On this week's show we've got a cracking interview with ANU Professor and former prime ministerial advisor Hugh White about the charges brought against alleged Chinese military hackers by the US Department of Justice. That one's coming up after the news.
Scott Crane is Arbor Networks product manager for its Pravail line of big data security analytics division.
In this sponsor cast we're chatting with Dave Merkel, the CTO of FireEye. Dave has been around the infosec traps since the 90s -- long enough to see how things have changed. One of the things that has changed is the acknowledgement by the market that you can't really keep attackers from gaining a foothold on at least *a* device within your environment.
We're going to close out this year's coverage the way we normally do it: with a recording of the AusCERT speed debate!
I've already podcasted Peter's presentation, but I thought a follow up interview was warranted. To cut a long story short, he does believe some crypto standards have been subverted by the NSA, but says some fears about government crypto-fiddling are misplaced. In general, he says, it's a lot easier for attackers to bypass encryption than it is for them to break it.
On the final day of AusCERT last week delegates were treated to a fascinating talk by Dr. Jason Fox, gamification expert and author of the book The Game Changer.
This is a sponsor interview with Marc Eisenbarth, Arbor Networks' security architect and the manager of research for its Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT).
This is a sponsor interview with Kate McInnes of Datacom TSS.
You're about to hear a recording of Peter Gutmann's speech here which is all about crypto. Well, it's sort of about crypto. With newspapers filled with stories about the NSA subverting crypto standards, Peter asks us whether that really matters. Why would an attacker bother breaking crypto when they can just bypass it?
You're about to hear my interview with Matt Jones, a security consultant who runs a small outfit named Volvent.
In this interview we're chatting with Neal Wise of Assurance.com.au. Don't let the accent fool you, Neal is based in Melbourne and has been for as long as I can remember, and he did a great talk here at the AusCERT conference called Hacking the Gibson, which was all about pwning supercomputers.
You're about to hear an interview I recorded with Bob Clark. He currently teaches law at the US Naval Academy, but he's been doing military law for a long time, even serving as the operational attorney for the US Army Cyber Command at one point.
David Litchfield is a very well known researcher in the field of database security. He's been at it for over a decade, and managed to be a permanent pain in Oracle's neck since he first started dropping database 0day a million years ago.
In this sponsor podcast we hear from FireEye's APAC CTO Bryce Boland about the effect next generation antimalware gear is having on the modus operandi of sophisticated attackers.
PRESENTATION: When is a cyberwar (drink!) a cyberwar (drink!)?
Bob Clark returns to AusCERT\u2026
We're going to kick things off with a recording of the opening keynote from the conference... this talk is by Felix "FX" Lindner of Recurity Labs.
This is a recording of Ed Felton's plenary session from AusCERT 2014.
Our coverage continues now with an interview I recorded with Olivia Maree and Dave Jorm. Olivia holds a law degree and just finished a six month stint as a community manager with BugCrowd\u2026 Dave Jorm studies geology and mathematics at UQ and has worked in the software industry for around 14 years.
On this week's show we're chatting with Silvio Cesare about his new pastime of messing around with home alarm systems, garage door remotes and car immobilisers. How secure do you think your little key ring transmitters are? Well, not very. But the interesting thing is, the tools that you need to crack these things are now very cheap -- could we see thieves roaming the streets with software defined radios, opening up your neighbourhood's garages? Tune in to find out
On this week's show we're chatting with security researcher Charlie Miller about the work he's been doing with Chris Valasek on hacking cars. It's fun stuff, but yeah, it might make you want to go back to driving an older car.
