August 22, 2011 – Episode 226

Episode 226 of  The CyberJungle is about 27 minutes long this week.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview begins at about 18min. 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.

To listen to Episode 226 via the flash player:

Interview

Hotel VoIP system open to serious attack? Interview with Jason Ostrum of ViperLab.net . Get the latest open source VoIP Hooper tool. According to the site, “VoIP Hopper is a GPLv3 licensed security tool, written in C, that rapidly runs a VLAN Hop security test. VoIP Hopper is a VoIP infrastructure security testing tool but also a tool that can be used to test the (in)security of VLANs”

Our Take On This Week’s News

Smartphone monitoring or malware: it’s all in the intent. Read the TrendMicro blog on the topic.

Can schools control private teacher/student digital conversations?

Microsoft has committed itself to encouraging young women to enter tech, as part of that effort, they host an event called Digigirlz, around the world.

Tales From The Dark Web

New wave of malware targets the desktops of web site publishers.

Wrap

The 20th anniversary of Linux Open Source Software. Here is the video mentioned in the segment