Episode 55 - Hitting the Limit

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account</p><p>6th May 1995: Chris Lamprecht (aka "Minor Threat") became the first person banned from the Internet. He received a 70 month sentence for money laundering...and was banned from the Internet until 2003.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/1997/12/twice-removed-locked-up-and-barred-from-net/">https://www.wired.com/1997/12/twice-removed-locked-up-and-barred-from-net/</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1257862817371156480">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1257862817371156480</a></p><p>7th May 2004: 18-year-old German computer science student Sven Jaschan was arrested for writing the Sasser worm and the NetSky worm. One of Jaschan's friends had informed Microsoft that Jaschan had created the worm.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm)">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm)</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1390689536670420998">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1390689536670420998</a></p><p>9th May 1990: Operation Sundevil was revealed in a press release. It was a US Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities." Raids occurred in ~15 cities, resulting in a measly 3 arrests.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1259301463102074880">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1259301463102074880</a></p><p>The Hacker Crackdown audiobook <a href="https://boingboing.net/2008/01/13/podcast-of-bruce-ste.html">https://boingboing.net/2008/01/13/podcast-of-bruce-ste.html</a>  </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway</p><p>Colonial Pipeline's operators reportedly paid $5m to regain control of their digital systems and get the pipeline pumping oil following last week's ransomware infection.</p><p>News of the payoff was <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/