June 27, 2011 – Episode 219

Episode 219 of  The CyberJungle is about 55 minutes long, due to extended coverage from The Gartner Security Summit 2011.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The first interview begins at about 19min, and the second interview at about 40min. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Interviews

John Bace, Gartner, Congress just put a bounty on your boss; how one whistleblower earned $90million

Debra Logan, Gartner, on why a judge slapped a million dollar eDiscovery-related fine on a careless company

Our Take On This Week’s News

The IRS fails a security audit (again)

Does the TSA care about your tablet getting stolen at a checkpoint?

Tales From The Dark Web

Department of Justice Disrupts International Cyber Crime Rings Distributing Scareware

Wrap

The end of the supermarket club card?

Conference Coverage

The CyberJungle went to the 2011 Gartner Security Summit this week. Get the reports in Conference Notes.

June 19, 2011 – Episode 218

Episode 218 of  The CyberJungle is about 35 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Interviews

InfoSec researcher Casey Halverson discovers an unusual tracking “feature” in his Nissan Leaf. Details on his blog.

Marc Maiffret, CTO of eEye Digital on how the simple cyberattacks distract us from the more serious ones . Read Marc’s Blog

Casey’s interview starts at about 08:30 into the show, and Marc’s interview starts about 20:00 into the show.

Our Take On This Week’s News

Remote PC tracking software strikes again. Remember the Lower Marion School District?  A retailer is in similar trouble for snapping remote images of PC users.

Conference Coverage

The CyberJungle goes to the 2011 Gartner Security Summit this week. Get the reports in Conference Notes, starting Tuesday June 21st. And follow (or just read) Ira on Twitter for comments and nuggets of interest from the show.

June 13, 2011 – Episode 217

Episode 216 of  The CyberJungle is about 26 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below.  The interview starts at ~13min. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.

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Interviews

Mathew Prince,   CEO of web security firm CloudFlare

Our Take on The Week’s News

US freezes bank accounts of large-scale scareware gang

Do work emails enjoy spousal privilege?

Tales from the Dark Web

Spanish Police arrest three in Anonymous hacktivist probe

Wrap

Mac OS X Lion browser mode hides stealth security features

June 6, 2011 – Episode 216

Episode 216 of  The CyberJungle is about 35 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below.  The first interview starts at ~16min, and the second one starts at about ~28min. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show. The interviews start at about the 14:30 mark.

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Interviews

Stina Ehrensvärd, CEO & Founder of Yubico on the wave of RSASecureID-related breaches. Yubico Radius open source server.

Jeff Hudson CEO of Venafi, with his take on the wave of RSASecureID-related breaches

Our Take on The Week’s News

The wave of server breaches spread: Track many of them on Pastebin.com’s trending page. Plus read this story for background on PasteBin.com

Tales from the Dark Web

Worm uses built-in DHCP server to spread