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.
To listen to Episode 286 via the flash player:
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.
Episode 278 of The CyberJungle is about 35 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Ryan Washington, 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.
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).
This week’s regular episode of The Cyberjungle is 1 hour and 14 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below, or you can go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.
To listen to Episode 169 via the flash player:
Interview
Sean Paul Correll from Panda Security discusses a survey of small and mid-sized businesses, and discusses what he’s learned about the attitudes and the habits they have when it comes to security.
Read the PandaSecurity report on small and medium sized business security. And Sean-Paul mentioned a free USB anti-malware tool, you may find it here.
Tales from the Dark Web
Fake my traffic - is it a scam, or is it just someone who wants to help you perpetrate a scam?
Our Take on This Week’s News
We hate Google, writ large – Consumer Watchdog has produced a hilarious video taking a jab at Google and Eric Schmidt. Worth watching… and a lot of folks are seeing it since it’s playing on the jumbo tron in Times Square. Schmidt as evil ice cream man offering kids free goodies while taking a body scan from his good humor truck. But we wonder about asking congress to create a “don’t track me” list. That’s like asking the three stooges to clean out the tool shed without hurting each other.
Some newer scanners offer a web-based remote document retrieval feature that serves as a hacking tool.
Tales from The Dark Web: Big web traffic means big bucks … but have we uncovered a big Dark Web scam?
Be careful of email messages that appear to come from Symantec products via email. It just might be a scam. See more at Martin Hall’s Blog, The Test Manager
Brian Krebs continues his excellent coverage of the banking Trojans and the people who carry out the attacks. This time the criminals told a money mule that cash stolen from a Catholic diocese was intended for victims of sexual abuse.
Microsoft DLL Flaw New Fixit tool from Microsoft, to be used in conjunction with other mitigation techniques.
