Data Security Podcast Episode 68, Sep 01 2009

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law…..(plus or minus five)
On this week’s program:
* New attacks against business bank accounts…. an earth-shaking recommendation from the banking industry.
* Hackers say they are gearing up for winter attacks – according to a survey of hackers at DefCon 2009.
* Our take on this week’s news.
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Cybersecurity Act: Is Federal InfoSec License Key To ‘Net Control?

The Internet is abuzz today with the reports by Declan McCullagh that the newest version of The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 has been getting some edits by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Although the full edits have not been release, the reports so far continue to talk about how this bill, if passed, could result in [...]

Data Security Podcast Episode 67, Aug 24 2009

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law…..(plus or minus five)
On this week’s program:
* The security lessons from Heartland data breach – what the newscasters didn’t tell you. Details on our Tales from The Dark Web segment.
* What if you discovered a web security flaw and their customer service staff ignored your [...]

REPORT: SQL Injection Attacks #1 Web Drive-by Hazard

Web application security company Breach Security announced today that SQL Injection attacks remains the number one web attack vector, accounting for nearly one-fifth of all security breaches (19%).
Attack vectors exploiting Web 2.0 features such as user-contributed content were also commonly employed: authentication abuse was the second most active attack vector (11%), and Cross Site Request [...]

Data Security Podcast Episode 66, Aug 17 2009

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law….(plus or minus five)
On this week’s program:
* Like stealing candy from a baby….is Adobe making it that easy for attackers to get into computers?
* The Clampi Trojan is cleaning out bank accounts, and AV usually doesn’t see it.
* Researcher says that Palm is acting like [...]

Data Security Podcast Episode 65 – Aug 9 2009

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law….(plus or minus five)
On this week’s program:
* More DefCon17 Coverage: How safe are Cloud Computing applications?
* Melissa Hathaway is leaving her White House job as top cyber security official, why is the main stream press not spending time on this story?
* Our take on this [...]

Data Security Podcast Episode 64 – Aug 4 2009

30 minutes every week on data security, privacy, and the law….(plus or minus five)
On this week’s program:
SPECIAL DEFCON17 Coverage From Las Vegas
* Is YOUR tax return sitting out there on the Internet? Maybe not yours, but Larry Pesce tells us about the tax returns — and the other stuff he found without much [...]

Data Security Podcast – Special DefCon Coverage

The Data Security Podcast went to DefCon this past weekend. DefCon is the world’s largest hacker conference.  We have team coverage in Episode 64, scheduled to post in the next 24 hours.  Coverage will include:
-> Can you really trust an SSL Encryption Certificate?
-> Is YOUR web site on the list vulnerable to common cross site [...]