Risky Business Podcast

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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.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.