Risky Business Podcast

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.

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.