Episode 39 - A New Hope

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:</p><p>19th January 1986: The first PC virus appeared. It was a boot sector virus called Brain, which spread via infected floppy disks to computers running MS-DOS. It was written by 2 brothers in Pakistan to protect their medical software from piracy. They later even licensed Brain.</p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zNQpWOsWvhsvTJs8Ip_mKLkYmQ789iT0B8CbdaGixq4grEXpGiCSraJPt2WQxLg_9xQdDfRlpVSaMsew3eCX07RJtB3YGtpQiWOJnOCF5x8tYGdEh_iBlIsOTeN5JpufcOpPlcwr" /><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2006/01/19/pc_virus_at_20/">https://www.theregister.com/2006/01/19/pc_virus_at_20/</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1351695480791715840">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1351695480791715840</a></p><p>Worth mentioning <a href="mailto:mikko.hypponen@f-secure.com">Mikko Hyponnen</a> ‘s TED talk on when he went to Pakistan to meet the brothers <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net">https://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net</a></p><p>18th January 2011: Andrew Auernheimer and Daniel Spitler were arrested by FBI agents for hacking into AT&T's servers and downloading customer info in 2010. There's a lot more to the story - either you know it or you should research it.</p><p><a href="https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/two-arrested-for-atandt-ipad-network-breach/d/d-id/1095520">https://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/two-arrested-for-atandt-ipad-network-breach/d/d-id/1095520</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1351277900834742274">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1351277900834742274</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>Google threatens to pull out of Australia</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55760673">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55760673</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Tweet of the Week</strong></p><img sr