This podcast is an interview with Eric "Musclenerd" McDonald. Eric is a renowned iPhone jailbreaker and as such has a very detailed understanding of smartphone platforms. His talk at Ruxcon Breakpoint was all about the security of baseband chipsets. If you follow this stuff you might know that the baseband chipsets in these smartphones -- which handle all the basic communications functions of the phones -- are actually quite sophisticated. And where there's sophistication, there are potential problems.

I've included links to all news items plus the three feature topics covered off with Paul Ducklin. Enjoy!

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This week's show is being produced entirely on the ground at the Ruxcon Breakpoint security conference in my old home town of Melbourne Australia! And it's a shorter show than usual because I'm pretty busy down here producing a bunch of podcasts as a part of some joint coverage I'm doing for both Risky.Biz and The Register. If you want to check out some audio and blog posts from Breakpoint, head to http://risky.biz/breakpoint.

The inaugural Ruxcon Breakpoint security conference has kicked off with a bang in Melbourne. This morning's first presentation was a talk by Roelof Temmingh, the creator of Maltego. The Maltego software, for those who don't know it, is essentially a data analysis and reconnaissance tool with some pretty powerful features.

On this week's show we're chatting with Kevin Mitnick! Arguably the world's best known hacker, Kevin used to be a very naughty boy, and that saw him sent to prison a few times... but since his most recent release over 12 years ago he's established himself as a security consultant, author and globetrotting public speaker. We're chatting to him about the fundamentals of identity verification. How can you be sure that person on the phone requesting a password reset really is your customer? Can you rely solely on static identity information in this day and age?

Windows 8 will make hackers' lives hard, says Windows internals expert, security researcher and co-author of the open source Windows XP clone ReactOS Alex Ionescu. Now chief architect at CrowdStrke, a security company focused on nation-state adversaries, Ionescu says Windows 8 builds on the usermode exploit mitigations introduced into Windows Vista and 7 with new approaches to security that attempt to mitigate kernel mode attacks.

This week's feature guest Alex Ionescu is a smart cookie indeed. Scroll to the links below to find a link to a synopsis of his Ruxcon Breakpoint talk.

These show notes include links to a few stories that didn't make it to the final edit of the show. Also included is Corey Benninger's slide deck from EU Sec West, and a video demo.