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This week in InfoSec (07:14) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 12th November 2000 Microsoft Declares Tablets Are the Future Bill Gates demonstrates a functional prototype of a Tablet PC. Microsoft claims “the Tablet PC will represent the next major evolution in PC design and functionality.” However, the Tablet PC initiative never really took off...

This week in InfoSec (08:27) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 4th November 2005: Microsoft AntiSpyware was renamed Windows Defender.  https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1191478555634323456 5th November 1993: The Bugtraq mailing list was created by Scott Chasin. In 1995 it became the property of SecurityFocus, in 2002 Symantec acquired Sec...

This week in InfoSec 3rd November 2000: A Dutch hacker gained access to Microsoft's network by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft issued a patch for 10 weeks earlier.  The Patch MS Forgot to Apply https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1323807889425895424 25th October 2013: Adobe revealed that a breach of 2.9 million customer accounts made public 3 weeks earlier actually affected 38 million u...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 29th October 1969: The first message sent over the ARPANET was from Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA computer, sent by student programmer Charley Kline at 10:30 PM to the second node at Stanford Research Institute’s computer in Menlo Park, California. The message was simply "Lo." But not on purpose....

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 18th October 1985: Nintendo releases the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in New York and limited other North American markets. An immediate hit, Nintendo released the game nationwide in February 1986. Along with the NES, Nintendo released eighteen games that day, including: 10-Yard Fight...

This week in InfoSec October 12 1988  (a mere 34 years ago)  Hailed by Steve Jobs as a computer “five years ahead of its time”, NeXT, Inc. introduces their NeXT Computer. Due to its cube-shaped case, the computer was often referred to as “The Cube” or “The NeXT Cube”, which led to the subsequent model offically being named “NeXTcube“. The new computer introduced several innovations to personal com...

From @HostUnknownTV This week in Infosec 2nd October 1998: BUTTSniffer Beta 0.9 was released by Cult of the Dead Cow. Developed by DilDog. The big question is "When can we expect the long-awaited version 1.0 release?" 24 years is kind of a long wait.  https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1312179619659874305    3rd October 2017: A week after he retired as the result of Equifax's data breach, f...

This week in InfoSec (06:37) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 27th September, 1998: For some peculiar reason, Google has at times chosen the date of September 27th as their birthday, even though it is more officially September 4th or 7th . Google has no explanation for celebrating their birthday on different days over the years other than to say...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 9th September 1947: An error in the Mark II computer at Harvard University was due to a moth trapped in a relay. The moth was attached to the log book with notation "first actual case of bug being found."   https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1303717480423133186 11th September 1992: The...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 6th September 2011: Luis Mijangos received a 6 year prison sentence. His crimes included sextortion, stealing financial info, and webcam monitoring.  California's "Sextortion" Hacker Sentenced to Prison https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1302770088471298049 3rd September 1995: The onli...

This week in InfoSec (09:07) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 30th August 1999: The previously unknown group Hackers Unite claimed responsibility for disclosing a vulnerability in Hotmail that granted access to all of its roughly 50 million users' email accounts. 13 years later Microsoft rebranded Hotmail, renaming it Outlook. Hotmail Hackers: '...

This week in InfoSec: (The one and only): 23rd August 2006: SpoofCard confirmed that Paris Hilton was among the terminated customers, and that Lindsay Lohan was among those whose voicemail accounts were broken into. SpoofCard said it had implemented controls to prevent recurrences. Paris Hilton: Master Hacker? https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1297213638059728896 26th August 2008: It was r...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 18th August 2003: The Nachi worm began infecting Windows computers to remove the Blaster worm and patch the vulnerability Nachi and Blaster exploited. Yes, you read that right. Yes, this happened. Gotta love it! https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1163142725740331008 17th August 2007: D...

This Week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 10th August 1988: 34 years ago today, Dade Murphy aka Zero Cool crashed 1507 computers, causing a 7 point drop in the NY stock exchange. He was 11 and his family was fined $45,000. He was banned from touching a computer until he turned 18. https://twitter.com/hakluke/status/155724208642387148...

This week in InfoSec (9:23) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 29th July 1985: An article in the New York Times cited multiple experts who alleged the vote counting systems of Computer Election Systems are vulnerable to tampering. Yep. Election systems vulnerabilities aren't a new phenomenon. Not even close.  COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS FOR VOTING SEEN A...

This week in InfoSec  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 25th July 2007: The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that IP addresses and to/from email fields can be monitored without probable cause.  Appeals Court Rules No Privacy Interest in IP Addresses, Email To/From Fields https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1154791990397042688 29th Ju...

This week in InfoSec (10:25) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 17th July 1997: Major Disruption in Sending Most E-Mail Messages.  A programming error temporarily threw the Internet into disarray in a preview of the difficulties that inevitably accompany a world dependent on e-mail, the World Wide Web, and other electronic communications. At 2:30...

This Week in InfoSec (08:09) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 12th July 2008: NextGenHacker101 taught us "how to view someone's IP address and connection speed!" Tracer-tee! Naive? Troll? You decide. Painfully hilarious.  https://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1414224928413454341    13th July 2001: Code Red Worms...

This Week in InfoSec (08:04) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 8th July 2011: Space Rogue broadcast the final HNNCast. And with that, the Hacker News Network came to an end. Final broadcast: https://www.facebook.com/78983739181/videos/10150254277486182/   https://youtu.be/UdKyDqU1p-4 1st July 1979: The first Sony Walkman , the TPS-L2, goes on sal...

This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 28th June 2000: The Pikachu virus began spreading. It is believed to be the first virus targeting children, incorporating Pikachu from the Pokémon series.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu_virus https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1277433652519899137 29th June 2007: Nearly 6 mont...

This week in InfoSec (12:04) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 24th June 1998: The NSA published the Skipjack encryption algorithm used by the Clipper chip, after the algorithm was declassified. Clipper Chip https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1275882063753699328 24th June 2012: In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Macs, Apple...

This Week in InfoSec (08:56) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 17th June 1997: Hackers deciphered computer code written in the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which had been designed to be an impenetrable encryption software. A group of users organised over the Internet cracked the software -- the strongest legally exportable encryption software...

This week in InfoSec (06:06) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 3rd June 1983: The science fiction film WarGames is released. Notable for bringing the hacking phenomena to the attention of the American public, it ignites a media sensation regarding the hacker sub-culture. The film’s NORAD set is the most expensive ever built at the time at a cost...

This Week in InfoSec (07:52) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 31st May 1999, Sega released the video game Zero Wing for the Sega Mega Drive system in Europe. The game was never released in North America, and was relatively unknown until years later when the poorly translated opening scene was popularized on the Internet. The most famous mistrans...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 - Vote Here! We’re the 5th category down: “The Underdogs - Best Non-Vendor Cybersecurity Podcast”   This Week in InfoSec (06:25) With content liberated from the “Today in InfoSec” twitter account and further afield 26th May 1995: Realising his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates...