Risky Business #121 -- Botnet C&C getting better
Arbor Networks manager of security research Jose Nazario joins Risky.Biz...This week's show is sponsored by Microsoft and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting.
This week's show is sponsored by Microsoft and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting.
This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Sophos and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting.
In this special interview you'll hear our New Zealand correspondent Paul Craig interviewing Security-Assessment.com's Roberto Suggi Liverani and Nick Freeman discuss their research into exploiting Firefox extensions.
On this week's show we're chatting with CEO of Australia's Internet Industry Association, Peter Coroneos. Peter led the charge for a National 2FA scheme many years ago... it hasn't quite gotten off the ground yet, but Peter joins us shortly to discuss the scheme, how it got started and why it hasn't really gone anywhere yet.
In this month's sponsored podcast here on Risky Business 2 we're chatting with Symantec's Senior Director of Global Security Response Operations Group, Kevin Hogan, about quite a few things.
Sydney's inaugural eCrime Symposium kicked off on Tuesday, and Risky Business was there with an audio recorder.
In this presentation from New Zealand's OWASP day, you'll hear Lateral Security's Nick Von Dadelszen describe testing methods for Web services.
In this interview, you'll hear Risky.Biz's New Zealand correspondent Paul Craig discuss Web services security with Lateral Security's Nick Von Dadelszen.
Readers of the Risky.Biz website would have heard by now that McAfee accidentally leaked the full contact information of 1400 registrants for its strategic security summit that was held in Sydney on July 17.
The marketing spreadsheet contained the full names, titles, organisation names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all who had registered for or attended the company's recent Strategic Security Summit on July 17 in Sydney.
This week's show is hosted by Vigabyte and sponsored by Sophos. You'll hear from Sophos's Paul Ducklin later on in the show in this week's sponsor interview.
This is the final of our podcast series recorded at Shaka Con. From next week on RB2 you'll hear reports prepared by our roving reporter Paul Craig on location at New Zealand's OWASP day.
The website has finally blocked private rental listings in order to stamp out fraudulent listings that have fleeced its unsuspecting customers for thousands over several months. It's something, but it's way too late. This is what the company should have done in May when it first got wind of the problem.
The new package, nmap 5.0, includes Ncat, billed as a "a much more advanced and modern reimplementation of the beloved Netcat". Also included is Ndiff, which is designed to portscan networks and alert administrators to changes.
On this week's show we're joined by semi regular guest Adam Pointon. Adam's the CSO for a financial services company, so he has a fair bit of insight into both security technology and market-based technology. You may have heard by now that investment bank Goldman Sachs has claimed its trading algorithm has been stolen by one of its developers. Why is this a big deal? How would possession of that algorithm be advantageous to an attacker? Adam joins the show to tell us.
F-secure flew its chief research officer, Mikko Hypponen, out to Australia last week to meet the press. The company hosted an event -- the F-Secure Future of the Digital Economy Forum -- and invited a bunch of very interesting panellists to discuss the state of information security today. They asked Risky Business to moderate and record the session.
First, Diebold warned Russian banks about malicious code installed their machines last January. Then in May, Trustwave reported on malware found on 20 ATMs in Russia and Ukraine, the earliest of which was first infected almost exactly two years ago, and which has been improved at least 16 times since then.
Customers of the MessageLabs spam filtering and e-mail security service have been unable to send to Windows Live accounts, such as Hotmail addresses, since Friday.
This week's edition of Risky Business is hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting and brought to you by Check Point.
This podcast is a ripper, it's a presentation by Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco.