February 11 2013, Episode 291, Show Notes

Episode 291 of The CyberJungle is about 32 minutes long. We break with our normal format this week, with exclusive interviews on cloud security from the Paralells Summit in Las Vegas.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Brian Spector, CEO of Cetivox, on two factor authentication begins at about the 2:45min mark. The interview with CloudLinux CEO Igor Seletskiy, begins at about the 19min mark. The interview with Randal Skipper VP with SilverSky on legal issues with email archiving begins at about the 27min mark. 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

Brian Spector, CEO of Certivox, on a new development in 2FA. Here’s their blog.

CloudLinux CEO Igor Seletskiy, gives a new take to server linux. Link to their blog here.

Randal Skipper VP with SilverSky on legal issues and email archiving. Blog site here

Wrap

From Fox Business News: Forensics Analyst Ira Victor and Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff on the growing number of cyber-attacks on businesses and government

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January 30 2013, Episode 290, Show Notes

Episode 290 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Tony Berman about Antigua and business liability for copyrights begins at the 21:00min mark.  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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Interview

Tony Berman, Intellectual Property Attorney, on Antigua and business liability for copyrights.

Tales From The Dark Web

Twitter Account Takeover Attack

Our Take on This Weeks News

Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear – and Barracuda is OK with this
Show off Your Security Skills: Pwn2Own and Pwnium 3

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SpectorSoft: IT professionals, Risk Officers, and HR staff have more worries than ever: insider theft, inappropriate communications, inefficient processes, employee investigations, and compliance requirements. These pressing issues demand a reliable, automated, advanced technology capable of showing user, department, and division activity no matter where the users are or what devices they are using. SPECTOR 360, the de facto corporate User Activity Monitoring solution, addresses these issues and meets this demand.

SPECTOR 360 monitors, captures, and analyzes ALL user and user group activity including: email sent and received, chat/IM/BBM, websites visited, applications/programs accessed, web searches, phone calls, file transfers, and data printed or saved to removable devices.

SPECTOR 360 features automated, remote installation of the Windows and Mac clients and requires no client installation on BlackBerry devices.

 

January 12 2013, Episode 288, Show Notes

Episode 288 of The CyberJungle is about 25 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafy on SSL cert fraud, begins at about the 12:30min mark.  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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Interview

Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafy on SSL cert fraud

Tales From The Dark Web

0day Cisco VoIP flaw could cause eavesdropping without making a call

Our Take on This Weeks News

CES2012: Will Ford open telematics platform to forensic apps, and new gear to secure iPads at work
US Nuke lab tosses out Huawei gear over backdoor fears

Wrap

Microsoft hopes to patent an ‘inconspicuous mode‘ for smartphones

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SpectorSoft: IT professionals, Risk Officers, and HR staff have more worries than ever: insider theft, inappropriate communications, inefficient processes, employee investigations, and compliance requirements. These pressing issues demand a reliable, automated, advanced technology capable of showing user, department, and division activity no matter where the users are or what devices they are using. SPECTOR 360, the de facto corporate User Activity Monitoring solution, addresses these issues and meets this demand.

SPECTOR 360 monitors, captures, and analyzes ALL user and user group activity including: email sent and received, chat/IM/BBM, websites visited, applications/programs accessed, web searches, phone calls, file transfers, and data printed or saved to removable devices.

SPECTOR 360 features automated, remote installation of the Windows and Mac clients and requires no client installation on BlackBerry devices.

 

January 1 2013, Episode 287, Show Notes

Episode 287 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Marc Weber Tobias on insider fraud, begins at about the 15:30min mark.  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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Interview

Marc Weber Tobias mentioned two columns he wrote for Forbes on insider fraud:

How Do You Spot The Thief Inside Your Company?

A Snitch In Time Can Save Employers a Lot of Money

Mentioned in the segment: Redline Solutions

Tales From The Dark Web

0Day web attack impacts Microsoft IE8,7, and some Outlook users. Read Microsoft Security Advisory (2794220). And more from the FireEye Blog.

Our Take on This Weeks News

Still putting your crypto-protected PC in hibernate? $300 app can hack it  And, the ElcomSoft blog posting mentioned in the segment.

How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever

 

December 12 2012, Episode 286, Show Notes

Episode 286 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Rob Kraus from Solutionary, begins at about the 16min mark.  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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Interview

Rob Kraus is the Director of Research for the Solutionary Engineering Research Team (SERT). He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), specializing in vulnerability research, malware analysis, threat intelligence, web application security assessments, external and internal penetration testing, and social engineering. Find his writing and reports at the Solutionary Blog.

Tales From The Dark Web

Project Blitzkrieg – Russian attack on US Banking Industry?

Our Take on This Weeks News

A Brooklyn Protester Pleads Guilty After His Twitter Posts Sink His Case

Root exploit on Exynos-powered Samsung smart devices

 

December 10 2012, Episode 285, Show Notes

Episode 285 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Tom Scholtz from Gartner, begins at about the 13min mark.  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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Interview

Gartner Expert Tom Scholtz on greater security through fewer controls

Mentioned in the interview: Hans Monderman (1945 – 2008), a Dutch traffic engineer.

Tales From The Dark Web

Rolling Stone – The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State

The Verge Summary of the Rolling Stones story

A rare moment in DefCon history (from 2004): A speaker named Jeremy Hammond gets his talk pulled by “The Pope” of DefCon. Is this the same Jeremy Hammond?

Our Take on This Weeks News

From ABC News: Calif. Sues Delta Airlines Over Mobile App Privacy

From FoxNews:  Hack the Hackers? Companies Itching To Go On Cyber Offense

 

December 05 2012, Episode 284, Show Notes

Episode 284 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Andrew Walls and Perry Carpenter, both from Gartner, begins at about the 18min mark.  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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Interview

Gartner Experts Andrew Walls and Perry Carpenter on “Security Awareness”

Mentioned in the interview: Dr. BJ Fogg’s site behaviormodel.org

Tales From The Dark Web

Due to the longer Interview segment, the Dark Web segment is on a break

Our Take on This Weeks News

FTC ruling on breached companies, read more at HabeasHardDrive.com blog

School district has strange response to bank takeover attack

Wrap

The smartphone turns 20

November 29 2012, Episode 283, Show Notes

Episode 283 of The CyberJungle is about 40 minutes long, due to the extended interview with lock expert Marc Weber Tobias on the Onity hotel lock breaches.  You can hear the entire program it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Marc Weber Tobias , begins at about the 19:30min mark.  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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Interview

Lock expert and attorney, Marc Weber Tobias

Tales From The Dark Web

Yahoo! email! hijack! exploit!… Yours! for! $700!

Our Take on This Weeks News

DNS Attacks at Pakistan’s PKNIC, GoDaddy, and Romania

IDC: iPhone, Android to overtake BlackBerry in enterprise market for first time

Wrap

No wrap due to the extended interview segement

November 19 2012, Episode 282, Show Notes

Episode 282 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Ben Lemere of Berla Corp, begins at about the 18min mark.  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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Interview

Ben Lemere with Berla Corp on Motor Vehicle/GPS forensics

Tales From The Dark Web

Bank accounts emptied by phone Trojan that targets user of smartphone-based two factor authentication

Our Take on This Weeks News

Israeli government websites under mass cyberwar attack

Anonymous leaks personal information of 5,000 Israeli officials

The age of the password is over. We just haven’t realized it yet.

Wrap

Will We Finally See A 1TB Optical Disc In 2015?

November 15 2012, Episode 281, Show Notes

Episode 281 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Conrad Constantine of Alien Vault, begins at about the 19min mark.  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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Interview

Gregory Kipper, Futurist and Author

Tales From The Dark Web

Drive-by Downloads targeting un-patched IE and Word users.

Our Take on This Weeks News

Ira’s take CIA Director Petraeus scandal

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has released its 2012 Annual Report to Congress.

“This year’s report covers recent developments in the U.S.-China trade and economic relationship; the role of state-owned enterprises in China, the U.S.-China trade and investment relationship, recent developments in China’s military, China’s cyber capabilities, developments in China’s nuclear and strategic abilities, China in the South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China in Europe, China’s demand and control of global resources, China’s efforts to become a more innovative society, and the Chinese political transition.”

Wrap

Ira’s take on tracking John McAffe