Risky Business Podcast
November 15, 2012
Risky Business #263 -- Data retention and the national security review
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In this week's feature interview we're chatting with the Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, Neil Gaughan.
He's the national manager of High Tech Crime Operations and he's joining us to discuss the ongoing national security review. As a part of that review the government is introducing laws that will force ISPs and other Carriage Service Providers (CSPs) to store information on Australian citizens for two years. It sounds scary, but as you'll hear the data covered by the proposed new law is actually pretty mundane stuff like DHCP and SIP logs.
We have a new Risky Business sponsor this week, an Australian company named Senetas. These guys make layer 2 crypto gear which I find very, very interesting. So in this week's sponsor interview I basically just had a yarn with Senetas co-founder and CTO Julian Fay about where that sort of gear is most useful. As you'll hear, Julian knows networks and he knows crypto.
Adam Boileau, as usual, joins us for the week's news headlines.
Show notes
This week's feature interview source material:
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The AFP's definition of communications metadata:
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/sites/default/files/afpdoc.pdf
This week's news items:
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John McAfee, in Hiding, Condemns Belizean Government as 'Pirates' | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/mcafee-essay/
Skype Restores Password Resets, Repairs Flaw that Allows Account Hijacking | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/skype-suspends-password-resets-investi...
Attackers Compromise Adobe Connect User Site | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attackers-compromise-adobe-connect-use...
Google Puts Flash in a Sandbox on OS X | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-puts-flash-sandbox-os-x-111412
Bradley Manning Offers to Plead Guilty to Partial Charges, Including Leaking to WikiLeaks | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/bradley-manning-plea-notice/
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Senetas - Security Products White Papers
http://www.senetas.com/products/resources/white-papers.htm
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Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves | MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teacher...
Dictionary apps post false piracy confessions on Twitter - Crave
http://www.cnet.com.au/dictionary-apps-post-false-piracy-confessions-on-...
Hong Kong stock exchange hacker sentenced to jail | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/hong-kong-stock-exchange-hacker-sentenced-to-jai...
Blizzard Sued Over Data Breach, Authenticator Sales | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/blizzard-sued-over-data-breach-authent...
Twitter Resets More Passwords Than Accounts Hacked | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/twitter-resets-more-passwords-accounts...
Ransomware a growing menace, says Symantec | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57548314-83/ransomware-a-growing-menace...
Microsoft Update Includes Critical Security Update for IE 9, First Patches for Windows 8, RT | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-update-includes-critical-sec...
Variant of Mac Malware Targets Tibetan Activists | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/variant-mac-malware-targets-tibetan-ac...
Memory Bug Fixed in Tor Client | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/memory-bug-fixed-tor-client-110912
This week's feature track:
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The Afrobiotics - Don't Play With Fire on Official.fm
http://official.fm/tracks/yG16
