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.

To listen to Episode 282 via the flash player:

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.

To listen to Episode 281 via the flash player:

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

November 7 2012, Episode 280, Show Notes

Episode 280 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Hon. Matthew Sciarrino begins at about 14:30, and the interview with James Wiebe begins at about 23:00 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 This Week Are From The Paraben Forensics Innovator’s Conference

Hon. Matthew Sciarrino, on social media, security and forensics

James Wiebe, CEO of WiebeTech on SSD forensics

Tales From The Dark Web Is Still Helping In The Sandy Recovery This Week

Our Take on This Weeks News

Did Unreported Breach Impact Coca-Cola China Buy Out?

Report: China is “the most threatening actor in cyberspace”

Wrap

PFIC Comments

November 1 2012, Episode 279, Show Notes

Episode 279 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.

To listen to Episode 279 via the flash player:

Interview

Conrad Constantine of Alien Vault, talks with Ira about a new approach to incident response.

Tales From The Dark Web

Busy working on Sandy recovery in NY

Our Take on This Weeks News

Cyber War Rooms

Hiring InfoSec Pros: Do We Need To Throw Out The Rules?

South Carolina Tax Info Breach

Wrap

InfoSec Zombie Apocalypse

October 16 2012, Episode 277, Show Notes

Episode 277 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Vladimir Katalov, 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.

To listen to Episode 277 via the flash player:

Interview

Vladimir Katalove, CEO of ElcomSoft, talks with Ira about a flaw discovered this past summer that impacts file encryption on may laptops. Now exploit code has been released, and there is confirmation by a third part of the flaw. This flaw can be leveraged by forensic analysts to break files protected with Microsoft Encrypted File System (EFS).

Tales From The Dark Web

CyberCriminals strike utility customers using auto-pay

Our Take on This Weeks News

Zynga Files Suit Against Former Staffer, Claiming Theft of Trade Secrets, Via The Cloud

Voter Registration Rolls in 2 States Are Called Vulnerable to Attackers

Concerns About Huawei Technologies Continue to Rise

Wrap

Apple stays silent on critical security risk (as referenced in our interview segment)

September 26 2012, Episode 274, Show Notes

Episode 274 of The CyberJungle is about 26 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Attorney Benjamin Write begins at about the 15min 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.

To listen to Episode 274 via the flash player:

Interview

Benjamin Wright, Attorney in Private Practice,  SANS Instructor: Law of Data Security and Investigations. See the forensics from the cloud videos Benjamin talked about. Follow Mr. Wright on Twitter.

Tales From The Dark Web

Over 9 million PCs infected – ZeroAccess botnet uncovered

Our Take on This Weeks News

Wells Fargo website hit by access issues amid cyber threats

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-063 – Critical

FTC: Rented computers spied on customers

Wrap

‘Operation ID’ helps take a bite out of smartphone crime

September 12 2012, Episode 272, Show Notes

Episode 272 of The CyberJungle is about 41 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Paul Turner, begins at about the 23min 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.

To listen to Episode 272 via the flash player:

Interview

Paul Turner is the VP of Product and Strategy at Venifi. The NIST report on digital certs:  Preparing for and Responding to CA Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance

Tales From The Dark Web

Report on the “Elderwood gang.” Excellent reporting by Kim Zetter at Wired.

Our Take on This Weeks News

UPEK fingerprint scanners insecure, says Elcomsoft — Dell, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba may use holey biometric kit. Read more at The Register UK.

What really caused the massive GoDaddy outage. More at Foxnews.com.

Apple UUID breach highlights much bigger questions. More at The Washington Times.

Wrap

Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69; computer used by military, NASA in 1980s. Read more at The Washington Post.

August 27 2012, Episode 271, Show Notes

Episode 271 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Patent Attorney Ben Langlotz about digital forensics and infosec an the Apple v Samsung case, begins at about 14:30minmin.  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 271 via the flash player:

Interview

Patent Attorney Ben Langlotz about digital forensics and infosec an the Apple v Samsung case. To reach Ben Langlotz, contact him on patent [at symbol] langlotz.com

Tales From The Dark Web

How Child Porn And The Other Awfulest Things Ever Get Scrubbed [From Social Networks]

Our Take on This Weeks News

Onity’s Plan To Mitigate Hotel Lock Hack

Dropbox to add two factor authentication. From Businessinsider.com:

“Two-step verification is optional but we recommend you enable it for added protection.

To add two-step to your account:

1. Head to www.dropbox.com and sign into the website
2. Click on your name in the upper-right to open your account menu.
3. Next, click Settings from the account menu and select the Security tab.
4. Under the Account sign in section, next to Two-step verification, turn the feature on.”

Wrap

Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox

August 21 2012, Episode 270, Show Notes

Episode 270 of The CyberJungle is about 32 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Ken Westin on mobile device forensics begins at about 18:30min.  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 270 via the flash player:

Interview

Ken Westin is the founder of ActiveTrak Inc, Developers of GadgetTrak Software. He also helped develop a digital forensic service enabling web searches via device serial number for photos taken with that one unique camera.

Tales From The Dark Web

Investigating China’s Online Underground Economy, download the report

Our Take on This Weeks News

“When my data died, it was the cloud that killed it…”

Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free

Wrap

Tony Scott, Director, Enemy of the State , RIP

June 17, 2012, Episode 265, Show Notes

Episode 264 of The CyberJungle is about 44 minutes long.  You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Billy Rios on the weaknesses in Industrial Control Systems begins at about 12:30min. 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 265 via the flash player:

Interview

Billy Rios’ weekend research led to a DHS Alerts on building control systems. Here is his blog, as mentioned in the segment.

Tales From The Dark Web

Malware Turning Smartphones into a Botnet?

Our Take on This Weeks News

Anonymous hackers target oil industry giants, more than 1,000 email credentials exposed

Links to the hashed data buckets

Wrap

Secondary market signals huge drop in MacBook values.