In this week's podcast we're chatting with Jonathan Cran of Pwnie Express.

There's a lot of really interesting news this week. Adam Boileau is back on deck at the top of the show to discuss shitty security at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the new tool DroidSheep, DARPA's (DERPA? Lol.) attempts at securing the architectural mess that is Android, dudes going to prison, other dudes getting away with stuff and much, much more!

In this week's news segment we cover Julian Assange's attempt at martyrdom in style, claims of a Twitter outage, the cracking of 923-bit pairing-based encryption in Japan, the blackmailing of an American firm by hackers, Face.com's tragic fail, The Washington Post's stunning (not) revelation that Flame was the work of the US and Israel, AutoCAD worms, bug bounties and more!

On this week's show we chat with Rapid7's H D Moore about massive recon in both the IPv4 and IPv6 worlds. He's been busy basically banner grabbing the entire Internet and he's found some really, really weird stuff out there. There are some very interesting nuggets in that interview. Check it out.

On this week's show we'll be chatting with Forbes' London bureau chief Parmy Olson.

On this week's show we're taking a look at some research out of Cambridge University that's drawn a lot of attention. It involves a claim that researchers found a hardware back door on a Chinese-made FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array).

If people are wondering why on Earth Wikileaks' chief Julian Assange is apparently being pursued by the US Department of Justice, a new book by Forbes' London Bureau chief Parmy Olson might help to clear things up for you.

Assange likes to proclaim that the DoJ investigation is a case of the big bad gummint being out to persecute him for being a truth-teller, but if Olson's book (Amazon) is to be believed it looks like he's been a very naughty boy.

This excerpt [pdf] from the book, published by the pre-Wikileaks leak site Cryptome, describes verified IRC contact between LulzSec ringleader turned FBI snitch Sabu and Assange in which the latter apparently urged the digital outlaws to attack specific targets in Iceland.

Bad activist! No biscuit!

All this under the watchful eye of the FBI's inside man.

This is speculation, but if any of Wikileaks staff were "directing" LulzSec's illegal activities, particularly the exfiltration of stolen information from any of the group's victims -- like Stratfor, for example -- it's my guess the entire organisation is legally fux0red. IANAL, but read the excerpt and tell me if you arrive at the same hunch as me.

Encouraging an FBI snitch to attack systems in Iceland on your behalf when the heat is already on is remarkably daft.

I'll be interviewing Parmy about her book next week.

This week's feature audio is an excerpt from an AusCERT presentation I recorded last week. The talk, by Brad Barker of the HALO Corporation, discusses the Zeta drug cartel's use of technology and social media. HALO Corporation does everything from intelligence support to kidnap and ransom consulting. Barker has an interesting analysis of how civilian technology is altering methods of operation and the wider battlefield. It's good stuff.

The following is the closing session from AusCERT's 2012 conference, the speed debate.

At AusCERT last week I caught up with Phil Piotrowski, a threat researcher with Sophos, as well as Rob Forsyth, a director of Sophos here in Australia.

The following is a recording Susan Landau's plenary presentation. She's a Visiting Scholar in the Computer Science Department at Harvard University. Prior to that she worked as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and held faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University.

In this sponsor podcast we're chatting with Declan Ingram, Principal Security Consultant with Datacom TSS.

The following is a recording of Mark Fabro's AusCERT plenary.

Yesterday I caught up with SCADA security expert and AusCERT speaker Mark Fabro of Lofty Perch.

In this sponsored podcast we chat with both Arbor Networks' Nick Race and Matt Hollis of Vocus.

In this interview we chat with Juniper Networks' chief security architect Christopher Hoff. I posted the audio of Chris's plenary talk yesterday... it was very interesting stuff, so check it out if you get a chance. He basically outlined his vision for security automation -- security at scale.

The following is a full recording of a presentation by the University of Auckland's Peter Gutmann discussing contactless payment systems.

This is an interview with Robert Clark, the operational attorney for the US Army Cyber Command. I posted audio of his talk yesterday... he spoke a lot about international law as it applies to cyber war. But I wanted to pick his brains about something he briefly mentioned.

In this sponsored Arbor Networks founder and CTO Rob Malan.

The following is a complete recording of Mikko Hyppponen's opening keynote to the AusCERT 2012 conference. Mikko is the chief research officer for the Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure.