The Host Unknown Podcast

233: Doorbell surveillance, Audits, and Office Space

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

19th February 1999: The movie "Office Space" was released. With a budget of $10 million, it grossed a measly $13 million worldwide, but became a cult ...

232: Back with the glass smash

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week in Infosec reminds us of the real reason we click on linksRant of the week is going to put a lot of Parisien street artists out of workBilly...

Episode 231: A teeny weeny bit late on this one

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Same format. Banter, lame jokes, inside jokes, lame inside jokes. This week in infosec A weak rant.A billy big balls Industry newsSome tweet of th...

Episode 230: A number we all agree upon

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

5th November 1993: Bugtraq was created by Scott Chasin as a full disclosure vulnerability reporting mailing list at the dawn of the World Wide Web. Bu...

Episode 229: The Rapture One

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec is a Mitnick/Android double acthttps://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/27/#hacker-mitnick-indicted-on-chargeshttps://thisd...

Episode 228: Legal and MFA delays

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

18th September 2014: Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards.Home Depot disclosed that its d...

Episode 227: The Coup

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The notes go here. I really can't go and look for them right now.  This week in InfoSec is a sticky pickleRant of the Week will have you guessing at...

Episode 226: The Prime Episode

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

8th July 2008: Several DNS vendors released patches to mitigate an attack method discovered by Dan Kaminsky which could be used to cause DNS cache poi...

Episode 225: The finding a job episode

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

27th June 2007: Live Free or Die Hard was released. Cop John McClane partners with hacker Matt Farrell to stop cyberterrorists trying to take down the...

Episode 224: Where we argue about Cyber Essentials

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

17th June 1995: Spyglass goes publicWorld Wide Web software producer Spyglass Inc. went public, the year after it had begun distributing its Spyglass ...

Episode 223: The never-ending train journey episode

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/193283823510271631713th June 1994: A Russian hacker group l...

Episode 222: The Curious Case of the Oxford Comma Episode

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 me...

Episode 221: The Was Jav On the BBC? Episode

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' postsJudge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages o...

220 - The Frequent Flyer Frustrations Episode

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

219 - The Lightweight and Aerodynamic Episode

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 219 of the Host Unknown Podcast covers a wide range of humorous and insightful discussions relating to both technology and personal anecdotes....

Episode 213 - The So Many Technical Issues Episode

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (10:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield1st April 1998: Hackers changed...

Episode 222 - The Disappearing Episodes Episode

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (11:22)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th February 2002: Timothy All...

Episode 211 - The Last of the Year Episode

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (11:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield4th December 2013: Troy Hunt la...

Episode 210 - The Is Andy Paying Attention? Episode

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 2014: The Washington Po...

Episode 209 - The Javvad Is In Big Trouble Episode

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:24)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th November 2012: John McAfee...

Episode 208 - The Dedicated to Cesar Romero Episode

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (13:28)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th November 1993: Bugtraq was c...

Episode 207 - The Raw! Live! Uncut! Episode

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No notes this week - Andy had ONE job... Come on! Like and bloody well subscribe!

Episode 206 The Sole Founder Episode

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does Thom also do the episode notes? This week in infosec  was about a EULARant of the weekhttps://securityaffairs.com/170125/laws-and-regulatio...

Episode 205 The Stone Cold Episode

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:29)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield10th October 1995: Netscape int...

Episode 204 - The Umms and Ahhs Episode

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (10:01)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th September 2001: Jan de Wit...

Episode 203 - The Too Soon Episode

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (10:44)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th September 2001: The Nimda ...

Episode 202 - The Dog Eating Episode

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (11:25)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th September 2014: Stephane C...

Episode 201 - The Difficult 201st Podcast

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (13:08)  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd September 2014: Twitter ...

Episode 200 - The Bicentennial men Episode

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (07:42)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield29th August 1990: The UK's Comp...

Episode 199 - The Holiday Is Over Episode

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (06:43)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th August 2004: Text messages...

Episode 198

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (10:28)10th July 1999 - Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member DilDog debuted the program Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) at DEF CON 7. It ...

Episode 197 - The Andy Is Distracted Episode

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (07:40)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3 July 1996 - a mere 28 years a...

Episode 196 - The Nuclear Option Episode

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Week in InfoSec (12:30)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th June 1987: The movie Spaceb...

Episode 195 - The Smashing Unknown Episode

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (11:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th of June  1991, a mere 33 y...

Episode 194

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (07:29)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield28th May: 2014: LulzSec hacker ...

Episode 193 - The "At Last!" Episode

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (11:36) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield17th May 2015: CNN published ...

Episode 192 - The Unedited Episode

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th April 2012: The Information Comm...

Episode 191 - This One's For The Boomers

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (07:04)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield23rd April 2005: The first vide...

Episode 190 - The Very Serious Episode

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:49)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield7th April 1969: Steve Crocker, ...

Episode 189 - The Something Something Band Something Something Together Episode

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (06:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd April 2011: Email marketing...

Episode 188 The Don't Mention The Name Episode

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec   (07:32)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield20th March 2007: Dragos Ruiu ...

Episode 187 - Mess of Trois

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (14:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield7th March 2017: WikiLeaks began...

Episode 186

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (06:53)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield1st March 1988: The MS-DOS boot...

Episode 185 - The Inexplicable Episode

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (06:25)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield16th February 2010: Version 2.0...

Episode 184 - The Bee in the Bonnet Episode

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:40) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield14th February 2001: In a pres...

Episode 183 - The Midnight Express Episode

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:59)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th February 2000: A 15-year-ol...

Episode 182 - The Tallest & Shortest Episode

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (08:19)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield31st Jan 2011 (13 years ago): C...

Episode 181 - The Early early Show

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (04:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield25th January 2003: The SQL Slam...

Episode 180 - Its a Full House Episode

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (09:34)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield11th January 2000: Newly declas...

Episode 179 - The One Third Empty Show

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (06:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th January 2014: Intel renamed...

Episode 178 - The Last Of Us Episode

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (12:55)With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield11th December 2010: The hacker g...

Episode 177 - The Are We Doing This Episode

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (07:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th December 2011: Fyodor report...

Episode 176 - The Jingle Free Episode

02 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (09:40)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 2014: The Washing...

Episode 175 - The Sam Altman Free Episode

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (06:40) 23rd November 2011: KrebsonSecurity reported that Apple took over 3 years to fix the iTunes software update process vul...

Episode 174 - The Brexit Episode

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

6:48 This week in InfoSec  With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield15th November 1994: The earliest...

Episode 173 - The Are We Still Doing This Episode

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This Week in InfoSec (05:41) 2002: In response to a report which insinuated Mac is less vulnerable than Windows, Microsoft suggested few focus on dis...

Episode 172 - The One Job Episode

28 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (07:11)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th October 2006: Christopher ...

Episode 171 - The Stitched Up Episode

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec  (09:48)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th October 2018: Google announ...

Episode 170 - The No Show Notes Episode

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (08:56)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield2006: The http://wikileaks.org do...

Episode 169 - The Hat Trick Episode

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (08:45)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield25th September 1986: "The Hacker ...

Episode 168 - The Purple Pineapple Episode

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:32)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th September 2001: The Nimda wo...

Episode 167 - The Sweaty B***s Episode

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (08:18)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield13th September 2011: Backup tapes...

Episode 166 - The Potato Quality Episode

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:51)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th September 1987: Thomas Haynie...

Episode 165 - The Don't Screw It Up Episode

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (10:17)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield29th August 1990: The British Com...

Episode 164 - The Two Weeks Late Episode

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (14:00)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th August 2003: The Nachi worm ...

Episode 163 - The Sombre Episode

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:56)With content liberated from the “Today in Infosec” Twitter account and further afield4th August 1998: Microsoft publis...

Episode 162 - The Do Not Google It Episode

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (05:54)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield18th July 2011: Microsoft Hotmail...

Episode 161 - The Receding Hairline and Glasses Episode

23 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:59)With content liberated from the “Today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield18th July 2011: LulzSec hacked th...

Episode 160 - The Lacklustre Performance Vol 2 Episode

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSecWith content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield13th July 2001: Code Red Worms its Way in...

Episode 159 - The Organ Grinder Episode

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:06)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield6th July 1995: Simple as 1-2-3: I...

Episode 158 - The Highly Reviewed Episode

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:36) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th June 1997: Communications ...

Episode 157 - The Special Guest Star Episode

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (10:26)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield17th June 1997: A group of users ...

Episode 156 - The Smashing Security Takeover Episode

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (12:01) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th June 1989: Callers to a Fl...

Episode 155 - The Really Late Show

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (10:21)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield8th June 1989: The beta release o...

Episode 154 - The Broom-cupboard Episode

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voting has closed for this years European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards has closed. Did you vote with your conscience, or did you vote for us? This we...

Episode 153 - The Poorly Planned Episode

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:59)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield26th May 2006: BackTrack v1.0 was...

Episode 152 - The Sicknote Episode

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

European Security Blogger Awards 2023Vote for us (and Thom and teissTalk) here:https://forms.gle/o6LwY6t5bSY9Fp5CA  This week in InfoSec (11:24)With...

Episode 151 - Like Mould it Grew Back

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:16)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield11th May 1997: Deep Blue Defeats ...

Episode 150 - Yet Another Intern

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vote for us here! - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepvnj8b7QzMdLh7vWEDQDqohjBUsHyn3x3xRdYGCetwVy2DA/viewformThis week in InfoSec (08:15)Wit...

Episode 149 - It's That Man Again (Again)

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This Week In InfoSec (09:00)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield23rd April 2008: Microsoft announ...

Episode 148 - The Short And Not-So-Sweet Episode

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSecWith content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield19th April 1965: Electronics magazine pub...

Episode 147 - John Wick Seventeen and Three Quarters

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (08:48)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield5th April 2002: A hacker compromi...

Episode 146 - The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This Week in InfoSec (08:33)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield29th March 2010: OpenSSL version ...

Episode 145 - The Being Shouted at Episode

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (12:47)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield22nd March 2018: The city of Atla...

Episode 144 - The Other Peoples Work Episode

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (06:13) With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield15th March 2000: The movie "Tak...

Episode 143 - The Flat Roof Special Episode

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec ( 11:47)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield4th March 1989: The article "COM...

Episode 142 -The Back in Safe Hands Episode

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The one and only Andy (13:10)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield2nd March 2013: Evernote announc...

Episode 141 - You know why this is late

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in Infosec20th February 2003: Alan Giang Tran, former network admin for 2 companies, was arrested after allegedly destroying data on the com...

Episode 140 - Is there an ECHO Echo echo?

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (10:48)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield14th February 2001: In a presenta...

Episode 139 - No Burt Bacharach Wrote The Tunes

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:53)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield10th February 199Deep Blue Defeat...

Episode 138 - The Good Furniture Guide Episode

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:52)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield31st January 1995: AT&T and VLSI ...

Episode 137 - The Beep Beep Boop Boop Episode

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec 10:35)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield16th January 1983: Lotus 1-2-3 Goe...

Episode 136 - The old man is in New York

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSecWith content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield19th January 1999: BlackBerry IntroducedR...

Episode 135 - Better After The Edit

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:55)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th January 1996: Apple posts ma...

Episode 134 - Happy Birthday The Duchess of Ladywell

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (07:15)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield3rd January 2009: The Genesis of ...

Episode 133 - The Last Show of the Year Show

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (09:44)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield15th December 1995: AltaVista Lau...

Episode 132 - The Dan Cuthbert Keynote Episode

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:40)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield7th December 1999: RIAA Sues Naps...

Episode 131 - The Spousal Audit Episode

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (06:17)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield27th November 1995: Microsoft Shi...

Episode 130 - The Jingle Free Episode

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (11:48)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield24th November 1998: AOL announces...

Episode 129 - The Difficult 129th Album

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week in InfoSec (07:14)With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield12th November 2000 Microsoft Decl...