Episode 107 - Rewarding The Bad Bad Man

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (06:06)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>3rd June 1983: The science fiction film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames">WarGames</a> is released. Notable for bringing the hacking phenomena to the attention of the American public, it ignites a media sensation regarding the hacker sub-culture. The film’s NORAD set is the most expensive ever built at the time at a cost of $1 million dollars. Not widely known is that the movie studio provided the film’s star, Matthew Broderick, with the arcade games Galaga and Galaxian so he could get first-hand experience before shooting the film’s arcade scenes.</p><p>9th June 1993 The motion picture <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)">Jurassic Park premiers in Washington D.C.</a> The highest grossing film in history at the time, the contributions of Jurassic Park to the field of special effects is perhaps as important as the original Star Wars movie 16 years prior. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (15:55)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/why-netflix-isnt-the-only-one-bummed-about-password-sharing/">Why Netflix isn't the Only One Bummed About Password Sharing</a></p><p>Password sharing is commonplace</p><p>Even if you put aside the obvious problems that password sharing creates for Netflix, Netflix password sharing may only be a symptom of a more serious problem. The Netflix password sharing trend has conditioned people to accept the idea that it is OK to share passwords with one another if there is a good reason for doing so.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/silverados_alperovitch_viasat_attack/">Ukraine's secret cyber-defense that blunts Russian attacks: Excellent backups</a></p><p>"One thing that the Ukrainians have taught us so well – and they certainly have had eight years of practice and suffered from Russian cyber o