Risky Business Podcast

This is the last full-format Risky Business podcast for 2007. Next week we'll be bringing you some Kiwicon talks and lectures. It's a summer listening vibe, people. (Offered with sympathy to listeners freezing their extremities off in the Northern Hemisphere. We're all about to slip off down to the beach with surfboards and cold beer for a couple of months here in Oz. Suffer!)

• ZDNet Australia editor Munir Kotadia discusses the week's news headlines
• F-Secure's Patrik Runald discusses Mac Malware
• Microsoft's General Manager of Product Security talks about the company's security advisories -- they're about to change
• Verizon Business Security Solutions media and analyst relationship manager and Risky Business hero Wendy Hill joins us for the final sponsor interview of 2007

UPDATE: Beau Butler's WPAD slides from his Kiwicon presentation, as mentioned last week, can be found here (PPT).

Welcome to this special, "head for the hills" edition of Risky Business. We'll be talking about the WPAD bug this week. There's currently NO PATCH for this bug, but seeing as it's being widely exploited and everyone's seemed to know about it for years -- everyone except Microsoft -- we'll be focussing this week's podcast on the glitch.

We'll also give you the information you need to mitigate it until Microsoft patches it. Mitigation is probably a good idea in this case because it isn't just Microsoft software that's affected.

You'll hear me talk about some Snort signatures ITRadio is providing to its listeners that will detect the problem in your enterprise. You can find them here.

I mention in the show that Butler's slides would be available for download from this site. They're not available yet -- check back in a couple of days.

On this week's show:

Risky Business, your weekly security podcast, is back! I took a week off to go to Kiwicon in Wellington, and you'll be hearing plenty of material from there over the next few weeks, so if you missed the event, don't stress.

Big thanks to our hosting provider Vigabyte for providing the bandwidth for ITRadio.com.au's podcasts, and of course big hugs for our sponsor, Verizon Business Security Solutions.

On this week's show:

• Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia joins us with the week's news
• Sheep fancier Nick Breese explains how to crack passwords with a Playstation 3. Elcomsoft eat your heart out!
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' James McMahon joins us to explain why hackers who attend events like Kiwicon aren't necessarily devil-worshiping cyber-terrorists

Risky Business is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions and hosting partner Vigabyte.

On this week's security podcast we'll be taking a look at the now infamous embassy "hack" of 2007. Dan Egerstad set up a rogue Tor exit node and used it to sniff the password for embassy staffers all over the world. So, on today's show:

• Patrick Gray reads the week's news headlines
• Dan Egerstad joins Gray on the line from Sweden to discuss his Tor adventures
• USA-based security consultant Sam Stover shares his thoughts on Tor
• In this week's sponsor interview Andrew Valentine discusses Salesforce.com's recent data loss incident

Your weekly security podcast, Risky Business, is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions and hosting partner Vigabyte.

In addition to our regular segments, we'll be taking an in-depth look at the security of Apple's new operating system, Leopard. It's come in for a heap of criticism since its launch just over a week ago. We'll get to the bottom of it all!

On this week's show:

Risky Business, your weekly security podcast, is available for download, courtesy of ITRadio.com.au and TechTarget Australia's SearchSecurity.com.au Web-site. Big thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions and our hosting partner Vigabyte.

It's Halloween tonight, so we thought \xc2\xa0we'd take a look at botnets and zombies... grrrr... braaaaaaiiiiiinnnnns!!

On this week's show:

• ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia discusses the news
• Arbor Networks' country manager for Australia, Nick Race, pops in for a chat about botnet and zombie detection
• Verizon Business Security Solutions Andrew Valentine talks PCI DSS -- apparently it's made sniffers pretty popular

Sorry we were late this week -- Risky Business's schedule was really tight and wound up being completely thrown by a delayed flight from Coolangatta to Melbourne on Monday evening. So it goes. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already!

Risky Business number 36 is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's podcast:

• ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia joins us to discuss the week's news
• Intel's Sean Casey talks vPro -- what will it mean for security?
• Jason Edelstein of Sense of Security discusses spam
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' Gavin Longmuir chimes in with his views on gateway architecture in this week's sponsor interview

To hear this podcast click 'play now' below, or subscribe via the iTunes button. You can also use another podcatcher and subscribe to our RSS feed, or even sign up for e-mail reminders on the ITRadio.com.au web-site.

Your weekly Australian security podcast is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions and hosting partner Vigabyte.

On this week's show:

• Immunity Inc's Adam Boileau fills in for a very, very ill Munir Kotadia to discuss this week's ZDNet Australia news headlines (Get well soon mate!)
• Melbourne-based CSO Adam Pointon tells us what keeps him up at night
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' Thomas Frazier discusses the PCI data security standard

Risky Business returns to normal programming today. Patrick Gray is back from his holiday in the tropics and he's feeling just dandy, thanks for asking.

This week's show is a long one -- we had to make up for last week's 16 minute podcast. On this week's program:

• Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia discuss the week's security news
• Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch discuss the future of Snort and the commercialisation of open source software
• Marshal's Director of Product Management Bradley Anstis tells us how spammers are using Youtube to peddle their grubby little messages
• Verizon Business's Sean Lord joins us for this week's sponsor interview. We'll be talking about distributed denial of service attacks

This is the last short-format podcast before Patrick Gray returns from his holiday. On this week's show a heavily-accented Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky anti-virus, discusses government malware. Would he allow a government force his company to stop detecting Trojans designed to snoop on criminals and terrorists?

The answer's in the podcast.

Peter Tippett is back to discuss vendor survey data in this week's sponsor interview, thanks to Verizon Business Security Solutions.