The Host Unknown Podcast

Episode 75 - The Old Men of InfoSec

Episode Summary

This week in Infosec We were searching for stories on the internet but didn’t know how to find one Billy Big Balls is about a hamster. I thought they were quite small on a hamster, who knew... Rant of the Week: sees Apple yet again in the crosshairs, so unfairly Industry News brings us the latest and greatest security news stories from around the world And... Tweet of the Week is just full of vendor hate. C’mon folks, throw us a bone!

Episode Notes

Jav's Record Breakers 14th October
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/biggest-virtual-cybersecurity-lesson-tickets-166314899341

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/organizers-of-security-serious-week-aim-to-set-new-guinness-world-records-title-for-viewership-of-an-online-security-lesson-301376191.html

This week in Infosec

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

27th 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.

Kournikova virus kiddie gets 150 hours community service

https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1177772557077843968

27th September 1998: On this day in 1998: Google launches