Episode 45 - The Antibody Episode

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:</p><p>2nd March 2002: Zone-H was launched in Estonia and began saving and publishing copies of defaced websites 7 days later. </p><p><a href="http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4742?hz=2">http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4742?hz=2</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1234492350833008640">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1234492350833008640</a></p><p>2nd March 2010: Gregory  D. Evans' book "How To Become The World's No. 1 Hacker" was published. The book was heavily plagiarized and not held in high regard. Evans was quite controversial...to say the least. And got a lot of attention for a couple of years. Google him if you wish.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1234320212117221376">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1234320212117221376</a></p><p><a href="https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/gregory_evans/">https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/gregory_evans/</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://blog.c22.cc/2010/06/17/threats/comment-page-2/">https://blog.c22.cc/2010/06/17/threats/comment-page-2/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong> (not covered)</p><p>A warning went up on the perl.org infrastructure weblog late in January notifying users that perl.com now directed to a parking site and advised against visiting "as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past."</p><p>The site later returned an ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED error message.</p><p>The hijack appears to have followed the age-old path of an attacker pouncing on a compromised account and swiping the domain rather than a simple expiration.</p><p>A good read out of what happened from Perl’s point of view as well as their Incident Response processes (link at the bottom).</p><p>We had learned very quickly that when you use the registered domain for your email contact, no one can contact you when that domain no longer handles your mail. </p><p>What w