The Host Unknown Podcast

This Week in InfoSec (07:03) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th May 2003: In the Friends episode "The One in Barbados, Part One", Ross Geller's laptop was infected by the Kournikova worm when Chandler Bing checked his email on it and opened an email claiming to contain nude images of tennis player Ana Kournikova. https://twitter.com/todayinin...

This Week in InfoSec (07:30) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 9th May 2006: Jeanson James Ancheta became the first person to be charged for controlling a botnet. He had hijacked around 500,000 computers and was sentenced to 57 months in prison, forfeiture of a 1993 BMW and $58,000 in profit, and restitution of $15,000.  Jeanson James Ancheta htt...

This week in infosec I was a teenage botmaster   Rant of the week  (Thom, how do I add images to this section?) I want to use the images and description you used  here https://podcast.hostunknown.tv/episodes/episode-102-end-of-an-era  Never mind. I'll type it out. Rant is about EC Council being EC council  Billy Big balls The Indian government has issued new directives requiring organizations to r...

This Week in Infosec (09:52) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield [None]   Rant of the Week (10:59) https://twitter.com/johnjhacking/status/1520877711094394884?s=21&t=nryrC32Sfqnyb1x0_0K2YA Full story: https://twitter.com/johnjhacking/status/1521629688120156160?s=21&t=nryrC32Sfqnyb1x0_0K2YA   Billy Big balls of the Week (19:45) The Indian government...

This Week in InfoSec (09:26) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter  account and further afield 26th April 2013: LivingSocial informed its employees that 50 million users' names, emails, dates of birth, and SHA1 hashed passwords were compromised. LivingSocial Hacked https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1519039747301199872 26th April 1999: The first known virus to target th...

This Week In InfoSec (10:15) 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://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1245550127806201857 MIT says "Disney buys MIT" hack revealed by low price 1st April 2004: The now ubiquitous Gmail service is launched as an in...

This Week in InfoSec (09:55) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 31st March 1999: The hugely successful motion picture, The Matrix , is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that’s me), many call it influential (ok, me again), but no one can deny that the impact it had on many aspects of our society from the emerging tech culture, to th...

Links https://www.theguardian.com/uk/canoe  Authentication oufit Okta investigating Lapsus$ breach report  Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal Netflix to Charge Password Sharers Background Check Company Sued Over Data Breach Okta Confirms 2.5% of Customers Impacted by Lapsus Breach Medical Service Leaks 12,000 Sensitive Patient Images West Blocks Russia's Access...

This Week in InfoSec (08:06) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 15th March 1985: The first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. 16th March 2018: National Lottery owner Camelot has warned of a "low level" cyber-attack that affected customer accounts.  It has asked all of its customers to change...

This Week in InfoSec (08:22) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 6th March 1992:  The Michelangelo virus , so-named because it activates on March 6, the birthday of Michelangelo, begins infecting computers. The virus will also make news in 1993. It was one of the earliest viruses to receive widespread media attention and also one of the first to pr...

This Week in InfoSec (08:37) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 7th March 1997: During a hearing on Microsoft’s alleged antitrust activities, Bill Gates admits Microsoft’s contracts bar Internet content providers from promoting Netscape’s browser. Eventually, Internet Explorer dominates the web browser market as it is shipped for free with every c...

This Week in InfoSec (11:37) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield 23rd February 2005: The discovery of the first mobile phone virus, Cabir , is accounced. Specifically, Cabir is a worm which infects phones running the Symbian OS. Whenever an infected phone is activated, the message “Caribe” is displayed. Infected phones also attempts to spread the v...

  This Week in InfoSec (07:54) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 15th February 1999 Computer owners (dominated by Linux users) marched on Microsoft’s offices demanding refunds for the copies of Windows that came pre-installed on their computers. This day came to be known as Windows Refund Day . 15th February 2007: TSA Removes Online Traveller Red...

This Week in InfoSec (04:44) February 5th 2009 Come on Kaspersky, if you think you’re hard enough.. February 5th 2009 The Sophos snowball fight February 9th 2009 Hacked road sign warns of British invasion   Rant of the Week (16:01) Hackers are hitting Britain where it hurts by targeting some of its favourite savoury snacks, with the likes of Hula Hoops, KP Nuts, Butterkist popcorn and Nik Naks in...

This Week in InfoSec (05:24) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 30th January 1982: The first computer virus was written.  Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple II boot program called “ Elk Cloner “. 3rd February 1986: "Vaporware" Announced.  Time magazine reports on frustrations with the...

This Week in InfoSec (07:20) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield 26th January 2011: Facebook Enables HTTPS So You Can Share Without Being Hijacked.  Facebook announced Wednesday it would begin supporting a feature to protect users from having their accounts hijacked over Wi-Fi connections or snooped on by schools and businesses. 19th January 2012:...

This Week in InfoSec (06:23) With content liberated from the “Today in InfoSec” twitter account and further afield 19th January 1999: The Happy99 worm first appeared. It invisibly attached itself to emails, displayed fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wished the user a happy New Year. It was the first of a wave of malware that struck Microsoft Windows computers over the next several yea...

This week in Infosec (06:30) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 12th 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 o...

This Week in InfoSec (6:20) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 1st January 1997: The Cult of the Dead Cow admitted it was responsible for the Good Times virus hoax of 1994. Good times virus https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1212558619205607426 [Covered this story last month so will axe it] 2nd January 1975: Gates and Allen Name "Micro-Soft".  Microsoft found...

This Week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 16th December 1988: 25-year-old computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was charged for crimes including theft of software from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), including VMS source code and allegedly causing $4 million in damages to DEC. Ex-Computer Whiz Kid Held on New Fraud Counts https://twitter.com/todayininfose...

Andy’s mattress This Week in InfoSec (11:46) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account  7th December 1999: 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 forcing the service to...

This Week in InfoSec (06:57) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 4th December 2013: Troy Hunt launched the site "Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP)". At launch, passwords from the Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo! Voices, and Sony Pictures breaches were indexed.   https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1335020238765744129 1st December 1996: America Online launches a new subs...

This Week in InfoSec (11:00) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 23rd November 2011: It was reported that Apple took over 3 years to fix the iTunes installer vulnerability which the FinFisher remote spying Trojan exploited. Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Hole https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1331028461612392448 20th November 2000: eBay cancelled...

IRISSCON - https://www.iriss.ie/   This week in Infosec (12:19) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 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.  Good Times Vir...

This Week in InfoSec (09:55) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 10th November 1983: At a security seminar, Len Adleman used "virus" in connection with self-replicating computer programs. Afterwards, use of the term took off. But it wasn't the first use of "virus" in this way - the 1973 movie "Westworld" used it to describe malfunctions spreading in robots. https://t...