Episode 82 - The Irishman

<p>IRISSCON - https://www.iriss.ie/</p><p> </p><p><strong>This week in Infosec (12:19)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account</p><p>15th November 1994: The earliest known example of the Good Times email hoax virus was posted to the TECH-LAW mailing list. Variants of the hoax spread for several years. In 1997, Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) claimed responsibility for initiating the hoax. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodtimes_virus">Good Times Virus Hoax</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1195353643857391623">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1195353643857391623</a></p><p>12th November 2012: John McAfee went into hiding because his neighbor Gregory Faull was found dead from a gunshot the day before. Belize police wanted McAfee to come in for questioning, but McAfee stated the police were “out to get him”. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/14/john-mcafee-hiding-businessman-murder">John McAfee hiding from police after businessman's murder in Belize</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1326993312247656451">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1326993312247656451</a></p><p> </p><p>The Box © Charlie Langford</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (18:52)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/17/amazon_visa_drop/">Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email</a></p><p>How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now?</p><p>Amazon has confirmed it will no longer accept payment via Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom after several Reg readers wrote in complaining of a cryptic message they'd been sent this morning.</p><p>The online sales giant has indicated the move was "due to the high fees Visa charges for processing credit card transactions."</p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (26:22)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-memento-ransomware-switches