Episode 88 - Only 345 Days Until Christmas

<p><strong>This week in Infosec (06:30)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account</p><p>12th January 1981: Time Magazine published "Superzapping in Computer Land". Its primary focus was four 13-year-olds from New York City who broke into 2 computer networks and destroyed 1 million bits of data. Yes, a whopping 0.125 MB. Have a read of the article.</p><p><a href="https://phil-are-go.blogspot.com/2011/10/superzapping-in-computer-land-ride-of.html?m=1">Superzapping in Computer Land - The ride of the "Dalton Gang"</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1481352763476832256">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1481352763476832256</a></p><p>13th January 1989: The “Friday the 13th” virus <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-13-mn-402-story.html">strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain</a>. This is one of the most famous early examples of a computer virus making headlines.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/08/business/the-executive-computer-friday-the-13th-a-virus-is-lurking.html">THE EXECUTIVE COMPUTER; Friday the 13th: A Virus Is Lurking</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (13:43)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/">Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps</a></p><p>Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking.</p><p>Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's much more to the story.</p><p>The developer of these libraries intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects that depend on 'colors' and 'faker.' </p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (23:18)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/12/bugalert_matt_sullivan_interview/">Info-saturated techie builds