Episode 170 - The No Show Notes Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (08:56)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>2006: The <a href="http://wikileaks.org">http://wikileaks.org</a> domain name was registered, though the first document wasn't posted to WikiLeaks until December.</p><p>Assange taken from Ecuador embassy in April 2019, since been staying at his majesty’s pleasure at Belmarsh.</p><p>2005: The Samy worm, the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, was released onto the mega-popular MySpace by 19-year-old Samy Kamkar (</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/samykamkar">@samykamkar</a></p><p>He's since made numerous impactful security and privacy field contributions. </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Kamkar">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Kamkar</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)</a></p><p>The worm itself was relatively harmless; it carried a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_(computing)">payload</a> that would display the string "but most of all, samy is my hero" on a victim's MySpace profile page as well as send Samy a friend request. When a user viewed that profile page, the payload would then be replicated and planted on their own profile page continuing the distribution of the worm. MySpace has since secured its site against the vulnerability.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)#cite_note-tech-1">[1]</a></p><p>2017: A week after he retired as the result of Equifax's data breach, former CEO Richard F. Smith told members of Congress one person in the IT department was at fault. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/business/equifax-congress-data-breach.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/business/equifax-congress-data-breach.html</a></p><p>It took 960 hours (40 days) between Equifax finding out about the breach and warning the public.  Millions of people’s data in US, UK, and elsewhere stolen.</p><h2>