Risky Business #276 -- Cold and flu edition

Cough cough...
06 Apr 2013 » Risky Business

This week's show is another shorter one! I've been sick so I just couldn't pull together a feature interview.

We've also got a chat with this week's sponsor guest Chris Gatford of the Australian security consulting firm HackLabs.

We chat to Chris about the whole Spamhaus DDoS disaster. How damaging is it when the world's media distracts business and government leaders with stuff like this? What *should* these leaders really be concerned with?

Show notes

You can find this week's show here.

DDoS Attack, Database Breach Take Down Two Bitcoin Services | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ddos-attack-database-breach-take-down-...

Adaptive Glass - Mobile Trends | Open Letter to Instawallet
http://www.adaptiveglass.com/?p=656

Daily chart: A Bit expensive | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/03/daily-chart-12

Justin Schuh - Google+ - What Blink means for Chrome Security The Chromium project\u2026
https://plus.google.com/116560594978217291380/posts/AeCnq76cAXb

Vulnerability Patched in PostgreSQL Database Server | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/vulnerability-patched-postgresql-datab...

PostgreSQL: 2013-04-04 Security Release FAQ
http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/faq/2013-04-04/

SEC Consult Vulnerability Alert: Critical Vulnerabilities In Sophos Web Protection Appliance - Dark Reading
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/n...

iMessage denial of service 'prank' spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app - The Next Web
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/03/29/imessage-denial-of-service-prank-...

Anonymous hacks North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57577904-83/anonymous-hacks-north-korea...

Who Wrote the Flashback OS X Worm? - Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/who-wrote-the-flashback-os-x-worm/

Huawei exec sees no growth in U.S. this year | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57577715-83/huawei-exec-sees-no-growth-...

How the Spamhaus DDoS attack could have been prevented | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57576947-83/how-the-spamhaus-ddos-attac...

FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Challenge | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/death-to-robocalls/

DHS Warns of 'TDos' Extortion Attacks on Public Emergency Networks - Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/dhs-warns-of-tdos-extortion-attacks-o...

Skype, Dropbox Patch Critical Facebook Authentication Bugs | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/skype-dropbox-patch-critical-facebook-...

Using Customer Premise Equipment to Take Over the Internet | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/using-customer-premise-equipment-take-...

Phishing Campaign Using Military, Illicit Attachments | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/phishing-campaign-using-military-illic...

Has Anyone Seen a Missing Scroll Bar? Phony Flash Update Redirects to Malware | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/has-anyone-seen-missing-scroll-bar-pho...

Spammers Finding Favor with Google Translate | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/spammers-finding-favor-google-translat...

Android malware again targets Tibetans - Applications - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/338469,android-malware-again-targets-t...

Backdoor Uses Evernote as Command and Control Server | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/backdoor-uses...

Government Fights for Use of Spy Tool That Spoofs Cell Towers | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gov-fights-stingray-case/

Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact

Aussie software ferrets out hidden money - Strategy - Business - News - iTnews.com.au
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/338723,aussie-software-ferrets-out-hidden-...

Hackers in Uganda: A Documentary by Jeremy Zerechak - Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1456247168/hackers-in-uganda-a-docum...

Penetration Testing & Web Application Security - HackLabs
http://www.hacklabs.com/

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The dream they have is really good. I guess they need to get the whole thing going. - Roger Stanton

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