Risky Business Podcast

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Risky Business #39 -- "Embassy hacker" Dan Egerstad recounts his adventures on the Tor network

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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
Risky Business #39 -- "Embassy hacker" Dan Egerstad recounts his adventures on the Tor network
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Risky Business #38 -- Apple's Leopard... sucks?

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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:

  • ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia joins us to discuss this week's news
  • Australian Macworld editor Matthew JC Powell pops in to discuss Apple's Leopard and its apparently woeful security features
  • Verizon Business Security Solutions' Henry Ng, director of professional services for the company in Asia, joins us for this week's sponsor interview
  • Risky Business #38 -- Apple's Leopard... sucks?
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    Risky Business #37 -- ZOMBIES!!! AAARRggGgGGHHH!!!!

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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 #37 -- ZOMBIES!!! AAARRggGgGGHHH!!!!
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    Risky Business #36 -- Intel's vPro, NSW Commerce Dept's spam woes and more

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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.

    Risky Business #36 -- Intel's vPro, NSW Commerce Dept's spam woes and more
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    Risky Business #35 -- Virtualisation, XSS, Kiwicon and more

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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 #35 -- Virtualisation, XSS, Kiwicon and more
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    Risky Business #34 -- Marty Roesch and Snort

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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
    Risky Business #34 -- Marty Roesch and Snort
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    Risky Business #33 -- Eugene Kaspersky

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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.

    Risky Business #33 -- Eugene Kaspersky
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    Risky Business #32 -- Tech Ed Panel

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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
    Risky Business #32 -- Tech Ed Panel
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    Risky Business #31 -- The Big Yellow Box

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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.

    Risky Business #31 -- The Big Yellow Box
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    Risky Business #30 -- A Matter of Privacy

    Presented by

    Patrick Gray
    Patrick Gray

    CEO and Publisher

    Adam Boileau
    Adam Boileau

    Technology Editor

    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.
    Risky Business #30 -- A Matter of Privacy
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