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This week in infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account Honourable mention for the Morris Worm 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...

This Week in InfoSec (08:13) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 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. Charley Kli...

This Week in InfoSec (13:03) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 20th October 1996: Twenty-five years ago today. Happy birthday, Ping of Death.  Ping of Death https://twitter.com/ajMSFT/status/1450833383597043713?s=20 15th October 1985: 50 FBI agents raided more than 20 homes, seizing 25 personal computers (mostly Commodore 64s) after a group of at least 23 teenagers...

This Week in Infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 13th October 1999: An episode of the "True Life" documentary series titled "I'm a Hacker" aired on MTV. Afterwards one of the hackers featured on the show, Shamrock, issued a statement revealing that the whole thing was a hoax to dupe MTV. D'oh MTV made to look ridiculous by fake hacker True Life 'I'm a Hacker'...

This Week in InfoSec (08:01) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 8th September 2009: FBI director Robert Mueller disclosed that his wife banned him from banking online after he nearly fell for an email phishing scam. Wife bans FBI head from online banking https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1314002293226905600 3rd October 2017: A week after he retired as the re...

Jav's Record Breakers 14th October  https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/biggest-virtual-cybersecurity-lesson-tickets-166314899341   https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/organizers-of-security-serious-week-aim-to-set-new-guinness-world-records-title-for-viewership-of-an-online-security-lesson-301376191.html   This week in Infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 27th S...

This Week in InfoSec (04:56) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 18th September 2015: Google notified Symantec that the latter issued 23 test certificates for five organizations, including Google and Opera, without the domain owners' knowledge. Symantec performed an audit and announced that an additional 2,622 test certificates were mis-issued. Sustaining Digital Cer...

This Week in InfoSec (04:09) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 16th September 2008: 20-year-old David Kernell compromised the Yahoo! email account of US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, then posted her emails to 4chan. 2 years later he was found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison. At age 30 he died of complications related to MS. Student convicted of...

This Week in InfoSec (11:14) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 5th September 1983: The term "hacker" was used by Newsweek, mainstream media's earliest known use of the term in the pejorative sense. The magazine's cover photo of 17-year-old 414s (hacker group) member Neal Patrick was captioned '414 "Hacker" Neal Patrick.'. ‘Hacker’ is used by mainstream media, Septe...

This Week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 1st September 1997: Nmap was first released as a simple port scanner via an article in issue 51 of Phrack magazine which included the source code. http://phrack.org/issues/51/11.html https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1300864278497558528 31st August 2014: A user of the message board 4chan posted leaked p...

This week in Infosec (13:24) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 25th August 1991: Linux completes 30 years. It was on this date in 1991 that Linus Torvalds announced the first version. He actually wanted to call it as Freax, but his friend Ari Lemmke named it as Linux, which he accepted. Version 1.0 would later be released in March 1994. https://twitter.com/SadaaShr...

This week in Infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 14th August 2013: Affinity Health Plan was fined $1,215,780 for a HIPAA violation after a photocopier purchased by CBS for an investigatory report in 2010 revealed medical info. At $1.2M, photocopy breach proves costly https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1294252352191565824    17th August 2005: Jason Smat...

This Week in Infosec (14:29) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 10th August 2001: A Japanese woman, Kumiyo Kishi, was arrested for accessing her coworker's email account, then contacting the user's ISP to regain access after the coworker changed their password. Japan arrests woman for email snooping https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1425123899474423811   7th...

This Week in InfoSec (07:40)  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 30th July 2013: Chelsea Manning (their name was Bradley Manning at the time) was found guilty of espionage, theft, and computer fraud, as well as military infractions. United States v Manning https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1421171398656024587   3rd August 2007: Reporter Michelle Madigan (Ass...

This week in Infosec (06:42) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 27th July 1979: The first edition of Computer Security was published. It was written by David K. Hsiao, Douglas S. Kerr, and Stuart E. Madnick. And to think, some of you probably are surprised there were computers in 1979, never mind computer security! Computer Security 1st Edition https://twitter.com/t...

This week in Infosec (08:10) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 16th July 2001: Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested the day after DEF CON for writing software to decrypt Adobe's e-book format. Charges against him were later dropped and the trial against his employer resulted in not guilty verdicts.  United States v. Elcom Ltd . https://twitter.com/todayi...

This week in Infosec (10.28) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 14th July 1998: Ethereal was first released publicly as version 0.2.0. Its creator, Gerald Combs, thought it was cool that Bob Metcalfe named Ethernet after luminiferous ether so he picked a name beginning with ether. Since 2006 the network protocol analyzer has been known as Wireshark. https://twitter....

This weeks show is 33% off but the content is still as average as ever! This week in Infosec - 3 mins 11 secs Billy Big Balls - 12 mins 49 secs Rant of the week - 20 mins 52 secs Industry News - 30 mins 56 secs Tweet of the week - 38 mins 20 secs   THIS WEEK IN INFOSEC With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 4th July 1994: John Markoff's article "Cyberspace's Most Wanted...

This Week in InfoSec (08:03) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account 30th June 1998: AOL confirmed a leaked spreadsheet containing info of 1,300 AOL community leaders had been stolen from an employee's account. Not around then? AOL was kind of a big deal - it bought Time Warner in 2000 and was worth $200 billion before imploding. https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-volunteer-l...

This week in Infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 19th June 1987: The first Summercon hacker conference was held in St. Louis, Missouri and was run by the hacker zine Phrack. It's still going strong - the 33rd edition took place virtually last year with in-person attendance returning to NYC next month. https://www.summercon.org/ https://hackstory.net/Summercon...

Artist - Carole Theriault   This week in Infosec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account (and embellished by us 😉) 11th June 2008: Verizon released the first edition of its annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Incidents are still a thing.  Data breaches are still a thing.  Some stuff has changed.  Some hasn't.  Time keeps on ticking.  ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Verizon Busin...

This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account. 5th June 1991 : Philip Zimmermann sent the first release of PGP to 2 friends, Allan Hoeltje and Kelly Goen, to upload to the Internet. Read his story about the release, including his disclosure of how little he understood about Usenet and what newsgroups even were.  http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/news/PGP_10thAnniversary...

This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 1st June 1864: The first record of electronic spam was broadly revealed. A recipient was so infuriated by the dentist's poppycock that he composed a letter to the editor of The Times about the telegram, begging the newspaper to kindly demand a stop to the nonsense. https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/13998643774157127...

This Week in InfoSec 20th May 1993: Neil Woods (24) and Karl Strickland (22) became the first people imprisoned under the UK's 1990 Computer Misuse Act.  Hackers given six months for 'intellectual joyriding': Judge says jail sentences inevitable to deter others 'similarly tempted' https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1395711166580731908 22nd May 1991: Michael John Lauffenburger's logic bomb w...

This Week in InfoSec Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account: 15th May 1998: The first issue of Bruce Schneier's ( @schneierblog ) monthly Crypto-Gram internet newsletter was published. And The Secret Story of Non-Secret Encryption is a pretty pretty pretty pretty...good read. https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/0515.html https://www.schneierfacts.com/ https://twitter....