The Host Unknown Podcast
Host Unknown, Javvad Malik, Andrew Agnes, Thom Langford 231 episodes Jul 2, 2026
Host Unknown is an irreverent information security podcast featuring Javvad Malik, Andrew Agnes, and Thom Langford. The hosts discuss issues and trends in the infosec industry with a heavy dose of humor and self-deprecation. The show often drifts into chaotic banter, with a production team that openly mocks the presenters. It also promotes sponsorship and appearances at conferences or other web shows.
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234: The Stockholm Syndrome Episode
The usual malarkey of catching up on the boys, this week in infosec, rant of the week, billy big balls, industry news, and tweet of the week. All the goodness in one package. It's the host unknown podcast!
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233: Doorbell surveillance, Audits, and Office Space
19th February 1999:
The movie "Office Space" was released. With a budget of $10 million, it grossed a measly $13 million worldwide, but became a cult classic with its homage to Superman III's salami slicing and Jennifer Aniston's rant against 37 pieces of flair. Now where's my stapler?
It's a masterclass in a fraud , a segregation of duties failure, or a monitoring gap — but back in 1999, it was j
232: Back with the glass smash
This week in Infosec reminds us of the real reason we click on linksRant of the week is going to put a lot of Parisien street artists out of workBilly Big Balls proves that on the internet nobody knows you are a dogIndustry News brings us the latest and greatest security news stories from around the worldAndTweet of the Week makes Thom wonder when Fat Thursdays are coming to the UK
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Episode 231: A teeny weeny bit late on this one
Same format. Banter, lame jokes, inside jokes, lame inside jokes. This week in infosec A weak rant.A billy big balls Industry newsSome tweet of the week.And closing thoughts
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Episode 230: A number we all agree upon
5th November 1993: Bugtraq was created by Scott Chasin as a full disclosure vulnerability reporting mailing list at the dawn of the World Wide Web. Bugtraq had an enormous influence on how orgs responded to vuln disclosure and paved the way for a shift which led to bug bounty programs.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1986164925039841770 24th October 2002: The worm-like Friendgreet propagated b
Episode 229: The Rapture One
This week in InfoSec is a Mitnick/Android double acthttps://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/27/#hacker-mitnick-indicted-on-chargeshttps://thisdayintechhistory.com/09/23/the-first-android-introduced/ Rant of the Week is the future of the UK, the future I tell you…New digital ID will be mandatory for workers in the UKBilly Big Balls gives the best reason ever to go full speed ahead with AISil
Episode 228: Legal and MFA delays
18th September 2014: Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards.Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/196887046940830928518th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilizing 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/w
Episode 227: The Coup
The notes go here. I really can't go and look for them right now. This week in InfoSec is a sticky pickleRant of the Week will have you guessing at who it could possibly be, again…Billy Big Balls is why british men need to take their passport to the bathroom these daysIndustry News is the latest and greatest security news stories from around the worldAndTweet of the Week is well... Thom got it wr
Episode 226: The Prime Episode
8th July 2008: Several DNS vendors released patches to mitigate an attack method discovered by Dan Kaminsky which could be used to cause DNS cache poisoning. Kaminsky had discovered the vulnerability 6 months prior and reported it to vendors privately so they could address it. RIP, Dan.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/194269569127019321110th July 1999: Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member DilDog d
Episode 225: The finding a job episode
27th June 2007: Live Free or Die Hard was released. Cop John McClane partners with hacker Matt Farrell to stop cyberterrorists trying to take down the US's infrastructure. Traceroute (1337!) is used to find the ringleader's location, then McClane kills him by shooting HIS OWN shoulder.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1938731279937057144 1st July 2003: California's data breach notification l
Episode 224: Where we argue about Cyber Essentials
17th June 1995: Spyglass goes publicWorld Wide Web software producer Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it had begun distributing its Spyglass Mosaic software, an early browser for navigating the Web. With previous year's earnings at $7 million, Spyglass was founded by students at the Illinois Supercomputing Center, which also inspired Netscape Communications Corp.https://www.computerhistor
Episode 223: The never-ending train journey episode
11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/193283823510271631713th June 1994: A Russian hacker group led by Vladimir Levin stole $10.7 million from Citibank via X.25, in what was the first international bank robbery over a network to be made public. Levin was caught in London in 1995 and sentenced in the US to 3 years in prison in 1998. https://x.com
Episode 222: The Curious Case of the Oxford Comma Episode
26th May 1995: Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer — a development that he was assi
Episode 221: The Was Jav On the BBC? Episode
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' postsJudge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the linehttps://x.com/fesshole/status/1925815219655233765?s=46&t=1-Sjo1Vy8SG7OdizJ3wVbgAnd of course... can't NOT mention: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2lh/inside-the-high-street-cyberattacks
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220 - The Frequent Flyer Frustrations Episode
As always we will bring you today in infosec, a rant, admire a billy big ball move, talk about industry news, and bring you a tweet or alternatively suitable social media post of the week.Hey, it's hard enough Thom being off that I have to edit and publish this, I need to find an AI to write the notes for me. Love you all, Javvad... now go an subscribe!
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219 - The Lightweight and Aerodynamic Episode
Episode 219 of the Host Unknown Podcast covers a wide range of humorous and insightful discussions relating to both technology and personal anecdotes. Key segments include a nostalgic look back at significant moments in InfoSec history, as well as a critique of a poorly-constructed analogy between casino strategies and cybersecurity. The hosts also discuss the misadventures of an AI app that wasn'
Episode 213 - The So Many Technical Issues Episode
This week in InfoSec (10:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield1st April 1998: Hackers changed the MIT home page to read "Disney to Acquire MIT for $6.9 Billion".https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1907094503552336134 1st April 2004: The now ubiquitous Gmail service is launched as an invitation-only beta service. At first met with skepticism d
Episode 222 - The Disappearing Episodes Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:22)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th February 2002: Timothy Allen Lloyd was sentenced to 41 months in prison for activating a logic bomb at Omega Engineering, 20 days after being fired as a network administrator.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1895255588881474024 18th February 2013: Burger King's Twitter accou
Episode 211 - The Last of the Year Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield4th December 2013: Troy Hunt launched the free-to-search site "Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP)". At launch, passwords from the Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo! Voices, and Sony Pictures breaches were indexed. Today? Billions of compromised records from hundreds of breaches.https://twitter.co
Episode 210 - The Is Andy Paying Attention? Episode
This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 2014: The Washington Post published an article which included a photo of TSA master keys. A short time later functional keys were 3-d printed using the key patterns in the photo. Oops.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1860803840620044356 22nd November 2010: Matt Blaze
Episode 209 - The Javvad Is In Big Trouble Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:24)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th November 2012: John McAfee went into hiding because his neighbour, Gregory Faull, was found dead from a gunshot. Belize police wanted him to come in for questioning, but he fled to Guatemala where he was then arrested. He was never charged, though he lost a $25 million wrongful de
Episode 208 - The Dedicated to Cesar Romero Episode
This week in InfoSec (13:28)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th November 1993: Bugtraq was created by Scott Chasin as a full disclosure vulnerability reporting mailing list at the dawn of the World Wide Web. Bugtraq had an enormous influence on how orgs responded to vuln disclosure and paved the way for a shift which led to bug bounty programs.h
Episode 207 - The Raw! Live! Uncut! Episode
No notes this week - Andy had ONE job...
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Episode 206 The Sole Founder Episode
How does Thom also do the episode notes? This week in infosec was about a EULARant of the weekhttps://securityaffairs.com/170125/laws-and-regulations/sec-fined-4-companies-misleading-disclosures-impact-solarwinds-attack.htmlBilly Big Ballshttps://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/anthropic_claude_model_can_use_computers/Some news articles from infosecurity-magazine.com Tweet of the week https://x.co
Episode 205 The Stone Cold Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:29)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield10th October 1995: Netscape introduced the "Netscape Bugs Bounty", a program rewarding users who report "bugs" in the beta versions of its recently announced Netscape Navigator 2.0 web browser.Navigator was the dominant browser from 1995-1998, when it was overtaken by Internet Explorer
Episode 204 - The Umms and Ahhs Episode
This week in InfoSec (10:01)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th September 2001: Jan de Wit was sentenced to 150 hours of community service in the Netherlands for creating and spreading the Anna Kournikova virus. It was one of the first of the major viruses created from a virus toolkit - the dawn of cybercrime toolkits.https://twitter.com/today
Episode 203 - The Too Soon Episode
This week in InfoSec (10:44)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilising 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/worm after only 22 minutes.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1836495262409175187 17th September 2014: Apple announced that the iOS 8 operating system
Episode 202 - The Dog Eating Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:25)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th September 2014: Stephane Chazelas contacted Bash maintainer Chet Ramey about a vulnerability he dubbed "Bashdoor", which later becoming known as Shellshock. It was publicly disclosed 12 days later.Shellshock was kind of a big deal - and the vuln had been in Bash for 25 years!https
Episode 201 - The Difficult 201st Podcast
This week in InfoSec (13:08) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd September 2014: Twitter launched its bug bounty program via the HackerOne platform, stating it would award at least $140 for vulnerabilities found in http://x.com/ or its Android or iOS apps.$140? 140 was the max tweet length. $1.6 million has been paid out since inception.https:
Episode 200 - The Bicentennial men Episode
This week in InfoSec (07:42)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield29th August 1990: The UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990 went into effect, introducing 3 criminal offences related to unauthorised access and modification of "computer material".https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1829252932178719161 27th August 1999: One of the first companies to of
Episode 199 - The Holiday Is Over Episode
This week in InfoSec (06:43)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th August 2004: Text messages sent to promote the video game "Resident Evil: Outbreak" stated "Outbreak: I'm infecting you with t-virus". This scared recipients, who were only about 7% less technologically savvy than mobile phone users today.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/182525
Episode 198
This week in InfoSec (10:28)10th July 1999 - Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member DilDog debuted the program Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) at DEF CON 7. It was the successor to Back Orifice, released by cDc a year prior. DilDog proclaimed it "a remote administration tool for corporate America".https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/18111336060159836809th July 1981 - The game that launched two of the m
Episode 197 - The Andy Is Distracted Episode
This week in InfoSec (07:40)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3 July 1996 - a mere 28 years ago the movie Independence Day was released. In it, Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith fly into an alien vessel in a 50-year-old space junker, then upload a computer virus in less than 5 minuteshttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1808464060972667170 Rant
Episode 196 - The Nuclear Option Episode
This Week in InfoSec (12:30)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th June 1987: The movie Spaceballs was released. With a budget of $23 million, it grossed $38 million at the box office in North America. Though 37 years have passed, the secret code scene remains a reminder of why security is hard.Watch the secret code scene from Spaceballs and weep.
Episode 195 - The Smashing Unknown Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th of June 1991, a mere 33 years ago, : Philip Zimmermann sent the first release of PGP to 2 friends, Allan Hoeltje and Kelly Goen, to upload to the Internet. From the man himself, First, I sent it to Allan Hoeltje, who posted it to Peacenet, an ISP that specialized in grassroots pol
Episode 194
This week in InfoSec (07:29)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield28th May: 2014: LulzSec hacker Hector Monsegur, known as Sabu, was sentenced and released the same day on time served for his role in a slew of high-profile cyberattacks. He had served 7 months in prison after his arrest.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/179522873073588665025th May 2
Episode 193 - The "At Last!" Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:36) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield17th May 2015: CNN published their article on a statement Cybersecurity Consultant, Chris Roberts had publicly made on Twitter a month earlier. There were lots of accusations made regarding Chris Roberts' actions hacking into computer systems while a passenger on multiple airline fli
Episode 192 - The Unedited Episode
This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th April 2012: The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK issued its first-ever data breach fine to an NHS (National Health Service) organisation, fining Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Wales £70,000. https://www.digitalhealth.net/2012/04/first-nhs-fine-issued-by-ico/ Rant of the W
Episode 191 - This One's For The Boomers
This week in InfoSec (07:04)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield23rd April 2005: The first video uploaded to YouTube, “Me at the zoo,” is posted on April 23, 2005 at 8:27 PM by co-founder Jawed Karim. For now being a piece of history, the video is actually pretty dumb.Note to future entrepreneurs: what you do may be for posterity. Choose wisely.22n
Episode 190 - The Very Serious Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:49)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield7th April 1969: Steve Crocker, a graduate student at UCLA and part of the team developing ARPANET, writes the first “Request for Comments“. The ARPANET, a research project of the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), was the foundation of today’s modern Inte
Episode 189 - The Something Something Band Something Something Together Episode
This week in InfoSec (06:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd April 2011: Email marketing and loyalty program management company Epsilon reported a data breach of names and email addresses of numerous companies' customers, totaling at least 60 million records. Dozens of companies were impacted, including Kroger, Walgreens, Verizon, and Chase.
Episode 188 The Don't Mention The Name Episode
This week in InfoSec (07:32)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield20th March 2007: Dragos Ruiu announced the first Pwn2Own contest, which was held that April in Vancouver, Canada. The contest is still being held today - and in fact Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 started today.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/177059269525524903816th March 1971: The
Episode 187 - Mess of Trois
This week in InfoSec (14:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield7th March 2017: WikiLeaks began its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Code-named Vault 7 by WikiLeaks, it was the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/176582899371309056514th March 20
Episode 186
This week in InfoSec (06:53)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield1st March 1988: The MS-DOS boot sector virus "Ping-Pong" was discovered at the Politecnico di Torino (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy.The virus would show a small ball bouncing around the screen in both text mode (ASCII character "•") and graphical mode.https://twitter.com/today
Episode 185 - The Inexplicable Episode
This week in InfoSec (06:25)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield16th February 2010: Version 2.0 of the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors was released.Take a look and decide which of these weaknesses have been eradicated over the last 14 years.Web Archivehttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/175871241860197174820th February 2003: Al
Episode 184 - The Bee in the Bonnet Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:40) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield14th February 2001: In a presentation at Black Hat Windows Security Conference 2001, Andrey Malyshev of ElcomSoft shared that Microsoft Excel uses a default encryption password of "VelvetSweatshop". https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/175778227540662283516th February 2004: The N
Episode 183 - The Midnight Express Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:59)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th February 2000: A 15-year-old Canadian identified at the time only by his handle "MafiaBoy" launched a 4-hour DDoS attack against http://cnn.com. The attacks also targeted Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and other sites over a 3 day period. In 2001 a Canadian court sentenced him to 8 months.ht
Episode 182 - The Tallest & Shortest Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:19)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield31st Jan 2011 (13 years ago): Chris Russo reported a vulnerability to dating website PlentyOfFish's CEO Markus Frind's wife. Yada yada yada Markus Frind then accused Russo of extortion and emailed Russo's mother. https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/plentyoffish-ceo-we-were-hacked-almost
Episode 181 - The Early early Show
This week in InfoSec (04:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield25th January 2003: The SQL Slammer worm was first observed. It relied on a vulnerability Microsoft reported a whopping 6 months earlier via security bulletin MS02-039. Despite the long-available patch, 75,000 systems were compromised within 10 minutes..https://twitter.com/todayininfos
Episode 180 - Its a Full House Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:34)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield11th January 2000: Newly declassified documents proved the existence of ECHELON, a global eavesdropping network run by the NSA.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1745518896495390826 13th January 2009: The domain name http://clintonemail.com was registered - the one used for ema
Episode 179 - The One Third Empty Show
This week in InfoSec (06:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th January 2014: Intel renamed its McAfee subsidiary Intel Security, distancing itself from the name of McAfee's founder, John McAfee. In 2017 Intel spun off McAfee as a separate company...then several months later John McAfee and Intel settled a lawsuit over Intel's use of the McAfee
Episode 178 - The Last Of Us Episode
This week in InfoSec (12:55)With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield11th December 2010: The hacker group Gnosis released the source code for Gawker's website and 1.3 million of its users' password hashes.After a jury found Gawker's parent company liable in a lawsuit filed by Hulk Hogan and awarded him $140 million, Gawker shut down in 2016. https://twit
Episode 177 - The Are We Doing This Episode
This week in InfoSec (07:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th December 2011: Fyodor reported that CNET's http://Download.com had been wrapping its Nmap downloads in a trojan installer...in order to monetize spyware and adware. CNET quickly stopped, then resumed within days, it affected other downloads, and was a debacle.Download.com Caught Add
Episode 176 - The Jingle Free Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:40)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 2014: The Washington Post published an article which included a photo of TSA master keys. A short time later functional keys were 3-d printed using the key patterns in the photo. https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/172804840445278249726th November 2001: "In an effor
Episode 175 - The Sam Altman Free Episode
This week in InfoSec (06:40) 23rd November 2011: KrebsonSecurity reported that Apple took over 3 years to fix the iTunes software update process vulnerability which the FinFisher remote spying Trojan exploited. Evilgrade toolkit author Francisco Amato had reported it to Apple in 2008.Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Holehttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/172768779801710602512th N
Episode 174 - The Brexit Episode
6:48 This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield15th 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..https://twitter.com/todayininfosec
Episode 173 - The Are We Still Doing This Episode
This Week in InfoSec (05:41) 2002: In response to a report which insinuated Mac is less vulnerable than Windows, Microsoft suggested few focus on discovering Mac vulnerabilities and that products with more customers will have more vulnerabilities reported.https://t.co/WOUUDOB0g6https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1721895407545143382?s=20 Rant of the Week (11:09)Photos of naked patients and medical
Episode 172 - The One Job Episode
This week in InfoSec (07:11)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th October 2006: Christopher Soghoian created a website allowing visitors to generate fake airlines boarding passes. A congressman called for his arrest, his ISP shut down his site, the FBI raided his home, and then the same congressman said DHS should hire him. His career since? Not
Episode 171 - The Stitched Up Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:48)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th October 2018: Google announced that it exposed the private info of hundreds of thousands of Google+ users between 2015 and 2018, only disclosing it 7 months after discovery because it was reported by The Wall Street Journal. Social network Google+ launched in 2011 and closed in 201
Episode 170 - The No Show Notes Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:56)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield2006: The http://wikileaks.org domain name was registered, though the first document wasn't posted to WikiLeaks until December.Assange taken from Ecuador embassy in April 2019, since been staying at his majesty’s pleasure at Belmarsh.2005: The Samy worm, the first self-propagating cross
Episode 169 - The Hat Trick Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:45)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield25th September 1986: "The Hacker Manifesto" was published by The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) in issue 7 of the hacker zine Phrack. It was originally titled "The Conscience of a Hacker". Phrack #7https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706364950623515017 26th September 1988: Time Magaz
Episode 168 - The Purple Pineapple Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:32)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilising 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/worm after only 22 minutes. $ echo "admin" | rev nimda https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/170376036668821104116th September 2008: 20-year-old David Kern
Episode 167 - The Sweaty B***s Episode
This week in InfoSec (08:18)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield13th September 2011: Backup tapes containing info on 4.9 million TRICARE military health care customers were stolen from an SAIC employee's parked car which a burglar broke into by breaking a vent window. TRICARE Breach Affects 4.9 Millionhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/17019
Episode 166 - The Potato Quality Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th September 1987: Thomas Haynie was accused of intentionally jamming Playboy's satellite network with a text-only message. Haynie was an uplink engineer at the Christian Broadcasting Network and was on duty at the time of the jamming. He received 3 years of probation. CBN engineer den
Episode 165 - The Don't Screw It Up Episode
This week in InfoSec (10:17)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield29th August 1990: The British Computer Misuse Act Goes into Effect One of the earliest laws anywhere designed to address computer fraud, the Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers -- in one well-publicised case, two men hacked into a British Te
Episode 164 - The Two Weeks Late Episode
This week in InfoSec (14:00)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th August 2003: The Nachi worm began infecting Windows computers with the goal of REMOVING the Blaster worm and patching the vulnerability exploited by both worms. Worm aims to eradicate Blasterhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/169261657352405025926th August 2008: It was rep
Episode 163 - The Sombre Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:56)With content liberated from the “Today in Infosec” Twitter account and further afield4th August 1998: Microsoft published a critical security bulletin MS98-010, titled 'Information on the "Back Orifice" Program'. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 - Criticalhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1423037189714219020 27th July 2000: In security bulletin MS00-047,
Episode 162 - The Do Not Google It Episode
This week in InfoSec (05:54)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th July 2011: Microsoft Hotmail announced that it would be banning very common passwords such as "123456" and "ilovecats". https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1416957326205100035 27th July 1990: The case of United States v. Riggs was decided. Robert J. Riggs (Prophet) had stol
Episode 161 - The Receding Hairline and Glasses Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:59)With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield18th July 2011: LulzSec hacked the Sun newspaper's website, redirecting visitors to a hoax article claiming Rupert Murdoch died after ingesting palladium. Hacked Sun site greatly exaggerates Murdoch's deathhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1681469966527213568 14th July 2000: #W
Episode 160 - The Lacklustre Performance Vol 2 Episode
This week in InfoSecWith content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield13th July 2001: Code Red Worms its Way into the InternetThe Code Red worm is released onto the Internet. Targeting Microsoft’s IIS web server, Code Red had a significant effect on the Internet due to the speed and efficiency of its spread. Much of this was due to the fact that IIS was often ena
Episode 159 - The Organ Grinder Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:06)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th July 1995: Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys LotusIBM completes a $3.5 billion buyout of Lotus Development, the producer of the once-dominant Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software and the then-popular Lotus Notes groupware. IBM had hoped to leverage Lotus 1-2-3 to challenge the increasingly dema
Episode 158 - The Highly Reviewed Episode
This week in InfoSec (11:36) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th June 1997: Communications Decency Act Declared UnconstitutionalThe US Supreme Court ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional on a 7-2 vote. The act, passed by both houses of Congress, sought to control the content of the Internet in an effort to keep pornography from
Episode 157 - The Special Guest Star Episode
This week in InfoSec (10:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield17th June 1997: A group of users organised over the Internet cracked the Data Encryption Standard — the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States to that point — after only five months of work. The United States at the time banned the export of stronger encry
Episode 156 - The Smashing Security Takeover Episode
This week in InfoSec (12:01) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th June 1989: Callers to a Florida probation office were connected to a phone sex line. Southern Bell officials said it was the first time their switching equipment had been reprogrammed by a hacker. Phrack #27https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/166841728111263744115th June 200
Episode 155 - The Really Late Show
This week in InfoSec (10:21)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th June 1989: The beta release of the Bourne Again SHell (Bash) was announced as version 0.99. 2 months later Shellshock was introduced into the Bash source code and persisted in subsequent versions for over 25 years.v0.99 release announcementhttps://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1
Episode 154 - The Broom-cupboard Episode
Voting has closed for this years European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards has closed. Did you vote with your conscience, or did you vote for us? This week in InfoSec (08:33)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield30th May 1972: John Postel published RFC 349, Proposed Standard Socket Numbers.RFC 349https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/12668054067072327
Episode 153 - The Poorly Planned Episode
This week in InfoSec (09:59)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th May 2006: BackTrack v1.0 was released.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/126547168776142438421st May 2012: Nmap 6.00 was released. https://nmap.org/6/https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/126358991810779136223rd May 1997: Carlos Felipe Salgado Jr. (aka "Smak"), who alleg
Episode 152 - The Sicknote Episode
European Security Blogger Awards 2023Vote for us (and Thom and teissTalk) here:https://forms.gle/o6LwY6t5bSY9Fp5CA This week in InfoSec (11:24)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield15th May 2011: Sony Begins Restoration of Its PlayStation Network after Cyber AttackAfter a malicious cyber attack compromises Sony Computer Entertainment's data center in
Episode 151 - Like Mould it Grew Back
This week in InfoSec (09:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield11th May 1997: Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov in Tournament MatchThe IBM computer and artificial intelligence Deep Blue defeats reigning chess champion and one of the greatest chess players of all time, Garry Kasparov, in the 6th and deciding game of a tournament match, thus becoming the fi
Episode 150 - Yet Another Intern
Vote for us here! -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepvnj8b7QzMdLh7vWEDQDqohjBUsHyn3x3xRdYGCetwVy2DA/viewformThis week in InfoSec (08:15)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd May 1978: Earliest known case of spam. Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative for Digital Equipment Corporation, sends out an e-mail promoting an open house for
