Podcasts

The ethics of Web application security research, and liability concerns for consumers who bank online. Welcome to Risky Business #13, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.

On this week's podcast:

• Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia discusses this week's security news
• White Hat Security's Jeremiah Grossman joins us to chat about the ethics of hacking away at Web applications without the permission of the site operator
• Cybertrust's David Shaw joins us on the line to discuss moves by some Australian financial institutions toward placing the liability for online fraud squarely on consumers
• Patrick Gray plays 35 second of audio which proves telecommunications providers do business in the Twilight Zone

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. 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
• Robert Lowe (not the actor) from AusCERT gives us the low-down on this week's bugs and malware
• Erhan Karabardak of Melbourne-based law firm Cooper Mills discusses the extradition of Australian software pirate Hew Griffiths
• US-based security heavyweight Richard Forno gets stuck into national ID cards
• Cybertrust's David Shaw gives listeners the skinny on cyber-attacks on hotel guests

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.

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'. David Shaw from Cybertrust talks comms security

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

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. Bush's cyber security tsar. If you want a run down on national security aspects of technology, Clarke is extremely well qualified.

His most recent book, Breakpoint, is a fictional thriller which explores the impact current and emerging technologies are having on national security. This special Easter edition of Risky Business is now available for download now thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and our hosting partner Vigabyte. Our regular guests aren't along this week -- they were all on a break on Monday, which is when we record the show.

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

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

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:

• \xc2\xa0Bomb proofing your data centre. (Seriously.)
• \xc2\xa0Making secure GSM phone calls thanks to Frank Reiger and GSMK Cryptophone
• \xc2\xa0Talking password security with Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov
• \xc2\xa0A chat with Sophos Antivirus's Paul Ducklin, who was also at CeBIT.
• \xc2\xa0What does the F in F-Secure stand for?

Risky Business number 4 is available for download, thanks to Cybertrust and our hosting partner Vigabyte. This week's show is a little different -- we're at the Kickstart IT media conference on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. On today's program we've got representatives from CheckPoint, Trend Micro, AusCERT and Cybertrust. We're also joined by Ian Yates, a freelance journalist to discuss the last week's news.

Next week's show will be produced in Hannover, Germany, at the CeBIT computer expo -- the largest IT expo in the world. I'll be walking the trade floor to find the best new technologies in security.