Risky Business Podcast

This week you'll hear from McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt and CTO George Kurtz. Since the planned merger between Intel and McAfee, a lot of people have questioned the deal's logic. DeWalt and Kurtz front Risky Business to defend the acquisition and outline what it could mean for the security technology of the future.

Microsoft has signed back on as a sponsor for the remainder of the year, and Microsoft Australia's Stuart Strathdee makes his return to the sponsor slot this week to tell us about IE9, which sounds suspiciously like IE8 in a pretty frock... or more accurately like IE8 in a bikini.

Adam Boileau joins us as usual to discuss the week's news.

On this week's show we're taking a look at Flash applications. With tonnes of thick client apps being replaced with apps built on Flash, we thought we'd have a chat to Azimuth Security's Alex Kouzemtchenko about what some of the pitfalls in developing Flash apps are.

This week's edition of the show is brought to you by Symantec, and we're stoked to have that company's CTO, Marc Bregman, on the show for this week's sponsor interview. He's an interesting guy and he's got a lot to say, not surprisingly, about where we're all headed as an industry in light of the McAfee Intel deal.

Adam Boileau, as usual, drops in to discuss the week's news.

On this week's show we're chatting with F-Secure's Jarno Niemela about some of the issues with Authenticode. He'll tell us about one fascinating case where a piece of malware actually carried a valid signature from a real company... stolen keys, right? As it turned out, that company didn't make software and had no idea what an Authenticode cert actually was. Jarno got to the bottom of that little mystery and tells us all about it after the news with Adam Boileau.

In this week's sponsor interview we're chatting with Tenable Network Security's CSO Marcus Ranum about a new project being run by DARPA, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The project is called CINDER and it's all about detecting rogue insider behaviour. It has potential to be a VERY interesting project, and Marcus shares his thoughts on it.

Here's a link to Jarno's CARO conference slides [pdf].

In this week's show we take a look at all the big news events over the last week. A newly rediscovered DLL hijacking technique has made some waves over the last seven days, as has the arrest in India of an e-voting machine security researcher.

Adam Boileau joins the program to discuss those items and others in this week's news segment.

In this week's feature interview we take a detailed look at Intel's decision to acquire security software maker McAfee for USD$7.68 billion. What is the reaction among analysts and the wider market?

Neohapsis CTO Greg Shipley and Gartner's Rob McMillan join the program to discuss.

This week's sponsor interview is with Ed Curtis from Research in Motion. He pops in to talk about different approaches to the mobile security problem. Should we even bother with IDSing mobile environments? Curtis says yes!

This week's guest is Felix "FX" Lindner. A well known researcher, FX has spent more than his fair share of time crawling around the innards of Blackberry devices.

He joins us this week to discuss the hubbub about lawful interception and Blackberry devices -- how resistant to wiretapping are they? What's the OS security like? What's the encryption scheme like?

As it turns out, the Blackberry holds up pretty well on most fronts, but FX fears law enforcement and intelligence agencies may start exploiting the baseband chipsets on mobile devices in order to intercept the data they carry.

It's a cracker interview.

We stick with the mobile theme in this week's sponsor interview, asking Symantec's Vincent Weafer why that company is focussing its development efforts on the Android platform. What makes Symantec so confident that Android will become the platform of attackers' choice?

Lateral Security's Adam Boileau pops in to discuss the week's news, including the "holy crap" news that McAfee is to be acquired by Intel for a figure appraoching USD$8b. WTC?!

Here's the Blackberry whitepaper mentioned in the show.

This week's show is a cracker -- we're joined by IOActive's Barnaby Jack.

He made some major waves at BlackHat this year by demonstrating his attacks on ATMs.

He joins the show to discuss his research and talk about why his talk -- which was originally scheduled for last year's BlackHat conference -- was cancelled last year.

Kaspersky Lab's Vitaly Kamlyuk is this week's sponsor guest. He joins us to discuss what AV companies can do to detect some of the more exotic malware out there such as Stuxnet.

Adam Boileau, as always, checks in with the week's news headlines.

On this week's show chat to H D Moore about his research into the security -- or lack thereof -- of the VxWorks embedded operating system.

H D did a presentation at the Security B-Sides event that ran concurrently with Black Hat in Las Vegas. As it turns out VxWorks is used in a lot of places and the people who put it together suck at maths.

People who suck at maths write bad hashing algos. Really.

We'll also have a chat with Ron Gula of Tenable Network Security in this week's sponsor interview, and of course, Adam Boileau stops by for a chat about the week's news headlines.

This week we take a look at Verizon Business Security Solutions' data breach investigation report. It declares APTs are nothing more than marketing hype! Polly Waffle!

Verizon's Bryan Sartin and Mark Goudie join us to discuss the report and that company's position on APT hype.

You can find the full report here.

Symantec's Francis deSouza stops by for this week's sponsor interview. In it we discuss the company's plans for its newest acquisitions -- Verisign and PGP corporation.

Adam Boileau also joins us, as usual, to discuss the week's news.

This week's show is a cracker, and it's brought to you by our brand spanking new sponsor Research In Motion, makers of the Blackberry.

In this week's show we're taking an in depth look at the Stuxnet malware and the hideous, unpatched .lnk bug still affecting Microsoft systems. Paul Ducklin joins us to chat about that.

Ed Curtis from Research in Motion will be along in this week's sponsor interview to have a chat about some of the mistakes people make when rolling out Blackberry Enterprise Server, stay tuned for that.

Adam Boileau, of course, stops by to discuss the week's news headlines!

On this week's show we take a fresh look at the insider threat in light of the news, here in Australia, that criminal syndicates are paying up to $40,000 to bribe service station attendants into helping them skim cards.

If the bad guys are willing to pay $40k for someone that low on the food chain, what will they pay to get at someone in your organisation?

To find out we'll be joined by Gartner research director, AusCERT co-founder and former Commonwealth Bank security big-wig Rob McMillan.

Also this week we chat with Kaspersky's Vitaly Kamlyuk in the sponsor interview.

We'll be chatting about Mozilla's blocking of a malicious plugin that siphoned usernames and passwords off unsuspecting users. What should browser manufacturers be doing to stop this sort of thing from happening?

Adam Boileau, as always, stops in with the week's news.