Episode 86 - The Oh So Christmas Special

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account</p><p>16th December 1988: 25-year-old computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was charged for crimes including theft of software from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), including VMS source code and allegedly causing $4 million in damages to DEC.</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-16-me-347-story.html">Ex-Computer Whiz Kid Held on New Fraud Counts</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1471639991008825344">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1471639991008825344</a></p><p>15th December 1994: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communications_Corporation">Netscape Communications Corporation</a> releases <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator">Netscape Navigator 1.0</a>, the world’s first commercially developed web browser, although this particular version was free for non-commercial use.</p><p>15th December 1995: Developed by researchers at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/18/business/digital-equipment-offers-web-browsers-its-super-spider.html">Digital Equipment Research Laboratories</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista">AltaVista</a> search engine is launched. It was the first worldwide    web search service to gain significant popularity. One of the most popular search engines in the early world wide web, Google didn’t overtake AltaVista until 2001. AltaVista was eventually purchased by Yahoo! in 2003.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (15:49)</strong></p><p>Thom starts but quickly hands the baton Jav who takes a clear lead on this weeks rant... about Andy. This is Andy's response:</p><p>Songs that build up tension and stumble forward: <a href="https://youtu.be/N6Wtvs42Ne8">Songs that skip a beat</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (21:34)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59654724">National Lottery scratch card fraud: Men jailed over £4m