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This Week in InfoSec Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 6th May 1995: Chris Lamprecht (aka "Minor Threat") became the first person banned from the Internet. He received a 70 month sentence for money laundering...and was banned from the Internet until 2003. https://www.wired.com/1997/12/twice-removed-locked-up-and-barred-from-net/ https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1257862...

This Week in InfoSec Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account 4th May 1990: Robert Tappan Morris was sentenced to 3 years probation, fined $10,000, and ordered to perform 400 hours of community service. Why? For releasing the Morris worm in 1988, then becoming the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm h...

https://cumrocketcrypto.com/ This week in Infosec takes us back to a time Microsoft devalued a company, before buying it and another case of something being referred to as electronic graffiti. Rant of the week is about this one time, at basecamp Industry News brings us the latest and greatest infosec news from around the globe Billy Big Balls talks about Apple’s app transparency Tweet of the week...

Thom’s l33t crypto coin investments   This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 18th April 1995: proff (Julian Assange) published "The Dan Farmer Rap", about SATAN author, Dan Farmer. Yes, that Julian Assange. Yes, the same one. Yes. https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Apr/195 19th April 2010: The OWASP Top 10 for 2010 was officially released. http://web.archive.org...

We think we sound much better this week, all thanks to Krisp! Tighten up your audio, remove background noise, and annoying work colleagues, all with Krisp. Download it here: https://ref.krisp.ai/u/ue2a67ba76   One advantage of being short is that you get to be in the front of all pictures taken of a group and that is all we have to say about Little People this week.   This week in Infosec Liberate...

This week in Infosec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 4th April 1977: Ron Rivest first introduced Alice and Bob in the paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems". https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1246652917605527554 http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/alice-and-bob https://xkcd.com/177/ Javvad explains it better:  https://en.wikipe...

April 1st! https://www.facebook.com/burgerking/posts/4438200159526619 https://twitter.com/VW/status/1376868756782219266 https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/the-cats-out-of-the-bag-cn-rebrands-as-cat-toon-network/    This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 27th March 1979: 33-year-old computer consultant Stanley Mark Rifkin was sentenced to 8 years in prison for...

The Biggest Loser, Week 0 Andy is running a book if you are interested in a little flutter on who will be the healthiest in the next six months. Jav issues an apology to our listeners for misinformation and to Andy for correcting him when he stated the opposite had occurred: https://mashable.com/article/joe-biden-green-screen-conspiracy-debunked/?europe=true Evil Knievel: https://twitter.com/littl...

Jav, Andy and Thom chat about the delights of the Nextdoor app. For our international listeners, just head to https://nextdoor.co.uk/ to find out about the uniquely Britishness of complaining about your neighbours on a public forum in a passive aggressive way without actually openly complaining about them. And it is all OK because it is on an App. In their own words: "It's where communities come t...

Our regular know our regular features, so here is our regular update for our regular features for our regular listeners. This week in Infosec Tweet of the Week Billy Big Balls Rant of the week Industry News There is no Little People, there has never been a Little People Will we have a Sticky Pickle of the Week?    This Week in InfoSec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 6th Ma...

  This week in Infosec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 6th March 1992: For the second year in a row the Michelangelo virus activated on this date. However, the lead up to March 6th, 1992 was the first instance of mass hysteria about a virus, though the hysteria was overblown.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus) https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012...

This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 2nd March 2002: Zone-H was launched in Estonia and began saving and publishing copies of defaced websites 7 days later.  http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4742?hz=2 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1234492350833008640 2nd March 2010: Gregory  D. Evans' book "How To Become The World's No. 1 Hacker" was published. The b...

This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 25th February 1989: Knight Lightning published an Enhanced 911 technical doc (it had been stolen from a BellSouth computer) to Phrack under the pseudonym "The Eavesdropper". http://phrack.org/issues/24/5.html#article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Riggs On This Day: Feb. 25, 2005, authorities arrested Denni...

This week in Infosec Not liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 12th February 2009:  2009: Microsoft announced a $250,000 reward for info resulting in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the Conficker worm. As of 2018, Microsoft's offer was still open. https://web.archive.org/web/20120418094401/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2009/feb09/02-12confickerpr.asp...

10 minutes before rolling, our show notes were empty. This is what you get when you are dealing with professionals. This week in Infosec Tweet of the Week Billy Big Balls Rant of the week Industry News Sticky Pickle of the Week   This week in Infosec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 11th February:  1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow Two British diplomats who vanished...

Nobody will look at Javvad in the eye again without seeing that image. It could be worse, you could have seen it live like Andy and Thom had to. This week in InfoSec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 3rd February 2007: A former Coca-Cola secretary to a executive was convicted after stealing documents and unlaunched product samples, then conspiring with coworkers to sell them...

This week in Infosec 19th January 2012: US federal authorities shut down /Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads, and arrested its leaders. Hours later, the hacktivist collective Anonymous, knocked the US Department of Justice website offline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Megaupload https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1219086142428999681?s=20 25th January 2003:...

This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 19th January 1986: The first PC virus appeared. It was a boot sector virus called Brain, which spread via infected floppy disks to computers running MS-DOS. It was written by 2 brothers in Pakistan to protect their medical software from piracy. They later even licensed Brain. https://www.theregister.com/2006/01/19/pc_virus...

The boys are back in town. Jav's return has also reduced the average age of this podcast by roughly twenty years. The good news though is that we not only have a full program, but also new jingles too! This week in Infosec Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account: 16th January 2007: Jeffrey Goodin became the first person convicted under the US CAN-SPAM Act. He sent emails pretending t...

Welcome back to the New year and the new look Host Unknown, with a slightly less ethnically diverse lineup than usual, but, but still the same average quality and distinctly suspect ethics you have come to expect from Host Unknown.  This week Thom displays his love of the Animaniacs, Andy has audio issues and Graham has the voice of a midnight hour radio show host.   Smutty or Security? Graham win...

This might be the last episode of the week, but that doesn't mean we scraped the barrel (except maybe for The Little People, but Jav has had a written warning for that already). Andy misunderstands the concept of "this week in infosec" and Thom tries to hold it together while juggling his newly acquired career in the security industry. Your usual tasty festive treats this week are: This Week in In...

The penultimate episode of the year, so only one more to go until you have the full set for 2020. This week in Infosec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 3rd December 1980: The Australian Law Reform Commission chairman called for new laws to deal with "computer crime". He said the old definition of theft was not apt for a "fleeting, transient medium, the ephemeral flicker of...

Trigger warning, this episode is over an hour long; do not time anything with the length of this episode.   This Week in InfoSec 21st November 2008: The Conficker worm was first discovered. It spread quickly by exploiting a vulnerability that was addressed via the patch described in Microsoft's out-of-band bulletin MS08-067 four weeks prior. It infected millions of computers, at the time more than...

Join us for possibly the most incompetently performed and produced infosec podcast available today. At least we have some of your favourites to share and enjoy:   This week in InfoSec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 14th November 1990: During an NBC News broadcast, two computer hackers from the hacker group MOD identified only by the aliases "Acid Phreak", "Phiber Optik" a...

 Haribo feature heavily this week, with Andy and Jav fighting over how much and how they should be delivered. This Week in InfoSec (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 5th November 1993: The Bugtraq mailing list was created by Scott Chasin. In 1995 it became the property of SecurityFocus, in 2002 Symantec acquired SecurityFocus, and the last message was posted to the list on Fe...