Network Security Podcast

Well, the final podcast of 2005 has been wrapped up.  It came in just a hair under thirty five minutes, and the new hardware sounds good.  I have to go back a little later and see what the raw audio sounds like on the new iRiver iFP895.  It's nice to have a  backup to save me if  there's  ever a power failure in the middle of a podcast. 
Network Security Podcast, December 27, 2005 - Episode 7


Tonight's musical selection is Shades of Blue by Tony Deziel.  I hope I pronounced his last name correctly.  This music is Creative Commons licensed, and found on Garageband.

DHS interest into the Little Red Book was a hoax
Using Metasploit in the real-world
Congress has big plans for technology reform in 2006
Windows Metasploid data leakage
Only one E-voting company left in NC
Iowa State University hacked ... again
Possible security breach, not details yet
This was written using Performancing for Firefox

Listen until the end of the podcast.  I've got some pretty big personal news, and I'll be posting more here as the details become more solid.  Have a safe and sane New Years, and I'll catch you next Tuesday.

I kept tonight short because I spent most of the evening finishing the configuration of my new server. It's a second hand system, but it's still a big upgrade from the old one. Why is it that when I chose less articles to talk about, I end up talking longer about each one and use almost the same amount of time? Please let me know if you don't see the enclosures showing up for the latest podcast. I'm also encoding the podcast at a lower rate to save space, so let me know what you think.

Network Security Podcast, December 20, 2005 - Episode 6


Tonight's music by Lazy Bones by Ben Eyler, under the Creative Common license.

All Kind Food - Dennis D. McDonald
Computer forensics tool maker hacked
Top 10 System Administrator Truths
Fortune 100 sites leaking sensitive data
Lets see some ID
Sober does something good for a change

I mentioned Writely in a blog post earlier today, and agian in the podcast. Give it a try and tell me what you think about it.

I was trying a couple of different things tonight. First off, I recorded tonight's episode using Propaganda. Second, I edited the podcast. I did the editing in Audible, but I'd made a couple of flubs that were bad enough for me to decide to do the whole thing and edit out a number of my 'umm's. I like how the podcast sounds coming out of Propaganda, now I just have to get past the problem I have with distortion being introduced during the encoding.

Network Security Podcast, December 13, 2005 - Episode 5



Tonight's podsafe music by: Steven Francque - Sanctity of Tears

Two Microsoft patches released today
Portable Firefox and the PortableApps site
Tenable released Nessus 3.0
EFF is suing North Carolina
Massachusetts and the Open Document Format
Is the Cyberterror threat credible?
Hackers take down Russia Today
Black Tuesday
Sam's Club loses credit cards from the pumps
PCI Requirements: Default configurations

As always, thanks for listening, and you can send feedback to netsecpodcast@mckeay.net. Or you can try my new voice mail address at 916-231-9479.

Welcome to the first episode of the Podcast Roundtable. Daniel Sweet, Dennis McDonald and I tackle the issue of bypassing the IT department to get your job done. The three of us offer different view on the good and the bad about those departments that take a 'We'll just do it ourselves!' attitude.

This podcast was brought about by a question put forth on the LinkedIn Bloggers group, asking if it was okay to use free outside resources to get get a job done. Basically, with the profusion of free blogging tools, online databases and wiki's, many of the tasks that have been historically provided by IT can be found online elsewhere for free. Is it acceptable to use these resources and if so, what are some of the risks?

The audio is a little rough, with some echos, which I blame on myself and my hardware. Hopefully we'll be able to make a little cleaner recording next time.

Podcast Roundtable December 10th, 2005 - Dennis McDonald, Daniel Sweet, Martin McKeay



Daniel Sweet is a Houston-based IT consultant. His site, Houston and Texas Area IT Job Seeker Listings & Career Advice, is aimed at helping IT professionals find jobs in Texas and providing answers to people who want to start careers in IT.

Dennis D. McDonald is management consultant in Alexandria, Virginia, and runs All Kind Food. When not travelling or cheering on his favorite college football team, Dennis is also a moderator for the LinkedIn Bloggers group on Yahoo.

And I almost forgot, you can do us all a favor by providing feedback! You can either send me an email at netsecpodcast_AT_mckeay.net, or leave me a voicemail at 916-231-9479. Leave me a voicemail and I may include it in the next podcast.

Sooner or later I'm going to learn to save my work in progress; this time I closed the blog entry by accident whe I was closing a window I no longer needed open. Ah well. I'm still having some issues converting to MP3, so if you know what's causing some of the distortion once I convert, please drop me a line.

I discuss several things that caught my eye this week, like the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, more on Diebold, spear-phishing, several articles that don't say anything new, Cisco hiding bugs, Microsoft needs CISSPs, and a wrap up with the first of the PCI requirements.

Network Security Podcast, December 6, 2005 - Episode 4



Tonight's podsafe music by: Deborah Dalton - Brother's Keeper

Federal flaw database commits to grading system
Diebold loses legal case, certified anyway
Gone Spear-Phishin'
Security's Shaky State
Firms face growing IT security danger from 'enemy within'
Firm Allegedly Hiding Cisco Bugs
Microsoft pads security partner competency

As always, thanks for listening, and you can send feedback to netsecpodcast@mckeay.net. Hopefully next week I'll have a callin number to add.