Risky Business 2

This is a completely unedited recording of a YouTube livestream broadcast on March 31, 2020. It features Patrick Gray, Dmitri Alperovitch, Alex Stamos and Adam Boileau discussing:

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Hey everyone and welcome to Serious Business number 5! This is the podcast I do about non infosec related topics. It's less of a professional information security digest and more of an excuse for me to blab with my cohost, comedian Dan Ilic, about serious stuff every few weeks.

WARNING: Contains a fair bit of discussion about Australian politics. You may be permanently scarred after listening.

On this edition of the show we're talking to Dan about a bunch of stuff. Kanye West has apparently announced he's running for president in 2020, we talk about that. We talk about Donald Trump because, wow... just wow...

Then we move on to the depressing stuff, the European refugee crisis. Are the handful of flashpoint images and stories actually going to get people motivated about fixing the wider problem? Or will they result in a few Kickstarters to directly help the affected individuals, absolving donors of their first world guilt? We have a bob each way on that one.

We talk about the vaccination free childcare centre springing up in my 'hood -- geez, what could go wrong there -- and finally we look at the way streaming services are reshaping the media landscape, in particular the types of shows that are being commissioned. Could NetFlix spell the end of high-quality tv news and current affairs?

This is the podcast I do for shiggles with Australian comedian, radio and TV personality Dan Ilic.

This week we're talking about the nationalist, anti-Islam rallies held across Australia over the last week or so. We also chat about Donald Trump being a douche and Barack Obama's new lease of life as a lame duck president. Oh, and we also talk about the Ashley Madison hack because, hey, who isn't...

As usual for Serious Business I'm joined by AJ+ satirist, Australian comedian Dan Ilic, to discuss a few topical items of the last week, and boy, we've got some good stuff for you.. we're talking about journalist Seymour Hersh's latest investigative work -- is it pure fiction? We're talking about DeflateGate, we're talking Elon Musk being a douche and we're talking MAD MAX, Fury Road...

In this edition of Serious Business, Australia's Most Hated Man (tm) Dan Ilic and I speak about the (failed) shooting attack against a group of very silly Americans who got together to denigrate Islam.

We also speak about Apple's stupid watch. I should warn you, too, I don't edit this podcast for bad language and there are f-bombs aplenty. So if you have your kids in your car and you don't want them hearing my awful, awful language, please turn off this podcast now.

Risky Business host Patrick Gray and Australian comedian Dan Ilic talk about topics that have nothing to do with information security.

Like:

* Australia's obsession with the Gallipoli campaign and the sacking of Scott McIntyre from the SBS.

PLEASE NOTE: I didn't bother editing out naughty words in this one, so if you have kids in the car you may not wish to expose them to our awful language.

Here is the portion of my interview with Brian Snow that I didn't have room for in the main show. Snow is concerned that quantum computing breakthroughs are closer than we think and could invalidate much of the technology we depend on to secure data.

This is a recording of a panel I hosted at the Splendour in the Grass music festival forum. It features NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Underground author Suelette Dreyfus and Edward Snowden's attorney Jesselyn Radack.

On this week's show we've got a cracking interview with ANU Professor and former prime ministerial advisor Hugh White about the charges brought against alleged Chinese military hackers by the US Department of Justice. That one's coming up after the news.

This week's show is brought to you by Tenable Network Security. Jack Daniel of Tenable stops by in this week's sponsor interview to talk about password managers in light of the eBay breach. Is it time we really started encouraging people to use them?

Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records | Reuters

Expert: Fake eBay Customer List is Bitcoin Bait - Krebs on Security

'Blackshades' Trojan Users Had It Coming - Krebs on Security

U.S. Indictment of Chinese Hackers Could Be Awkward for the NSA | Enterprise | WIRED

USDOJ: U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage

NSA reportedly installing spyware on US-made hardware - CNET

China ups security checks on tech suppliers as US tensions mount - CNET

Why did China ban Windows 8? - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

Cisco CEO asks Obama to control NSA surveillance - CNET

NSA Reform Bill Passes the House-With a Gaping Loophole | Threat Level | WIRED

Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously | Threat Level | WIRED

Pro-Privacy Blackphone Pulls $30M Into Silent Circle | TechCrunch

Whistleblowers Beware: Apps Like Whisper and Secret Will Rat You Out | Business | WIRED

Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming | Threat Level | WIRED

AFP arrests man over Melbourne IT hack - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

SNMP DDoS Attacks Spike

SNMP Public Community String Zero Day in Routers Disclosed | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

XMPP Mandating Encryption on Messaging Service Operators | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Remove metadata from Office files, PDFs, and images - CNET

Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Privileged User Access Lacking Trust But Verify | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

ICS-CERT Confirms Public Utility Compromised Recently | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Samsung Eyeing Iris Recognition for New Phones | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Why You Should Ditch Adobe Shockwave - Krebs on Security

Malvertising Redirecting to Angler EK, Silverlight Exploits | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Android Outlook App Could Expose Emails, Attachments | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Microsoft Working on Patch for IE 8 Zero Day | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Chrome 35 Fixes 23 Security Flaws | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Professor Hugh White - Researchers - ANU

02 - Mammal - Think - YouTube

Scott Crane is Arbor Networks product manager for its Pravail line of big data security analytics division.

Scott was a part of the original PacketLoop team -- PacketLoop was an Australian start up that created some pretty impressive big data security analytics technology. It was so impressive that it wound up being acquired by Arbor Networks and is now sold under the Pravail brand.

Somehow the original team managed to convince Arbor to keep the bulk of the R&D on those products based right here in Australia. So you could say we're all pretty big fans of Scott and his team for scoring some runs for the home team. They've got 12 staff in Sydney, and they're growing.

It's been eight months since the deal was struck, so I caught up with Scott to talk about what's new in the field of big data security analytics. And interestingly enough, the Pravail tech wound up being pretty useful lately. Because it performs packet-capture based analysis, the Pravail team could help their clients roll back through their stored packet captures to see if anyone had used the Heartbleed flaw against them. Somewhat reassuringly, the Pravail guys at Arbor did not find any evidence of Heartbleed actually being used in the wild.