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The Host Unknown Podcast

De: Host Unknown Thom Langford Andrew Agnes Javvad Malik
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  • Host Unknown is the unholy alliance of the old, the new and the rockstars of the infosec industry in an internet-based show that tries to care about issues in our industry. It regularly fails. With presenters that have an inflated opinion of their own worth and a production team with a pathological dislike of them (or “meat puppets” as it often refers to them), it is with a combination of luck and utter lack of good judgement that a show is ever produced and released. Host Unknown is available for sponsorship, conferences, other web shows or indeed anything that pays a little bit of money to keep the debt collectors away. You can contact them at contact@hostunknown.tv for details
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  • Episode 198

    Episode 198
    Jul 15 2024
    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 most famous characters in video game history is released for sale. Donkey Kong was created by Nintendo, a Japanese playing card and toy company turned fledgling video game developer, who was trying to create a hit game for the North American market. Unable at the time to acquire a license to create a video game based on the Popeye character, Nintendo decides to create a game mirroring the characteristics and rivalry of Popeye and Bluto. Donkey Kong is named after the game’s villain, a pet gorilla gone rogue. The game’s hero is originally called Jumpman, but is retroactively renamed Mario once the game becomes popular and Nintendo decides to use the character in future games.Due to the similarity between Donkey Kong and King Kong, Universal Studios sued Nintendo claiming Donkey Kong violated their trademark. Kong, however, is common Japanese slang for gorilla. The lawsuit was ruled in favor of Nintendo. The success of Donkey Kong helped Nintendo become one of the dominant companies in the video game market. Rant of the Week (15:55)Palestinians say Microsoft unfairly closing their accountsPalestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services.They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza.Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - a claim they dispute. Billy Big Balls of the Week (27:39)Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ TicketsA lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the scalpers control and which can then be sold and transferred to customers.By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control. In doing so, they are removing the anti-scalping restrictions put on the tickets by Ticketmaster and AXS. 'Gay furry hackers' breach conservative US think tank behind Project 2025A collective of self-described "gay furry hackers" have released 2GB of data lifted from the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think-tank behind Project 2025 - a set of proposals that would bring the USA closer to being an authoritarian state.The hacktivist group, known as SiegedSec, has been running a campaign it calls "OpTransRights," targeting (mostly government) websites to disrupt efforts to enact or enforce anti-trans and anti-abortion laws. Industry News (33:26)10 Billion Passwords Leaked on Hacking ForumCrypto Thefts Double to $1.4 Billion, TRM Labs FindsRussia Blocks VPN Services in Information CrackdownTicketmaster Extortion Continues, Threat Actor Claims New Ticket LeakCyber-Attack on Evolve Bank Exposed Data of 7.6 Million CustomersMost Security Pros Admit Shadow SaaS and AI UseRussian Media Uses AI-Powered Software to Spread DisinformationSmishing Triad Targets India with Fraud SurgeFraud Campaign Targets Russians with Fake Olympics Tickets Tweet of the Week (41:18)https://x.com/dennishegstad/status/1810044171765645568 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!
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  • Episode 197 - The Andy Is Distracted Episode

    Episode 197 - The Andy Is Distracted Episode
    Jul 8 2024

    This week in InfoSec (07:40)

    With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield

    3 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 minutes

    https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1808464060972667170

    Rant of the Week (11:07)

    Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/05/qilin_impacts_patient/

    EXCLUSIVE The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen.

    Hanna – the name she goes by – is now missing her right breast after her skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction surgery was swapped out for a simple mastectomy at the last minute.

    Billy Big Balls of the Week (18:20)

    Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/04/hackers_of_indonesian_government_apologize/

    Industry News (24:28)

    Vinted Fined €2.3m Over Data Protection Failure

    Europol Warns of Home Routing Challenges For Lawful Interception

    Meta Faces Suspension of AI Data Training in Brazil

    New Ransomware Group Phones Execs to Extort Payment

    UK’s NCA Leads Major Cobalt Strike Takedown

    Cyber Extortion Soars: SMBs Hit Four Times Harder

    New RUSI Report Exposes Psychological Toll of Ransomware, Urges Action

    Dozens of Arrests Disrupt €2.5m Vishing Gang

    Health Tech Execs Get Jail Time For $1bn Fraud Scheme

    Tweet of the Week (31:07)

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    39 m
  • Episode 196 - The Nuclear Option Episode

    Episode 196 - The Nuclear Option Episode
    Jul 1 2024

    This Week in InfoSec (12:30)

    With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield

    24th 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. Or laugh. Or both. Has much changed when it comes to password security since the movie was released 37 years ago today?

    The 64 second scene: https:///youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k

    https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1805302016451002501

    27th June 2011: Anonymous released its first cache from Operation AntiSec, information from a US anti-cyberterrorism program.

    https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1806302186487345226

    Rant of the Week (18:15)

    Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware
    A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.

    The number of infected users of “web hard drives” – the South Korean term for the online storage services that allow uploading and sharing of content – has reportedly reached 600,000.

    Billy Big Balls of the Week (26:33)

    Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan
    The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens.

    Between February 2023-2024, scammers were kicking US victims while they were already down, preying on their financial vulnerability to defraud them for a second time in what must be seen as a new low, even for that particular breed of dirtball.

    It's the latest update from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on the ongoing issue which was first publicized in August last year.

    Industry News (34:24)

    US Bans Kaspersky Over Alleged Kremlin Links

    Sellafield Pleads Guilty to Historic Cybersecurity Offenses

    Polish Prosecutors Step Up Probe into Pegasus Spyware Operation

    Credential Stuffing Attack Hits 72,000 Levi’s Accounts

    Google's Naptime Framework to Boost Vulnerability Research with AI

    Fake Law Firms Con Victims of Crypto Scams, Warns FBI

    IT Leaders Split on Using GenAI For Cybersecurity

    Majority of Critical Open Source Projects Contain Memory Unsafe Code

    CISOs Reveal Firms Prioritize Savings Over Long-Term Security

    Tweet of the Week (43:08)

    https://twitter.com/StuAlanBecker/status/1806137799248359443

    Comments: https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1806307954586538205

    Alternate TotW:

    https://twitter.com/susisnyder/status/1806222280382406836

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    49 m
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