The Host Unknown Podcast

著者: 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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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
All rights reserved - Hands Off!
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  • Episode 222 - The Disappearing Episodes Episode
    2025/03/03
    This week in InfoSec (11:22)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th February 2002: Timothy Allen Lloyd was sentenced to 41 months in prison for activating a logic bomb at Omega Engineering, 20 days after being fired as a network administrator.https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1895255588881474024 18th February 2013: Burger King's Twitter account was compromised, had its name changed to McDonalds, and shared offensive tweets. The incident was a...well...Whopper! https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1891999132866183322 Rant of the Week (17:34)Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.The military man even Google searched for "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," according to prosecutors who argue he poses a serious flight risk and should be detained.Cameron John Wagenius, 21, was arrested in Texas in December, and last week told a federal court judge he intends to plead guilty to unlawfully posting and transferring confidential phone records. Prosecutors have also linked Wagenius to two other men accused of stealing data from more than 150 Snowflake cloud accounts in April 2024, and then demanding payment to keep a lid on that info.After admitting his crimes in court, and showing a willingness to enter a guilty plea, "Wagenius should be detained as both a danger to the community — given his ability to access sensitive datasets — and a serious risk of flight," Uncle Sam's attorneys argued."While engaged in these criminal activities, Wagenius conducted online searches about how to defect to countries that do not extradite to the United States and that he previously attempted to sell hacked information to at least one foreign intelligence service," the documents allege. Billy Big Balls of the Week (24:32)100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talkMore than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used by staff to chat about their sex lives.After the NSA – the National Security Agency, that is, not the other meaning – confirmed on state media it was "aware of posts that appear to show inappropriate discussions" by intelligence community employees and that "investigations to address this misuse of government systems are ongoing," Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced more than 100 people had since been terminated.The messaging app in question is the NSA's Intelink, a secure intranet service used by various American military and intelligence teams to share information, including top secret and classified threat intel.Federal workers said to have been involved in the NSFW Intelink chatter included personnel at the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and US Naval Intelligence."There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in … what is really just an egregious violation of trust," Gabbard told Fox News commentator Jesse Watters Tuesday. "What to speak of, like basic rules and standards around professionalism." Industry News (32:54)Chinese-Backed Silver Fox Plants Backdoors in Healthcare NetworksRansomware Gang Publishes Stolen Genea IVF Patient DataHaveIBeenPwned Adds 244 Million Passwords Stolen By InfostealersSignal May Exit Sweden If Government Imposes Encryption BackdoorDISA Global Solutions Confirms Data Breach Affecting 3.3M PeopleFBI Confirms North Korea’s Lazarus Group as Bybit Crypto HackersOpenSSF Publishes Security Framework for Open Source SoftwareSoftware Vulnerabilities Take Almost Nine Months to PatchDragonForce Ransomware Hits Saudi Firm, 6TB Data Stolen Tweet of the Week (42:59)https://x.com/roytait/status/1895224942565970354 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!
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    47 分
  • Episode 211 - The Last of the Year Episode
    2024/12/11
    This week in InfoSec (11:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield4th December 2013: Troy Hunt launched the free-to-search site "Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP)". At launch, passwords from the Adobe, Stratfor, Gawker, Yahoo! Voices, and Sony Pictures breaches were indexed. Today? Billions of compromised records from hundreds of breaches.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1864299155583127739 5th December 1996: Julian Assange pleaded guilty to 25 of 31 hacking charges and related charges and was ordered to repay $2,100 to Australian National University. He had been arrested in 1994 for hacking crimes committed in 1991. The court case details weren't released until 2011.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1864664694243434977 Rant of the Week (17:21)Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warnsThe number of security threats in the UK that hit the country's National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) maximum severity threshold has tripled compared to the previous 12 months.Published Tuesday 3rd December, GCHQ's tech offshoot's 2024 review reveals that 12 incidents topped the NCSC's severity classification system out of a total 430 cases that required support from its Incident Management (IM) team between September 2023 and August 2024. The finding represents a 16 percent increase year-over-year.The number of nationally significant incidents also rose from 62 last year to 89 in the latest data, six of which were caused by exploiting two Palo Alto and Cisco zero-days. This number includes the 12 deemed maximally severe and an undetermined number of attacks on the UK's central government. Billy Big Balls of the Week (25:50)Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spywareA Russian programmer defied the Federal Security Service (FSB) by publicizing the fact his phone was infected with spyware after being confiscated by authorities.Kirill Parubets was detained in Russia for 15 days after being accused of sending money to Ukraine, during which time the man was beaten and subjected to aggressive efforts to recruit him as an FSB informant on his contacts in Ukraine.According to his account of the story, published with his consent by Toronto University's Citizen Lab and First Department legal organization, he says he was threatened with life imprisonment if he failed to comply with the recruitment drive.In order to secure release, he agreed but before he was indoctrinated he and his wife fled the country. Always keep a second passport, if possible. Industry News (32:21)Crypto.com Launches Massive $2m Bug Bounty ProgramGerman Police Shutter Country’s Largest Dark Web MarketENISA Launches First State of EU Cybersecurity ReportWirral Hospital Recovery Continues One Week After Cyber IncidentFBI Warns GenAI is Boosting Financial FraudEuropol Dismantles Major Online Fraud Platform in Major Blow to FraudstersDeloitte Denies Breach, Claims Cyber-Attack Targeted Single ClientRomania Exposes TikTok Propaganda Campaign Supporting Pro-Russian CandidateFCC Proposes Stricter Cybersecurity Rules for US Telecoms Tweet of the Week (43:43) https://twitter.com/McGrewSecurity/status/1865050788369772974 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!
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    51 分
  • Episode 210 - The Is Andy Paying Attention? Episode
    2024/12/03
    This week in InfoSec With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 2014: The Washington Post published an article which included a photo of TSA master keys. A short time later functional keys were 3-d printed using the key patterns in the photo. Oops.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1860803840620044356 22nd November 2010: Matt Blaze published the PowerPoint slides he was contractually required to submit for his 2011 RSA Security Conference presentation. Matt hates PowerPoint. Take a moment to admire the slides he submitted.https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1860027850369519669 Rant of the Week (12:47)https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/third_major_cyber_incident_declared/A UK hospital is declaring a "major incident," cancelling all outpatient appointments due to "cybersecurity reasons."The Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, located in North West England, said the so-called "incident" affects the whole Trust, which oversees Wirral Women and Children's Hospital, Clatterbridge Hospital, and Arrowe Park Hospital.Although the tech problems began on Monday, officials confirmed to The Register it is still dealing with the fallout as of Tuesday morning. All outpatient appointments were canceled on Monday and the same decision was made today, according to Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge's social media posting. All patients whose appointments were canceled will be contacted to rearrange them. Billy Big Balls of the Week (20:48)Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's governmentJapan's National Consumer Affairs Center on Wednesday suggested citizens start "digital end of life planning" and offered tips on how to do it.The Center's somewhat maudlin advice is motivated by recent incidents in which citizens struggled to cancel subscriptions their loved ones signed up for before their demise, because they didn't know their usernames or passwords. The resulting "digital legacy" can be unpleasant to resolve, the agency warns, so suggested four steps to simplify ensure our digital legacies aren't complicated:Ensuring family members can unlock your smartphone or computer in case of emergency;Maintain a list of your subscriptions, user IDs and passwords;Consider putting those details in a document intended to be made available when your life ends;Use a service that allows you to designate someone to have access to your smartphone and other accounts once your time on Earth ends.The Center suggests now is the time for it to make this suggestion because it is aware of struggles to discover and resolve ongoing expenses after death. With smartphones ubiquitous, the org fears more people will find themselves unable to resolve their loved ones' digital affairs – and powerless to stop their credit cards being charged for services the departed cannot consume.Some entrepreneurs have already identified end of life services as an opportunity. "Dead Man's Switch" apps can be set to contact whomever you choose if you do not sign in to certain accounts after a period you select as a likely indicator of your departure from this world.Meta also offers the chance to nominate a "legacy contact" who can manage your account.Such services aren't just opportunistic: grieving people have a lot on their plate, and executing wills is not always straightforward. Industry News (31:08)ICO Urges More Data Sharing to Tackle Fraud EpidemicOver a Third of Firms Struggling With Shadow AIDarknet Services Fuel Holiday Scams and E-Commerce ExploitsNHS Trust Declares Major Incident for “Cybersecurity Reasons”Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Opens Sellafield Cyber CenterNew EU Commission to Unveil Healthcare Cybersecurity Plan in First 100 DaysT-Mobile Claims Salt Typhoon Did Not Access Customer DataAlbanian Drug Smugglers Busted After Cops Decrypt CommsUK Justice System Failing Cybercrime Victims, Cyber Helpline Finds Tweet of the Week (39:43)https://bsky.app/profile/mattpotteruk.bsky.social/post/3lbyu4dy3b22f Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!
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    47 分

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