Wed, 31 March 2010
Tonight Martin, Rich, and Zach are together to cover the news in a seemingly zonked-out sort of way (busy week for all of us!). We had our ups and downs tonight but in the end we made it through. We'd like to extend a big thanks to everyone who took our Listener Survey, we've heard you and are working on making some improvements to the podcast over the next several months. Zach has also created a Facebook page for the Network Security Podcast, so watch for some interesting stuff there in the not so distant future.
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Wed, 24 March 2010
Tonight Zach and Martin were joined by Josh Corman of the 451 Group. Rich is off on a plane somewhere and couldn't join us tonight, so we invited Josh to spend some time talking about this week's stories as well as his own project, the Rugged Software Manifesto. Rugged is still in it's infancy, but it's an idea based on raising awareness in the software developers outside the security community and getting them to realize that they need to anticipate that their software will be used in ways it was never intended for. Josh is starting to build some momentum for Rugged and we'll hopefully be hearing more about it in the future. We got a little caught up on several of the stories so this episode is a bit longer than usual.
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Wed, 17 March 2010
We've been hearing about the Aurora attacks on Google and a host of other companies since early January. So why is it that NSS Labs is finding that the majority of the End Point Protection (aka AV) companies aren't protecting against the vulnerability yet? And why is AVG upset with NSS Labs and their testing methods? To answer these questions and many more, Rich and Martin were joined tonight by Vikram Phatak, the CTO of NSS Labs. Vik gave us some of the back story on why they were testing AV products and some of the surprising discoveries they made. It's not easy being an independent testing company and sometimes you're going to annoy people despite your best efforts. And sometimes people are going to be annoyed with you no matter what. One point Vik wanted to make that didn't make it into the podcast is that the 0day that was used in the Aurora attack is not just being used against corporate targets. It's being used against consumers as well, so it's important that the average home user be aware that their AV product may not be protecting them at this point. What is part of the podcast is a discussion of how many AV vendors are trying to protect against the payload that malware is attempting to deliver, not the exploit itself. Both are important points people need to be aware of. Network Security Podcast, Episode 189, March 16, 2010 Time: 39:56 Show Notes:
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Wed, 10 March 2010
Can you hear that? That's the sound of air escaping as we all finally recover from the RSA conference. Rich and Martin are back, and Zach... never left (but did celebrate a birthday last week). We do a quick recap of RSA and then dig into the security news... much of which had nothing to do with the conference. Weird. Network Security Podcast, Episode 188, March 9, 2010 Time: 32:01 Show Notes:
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Wed, 3 March 2010
Martin and Rich are away at RSA -- and I'm all alone. Well, actually, I have a special guest host: Jamie Arlen (a.k.a. Myrcurial) -- and boy did we have a lot to talk about. Tonight's show is a bigun', clocking in at about 50 minutes. So, apologies for the lengthy show and file. Network Security Podcast, Episode 187, March 3, 2010 Time: 51:05 Show Notes:
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