An Infosec Timeline: Noteworthy Events From 1970 To 2050
summary
Chronological catalogue claims the first worm Creeper and counter‑worm Reaper, the NSA’s early IDS and Clifford Stoll’s honeypot that catches Markus Hess, the Morris worm causing an estimated $100K–$10M in damage, an early ransomware demanding $198 by mail, Samy’s MySpace worm, TJX card theft (~45M cards, ~$256M loss), Cryptolocker hauling ~$27M in four days, Yahoo’s eventual three billion compromised accounts, early WAF/AppShield and SameSite cookies and iframe sandbox, and speculative mid‑century items like browser-as-OS and CSP header wars.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:10Talk Structure
- 5:211980
- 8:011986, oh boy
- 10:31No sh*t, 1987
- 17:15Om nom nom 1994
- 25:322001
- 27:272002
- 50:502023
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