Episode 66 - Our Time to Shine

<p><strong>This week in Infosec (06:42)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account</p><p>27th July 1979: The first edition of Computer Security was published. It was written by David K. Hsiao, Douglas S. Kerr, and Stuart E. Madnick.</p><p>And to think, some of you probably are surprised there were computers in 1979, never mind computer security!</p><p><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-security/hsiao/978-0-12-357650-7">Computer Security 1st Edition</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1420498414874370049">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1420498414874370049</a></p><p> </p><p>28th July 1997: Tfreak (Dan Moschuk) released his program, smurf, a decision he later regarded as questionable. </p><p>Exactly one year after he retired smurf in 1997, Tfreak published (papa)smurf.c v5.0, a new hybrid DoS attack based on Smurf and Fraggle. </p><p><a href="https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/15266/papasmurf.c.html">(papa)smurf.c v5.0 - New hybrid DoS attack based on smurf and fraggle</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (23:23) </strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1420800992388415491">https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1420800992388415491</a></p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/b31NHUoUMXTc6n7H7QjZSHMH8TtkgpZvuLUVtvXlXtJcSBhzWqtDp09hHns8OKzQHSoiceWT6ixr_zW4xhH6njvULLheI0-veZKiXavud9apWpglPab_vA9A57TdIyXUQRDbsk-L" /><p><a href="https://www.idtheftcenter.org/google-voice-scam-tries-to-trick-you-while-you-are-selling-items-online/">https://www.idtheftcenter.org/google-voice-scam-tries-to-trick-you-while-you-are-selling-items-online/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (32.25)</strong><br />The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel has been erased from existence in a blaze of irony as host and creator Jim Browning fell victim to a tech support scam that convinced him to secure his account – by deleting it.</p><p><br /><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/27/youtube_channel_tec