Episode 133 - The Last Show of the Year Show

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (09:44)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>15th December 1995: AltaVista Launches</p><p>Developed by researchers at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/18/business/digital-equipment-offers-web-browsers-its-super-spider.html">Digital Equipment Research Laboratories</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista">AltaVista</a> search engine is launched. It was the first world wide web search service to gain significant popularity. One of the most popular search engines in the early world wide web, Google didn’t overtake AltaVista until 2001. AltaVista was eventually purchased by Yahoo! in 2003.</p><p>11th December 1989: Joseph Lewis Popp allegedly mailed floppy disks to the UK which were labelled "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette". Surprise! The AIDS trojan on the disks demanded $189 to "renew the licence" by sending payment to a post office box in Panama. </p><p><a href="https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/magazine/1990/199003.pdf">Virus Bulletin</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1469660348928167943">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1469660348928167943</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:02)</strong></p><p>Internal Note: [You’ll need to read this story first for background if you’re not familiar - <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/06/rackspace_confirms_ransomware/?td=keepreading">Rackspace confirms ransomware attack behind days-long email meltdown</a>]</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/rackspace_email_outage/">On the 12th day of the Rackspace email disaster, it did not give to me …</a></p><p>… a working Exchange inbox tree</p><p>There's no end – or restored data – in sight for some Rackspace customers now on day 12 of the company's ransomware-induced hosted Exchange email outage.</p><p>In the service provider's most recent <a href="https://status.apps.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=2">update</a>, post