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Security Now! - 2013
Episode 385 - 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 386 - After catching up with a very busy week of interesting security news and events, Steve and Leo 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!
Episode 387 - 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 388 - After catching up with a bunch of fun and interesting news of the week, Steve and Leo 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.
Episode 389 - 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 390 - After covering “UPnP a week later” and catching up with some interesting security industry happenings, Steve and Leo take a look into the controversy surrounding the security (or lack thereof) of Kim Dotcom's new “Mega” cloud storage offering.
Episode 391 - 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.
Episode 392 - 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.
Episode 393 - 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.
Episode 394 - 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.
Episode 395 - 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.
Episode 396 - This week was so chockful of things to discuss that we had no time to explore the fascinating technology and operation of Distributed Hash Tables. That discussion will be “tabled” for two weeks. This week, we look more closely into the somewhat troubling issues of SSL/TLS server security as revealed by SSLLabs.com, discuss the SWAT team arriving at Brian Krebs's home, examine the consequences of the revelation that 420 million routers are accepting trivial logins on their Telnet ports, and more!
Episode 397 - 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.
Episode 398 - After catching up with a busy week in the security space, Leo and I cover an intriguing topic in fundamental distributed Internet technology, Distributed Hash Tables, which is the somewhat awkward name for distributed database technology.
Episode 399 - 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.
Episode 400 - After catching up with a wild week of security events, Leo and I revisit a topic from the earliest episodes of the Security Now podcast: Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). This coincides with the introduction of a new sponsor on the TWIT network, proXPN, a VPN provider that truly looks like the right choice.