Episode 50 - The Midlife Crisis Episode

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):</p><p>4th April 1977: Ron Rivest first introduced Alice and Bob in the paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems".</p><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/iKJrEXsdZ3K02Sb-A7JUpJiIqwfTPZVqrWj2lRC09l97yRaIRsbkWyfFjCRYWvZYLjDUUQCta_XN5uGF1PhkIkfkm7AKEoXTvQzRhAQa7gJfxMfV3AYQ4vJ802Apc_Rt9aoGhTyy" /><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1246652917605527554">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1246652917605527554</a></p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/alice-and-bob">http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/alice-and-bob</a></p><p><a href="https://xkcd.com/177/">https://xkcd.com/177/</a></p><p>Javvad explains it better: </p><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OpUFI6uMKZw5JBbYpD4AYlXal-4_aUz7iRmXps7PMZyhL-v_ovFvX4bWN2H1V8fPOa1Wvb38lnCQ0ojbZtz3VDYPCcifLu0L-83AAhJAiL-J-SfBgoZ9dLEy9OOCBkyToK-9vE1F" /><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/SMJieHNdpeRqBZb0PCPXf1B-uYENDeCkTLMyarLLGBtQJ3qUAVTwJULP9XsgGJ8KYSOiuC6yao3i9lPcrnWL-UjzeVYQZ05ykOztMo17oW9jK5lJ9ReHyZVB47IkZo0oCQEdU6NM" /><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob</a></p><p>8th April 2014: Extended support for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 ended, nearly 6 years after SP3's release and 12 1/2 after general availability of Windows XP.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1247920644030738433">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1247920644030738433</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>The UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own</p><p>The UK Cyber Security Council announced itself to the public realm last week by touting a domain it doesn't own. Helpfully, internet jokesters then bought up variations on the official address.</p><p>A brainchild of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the UK Cyber Security Council is b