The Host Unknown Podcast

Episode 223: The never-ending train journey episode

Episode Summary

This week in InfoSec gives us all a little “Ummmmmm Bow Bow, chik chikka chikahaa” Rant of the Week proves that nothing is off the table for our favourite lizard king Billy Big Balls is making the problem, highlighting the problem and then charging money to solve the problem Industry News is the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And Tweet of the Week asks “are you feeling lucky, punk?”

Episode Notes

11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1932838235102716317

13th 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/todayininfosec/status/1933504310643773697 

 

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. 

Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD 

Industry News

#Infosec2025: Top Six Cyber Trends CISOs Need to Know

Half of Mobile Users Now Face Daily Scams

Researcher Finds Five Zero-Days and 20+ Misconfigurations in Salesforce Cloud

Hands-On Skills Now Key to Landing Your First Cyber Role

Phishing Alert as Erie Insurance Reveals Cyber “Event”

Europol Says Criminal Demand for Data is “Skyrocketing”

NIST Publishes New Zero Trust Implementation Guidance

Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Allows Corporate Data Theft

European Journalists Targeted by Paragon Spyware, Citizen Lab Confirms

Tweet of the week

https://bsky.app/profile/brianhonan.bsky.social/post/3lrilyd7rpk2m