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RB2: Research in Motion VP of Security, Scott Totzke

June 2, 2010 -- RB2 is brought to you exclusively by Symantec.

Mobile security is all the rage these days, so when Research In Motion (RIM) VP of security Scott Totzke came to Australia a few weeks ago, we made sure we got an interview.

RIM is the company that makes the Blackberry. While it doesn't have as many cool points as the iPhone, the Blackberry has become the mobile workhorse of the modern enterprise. US President Barack Obama famously insisted on keeping his Blackberry when he came to office, so obviously anything Scott has to say about mobile security deserves to be heard.

RB2: AusCERT presentation: Tor's battle against censorship

May 26, 2010 -- In this presentation you'll hear Tor project leader Roger Dingledine talking all about Tor. Who uses it? Why? What's it good for?

For those who don't know what it is, Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety, the official blurb says.

RB2: AusCERT presentation: Cisco VP and CSO John Stewart predicts the future

May 26, 2010 -- In this presentation, Cisco's Vice President and Chief Security Officer John Stewart tries to pin down where we're going to be in 2012. More devices doing more things! Malware embedded in video streams! All sorts of funky stuff!

RB2: AusCERT podcast: Speed debate

May 21, 2010 -- What you're about to hear is the speed debating panel from AusCERT's 2010 conference.

A highlight of the conference, this year's panel was hosted by Australian media personality guy Adam Spencer. Panelists were: Max Kilger, Scott McIntyre, Marcus J. Ranum, Roger Dingledine, Alastair MacGibbon, Paul Gampe and Tim Redhead.

RB2: AusCERT interview: Google drops the ball

May 21, 2010 -- In this podcast you'll hear an interview I did with ZScaler's Michael Sutton. In it he expresses frustration that criminals are able to so easily manipulate Google's search results for trending topics.

Sutton claims that malicious pages linked to trending topics are rising through Google's rankings almost immediately. In other words, the bad guys have gotten good at SEO.

But if Sutton and his colleagues can identify these pages from outside Google, why can't Google detect them? It's not exactly short on resources or cash.

AusCERT interveiw: Ben Mosse on vulnerability mitigations

May 21, 2010 -- In this interview you'll hear me having a quick chat to Stratsec's Ben Mosse about vulnerability mitigation in Windows. Cutting a long story short, he reckons measures like DEP and ASLR work quite well, and it's only a matter of time before more, similar protections are introduced.

RB2: SPONSOR PODCAST: Microsoft's Steve Adegbite on avoiding a computing nanny state

May 21, 2010 -- In the following interview, Microsoft's Steve Adegbite joins me for this interview about the potential for a nanny state operating system.

With all this rogue AV stuff floating about, the Microsofties are encountering a few fairly significant dilemmas on how to deal with this stuff. Should the OS only accept certain, known brands of AV? Well, then they're acting as a gateway and telling people what they can and can't run. Can't do that. What about a warning system like they did with device drivers? Well, that wasn't much good in the end because people just ignored the warnings.

RB2: AusCERT presentation: Michael Sutton on next generation offline Web applications

May 20, 2010 -- The following is a recording of a presentation by Zscaler's Michael Sutton. The topic is Security risks in the next generation of offline Web applications. Basically the talk looks at persistent client side storage, as brought on by stuff like Google Gears and the Database Storage functionality included in HTML5.

It was one of the better talks.

RB2: AusCERT presentation: Marcus Ranum on Cyber War

May 20, 2010 -- In this podcast you'll hear Marcus Ranum's keynote speech from day two of the conference. Marcus is Tenable Network Security's Chief Security Officer and he's widely credited as an early pioneer in firewall technology.

His talk is titled "Scenes from the 2010 US/China Cyber war".

RB2: AusCERT presentation: Scott McIntyre says "get a grip"

May 20, 2010 -- In this presentation you'll hear Scott McIntyre talking about maintaining proportionality when dealing with matters of digital security.

Scott's the Chief Security Officer for Dutch ISP XS4all and serves on the board of directors for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, or FIRST.