Episode 30 - The Magic Number

<p>Our presenters delve into their darkest secrets from the past,  the internet is rebooted, the logs cleared, and cats play havoc with your home security (according to your training programme).</p><p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>24th October 2010: 2010: Eric Butler announced Firefox extension Firesheep's release at Toorcon, making HTTP session hijacking on open Wi-Fi trivial.</p><p>Today, by far, high traffic sites redirect HTTP requests by default - so 90% of Internet web traffic is encrypted. That long tail though? Sad face. </p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Hz7quYOhrW0yHMT031jPzMB0b5fCrTKrPWJxlar1tkDGxjPmqr3fSJHfroM9CNRKw8kHP5OHTBygJZZxVFR95P5ZuOnaS0d4aSJ-au5jCk5Al13C5PkuM8P1NydQbiFD8Uq2s5Hm" /><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1320095119857561603?s=20">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1320095119857561603?s=20</a></p><p>27th October 1980: ARPANET ground to a halt because a bad status message propagated, causing all IMPs (routers) to exhaust memory. The solution? Reboot all IMPs! Yep, a reboot.</p><p>This incident was such a big deal that the case study of it was published as RFC 789.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1321054719863828481?s=20">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1321054719863828481?s=20</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Tweet of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/KathsBurgess/status/1321509257431449600?s=20">https://twitter.com/KathsBurgess/status/1321509257431449600?s=20</a></p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_6G_0KbAK5MihRSl1A0wycQUosUQ6vgKvfVPtUnUpB6t8DVgtL-s66916wGD3gdxFCoUy1ZIs1K5q7DIicu8GJf-T_4Ltax4rR0UH45MopqKOa5fMgdFwqq4aF9zqcF-rUjJIFBf" /><p>Very good awareness video:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-woolworths-is-not-returning-to-the-uks-high-streets_uk_5f97f50ec5b6b74d85f459cc">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-woolworths-is-not-returning-to-the-uks-high-streets_uk_5f97f50ec5b6b74d85f459cc</a></p><