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EP041 Handsomeware This is a new and exciting episode on the topic of Ransomware. It was the planned episode that we were going to do before life intervened and a show didn’t happen for 4 months. But it’s here now. So there’s that. Ransomware, as the name would suggest and as you are about to … Read more

EP040 Advertising After 40 They says that life begins at 40. They also say no press is bad press. They also say a stitch in time saves 9. When I was a kid I thought that the last one was a reference to some sort of space-time wrinkle. Like how a stitch in your side … Read more

EP039 Log ALL THE THINGS It’s log, it’s log, it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood. It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad it’s informative and will help you track down problems and identify failings in your information security! We’re talking about log files. I know, you’re thinking: But Matt, Why would log files be … Read more

EP038 Smashley Badison By now you’ve either heard of the Avid Life Media breach, which you have mostly only heard of as the Ashley Madison breach, or you are really probably not that into news. So as we all know, the bad thing has happened to a questionable company. Avid Life Media, makers of the … Read more

EP037 Hardware Snoops, Dawg Hardware monitoring is getting more and more difficult to manage and mitigate. There’s crazy techniques that can now be employed for increasingly lower overhead. How can we fight this? How can we stop this? How can we weaponize cats? That’s right folks, We are going to get a little down and … Read more

EP036 Hackers Getting Hacked Max and I have realized that one can never stay on top of the news because they just keep changing it on us. We were all happy with our USA Patriot act episode but they just couldn’t keep their noses out of the American public’s business. They had to get right … Read more

EP035 Legal Wiretapping First off: No. We didn’t call the whole show off after Rob Fuller’s interview. Although we thought we’d reached a pinnacle there we quickly realized that the information security news and infotech problems are still going so we might as well too. In reality we had an unfortunate series of health and … Read more

EP034 Open Source Security Architecture Group Oh boy do we have an episode for you! This is our first ever interview and with an entertaining guy Rob Fuller also known as Mubix. He took the time to discuss with us (well, Max mostly) The plans for the Open Source Security Architecture Group. Or at least … Read more

EP033 Disclosure and Something About Hats We kick off a whole new year of podcasting about infosec and the computer security field with our first of the year, a timely(?) discussion of bug and vulnerability disclosure and the best practices facing this topic. Fortunately it was in the forefront of the news this year thanks … Read more

EP032 Sony Breachpocolypse The Sony breach is a pretty big deal followed by, well, everyone. Big enough for us to speculate on (and of course by the time this EP makes it to air there will be more news so expect a part 2.) The in-security guarantee for this is that at the time of … Read more