In-Security

EP031 Private Web Surfing

If I said UIDH would that mean anything to you? No? Maybe? It does now? There’s been a recent computer information security community discovery about Verizon (and other companies) and how they are injecting a unique identification header into their customer’s web traffic.

What does that mean?

That’s a great question. If only Max were here we could ask him and then record his answer and maybe have some banter between us and then have Max edit it together into a… WAIT A MINUTE! That sounds just like episode 31 of our podcast! Holy cats! You should click and listen and learn about all of this.

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EP030 iCloud Breach

Computer security & information security can be an intimate issue and none more so than this! This episode of the in-security podcast we pontificate on the recent iCloud breach. What it means to us, what it means to you and what we can learn from it.

In the future we are going to be looking a lot more towards putting trust into entities that we can’t immediately reach out to to get solutions.

Cloud computing and storage is becoming ever more prevalent and with it comes a distancing of our immediate control over content and information.

If you have a file in a drawer in your desk locked with a key it’s a lot harder for it to be taken than if you have it stored in an imaginary drawer that is in turn backed up to a couple other imaginary drawers and is locked only with a magic word.

All this fanciful talk to say iCould point fingers here but that’s gonna get us nowhere. Instead we visit some best practices to get the most out of these services and lose the least from them.

Tune in and LEAAAAAAAAAAAARN! With the big episode 30 of in-security!

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EP029a Shellshocker!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled computer security podcast to bring you this timely update!

We apologize for the interruption but darn if this isn’t drastically important and fun from a computer & information security perspective.

You might have head something about Shellshock as the details unravel so we’re trying to give you some insight into what you might be hearing in this important message from your friendly computer information security podcast producers on the nature, threats & solutions to the new Shellshock exploit.

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EP029 Unix Security

Episode almost 30.

Who likes Unix? Who likes talking about Unix?

Max does. I don’t like to listen…

I LOVE TO LISTEN and discuss. That’s what we do here in this, our latest podcast about Unix security.

When first tasked with writing this post I was in “moving apartment” mode so was a little distracted and didn’t recall ALL the content in this episode. I’m pretty certain I was in it though so there’s that.

That’s the most important part of Unix security.

Never forget.

Ninja edit: I have listened to the episode. I can’t believe how accurate this post was. We DO talk about Unix. A sort of intro to Unix from a security perspective. We talk about general setting up and whatnot! BAM! That’s high caliber post writing

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EP028 News update

This is even more continuity than I ever imagined we would do. We are not only doing new content but our new content is a look back at our old content, the changes that have happened to try and keep our content relevant and also to try and take a look at how some of the bigger news stories related to info sec are shaping the industry.

That’s right. We’re going for legitimacy here!

News update is a thing we thought would be a popular feature to have as a recurring theme throughout the show’s run. Looking back in order to see what’s coming?

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EP027 Software for Rent!

There’s a new business model in town friends.

We call it software for rent, for the sake of this podcast, because other wise I didn’t have a clever image for the title.

So there’s a deep insight into our development and release process.

In this one we started, innocently enough, with Max explaining his recent OS upgrade which led into some kind of diatribe on the state of… something.

We discuss at length the ups and downs of this new pay as you go software model. It’s a neat idea to not buy software at the full price but if you go with software for rent then you end up with the full version at a much lower recurring price.

I guess I shouldn’t really go into it here since we sorta get WAY into it in the podcast that you can listen to.

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EP026 Let’s get Active! (Directory)

Active directory is the topic of this week’s episode. We get a fundamentals course from Max.

User accounts, settings, permissions, and more all with a real world scope from an imaginary graphic design studio?

I dunno really. We had to try and humanise it.

Active directory, while not the only product of its kind, is Microsoft’s offering and, as much of the business world revolves around MS, is one of the more popular solutions.

You can expect to hear more about this helpful tool from these helpful tools since as Max rightly points out active directory only gets its surface scratched in this episode.

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EP025 Once More Unto the Breach

The Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report is a helpful tool for investigating, reporting, and ultimately solving problems, but just what the heck is it?

I had no idea, to be honest, until this episode that breaches were even logged this well. Fortunately Max had a bit to say about this topic. Also fortunately he only had a bit to say about this topic. This could weigh in as our shortest podcast episode yet. You could say we didn’t “BREACH” the subject before…

If you did however you’d be wrong the word you were looking for was broach. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t use the word breach at all… Just probably not in this context. Or do, whatever, this is a infosec podcast all about computer security, not vocabulary.

I am however very disappointed with you and you might have to see me after the show for some extra tutoring.

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EP024 Jobs in InfoSec

This might be a great episode to have listened to at the start of all this podcastery. In reality we sort of dove right in at the start without trying to tempt you with the lurid promise of fat sacks of job satisfaction.

This episode centers on possible jobs in InfoSec available with the science we are dropping within each and every episode. It’s definitely a starting point if you’re trying to convince your buddies to listen. I’m going to go ahead and predict available jobs in InfoSec will going to continue to be an ever growing demand until this whole internet craze dies out. Then we can finally go back to actually talking to one another in meatspace.

As you all might know we are delayed by my current work schedule as I have had a change in hours. I am slowly trickling out the episodes we had recorded until Max and I are able to reconcile our time zone woes. That’s why you are only getting play-offs references now. In July. Also, Happy Canada and America days, albeit early or late.

I guess, among other things, it’s the scheduling conflicts that led Max to putting this episode together. His thinking presumably was along the lines of getting me a break down of jobs in InfoSec might lead me to getting a more consistent schedule?

Who am I to pretend to understand the mind of a mad man?

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EP023 Enterprise Scale Development

Originally recorded back in April We are getting caught up with all the delays that have plagued (or blessed in Max’s case) us. This is the episode where we discuss Enterprise scale development, the different positions that you might find in those circumstances and this will nicely play off the next episode.

As usual Max has his large scale pants on and I try to slim him down to small or medium scale so we can get a general overview.

Yes, those are fat jokes. Now that I am comfortably heavier than Max I can make those. They aren’t racist, I’m taking them back.

So right. Enterprise scale development, what to expect and the roles involved. This episode speaks for itself. Literally. It’s a podcast.

We talk.

Out loud.

And record it.

For you.

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