The Host Unknown Podcast
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 [email protected] for details
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 224
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 63 - The JavAndy Show
This weeks show is 33% off but the content is still as average as ever!
This week in Infosec - 3 mins 11 secs
Billy Big Balls - 12 mins 49 secs
Rant of the week - 20 mins 52 secs
Industry News - 30 mins …
Episode 62 - Bikini Bottom
This Week in InfoSec (08:03)
With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account
30th June 1998: AOL confirmed a leaked spreadsheet containing info of 1,300 AOL community leaders had bee…
Episode 61 - Hey Everybody Andy is Famous!
This week in Infosec
With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account
19th June 1987: The first Summercon hacker conference was held in St. Louis, Missouri and was run by the hacker z…
Episode 60 - Guaranteed Jav Free May Contain Nuts
Artist - Carole Theriault
This week in Infosec
With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account (and embellished by us 😉)
11th June 2008: Verizon released the first edition of its ann…
Episode 59 - We Voted For The Lazarus Heist
This week in Infosec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account.
5th June 1991: Philip Zimmermann sent the first release of PGP to 2 friends, Allan Hoeltje and Kelly Goen, to upload to the I…
Episode 58 - Ha Ha Ha
This week in Infosec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account
1st June 1864: The first record of electronic spam was broadly revealed. A recipient was so infuriated by the dentist's poppyc…
Episode 57 - The Deleted Show Notes Episode
This Week in InfoSec
20th May 1993: Neil Woods (24) and Karl Strickland (22) became the first people imprisoned under the UK's 1990 Computer Misuse Act.
Episode 56 - The Post Birthday Blues
This Week in InfoSec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account:
15th May 1998: The first issue of Bruce Schneier's (@schneierblog) monthly Crypto-Gram internet newsletter was published. And…
Episode 55 - Hitting the Limit
This Week in InfoSec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account
6th May 1995: Chris Lamprecht (aka "Minor Threat") became the first person banned from the Internet. He received a 70 month se…
Episode 54 - A Life Half Lived
This Week in InfoSec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account
4th May 1990: Robert Tappan Morris was sentenced to 3 years probation, fined $10,000, and ordered to perform 400 hours of comm…
Episode 53 - The Non Fungible Podcast
This week in Infosec takes us back to a time Microsoft devalued a company, before buying it and another case of something being referred to as electronic graffiti.
Rant of …
Episode 52 - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thom’s l33t crypto coin investments
This week in Infosec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:
18th April 1995: proff (Julian Assange) published "The Dan Farmer Rap", about SATAN autho…
Episode 51 - Punking the Punkbuster
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Episode 50 - The Midlife Crisis Episode
This week in Infosec
(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):
4th April 1977: Ron Rivest first introduced Alice and Bob in the paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Publi…
Episode 48 - The Biggest Loser
The Biggest Loser, Week 0
Andy is running a book if you are interested in a little flutter on who will be the healthiest in the next six months.
Jav issues an apology to our listeners for misinformatio…
Episode 47a - Nextdoor Cheeky Bantz
Jav, Andy and Thom chat about the delights of the Nextdoor app. For our international listeners, just head to https://nextdoor.co.uk/ to find out about the uniquely Britishness of complaining about y…
Episode 47 - What's Happening With ISSA UK?
Our regular know our regular features, so here is our regular update for our regular features for our regular listeners.
This week in Infosec
Tweet of the Week
Billy Big Balls
Rant of the week
Industry Ne…
Episode 46 - The Insult free Episode
This week in Infosec
(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):
6th March 1992: For the second year in a row the Michelangelo virus activated on this date. However, the lead up to March …
Episode 45 - The Antibody Episode
This week in Infosec
Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:
2nd March 2002: Zone-H was launched in Estonia and began saving and publishing copies of defaced websites 7 days later.