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The Host Unknown Podcast

The Host Unknown Podcast

By: Host Unknown Thom Langford Andrew Agnes Javvad Malik
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Host Unknown is the unholy alliance of the old, the new and the rockstars of the infosec industry in an internet-based show that tries to care about issues in our industry. It regularly fails. With presenters that have an inflated opinion of their own worth and a production team with a pathological dislike of them (or “meat puppets” as it often refers to them), it is with a combination of luck and utter lack of good judgement that a show is ever produced and released. Host Unknown is available for sponsorship, conferences, other web shows or indeed anything that pays a little bit of money to keep the debt collectors away. You can contact them at contact@hostunknown.tv for detailsAll rights reserved - Hands Off! Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • Episode 223: The never-ending train journey episode
    Jun 19 2025

    11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1932838235102716317

    13th 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 Know

    Half of Mobile Users Now Face Daily Scams

    Researcher Finds Five Zero-Days and 20+ Misconfigurations in Salesforce Cloud

    Hands-On Skills Now Key to Landing Your First Cyber Role

    Phishing Alert as Erie Insurance Reveals Cyber “Event”

    Europol Says Criminal Demand for Data is “Skyrocketing”

    NIST Publishes New Zero Trust Implementation Guidance

    Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Allows Corporate Data Theft

    European Journalists Targeted by Paragon Spyware, Citizen Lab Confirms

    Tweet of the week

    https://bsky.app/profile/brianhonan.bsky.social/post/3lrilyd7rpk2m

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    44 mins
  • Episode 222: The Curious Case of the Oxford Comma Episode
    May 30 2025
    1. 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/

    1. 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-system

    Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

    OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

    https://bsky.app/profile/robmesure.bsky.social/post/3lqcn6kq5oc26

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    46 mins
  • Episode 221: The Was Jav On the BBC? Episode
    May 27 2025

    Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

    Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line

    https://x.com/fesshole/status/1925815219655233765?s=46&t=1-Sjo1Vy8SG7OdizJ3wVbg

    And of course... can't NOT mention: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2lh/inside-the-high-street-cyberattacks

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    46 mins
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