Episode 59 - We Voted For The Lazarus Heist

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account.</p><p><strong>5th June 1991</strong>: Philip Zimmermann sent the first release of PGP to 2 friends, Allan Hoeltje and Kelly Goen, to upload to the Internet.</p><p>Read his story about the release, including his disclosure of how little he understood about Usenet and what newsgroups even were. </p><p><a href="http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/news/PGP_10thAnniversary.html">http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/news/PGP_10thAnniversary.html</a></p><p><a href="https://philzimmermann.com/EN/news/index.html">PGP Marks 30th Anniversary</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1269043313404862465">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1269043313404862465</a>  </p><p><strong>7th June 1989:</strong> The beta release of the Bourne Again SHell (Bash) was announced as version 0.99. 2 months later Shellshock was introduced into the Bash source code and persisted in subsequent versions for over 25 years.</p><p><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.announce/c/hvhlR1Vn1P0/m/NYwp-4_0CaUJ?pli=1">https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.announce/c/hvhlR1Vn1P0/m/NYwp-4_0CaUJ?pli=1</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1269788726156124160">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1269788726156124160</a> <br /><br /><strong>9th June 1993</strong>: The first DEF CON hacker conference was held at the Sands Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Initially planned by Jeff Moss as a farewell party for a hacker friend, about 100 people attended. It has since grown to become a 4-day conference with 30,000 attendees.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1270389947753627648">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1270389947753627648</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>There was widespread panic on Tuesday after a major Internet outage knocked dozens of websites offline.</p><p>Amazon, Reddit and Twitch were all affected, as were the Guardian, the New York Times and t