Episode 155 - The Really Late Show

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (10:21)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>8th June 1989: The beta release of the Bourne Again SHell (Bash) was announced as version 0.99. 2 months later Shellshock was introduced into the Bash source code and persisted in subsequent versions for over 25 years.</p><p>v0.99 release <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.announce/c/hvhlR1Vn1P0/m/NYwp-4_0CaUJ?pli=1">announcement</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1666487525320318988">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1666487525320318988</a></p><p>3rd June 1983: <a href="https://thisdayintechhistory.com/06/03/would-you-like-to-play-a-game/">Would You Like to Play a Game?</a></p><p>The science fiction film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames">WarGames</a> is released. Notable for bringing the hacking phenomena to the attention of the American public, it ignites a media sensation regarding the hacker sub-culture. The film’s NORAD set is the most expensive ever built at the time at a cost of $1 million dollars. </p><p>Not widely known is that the movie studio provided the film’s star, Matthew Broderick, with the arcade games Galaga and Galaxian so he could get first-hand experience before shooting the film’s arcade scenes.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:16)</strong></p><p><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-replacing-not-patching-its-email-security-gateways/">Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways</a></p><p>It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware — as opposed to just applying software updates. But experts say that is exactly what transpired this week with Barracuda Networks, as the company struggled to combat a sprawling malware threat which appears to have undermined its email security appliances in such a fundamental way tha