Network Security Podcast

Network Security Podcast, Episode 211

martin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:13:39 +0000

Rich is on paternity leave, Zach is caught up at work and Martin is suffering from sleep deprivation, so we brought in Mike Rothman once again to pick up the slack and suffer the slings and arrows of recording a podcast. We have to apologize for a minor mixup last week, a link to episode 209 was accidentally included in the show notes, so iTunes picked up on that as episode 210. We fixed it the next morning, but it was already too late for a lot of people. And despite the fact that Martin is confused and call this Episode 212 at the beginning of the podcast, it really is 211.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 211, September 7, 2010
Time: 36:03

Show Notes:

Witty Banter (It’s in the show notes, it must be in the show)
One Page to Share with Your Management
NSA Director says US has a duty to secure the Internet
The 13th Requirement
TechCrunch purges Zeus malware attack
Every week 57000 fake web addresses try to infect users
Alert: Massive new survey worm spreading on Facebook
The Twitter XSS post-game show
Tonight’s music: Black Coffee – Caffeine Remix by Chaz

Network Security Podcast, Episode 210

quine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:17:46 +0000

Rich is off dealing with the joy of fatherhood (again), leaving Martin and Zach to rope Mike Rothman into the podcast for a few weeks. Our news stories are pretty short tonight, thanks to an interview with the one-and-only Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Martin discusses GPS tracking, the DMCA, and more with Jennifer.

We’d also like to welcome Rich and Sharon’s new baby girl… ->

Network Security Podcast, Episode 210, August 31, 2010
Time: 42:20

Show Notes:

Witty banter
County gives jerseys with tracking microchips to preschoolers
ArcSight shares shoot up after buyout report
Interview with Jennifer Granick

Tonight’s Music: “Baby Doesn’t Have a Name Yet” by 4-Track Gio

Defcon 2010 Interview: Joe Grand

martin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:32:01 +0000

I was only able to get a few interviews while I was in Vegas this year. But one of my favorites was talking to Joe Grand, the creator of all five year’s worth of electronic Defcon badges. This year’s badge was smaller than previous years but it had some unique and interesting capabilities and it was also the most artistic of them all. Joe talks about the hardware that went into making the badge, some of the difficulties they encountered (and there are always difficulties) and plans for next year’s badge. No, I didn’t get a scoop and can’t tell you what it will be, but if Joe Grand is involved, I’m willing to bet they’ll still be really cool.
BHDC 2010: Joe Grand

Network Security Podcast, Episode 209

quine — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:49:52 +0000

The gang reunites this week after skipping an episode and, despite wondering if Rich’s house was going to get blown away to the merry old land of Oz, squeezed out a show — and even included our very first bumper (from our friends over at Eurotrash Security Podcast). Yes, we did cover the proverbial “elephant in the room” (or, in this case, the elephant that ate another elephant for a large sum). Also, remember that we’re always up for taking listener questions, so shoot any our way.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 209, August 24, 2010
Time: 41:30

Show Notes:

Witty banter, conference updates

HacKid conference, October 8 and 9, Boston, MA

Changes to Foursquare’s authentication system

OpenSSH 5.6 arrives

Exploiting DLL Hijacking Flaws

Intel buys McAfee

Tonight’s Music: This One’s A Cheap Shot by Every Avenue

Black Hat 2010: Branden Williams, RSA

martin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:31:42 +0000

Branden Williams is one of the thought leaders in the PCI field, or at least someone like me who blogs about it a lot and hopes others find value in our thoughts. I had a few minutes to catch up with him at Black Hat, where we discussed what he’d seen at Black Hat as well as the upcoming changes to the PCI DSS. It appears that not much has changed since our talk and that the conclusions that we drew still remain consistent with what the PCI Council has released since then. Pardon the background noise, we accidentally chose what we thought was a quiet corner but turned out to be one of the major staff entrances and exits.

Black Hat 2010: Branden Williams, Director of Security Consulting,RSA

No Podcast This Week (August 17)

rmogull — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:43:43 +0000

Sorry folks- Martin is traveling, Rich is prepping for a new kid, and Zach still hasn’t figured out where the record button is.

We’ll be back on track next week…

Network Security Podcast, Episode 208

rmogull — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:42:12 +0000

This week’s episode was pretty refreshing- rather than covering our usual news stories, we spent most of our time answering some questions from our listeners (that’s you). Please keep ‘em coming folks- we’d much rather try and help you out than blather about unimportant nonsense in our feed readers. Besides, if you ask enough questions we don’t have to read. Which is good. Because Rich never learned how.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 208, August 10, 2010
Time: 45:27

Show Notes:

Listener Q&A (half the show)
Disclosure spat on Twitter (no link)
Don’t plant child porn on your boss’ computer
NatGeo goes to DefCon (great article!)
Tonight’s Music: What about the Love? by Art Linton

Black Hat 2010: Dimitri McKay, LogLogic

martin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:29:02 +0000

This year at Black Hat we never got into our normal swing with microcasts of releasing them the same day they were recorded. On top of that, I didn’t go home after the convention, I went off for another week on the road for work. Which means I’m only now getting to a point of having the energy and time to edit and post. Which is a long winded way of saying “Better late than never”.

Dimitri McKay, the Security Architect for LogLogic. Dimitri and I talk about the Cloud Security Alliance and what it means as well as touching briefly on the new virtual appliance LogLogic has recently release. We talk about why we need an organization like the CSA and even dig briefly into what the ‘Cloud’ is. Not that we can actually define the cloud in less than 10 minutes.

Black Hat 2010: Dimitri McKay, LogLogic.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 207

martin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:24:43 +0000

Well, Martin, Rich and Zach all survived another trip to Las Vegas and the trio of conventions known as Black Hat, Defcon and Bsides. Our livers might argue that, but we ignored their cries last week and will probably continue to do so. We discuss a few of the presentations we saw, including the GSM and ATM breaking sessions, as well as the new vulnerability in Safari that uses a PDF rendering issue to jailbreak iOS devices, such as iPads and iPhones. And Zach got to be on the radio this week; now Martin is the only one left out. Tonight’s episode is a little rough; Zach is on a cell phone and Martin is in Texas, so Rich gets to do all the fun stuff for a change.

Network Security Podcast, episode 207
Time: 30:00

BHDC2010: Mary Landesman, Cisco

martin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:13:19 +0000

Cisco recently released the 2010 Midyear Security Report and I caught up with one of the principal authors, Mary Landesman, Senior Security Researcher at Cisco. Mary talks about the outcomes of the report and how the security landscape is changing.

NSP-BHDC2010-MaryLandesman.mp3