The Host Unknown Podcast

Episode 74 - Was it me or was it a long week?

Episode Summary

This week in Infosec re-lives a Symantec screw up and celebrates nerds of the world Billy Big Balls something something something GINA! Rant of the Week: Emails us a little bit more than we needed to know Industry News brings us the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And Tweet of the Week is a work in progress, let’s see what we can pull out of the bag

Episode Notes

This Week in InfoSec (04:56)

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account

18th September 2015: Google notified Symantec that the latter issued 23 test certificates for five organizations, including Google and Opera, without the domain owners' knowledge. Symantec performed an audit and announced that an additional 2,622 test certificates were mis-issued.

Sustaining Digital Certificate Security

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1439388653264965638

20th September 1996: An email began spreading about a destructive virus named Irina. Some virus nerd called Graham Cluley discovered it was a hoax "marketing ploy" from Penguin Books.

Computer Viruses and Hoaxes

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1307862674387144705

The Box © Charlie Langford

Rant of the Week (12:55)

Investigation launched after MoD email blunder

Billy Big Balls of the Week (20:55)

Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day

Industry News (34:17)

Experts Concerned Over New Digital Secretary's Lack of Cyber Knowledge

Romance Scammers Make $133m in First Half of 2021

Former IT Exec Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Conspiracy

Data of 106 Million Visitors to Thailand Breached