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• Episode 224: Where we argue about Cyber Essentials

  17th June 1995: Spyglass goes publicWorld Wide Web software producer Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it had begun distributing its Spyglass Mosaic software, an early browser for navigating the Web. With previous year's earnings at $7 million, Spyglass was founded by students at the Illinois Supercomputing Center, which also inspired Netscape Communications Corp.https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/june/27/#spyglass-goes-public  26th June 1989: Robert Tappan Morris (who released the Morris worm in 1988) became the first person to be indicted under the US's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), enacted by Congress 3 years earlier. He was later sentenced to three years of probation and fined $10,050https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1938292354965770278Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Meta’s AI training on copyrighted content is ‘fair use’, US judge sayshttps://x.com/filip_dragovic/status/1937932750415086010 Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

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• Episode 223: The never-ending train journey episode

  11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/193283823510271631713th June 1994: A Russian hacker group led by Vladimir Levin stole $10.7 million from Citibank via X.25, in what was the first international bank robbery over a network to be made public. Levin was caught in London in 1995 and sentenced in the US to 3 years in prison in 1998. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1933504310643773697  “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD Industry News#Infosec2025: Top Six Cyber Trends CISOs Need to KnowHalf of Mobile Users Now Face Daily ScamsResearcher Finds Five Zero-Days and 20+ Misconfigurations in Salesforce CloudHands-On Skills Now Key to Landing Your First Cyber RolePhishing Alert as Erie Insurance Reveals Cyber “Event”Europol Says Criminal Demand for Data is “Skyrocketing”NIST Publishes New Zero Trust Implementation GuidanceMicrosoft 365 Copilot: New Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Allows Corporate Data TheftEuropean Journalists Targeted by Paragon Spyware, Citizen Lab ConfirmsTweet of the weekhttps://bsky.app/profile/brianhonan.bsky.social/post/3lrilyd7rpk2m   Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

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• Episode 222: The Curious Case of the Oxford Comma Episode

  26th May 1995: Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer — a development that he was assigning “the highest level of importance.” Still, it is curious why it took someone who was regarded as a technology “innovator” so long to realize this.https://thisdayintechhistory.com/05/26/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave/30th May 1996: AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System.  AT&T held a meeting to announce a system that would allow personal computers to make and receive video phone calls over standard telephone lines. In years of efforts by AT&T and others to find success in the technology, the AT&T system made use of Intel's Pentium processors and compression software to allow both video and audio information to share a phone line rather than a high-capacity ISDN, T-1, or T-3 line.https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/may/30/#att-announces-video-phone-call-systemSecurity outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outageOpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage efforthttps://bsky.app/profile/robmesure.bsky.social/post/3lqcn6kq5oc26  Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

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• Episode 221: The Was Jav On the BBC? Episode

   Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' postsJudge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the linehttps://x.com/fesshole/status/1925815219655233765?s=46&t=1-Sjo1Vy8SG7OdizJ3wVbgAnd of course... can't NOT mention: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2lh/inside-the-high-street-cyberattacks  Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

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• 220 - The Frequent Flyer Frustrations Episode

  As always we will bring you today in infosec, a rant, admire a billy big ball move, talk about industry news, and bring you a tweet or alternatively suitable social media post of the week.Hey, it's hard enough Thom being off that I have to edit and publish this, I need to find an AI to write the notes for me. Love you all, Javvad... now go an subscribe!  Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

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