Risky Business Podcast

This week's Risky Business is a special panel, recorded at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference on the Gold Coast. There are no news headlines or sponsor interviews this week, just the panel. Joining us on the Tech Ed panel are:

• Steve Riley -- senior security strategist from Microsoft's trustworthy computing group (US)
• Peter Watson -- chief security advisor, Microsoft Australia
• Andrew Mann -- software architect, Anthem Software

Your first "Patrick goes on holiday" version of Risky Business is available for download. An extra special thanks to our hosting partner Vigabyte this week. They've been having to deal with ridiculous amounts of traffic on our behalf, and the server hasn't skipped a beat -- thanks guys!

This week's show was cut together from Symantec's Vision user conference in Sydney. ITRadio caught up with Vincent Weafer, the global director of the company's security response unit. Peter Tippett, Vice President at Verizon Business Security Solutions, our sponsor, is also along this week, discussing the science of quantifying risk.

This week's installment of Risky Business -- your weekly Australian IT security podcast -- is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor, Verizon Business Security Solutions. It's a short show this week, and you'll notice Risky Business will be a bit trimmed down over coming weeks. That's because Patrick Gray is going on holidays, but don't worry, there are some pre-recorded shows that'll be published each Tuesday as usual.

• On this week's show Patrick chats to Gartner analyst Andrew Walls about proposed amendments to the Federal Privacy Act that could have serious consequences for IT security pros.
• ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia will also be along to discuss the week's news headlines.

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

It's been a big week in security news, with a Swedish consultant posting 100 valid embassy staffer e-mail logins online, Zango pulling its law-suit against PC Tools and losing against Kaspersky and the APEC summit forum rolling into Sydney, leading to some insecure and ad-hoc telecommuting.

On this week's show:

• Host Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia editor Munir Kotadia discuss the week's headlines

• RSA Security's country manager discusses secure telecommuting

• PC Tools chief executive Simon Clausen does a postmortem on the failed adware company lawsuit against his company and Kaspersky labs

• Robert Lording, Verizon Business Security Solutions network security manager discusses the telco's role in preventing the spread of malware

This week's Risky Business podcast is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions, powered by Cybertrust.

On this week's show:

• Patrick Gray and Sydney Morning Herald and Age columnist Adam Turner discuss the week's security news
• Human rights campaigner Dimitri Vitaliev tells Risky Businesses how computer security is helping in the global fight against totalitarianism -- and what you can do to help
• Verizon Business Security Solutions Robert Lording discusses the challenges involved in securing Verizon's own information

You'll hear us discuss a link to Vitaliev's book. It's here.

This week's Risky Business security podcast is now available for download. On this week's show:

• ITRadio's Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia discuss the week's news.
• Adam Boileau words listeners up on Kiwicon, Australasia's newest "hacker conference". Aussies welcome, BYO sheep.
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' Andrew Valentine talks Web content management system security in this week's sponsor interview

For visitors looking for the Kiwicon Web-site, click here.

What a week for security news. Privacy laws here in Australia could move the way of the USA and develop teeth. Concerns raised about Australia's SCADA expertise, patch Tuesday is here and Symantec AV gets pwned.

On this week's security podcast:

• Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia discuss the week's news
• Joe Wang, CEO and president of Watchguard, chats about the SME market for security appliances
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' Andrew Valentine talks social networking and card fraud. Believe it or not, there's a pretty significant connection

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Australian Federal Police agent Nigel Phair is this week's feature guest on Risky Business, your weekly security briefing. On this week's show:

• Patrick Gray does his best impersonation of a news reader for this week's news segment
• Australian Federal Police officer Nigel Phair discusses his new book Cybercrime: The Reality of the Threat
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' forensics expert Bryan Sartin is back to talk anti-forensics

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Your weekly Australian IT security podcast is available for download. On this week's show:

• AusCERT's Karl Hanmore discusses newly discovered BIND vulnerabilities
• Verizon Business Security Solutions' Bryan Sartin joins us to discuss forensics
• Paul Ducklin of Sophos discusses that company's latest malware and spam report
• ZDNet Australia editor Munir Kotadia discusses the week's news

Paul Ducklin of Sophos gave ITRadio.com.au some graphs he generated with the company's lab data. The first, found here, shows where spam hitting Australia originated. The second, here, shows the location of Web servers hosting malware. Pretty!

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Risky Business, your weekly security podcast, is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions, Powered by Cybertrust, and Vigabyte virtual hosting, our hosting partner.

On this week's podcast:

• Verisign's Rick Howard. Rick works as the intelligence director for the division of Verisign that used to be iDefense. As many of you would have heard, a Swiss company recently set up a vulnerability auction site. As iDefense is well known for trading in vulnerability information, we thought we'd bring on Howard to discuss the trading of vulnerability info.
• We'll also hear from Verizon Business security solutions' Apple expert Kevin Long who'll be along to talk about anti-virus software on the OS X operating system.
• And, as always, we're joined by Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia to discuss this week's news.

A note to particularly attentive listeners: Yes, I did get ahead of myself at the conclusion of this week's podcast. This is the 23rd edition of the show, not the 24th!

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