
Episode 101 - My Brain Hurts
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<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (09:26)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield</p><p>26th April 2013: LivingSocial informed its employees that 50 million users' names, emails, dates of birth, and SHA1 hashed passwords were compromised.</p><p><a href="https://allthingsd.com/20130426/livingsocial-hacked-more-than-50-million-customer-names-emails-birthdates-and-encrypted-passwords-accessed/">LivingSocial Hacked</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1519039747301199872">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1519039747301199872</a></p><p>26th April 1999: The first known virus to target the flash BIOS of a PC, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_virus">CIH/Chernobyl Virus</a> triggers on this day, erasing hard drives and disabling PCs primarily in Asia and Europe. One of the most destructive viruses in history, Turkey and South Korea alone reported 300,000 infected systems.</p><p> </p><p><strong>As Seen on Reddit (23:29)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/p9fo4d/my_thoughts_on_a_decade_of_cyber_security_10/">My thoughts on a decade of Cyber Security: 10 Lessons I’ve learned</a></p><p>Reddit user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CrowGrandFather/">u/CrowGrandFather</a> has spent more than a decade in the Cyber Security Industry and has come up with 10 lessons he learned along the way.</p><p>1. Cyber is risk and nothing else</p><p>2. No one cares about your stats</p><p>3. Understand that not everyone is as smart as you</p><p>4. Stop with the playbooks</p><p>5. Read the news for your boss</p><p>6. Blackhat is mostly pointless</p><p>7. Location, Location, Location</p><p>8. You’re probably doing threat intelligence wrong</p><p>9. Don’t write to be understood, write so that you can’t possibly be misunderstood</p><p>10. Make friends with your Marketing team</p><p>[That was this week's As seen on Reddit]</p><p> </p><p><strong>Industry News (42:07)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.