Episode 95 - Dammit He Came Back

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (08:37)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield</p><p>7th March 1997: During a hearing on Microsoft’s alleged antitrust activities, Bill Gates admits Microsoft’s contracts bar Internet content providers from promoting Netscape’s browser. Eventually, Internet Explorer dominates the web browser market as it is shipped for free with every copy of Windows.</p><p>3rd March 2009: “You may be wondering why I’ve turned myself into a zombie.</p><p>Well, it’s in honour of <a href="https://grahamcluley.com/national-zombie-awareness-week/">National Zombie Awareness</a> Week in Australia, which is highlighting the problem of compromised computers (known as bots or zombies).</p><p>Zombie computers can be invisibly controlled by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or steal confidential information.”</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (15:36)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/passwords-weak-security-link/">The zero-password future can't come soon enough</a></p><p>SpyCloud highlights poor password hygiene of consumers and the threat to enterprises</p><p>Passwords, long a weakness in the tapestry of defences designed to keep enterprises and individuals more secure, continue to be a problem due in large part to the same issue that has haunted them for years: the users themselves.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (27:41)</strong></p><p><a href="https://jalopnik.com/russian-company-outsourced-the-main-components-in-ev-ch-1848603252">Russian Company Outsourced The Main Components In EV Chargers To A Ukrainian Company, Hilarity Ensues</a></p><p>The electric car chargers along one of the most important freeways in Russia are all down Monday after the Ukrainian company tasked with building the main components in the chargers used backdoor access to hack them, shut them down, and program anti-Putin/pro-Ukrainian messages to scroll past on their scr