Naked Security

Paul Ducklin joins Chet for the first Chet Chat of 2012. This week they discuss the privacy implications of smart meters, the recent research showing how WiFi routers are vulnerable due to an easy setup feature and password hashes.

Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia.

Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about this week's news including giving your friends and family a hand at Thanksgiving, Android security, SCADA hacking and Google's WiFi mapping opt-out scheme.

Chester interviews Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance and Rob Strayer from the Bipartisan Policy Center about National Cyber Security Awareness Month and our upcoming State of Cyber Security event.

John Shier joined Chet this week as they discussed the death of UNIX and C co-creator Dennis Ritchie, the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference, Apple's release of iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and the German R2D2 Trojan.

Brad Arkin joined Chester Wisniewski to discuss the launch of Flash Player 11 and the improvements in security and privacy in this new version. Brad also shares some insights into the success of Reader X in blocking malicious code.

This week Paul Ducklin joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss cooperating to fight hi-tech crime, the Kelihos botnet shutdown, the US government proposal to have ISPs notify infected customers and the impact of BEAST on SSL connections.

Paul Ducklin joined Chet this week from a real life denial of service situation at the Sydney, Australia airport. Topics discussed include Patch Tuesday, UBS losing $3bn, SpyEye on Android, Twit.tv hacked and Windows 8 including anti-virus.

Mike Wood a Senior Threat Researcher with SophosLabs is Chet's guest. They discuss the upcoming Patch Tuesday, the new Firesheep and go in depth on the recent troubles at certificate authority DigiNotar.

Chester Wisniewski welcomes back Paul Ducklin to summarize the week's security news. This week they talk about ATM skimming and recent related research, Juicejacking, the latest Anonymous attacks and the digital bread crumbs we all leave behind on the internet.