The Host Unknown Podcast

 The fourth member of the Host Unknown trio, Carole Theriault, joins the podcast to bring an air of respectability to proceedings. Needless to say it was an uphill struggle.  This weeks show brings you, dear listener: Smut or Security Do you know the difference between your smut and your security?   This Week in InfoSec  (Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account): 30th October 2001: ...

Our presenters delve into their darkest secrets from the past,  the internet is rebooted, the logs cleared, and cats play havoc with your home security (according to your training programme). This week in Infosec 24th October 2010: 2010: Eric Butler announced Firefox extension Firesheep's release at Toorcon, making HTTP session hijacking on open Wi-Fi trivial. Today, by far, high traffic sites red...

Perhaps a total IQ of 197 is a little ambitious, as this podcast clearly shows: This Week in InfoSec 20th October 1995: Mudge published "How to Write Buffer Overflows", one of the first papers about buffer overflow exploitation. Then @dotMudge sent a copy to @aleph_one , who wrote "Smashing the Stack For Fun and Profit" in 1996. Seminal paper to seminal paper. https://insecure.org/stf/mudge_buffer...

  All your regular Host Unknown goodness, proof we really are part of your five a day.   This Week in InfoSec 10th October 1990: The case of black hat hacker Kevin Poulsen aired on Unsolved Mysteries, 7 years after he went on the run. https://apnews.com/article/5998a45685b94e569c76c1908497d320 https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1314988791153790978?s=20 14th October 2003: Microsoft launched...

Your regular features and even more, such as vegan sweets, Host Unknown imposters, Jav appears in the press with the same quote for different stories, and HMRC incompetence. Vegan sweets https://www.thejealouslife.com/products/tropical-wonder Will the real Host Unknown please stand up?   This Week in Infosec 5th October 1991: The Linux kernel was released by Linus Torvalds. "This is a program for...

It has been a quiet week, but Host Unknown still provides the goods. Admittedly the goods have come from Lidl. This Week in Infosec 25th September 2003: A report critical of Microsoft, "CyberInsecurity - The Cost of Monopoly", was published. As a result, Dan Geer, one of seven co-authors of the report, was fired by @stake . https://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm#Fired 30th Sept 2009: "Schneier o...

Andy's microphone is miraculously fixed, Thom's story is broken and Jav joins The Lemon Party. This Week in InfoSec 19th September 2011: Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo demonstrated a proof of concept at the Ekoparty security conference to decrypt encrypted cookies, exploiting a vulnerability in TLS 1.0 and earlier. They named the attack BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS. https://www.theregister...

It's definitely episode 24 and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. This week in Infosec 17th Sept 2003: Court documents were unsealed which showed that Melissa virus author David Smith began working with the FBI within weeks of his 1999 arrest http://web.archive.org/web/20030922234951/http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA2Q265QKD.html 18th Sept 2014: Apple announced that the iOS 8 operating system (u...

Lest we forget. It is a scant 12 months since Host Unknown released this onto their unsuspecting public: Lost all the Money Tweet of the Week https://twitter.com/happygeek/status/1302582251159519233?s=20 Billy Big Balls of the Week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54051424 Industry News https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/incidents-third-ico-reports/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine...

The now world famous Jav and Thom take Andy to task for not being as famous as them and not appearing on the recent InfoSecurity Magazine front cover. Next week's Little People will be by Andy. This week we have: Tweet of the Week https://twitter.com/WBLooneyTunes/status/1301375017515712513 Billy Big Balls   Industry News https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/covid19-spam-emails-analyzed/ htt...

Marital advice, PETA safe hobbies, Aimee Laycock and Cardi B's WAP. We are nothing if not varied. The Little People (Part 1) Aimee Laycock talks about Research Tweet of the Week https://www.wired.com/story/how-four-brothers-allegedly-fleeced-19-million-amazon/ Billy Big Balls https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-arrested-for-trying-to-recruit-an-insider-and-hack-a-nevada-company/ Industry News ht...

The one without Jav. Mostly. Tweet of the Week KnowBe4 release thier Organisational Cyber Security Culture Research Report, and no registration wall to download it! https://www.knowbe4.com/organizational-cyber-security-culture-research-report Billy Big Balls Athena Health guy holds his hands up after Host Unknown attention Industry News https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/reported-data-brea...

Technical issues abound, and the boys nearly miss this episode. It started slow, but we warmed up by the end.  TRIGGER WARNING: Jimmy Saville In this episode: Tweet of the Week Hamptons He-Hooker for Hire Hoses High Class Hussies https://twitter.com/jaimeprimak/status/1292653091582615552?s=21   Billy Big Balls Healthcare Hissy-Fit Highlights His Holier-than-though Haughtiness       Rant of the Wee...

The episode where Andy's redundant broadband connections both fail, mid podcast. Don't worry, we fixed it in post and you would never notice. Tweet of the Week Tik Tok doesn't do anything untoward with your data. https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1290229777870159873?s=20 http://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/04/apple-allegedly-in-the-running-to-buy-tiktok Billy Big Balls of the Week Low paid se...

This weeks show is sponsored, demonstrating Host Unknown's 200% performance increase year on year when it comes to sponsorship deals. Who wouldn't want to be a sponsor of our show with those stats? Andy's Percy Pig Problem https://twitter.com/trevolafoam/status/1288364716004450304?s=20 Thom's Bonobo Problem   Jav's Instagram Problem https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/in...

It's a day late, it was Thom's fault, but the episode is all the better for it (probably). This episode is bought to you by Thom's mum (I am so sorry Mum, they made me do it...). Tweet of the week Daniel Cuthbert's hair talks sense on the latest static testing tools. https://twitter.com/dcuthbert/status/1286226224172404738?s=20 Billy Big Balls of the Week Jav drives traffic to his content through...

Tweet of the Week https://news.sky.com/story/twitter-accounts-of-obama-biden-musk-and-others-hacked-in-apparent-bitcoin-scam-12029394 https://javvadmalik.com/2020/07/16/twittersupport-a-lesson-in-incident-response-comms/ Billy Big Balls Industry News Rant of the Week https://twitter.com/TriciaKicksSaaS/status/1283721814896771072?s=20 Oh, and Carole Baskin as well. Come on! Like and bloody well sub...

If you thought Avengers was the greatest crossover event of all time, hold our beer. Host Unknown was sans Jav this week, but we were crashed by the Friends of the Show, Smashing Security. We managed to get the Tweet of the Week and Billy Big Balls before we were rudely crashed by the fragrant Carole Theriault and the plummy Graham Cluley. Four grenades recovered by police. Industry News. Ranting...

Unlucky for some? Yes we were, as Jav turned up anyway. Kickstarting the economy and taking advantage of good samaritans. Jav talks about bug bounty profit in three easy steps. Thom receives some very, very, very bad news. Thom talks about how our industry is becoming nicer to us normal people. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6679522900304814080/ Award winning industry news fr...

Where Did All The Money Go? Shit got real in this episode; we covered: Front doors A house that looks like Hitler https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/08/11/380E25DA00000578-3779485-image-a-86_1473329102921.jpg Monopoly Billy Big Balls moves https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/06/how_to_win_monopoly_in_21_seco.html Smiling for capitalism Out of work accountants Javvad pulls no bunches...

This weeks episode includes Kim Kardashian, toilet flushing shenanigans, a plethora of expertly written industry news, the Cambodian Government Covid-19 'scam', eBay and their excellent customer service and finally Paco Hope tells us about his big cat reserve in Florida. Thom also reveals who Graham's least favourite guest on carole's Smashing Security Podcast is. Honestly. Thank you to our Sponso...

Breaking news about the financial future of the Host Unknown Podcast, tea and takedown notices. Despite what it sounds like this episode is categorically NOT sponsored by The Smashing Security Podcast, even with our special guest in The Little People. Some audio challenges (sorry about breaking your headphones with some of the jingles), but you really do get what you pay for. Want better quality?...

This Episode is a Trump Free Zone. It is also the episode where we mangle our support for a very real and urgent cause, Black Lives Matter. We are neither qualified or intelligent enough to comment any further except to say BLACK LIVES MATTER, and if you disagree we no longer want you near our podcast. The world is full of injustices, and BLM is the one that is quite rightly in the public eye at t...

Medicaid scam, LinkedIn trolling, Magnum PI and Murder She Wrote crossovers, Wim Remes (at last!) and Trump.  WARNING! This episode strays dangerously close to being a serious, current affairs podcast towards the end. We apologise for our slip of judgement. Normal service will be resumed next week. Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

Professionalism is so last week. This week we start as we mean to go on... badly.   This episode features Trump, EasyJet (an airline, who knew?), and the Verizon DBIR. Special guest star Shan Lee (@secwaza). Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!