Security Now - 16k MP3

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After catching up with this week's Java vulnerabilities and emergency updates, Leo and I examine the recent evolution of the public and free "Tor" Internet anonymizing network. We look at the network's updated operation and its new ability to offer "hidden services" in addition to hiding the identity and location of the services' users.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

We first converse with today's special guest, Brian Krebs, who for many years wrote for the Washington Post and is now publishing his own "Krebs on Security" blog. Our topic is "The Internet Underground." After that, we catch up with a somewhat busy and interesting week in Internet security.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After covering "UPnP a week later" and catching up with some interesting security industry happenings, Leo and I take a look into the controversy surrounding the security (or lack thereof) of Kim Dotcom's new "Mega" cloud storage offering.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events—and the disastrous news of 81 million exposed vulnerable routers!—discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After catching up with a bunch of fun and interesting news of the week, Leo and I examine the future of anti-hacking password scrambling and storage with the introduction of "Memory Hard Problems," which are provably highly resistant to massive hardware acceleration.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After catching up with a very busy week of interesting security news and events, Leo and I examine the growing privacy and security problems created by the ever more pervasive social widgets - Facebook's LIKE button, Google's +1, Twitter's Tweet!, and others - and they offer an easy-to-use free solution!