Risky Business

Risky Business #113 -- Twitter propaganda with Maltego creator Roelof Temming and more!

June 26, 2009 -- This week we're taking a look at the technology angle to this whole mess in Iran. We'll be chatting with Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz about the filtering the government is doing over there, then we'll be checking in with Roelof Temmingh of Paterva.

Paterva makes Maltego, the open source intelligence tool that many people are using to analyse various aspects of information flow in Iran-- including the spread of propaganda via Twitterbots.

Risky Business #112 -- Pollie wanna hacker? Special guest Senator Stephen Conroy

June 19, 2009 -- This week's show is a cracker -- we have a very special guest, Senator Stephen Conroy.

The senator is Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and I caught up with him in Sydney last week to get his take on what he feels the role of government is when it comes to IT security.

Risky Business #111 -- PLAID make Gutmann ANGRY! Gutmann SMASH!

June 11, 2009 -- This week's episode is hosted by Vigabyte and brought to you by Tenable Network Security.

On this week's show we're looking back at an issue we covered a little while ago: PLAID. No, not the oh-so-groovy pattern, but Centrelink's home-baked authentication protocol.

PLAID is a contactless smart card authentication protocol designed by Australia's welfare agency and released a couple of months ago. They're hoping to have it recognised as an ISO standard, but not everyone's convinced that's a good idea.

Risky Business #110 -- Industry pioneer Nir Zuk, Gumblar, PCI lawsuits and more

June 4, 2009 -- This week's show is hosted by Vigabyte and brought to you by Sophos.

On this week's show we chat to an industry pioneer, Nir Zuk. He's widely credited as the creator of the first stateful inspection firewall.

These days he works for the company he founded, Palo Alto Networks. We're chatting to Nir about his thoughts on security technologies -- everything from firewalls to IDS to DLP.

Risky Business #109 -- Open source intelligence with Maltego creator Roelof Temmingh

May 29, 2009 -- This week's episode is hosted by Vigabyte and brought to you by Check Point software.

This week you'll be hearing an interview with Roelof Temmingh, the creator of Maltego. Maltego is seriously cool software that you'll probably want to have a play with.

Roelof joins the podcast to talk about how you'd use his softeware to pwn a three letter agency.

Risky Business #108 -- Is secure code cheap code?

May 15, 2009 -- This week's podcast is hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting and sponsored by Tenable Network Security.

Risky Business 108 takes a look at the SDL as it applies to web applications. White Hat Security's Jeremiah Grossman joins the program to argue secure code, in the case of web applications, isn't necessarily cheaper code. It sounds like heresy, but Grossman makes some pretty compelling points during his interview.

Risky Business #107 -- Mark Dowd talks native client security

May 7, 2009 -- Thanks to our sponsor Sophos, this week's edition of the Risky Business podcast is ready to download!

This week's feature interview is pretty kickass; a chat with security megalegend Mark Dowd. We talk to Mark about his entry in Google's Native Client security competition. It's very interesting stuff that could really have implications for your job in a few years.

Risky Business #106 -- Centrelink's new PLAID auth protocol

May 1, 2009 -- This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Tenable Network Security and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting at discounted rates.

Risky Business #105 -- RSA conference wrap plus X10 security

April 24, 2009 -- This week's show is brought to you by Check Point Software.

This week's show is a bit of a mixed bag. We chatted with 451 group analyst Paul Roberts live from the floor at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Then for something completely different we quizzed Adam Pointon about his adventures with X10 home automation equipment.

Check Point Australia's Steve MacDonald is this week's sponsor guest, and Adam Boileau was this week's news guest.

Risky Business #104 -- 2008: The Postmortem

April 16, 2009 -- This week's podcast is brought to you by Microsoft and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting.

On this week's show we hear from Bryan Sartin of Verizon Business Security Solutions. He'll be discussing that company's 2009 Data Breach Study.

Verizon has a well-established forensics unit and its reports are interesting. This study is to the infosec industry what black box reports are to the aviation industry; a post mortem examination of what went wrong.