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.

Having described "Sandboxie" and Virtual Machine sandboxing utilities in the past, Leo and I discuss the limitations of any sort of sandboxing for limiting the negative impacts of malware on a user's privacy and system's 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.

Leo and I return to take a much closer look at "Sandboxie," an extremely useful, powerful, and highly recommended Windows security tool we first mentioned two years ago. This time, after interviewing Sandboxie's creator, Ronen Tzur, I explain why I am totally hooked and why Leo is wishing it was available for his Macs.

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.

Leo and I begin with a refresher on WEP, the original technology of WiFi encryption. With that fresh background, we then tackle the detailed explanation of every aspect of the recently revealed very clever hack against the TKIP security protocol. TKIP is the older and less secure of the two security protocols offered within the WPA and WPA2 WiFi Alliance certification standards.

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.

Leo and I discuss yet another challenge to surfing safely in the web world: Known as "ClickJacking," or more formally as "UI Redressing," this class of newly popular threats tricks web users into performing web-based actions they don't intend by leading them to believe they are doing something else entirely.

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.

Leo and I discuss the week's security events, then we address another fundamental security and privacy concern inherent in the way web browsers and web-based services operate: Using "Cross-Site Request Forgery" (CSRF), malicious pranksters can cause your web browser to do their bidding using your authentication.