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Security Now! - 2008
Episode 121 - This week Steve and Leo take a break from the details of bits and bytes to discuss and explore the many issues surrounding the gradual and inexorable ebbing of individual privacy as we (consumers) rely increasingly upon the seductive power of digital-domain services.
Episode 122 - Steve and Leo discuss questions asked by listeners of their previous episodes. They 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 they have previously discussed.
Episode 123 - Steve and Leo invite Jungle Disk's creator, Dave Wright, to join the podcast to talk about his $20 product that allows for extremely economical, efficient, seamless and absolutely secure online storage of any user data within Amazon's high=performance, high-reliability “S3” storage facility.
Episode 124 - Steve and Leo discuss questions asked by listeners of their previous episodes. They 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 they have previously discussed.
Episode 125 - Steve explains, very carefully and clearly this time, why and how multiple encryption increases security. Steve also carefully and in full details explains the operation of the new global encryption AES cipher: Rijndael.
Episode 126 - Steve and Leo discuss questions asked by listeners of their previous episodes. They 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 they have previously discussed.
Episode 127 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events, then use a listener's story of his organization's security challenges to set the stage for their discussion of the types of challenges corporations face in attempting to provide a secure computing environment.
Episode 128 - Steve and Leo discuss questions asked by listeners of their previous episodes. They 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 they have previously discussed.
Episode 129 - Steve and Leo examine and discuss Microsoft's “Windows SteadyState,” an extremely useful, free add-on for Windows XP that allows Windows systems to be “frozen” (in a steady state) to prevent users from making persistent changes to ANYTHING on the system.
Episode 130 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.
Episode 131 - In this first of their two-part exploration of the world of whole-drive encryption, Steve and Leo begin by discussing the various options and alternatives, then focus upon one excellent, completely free, and comprehensive security solution known as “FREE CompuSec.”
Episode 132 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.
Episode 133 - In this second half of our exploration of whole-drive encryption, Leo and I discuss the detailed operation of the new version 5.0 release of TrueCrypt, which offers whole-drive encryption for Windows.
Episode 134 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.
Episode 135 - Leo and I spend 45 terrific minutes speaking with David Jevans, IronKey's CEO and founder, about the inner workings and features of their truly unique security-hardened cryptographic hardware USB storage device.
Episode 136 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.
Episode 137 - Steve and Leo plow into the detailed operation of static and dynamic RAM memory to give some perspective to the recent Princeton research that demonstrated that dynamic RAM (DRAM) does not instantly “forget” everything when power is removed. They examine the specific consequences of various forms of physical access to system memory.
Episode 138 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.
Episode 139 - Steve and Leo discuss an aspect of the “cost” of using the Internet - a packetized global network which (only) offers “best effort” packet delivery service. Since “capacity” is the cost, not per-packet usage, the cost is the same whether the network is used or not. But once it becomes “overused” the economics change since “congestion” results in a sudden loss of network performance.
Episode 140 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They 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.