat Windows Security 2001, Andrey Malyshev of ElcomSoft shared that Microsoft Excel uses a default encryption password of "VelvetSweatshop".   Blackhat 2001 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1625569758216130561 15th February 1999:...

This week in InfoSec (09:53) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 10th February 199 Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov In the first game of a six game match, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov. No computer had ever won a game against a world champion in chess. Kasparov would eventually win the series 4-2, but would lose to...

This week in InfoSec (11:52) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 31st January 1995: AT&T and VLSI Protect Against Eavesdropping AT&T Bell Laboratories and VLSI Technology announce plans to develop strategies for protecting communications devices from eavesdroppers. The goal would be to prevent problems such as insecure cellular phone lines and Inte...

This week in InfoSec 10:35) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 16th January 1983: Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale The Lotus Development Corporation releases Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM computers. While not the first spreadsheet program, Lotus was able to develop 1-2-3 because the creators of VisiCalc , the first spreadsheet, did not patent their software . 1-2-3...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 19th January 1999: BlackBerry Introduced RIM introduces the BlackBerry . The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers. They way the story goes, the name “BlackBerry” came from the similar...

This week in InfoSec (09:55) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 12th January 1996: Apple posts major loss Apple Computer announces that it will post a US$68 million first quarter loss . It also announces a restructuring plan to reduce the company by a thousand employees. This event leads to the resignation of Apple CEO Michael Spindler, who is rep...

This week in InfoSec (07:15) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 3rd January 2009: The Genesis of Bitcoin The pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto mines the first 50 bitcoins, now known as the Genesis Block , six days before the initial release of the bitcoin software and launch of the cryptocurrency network . Bitcoin has become the de-fac...

This week in InfoSec (09:44) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th December 1995: AltaVista Launches Developed by researchers at Digital Equipment Research Laboratories , the AltaVista search engine is launched. It was the first world wide web search service to gain significant popularity. One of the most popular search engines in the early worl...

This week in InfoSec (11:40) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 7th December 1999: RIAA Sues Napster The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster alleging copyright infringement for allowing users to download copyrighted music for free. The RIAA would eventually win injunctions against Napster fo...

This week in InfoSec (06:17) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 27th November 1995: Microsoft Shipped Internet Explorer 2.0 Microsoft Corp. shipped Internet Explorer 2.0, starting a browser war with the popular Netscape Navigator.  Netscape Communications Corp. had had a virtual monopoly on World Wide Web browsers since the infancy of the web. The...

This week in InfoSec (11:48) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 24th November 1998: AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $4.2 billion . At the time it was considered a good move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Mic...