This week's show will feature part two of my interview with convicted spy Christopher Boyce. He went on a one man mission to damage his country's military and intelligence apparatus in the 70s. He says he did it because the US was undermining the democratically elected government of Australia.
We've got a great feature interview for you all this week. We're chatting with convicted spy, prison escapee and bank robber Christopher Boyce, aka The Falcon. We speak to him about the changing face of espionage; Wikileaks, Manning, Snowden and the radically changed world that awaited him when he walked out of prison.
This week's show, like last week's, is a bit different. I am still moving house, which includes moving the Risky Business office and studio, but everything should be back to normal next week.
This week's show is a shorter one -- there's no feature interview for two reasons. The first is that I'm in the process of moving house, which includes moving my office and studio, so I'm dealing with house painters, bond cleaners and a million other things. But the second reason is because the person I had wanted to interview has been silenced.
In this week's show we're taking a look at Arbor Networks' acquisition of Packetloop, a two-year-old Australian start up that makes big data security analytics software. You'd think that Arbor would want to move the company to the USA, but that's not what's happened in this case. Packetloop co-founder Michael Baker joins the show to fill us in.
We've got a pretty heavily spook-themed show for you this week. The feature interview is with New Zealand-based blogger and writer Keith Ng. He was trawling the Kim Dotcom affidavits in New Zealand and noticed that documents pertaining to the illegal GCSB surveillance on Mr. Dotcom had Five Eyes stamped all over them.
This week's feature guest is Haroon Meer of Thinkst Applied Research. He's launched an awesome new site called Phish5.com that allows sysadmins and security consultants to automate phishing campaigns against their own networks and clients.
This is a special edition of the Risky Business podcast, produced with material recorded at BlackHat and Defcon in Las Vegas.
On this week's show we chat with Silent Circle founder Jon Callas about the decision to shutter the Silent Mail service, as well as what Silent Circle is doing to bolster product security in the wake of some pretty nasty bug disclosures by our pal Mark Dowd.
In this week's feature slot we chat with Karsten Nohl about his research into pillaging SIM cards. It turns out Karsten's research into SIM security was much, much cooler than we initially thought.
This week's show features a fantastic, extended interview with Howard Schmidt, the former White House cyber security co-ordinator and special Assistant to the US President.
This week's show is brought to you by the fine, fine people at Tenable Network Security, big thanks to Tenable for all its support over the years.
On this week's show we take an axe to all the crazy hype around BlueBox's Android research. It's been a shameful, shameful week for the tech media. I half expected to walk outside this week and find crowds of consumers holding pitchforks and burning their Android devices based on the headlines we've been seeing about 99% of all 'droid devices being open to attack!
We've got a great show for you this week. Mark Dowd of Azimuth Security pops in to talk about the bugs he found in libraries used by secure telephony providers like Silent Circle. They're serious, serious bugs, and they were easy to find.
This week's show is a bit shorter than usual. We've got a discussion of the week's news then a great chat with Brian Contos, the VP and CISO of Blue Coat Systems Advanced Threat Protection Group.
In this week's show we talk opsec with international man of mystery The Grugq. In light of revelations the Internet lounge at the G20 summit was essentially an intelligence collection system set up by GCHQ, we thought we'd look at what travelling diplomats and executives can do to protect their data when entering a hostile environment where all infrastructure is assumed to be controlled by your adversary.
In this week's feature interview we chat with author and speaker Richard Thieme about what they used to call the generation gap. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is "Internet generation". Are the ideals espoused by people like Snowden rooted in counter-cultural ideals or are they just generational norms?
On this week's show we take a look at PRISM, the NSA's recently exposed massive surveillance program. Leaked PowerPoint slides from NSA describe a surveillance system that allows the agency to effortlessly capture a target's YouTube, Google, Facebook and Skype. This has been reported as these companies allowing the US government access to "back doors" on their systems.
This week's show is a cracker! We've got a great feature interview with journalist and author Parmy Olson about what the future might hold for Anonymous. Is it time for the Anonymous brand to be retired? The media has largely lost interest in its activities -- how could the hacktivism phenomenon bounce back to the same levels of notoriety as it experienced in 2011?
The following is a recording of Marcus Ranum's AusCERT keynote speech on CYBER WAR. Marcus was doing the circuit a few years ago with a talk titled "Cyber war is bullshit", which I think makes clear his position, but this one is titled Never Fight a Land War in Cyberspace. He basically argues that the application of traditional military thinking to the cyber domain is flawed. He also argues there's a massive money and power grab taking place as the military and the private sector defence base tries to set the agenda so it can profit from it. It's a really worthwhile talk, and delivered with typical MjR flair. Enjoy.
