The Host Unknown Podcast

Episode 288: Legal and MFA delays

Episode Summary

After paying off a few lawyers and getting Thom a new phone, we finally squeezed this out a while later than anticipated. This week in InfoSec is a 22 minute world record (back in the day at least) Rant of the Week is how Google is giving us so much free stuff, whether we want it or not Billy Big Balls goes from top of the morning to top of the data tree Industry News is the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And Tweet of the Week is The Wolf taking care of business

Episode Notes

  1. 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/1968870469408309285

  1. 18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilizing 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/worm ever after only 22 minutes.

Why "Nimda"?

$ echo "admin" | rev

nimda

https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1968721441836134825

 

Rant of the week Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

 

Billy big balls Former Facebook policy lead Niamh Sweeney appointed DPC commissioner 

 

Tweet of the week https://bsky.app/profile/jwgoerlich.bsky.social/post/3lz4qt5a64k2p