Tue, 3 November 2009 "The Episode that almost Wasn't" It's been a day. Shortly before we
were scheduled to start, there was a pop and the power went out at
Martin's house. Rich has issues of his own to deal with. And Zach is
... somewhere. It was only because the local electric company
responded quickly for the first time I can remember were we able to
squeeze in a podcast recording between emergencies. And now that we've
recorded and posted, it's time to put our noses back to the grindstone
and work for a couple more hours. Network Security Podcast, Episode 172 Time: 33:26 Show Notes:
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Tue, 27 October 2009 Before we proceed with the show notes, may we please have a moment of
silence for the passing of Geocities, the last refuge of the blink tag. (The rest of the show is all about security stuff, and we even have all three of us on together again, but I'm just too chocked up over the death of Geocities for proper show notes. It was as if a million cheesy fan sites cried out, and were suddenly silenced.) This really is Episode 171, even if I called it 170 at the beginning of the podcast - Martin Network Security Podcast, Episode 171 Time: 38:54 Show Notes:
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Tue, 20 October 2009 For the first time in a long time, Martin, Rich, and Zach are all
together on the podcast. Sorry we missed last week, but we've all been
dealing with job changes (Zach and Martin) or vacations in tropical
paradises (Rich). After a brief wandering to talk about Halloween preparations, we get back on topic and catch up with some new stories, and a few from the week we missed. We talk about the evolution of security professionals, tokenization, and how the Danger/Sidekick thing had nothing to do with cloud computing. Network Security Podcast, Episode 170 Time: 34:12 Show Notes:
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Tue, 6 October 2009 Rich is spending a well earned vacation with his wife somewhere south
of the border. Normally this means I'd get in touch with Zach, but
this week he's north of the border at SecTor.ca.
With any luck, Zach will be able to pick up a few interviews with some
of the cool kids who got to go play in Toronto. In the mean time I was
left to fend for myself and called upon one of the people who got me
involved in podcasting to begin with, George Starcher. While George no longer has his own podcast, he's a regular on the Typical Mac User Podcast, but is willing to put up with a Windows user like me. Network Security Podcast, Episode 169, October 6, 2009 Time: 27:09 Show Notes:
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Tue, 29 September 2009 Despite a short discussion of Rich's paranoia in the opening of the
show, we mostly play it straight and stick to the security news. We
found a few interesting stories this week, and the major theme seems to
be "stupidity". On one side is a prison that let an inmate reprogram
their computer system, on the other a money-mule for scams that thought
sending money-grams to foreign countries was a legitimate "work at
home" job. Sigh. Network Security Podcast, Episode 168 Time: 29:53 Show Notes:
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Wed, 23 September 2009 Before we dig into this week's security news, we diverge (slightly) to talk about Emergency- This Book Will Save Your Life
and disaster planning. I (Rich) read the book last week and found it to
be a ton of fun; it's the story of a journalist who slowly descends
into the rabbit hole of the survivalist community. Well written, with
plenty of good advice and stories. It's not really a survival guide,
more of a personal story and lessons learned. I had a bit of a shock as I realized that most of my disaster plans aren't relevant anymore as my life status has changed. I used to be single, in Colorado, and part of the response infrastructure (which means access to a ton of resources). Now I'm married, with a child and pets. I can't really run off with a backpack and play hero if something bad hits. We also delve into some IT related disaster planning, so this isn't a complete non-sequiter. Network Security Podcast, Episode 167 Time: 32:13 Show Notes:
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Tue, 15 September 2009 You'd think that after taking off last week Rich and I would be back
and better than ever this week. But Mr. Mogull had a speaking
engagement elsewhere this week so I was joined once again by Zach Lanier of N0where.org.
In fact, Zach has agreed to join us on a regular basis and will be
contributing a weekly segment where he'll be doing a deeper dive on a
news story each week. At least that's the plan at this time, but those
are always subject to change. I also had a chance to interview Tim
Mather about his (along with Subra Kumaraswany and Shahed Latif)
upcoming book, Cloud Security and Privacy. I find it interesting to hear about how much the idea of the Cloud has changed since Tim started work on the book. Network Security Podcast, Episode 166 Time: 40:14 Show Notes:
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Tue, 1 September 2009 Rich is off talking at a local OWASP meeting and I'm sitting at home
tonight trying to figure out Overlord. My kids are finally adjusting
to being called Minion 1 and Minion 2. Rich and I hit some of our
favorite topics like PCI and Apple updates, as well as gaming DDoS
attacks and rules about searching your laptop. It should be no
surprise to anyone that Rich and I would both like to go back to a time
where actual evidence was needed before you can take a traveler's
laptop. Network Security Podcast, Episode 165, September 1, 2009 Time: 33:29 Show Notes:
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Tue, 25 August 2009 Rich and I are both a little short on time today, so it's a good thing
I recorded an interview with Gregory Conti, West Point professor and
security author last week. We have a couple of stories we go over
briefly and no lack of opinions to go with them. In other words,
pretty much the same as every week. Network Security Podcast, Episode 164 Time: 41:01 Show Notes:
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Tue, 18 August 2009 Martin is back this week as we discuss some of the most fascinating
drama to come out of the security world in quite some time. As the
initial indictments for the Hannaford and Heartland breaches go public,
all sorts of fascinating tidbits emerge. There are double crossing
informants, Russian connections, and secret breaches that haven't hit
the public yet. We also finally learn exactly how most of these
breaches occured. Heck, it's almost interesting enough for a TV movie! Network Security Podcast, Episode 163 Time: 38:44 Show Notes:
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