On this week's show -- in addition to covering the latest claims about the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto -- we're taking a look at a recent deal between a very large bank in Australia and Sydney's University of New South Wales.
UNSW has had a lot of success over the last few years in actually training people to think offensively. They seem to have cracked a formula where others have tried and failed. Now, they've got $1.6m to play with courtesy of the Commonwealth Bank. This could be a model for colleges and universities everywhere. Whether you're a CSO having trouble recruiting good staff or you work in academia, you really want to hear this week's feature interviews with Brendan Hopper and CBA CSO Ben Heyes.
This week's show is brought to you by Bromium.
Bromium makes awesome micro-virtualisation software that really does neutralise the threat of memory corruption exploits in desktop environments. A speed bump for them has been their software requires Intel's virtualisation instruction extensions to work. Well, they've been around long enough now for Bromium to be getting some serious traction at the top end of town. They've also brought out version 3 of their software. with Bromium's Chief Security Architect Rahul Kashyap joins us in this week's sponsor interview to update us on what they've been up to for the last year or so.
The Grugq is in the news chair this week. Adam is busy running Kiwicon in Wellington.
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Show notes
Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probab...
This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-friend-invented-...
Reported bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-founder-craig-...
Alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Likely Outed Himself | Fusion
http://fusion.net/story/243056/alleged-bitcoin-creator-craig-wright/
Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdate...
Variety Jones, Alleged Silk Road Mentor, Arrested in Thailand | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/variety-jones-alleged-silk-road-mentor-arre...
Let's Encrypt Initiative Enters Public Beta | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
https://threatpost.com/lets-encrypt-initiative-enters-public-beta/115568/
Trump says "closing that Internet" is a good way to fight terrorism | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/trump-wants-bill-gates-to-hel...
France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/france-looking-at-banning-tor...
Attack floods Internet root servers with 5 million queries a second | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/attack-flooded-internet-root-ser...
root-servers.org/news/events-of-20151130.txt
http://root-servers.org/news/events-of-20151130.txt
Hacker Leaks Customer Data After a United Arab Emirates Bank Fails to Pay Ransom | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/hacker-leaks-customer-data-after-a-united-a...
Anonymous Leaks Paris Climate Summit Officials' Private Data | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/anonymous-leaks-paris-climate-summit-offici...
At first cyber meeting, China claims OPM hack is "criminal case" [Updated] | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/at-first-cyber-meeting-china-...
Thriving Beyond The Operating System: Financial Threat Group Targets Volume Boot Record \xab Threat Research | FireEye Inc
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/12/fin1-targets-boot-r...
Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
https://threatpost.com/bitcoin-extortionist-copycats-on-the-rise-experts...
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Collaborate in Dorkbot Takedown | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
https://threatpost.com/microsoft-law-enforcement-collaborate-in-dorkbot-...
Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-will-stop-developing-and-sellin...
December Patch Tuesday avalanche of patches includes leaked Xbox certificate | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/december-patch-tuesday-avalanche...
Adobe, Microsoft Each Plug 70+ Security Holes - Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/adobe-microsoft-each-plug-70-security...
Apple Patches 50+ Vulnerabilities in iOS, OS X, Safari | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
https://threatpost.com/apple-patches-50-vulnerabilities-across-ios-os-x-...
Cisco Warning of CSRF, XSS Vulnerabilities | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
https://threatpost.com/cisco-warning-of-vulnerabilities-in-routers-data-...
Dropbox - Backgrounder_UNSW and CBA Security Engineering.docx
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqnbfxbcqhujxj1/Backgrounder_UNSW%20and%20CBA%...
Dropbox - Transcript_CyberSecurity_Heyes_Buckland_Dec2015_final.docx
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zod75xl50g1uuhz/Transcript_CyberSecurity_Heyes...
UNSW, Commonwealth Bank to offer cyber Security courses | Cyber security jobs
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/commonwealth-ba...
sec.edu - Security Engineering - Applied Cyber Security on openlearning.com
https://www.openlearning.com/courses/sec
Free ride: students crack ticket algorithm
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/free-ride-students-...
Wil Anderson | Chelsea Lately | Comedy Works
https://www.comedyworks.com/comedians/666
