Episode 113 - Did you hear That?

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (10:25)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>17th July 1997: Major Disruption in Sending Most E-Mail Messages.  A programming error temporarily threw the Internet into disarray in a preview of the difficulties that inevitably accompany a world dependent on e-mail, the World Wide Web, and other electronic communications.</p><p>At 2:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a computer operator in Virginia ignored alarms on the computer that updated Internet address information, leading to problems at several other computers with similar responsibilities. The corruption meant most Internet addresses could not be accessed, resulting in millions of unsent e-mail messages.</p><p>15th July 1999: DilDog of Cult of the Dead Cow confirmed official Back Orifice 2000 CD-ROMs distributed during DEF CON 4 days prior were infected with the destructive CIH virus. Initially, cDc blamed pirated copies as the source, later discovering a duplicating machine had been infected.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1283523195371282434">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1283523195371282434</a></p><p>19th July 1985: Chase Manhattan Bank discovered a message in one of its computer systems from Lord Flathead. The message said that unless he was given free use of the computer, he would destroy records in the system. Lord Flathead? He founded Myspace 18 years later!</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/19/business/chase-computer-raided-by-youths-officials.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/19/business/chase-computer-raided-by-youths-officials.html</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1153507276629504006">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1153507276629504006</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:28)</strong></p><p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/secret-service-texts-national-archives/index.html">Secret Service gives thousands of documents to January 6