Previously on Risky Business...
July 31st, 2007 --
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.
Previously on Risky Business...
July 23rd, 2007 --
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.
Previously on Risky Business...
July 17th, 2007 --
.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
Previously on Risky Business...
July 10th, 2007 --
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
Previously on Risky Business...
July 3rd, 2007 --
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
Previously on Risky Business...
June 26th, 2007 --
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.
Previously on Risky Business...
June 19th, 2007 --
Howard Schmidt is this week's feature talent. Welcome to the "legal edition" of Risky Business -- 18! Your weekly, Australian security podcast is ready for download. It's a full format show this week.
Previously on Risky Business...
June 12th, 2007 --
SCADA systems and security. Your weekly Australian IT security podcast, Risky Business, is now available for download, with thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
As regular listeners know, this podcast is recorded on Mondays. Due to the long weekend here in Australia, we've had to trim the show a bit this week. But don't worry -- we've got a great interview with Washington heavyweight Marcus Sachs, and we'll also check in with David Shaw from our sponsor Cybertrust.
I'll also do my best impersonation of a news reader while covering this week's headlines.
Previously on Risky Business...
June 5th, 2007 --
IPS, Apple bugs and the Estonia DDoS. Risky Business number 16 is now available for download.
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May 29th, 2007 --
Database forensics, Second Life fraud, the week's news and more. Your weekly security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
On this week's podcast:
Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia joins us with the week's security news
AusCERT's Mark McPherson on crime in virtual worlds
NGS Sostware's David Litchfield talks database forensics
Cybertrust Australia's Mark Goudie joins us from the company's Melbourne office
Previously on Risky Business...
May 22nd, 2007 --
AusCERT special. Microsoft's product security manager, One Laptop Per Child security concerns, the Cybertrust acquisition and more. Risky Business #14 is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.Â
This week's show was produced on the ground at the annual AusCERT computer security conference.
Previously on Risky Business...
May 15th, 2007 --
The ethics of Web application security research, and liability concerns for consumers who bank online.
Previously on Risky Business...
May 8th, 2007 --
Hacker extraditions and the national ID card. The weekly Risky Business IT security podcast is available for download thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
Previously on Risky Business...
May 1st, 2007 --
IPv6 and bad standards. The weekly Risky Business IT security podcast is available for download thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. Don't forget to use the links to the left of this post to subscribe!
On this week's show:
Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia chew through this week's news
IPv6 is insecure... could it be the standard's fault? Adam Pointon of Assurance.com.au pops in to share his thoughts
AusCERT's Karl Hanmore warns of more hard-coded password issues, this time in some VPN kit.
Previously on Risky Business...
April 24th, 2007 --
Voice biometric systems are this week's feature. The weekly Risky Business IT security podcast is available for download thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. Don't forget to use the links to the left of this post to subscribe!
On this week's show:
Apple patches some VERY nasty OS X bugs - Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia joins us to discuss
Karl Hanmore relaxes over those Microsoft DNS bugs
Australian Health Management's Operations manager, Melinda Charlesworth, talks voice biometrics
'My PABX got pwned'.
Previously on Risky Business...
April 17th, 2007 --
VoIP security is this week's topic on Risky Business, your weekly security briefing sponsored by Cybertrust and hosted by Vigabyte.
On this week's show:
Patrick and ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia invent the vulnerability drinking game
AusCERT's Karl Hanmore has a virus of his own, but still gets to a phone to clue us in on the week's developments
Sense of Security's Jason Edelstein and Cisco's Colin Bradley talk VoIP security
DNS problems in Windows no big deal? Depends on whether you're a stickler for best practice or not, Cybertrust's Brian Denehy (not the actor) explains
Previously on Risky Business...
April 10th, 2007 --
Former White House security advisor Richard A. Clarke chats about technology and national security. He was a special advisor to Bill Clinton on counter terrorism, then he worked for George W. Bush.
Clarke became a controversial figure when he published a scathing account of his time working for President Bush, Against All Enemies, in 2004.
In that book he accused Bush of ordering him to link the 9/11 attacks in the US to Iraq, and says his warnings about Al Qaeda's intention to attack the United States went unheeded.
Between 2001 and 2003, he was also George W.
Previously on Risky Business...
April 3rd, 2007 --
Annoying Apple ads, the ANI bug, AISA and more. Risky Business is now available for download thanks to Cybertrust and our hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's show:
Why one Apple devotee is annoyed over the company's security themed advertisements
The Australian Information Security Association tells us how we can save $400 on an AusCERT conference registration fee
Cybertrust talks about the ANI animated cursor bug... nasty!
ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia talks news
Previously on Risky Business...
March 27th, 2007 --
Metasploit, snail mail Trojans, vulnerability disclosure and more.
Risky Business #6 is available for download, thanks to Cybertrust and our hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week's show:
All the week's news with ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia
AusCERT talks "snail mail Trojans". This is new, and it's newsy. Check it out.
Adam Pointon of Assurance.com.au on Metasploit
Andrew Walls from Cybertrust talks vulnerability disclosure
Previously on Risky Business...
March 19th, 2007 --
Risky Business #5 is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
This week's show was recorded at CeBIT in Germany and cut together in Istanbul, Turkey. That's right, I'm still on the road. And despite some hideous jetlag, this week's show is a cracker.
On this week's program:
 Bomb proofing your data centre.
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