Network Security Podcast

After a week’s break for Rich to have shoulder surgery and for Martin to travel to Montreal on business, we’re back and at least as good as ever.  We’ve got a lot of good articles to talk about and some interesting news at the end of the podcast.  We’ll be participating in a panel together at RSA, BUS-302, Avoiding the Security Groundhog Day, along with a few friends of ours from the Security Catalyst Community.   We’ll be covering RSA on a daily basis and even be doing some live video from Security Bloggers Meetup this year, as long as the technology cooperates that is.  Watch for a giveaway Rich will be doing on Securosis.com later this week.

Show Notes: 

• Research team finds security flaw in popular disk encryption technologies
• Lest we remember:  cold boot attacks on encryption keys
• The CLEAR Program
• UN Official feeds cable cut sabotage speculation
• WikiLeaks
• Stifling Online Speech
• YouTube censorship sheds light on Internet trust
• How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline
• Worker snooping on customer data common
• Tonight’s Music:   Ethan Martucci with To Break our Bones

Network Security Podcast, Episode 95, February 26, 2008

Time 41:50

Rich had shoulder surgery recently and I’m in Montreal with very limited internet access from my hotel room, so there won’t be a podcast recorded tonight.  Which is too bad given that there are some very interesting things going on this week: the WikiLeak site has been shut down by a judge in California and some of the telecommunications experts in the middle east are saying the cable cuts last month may be sabotage.   I guess we’ll have to talk about that next week.

If you listen to Still Secure After All These Years (who came up with that awful, long, hard-to-type title?), then this episode should sound familiar to you, or more accurately, exactly the same. Rich and Martin crashed the most recent recording of SSAATY and spent some time talking about the effects social networking is going to have on people’s careers in the future. If you have a MySpace or Facebook account, you need to give some serious thought to what you’re putting up there and what impact it might have on you in your next job search.

We all want to know who decided that HP is employing 9 of the top 11 hackers and how they ranked them. Do you only qualify as a ‘top hacker’ if you work or have worked for HP/SPI Dynamics? That’s the only thing that makes sense. Maybe they’ll reveal who these hackers are at RSA and post a new top 59 list. Speaking of which, if you’re a security blogger or podcaster who’s planning on being at RSA, drop us a line and we’ll fill you in on an event that’s happening there.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 94

Time: 41:38

Tonight’s special guest is Mike Murray the author of Epistime.ca.  We headed into the land of paranoia and conspiracy theories given recent goings on under the sea in the Middle East.  We all agree that these events probably are random, but it still leaves us with raised eyebrows.

Show Notes: 

• Internet problems continue with fourth cable break
• Where is the USS Jimmy Carter?
• Security measures pose risk of government control of cyberspace
• Security vs. Privacy
• Six ActiveX Vulnerabilities this week
• Tonight’s music:  Sick as a Dog by Brad Sucks

Network Security Podcast, Episode 93, January 29, 2008

Time:  51:07