Episode 87 - Merry New Year

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (6:20)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account</p><p>1st January 1997: The Cult of the Dead Cow admitted it was responsible for the Good Times virus hoax of 1994.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodtimes_virus">Good times virus</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1212558619205607426">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1212558619205607426</a></p><p>[Covered this story last month so will axe it]</p><p>2nd January 1975: Gates and Allen Name "Micro-Soft".  Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a letter to MITS, the Albuquerque, New Mexico, company that manufactured the Altair computer, offering a version of BASIC for MITS's "Altair 8800" computer. The contract for BASIC reflected the first time Gates and Allen referred to themselves as the company Microsoft, spelled in the document as "Micro-Soft."</p><p><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/2/#gates-and-allen-name-micro-soft">Gates and Allen name Micro-Soft</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft">Microsoft v. MikeRoweSoft</a></p><p>3rd January 1977: Apple Computer, Inc. is Incorporated</p><p>Apple Computer, Inc. is incorporated by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak. Its IPO, which took place three years later, was the largest one since the Ford Motor Company went public in 1956. The stock rose almost 32% that day giving the company a market valuation of $1.778 billion. Seven years later, on January 24, 1984, the company revealed the Macintosh personal computer in a publicity campaign that compared IBM with Big Brother and Apple as the savior of the masses.</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/apple-gets-closer-3-trillion-market-value-2022-01-03/">Apple becomes first company to hit $3 trillion market value, then slips</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:22)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/norton_360_cryptominer_deletion/">Rememb