Risky Business Podcast

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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.NET vulnerabilities and the Storm worm. Your weekly Australian IT security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions, Powered by Cybertrust, and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's infosec podcast:

• Patrick Gray and a freshly promoted Munir Kotadia discuss the week's news, and there's plenty of it
• AusCERT's Rob Lowe, not the actor, discusses the poorly named Storm worm
• Security-Assessment.com's Paul Craig talks .NET vulnerabilities

Your weekly Australian security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's show:

• A very crook Munir Kotadia discusses this week's headlines with Patrick Gray
• Patrik Runald from AV company F-Secure joins us to talk malware
• Cybertrust's Kevin Long talks about the iPhone and its security profile

Your weekly Australian IT security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's podcast:

• Munir Kotadia and Patrick Gray discuss the week's news
• eBay anti-fraudsters Alastair MacGibbon and Matt Henley talk about Romanian fraud
• Cybertrust's Paul Nevin talks spam, spam, spam, spam

Fraud analytics, security event management and the latest news. Your weekly Australian security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.

On this week's show:

• Munir Kotadia joins us from ZDNet Australia to discuss the week's news
• Fair Isaac CEO Dr. Mark Greene (not the guy from ER) discusses fraud analytics software used by banks
• Cybertrust's Paul Nevin talks SEM

*** Prior to posting this entry, I moderated ITRadio's blog comments, which this week consisted entirely of spam. Ladies and gentleman, Risky Business attracts some weird comment spam, but today's promise of "gay midget videos" really takes the cake. And you thought e-mail spam was bad. I'll keep you all updated on anything else weird I come across.

Howard Schmidt is this week's feature talent. Welcome to the "legal edition" of Risky Business -- 18! Your weekly, Australian security podcast is ready for download. It's a full format show this week. On today's program:

• Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia discusses the week's news
• AusCERT's MacLeonard Starkey gives us the heads up on some SSH scanning activity he's noticed
• Former Microsoft CSO and eBay Director of Trust and Safety (global) Howard Schmidt joins us to share his insights
• Cybertrust's Paul Nevin joins us to talk forensics

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SCADA systems and security. Your weekly Australian IT security podcast, Risky Business, is now available for download, with thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.

As regular listeners know, this podcast is recorded on Mondays. Due to the long weekend here in Australia, we've had to trim the show a bit this week. But don't worry -- we've got a great interview with Washington heavyweight Marcus Sachs, and we'll also check in with David Shaw from our sponsor Cybertrust.

I'll also do my best impersonation of a news reader while covering this week's headlines.

IPS, Apple bugs and the Estonia DDoS. Risky Business number 16 is now available for download. On this week's show:

• Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia joins us with the news
• Karl Hanmore from AusCERT updates us on this week's threats and has some good news
• Juniper Networks security research manager Steve Manzuik talks about the limitations of IPS, then discusses the remote root vulnerability his team found in Apple's OS X operating system
• Cybertrust's Paul Nevin joins us to chat about the massive DDoS that crippled Estonia

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UPDATE: Well some silly chicken at ITRadio.com.au HQ "clucked up" yesterday. We forgot to include our semi-regular AusCERT slot with Karl Hanmore! He had some interesting things to say this week about AV vulnerabilities and a new tool published by Microsoft that allows computer users to run binary to XML conversions on Office files. If you're a keen listener, you can hear the segment by itself here.