Cyberspeak's Podcast

Today Bret has Mike Younger on the show.  Bret and Mike talk about spam statistics, IT background checks, Blackberry forensics, gmail mail fetcher, preview.local.live.com, and www.tmto.org.Remember www.multimediaforensics.com!

Today Bret talks with Brian Dykstra, CIO and Director of Education at Mandiant, about the ediscovery rule changes.  Bret also talks about virtual machine detection in malware, spamgourmet, employee comensation, Encase version 6, Nigerian scam still works, FBI dropps boarding pass generator investigation, Parallels build 3036, proxy site lists, 30-essential pieces of free and open software for Windows.Please take the time to give us a review on iTunes.Drop by Brian Dykstra's site at www.virtualwar.com

Today we have a short Thanksgving weekend show. Bret talks about a Mac remote control program called iForgot, a decision by the Florida Supreme Court upholding the conviction of Michael Simmons, Hype-Free article on packing, F-Secure publishes IAdware, Virus in Second Life, Procmon from Microsoft, safe passwords, VIM Tips , MacSpoof, and Speed Talker video.Don't forget to checkout www.multimediaforensics.com for more detailed show notes.

This show we interview Kris Kendall, Principal Consultant for Mandiant.  He talks about unpacking binaries when conducting malware analysis.   Bret talks about a recent court decision from the Military Courts of Appeals, Guidance Software settles complaint filed by the FTC, malware in the movies, malware on video cards, toon site www.homestarrunner.com, and a site with linux tutorials www.howtoforge.com.Thanks again to Geoff Michelli our new Sound Engineer.  Detailed show notes can be found at www.multimediaforensics.com

Today Bret talks with Jesse Kornblum, Principle Computer Forensics Engineer for ManTech's Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis Division, about his paper, Eploiting the Rootkit Paradox with Windows Memory Analysis. Complete show notes can be found here.

This short show we talk about upcoming interviews and some behind the scenes info from CyberSpeak.  Also checkout http://www.pcnames.com/ and http://www.cheapmacapps.com.Bret

Today Mike and Bret talk about listener feedback, google fully adopting Writly, Tchnalign releases linux based computer forensics system, Purdue researchers receive funding for digital forensics, www.internetfrog.com, perian.org, and Mike says hi to Seth. PS. You might have noticed that we have added a subscribe button to our page. This will allow listeners to donate $2 a month to help support the show. Thanks to all that have already chipped in!

Today we have an interview with Tom Gallagher, Microsoft Office Security Test Team Lead about his new book Hunting Security Bugs.  Tom tells an interesting story about how Microsoft almost balked at allowing some of the reverse engineering content in the book.  Bret and Mike talk about listener email, Firefox flaw joke, another conversation about hacking ATMs, the USB Hacksaw,  MySlax utility, www.dappit.com, and www.cl1p.net.

Interview with LiveView author, Brian Kaplan from CERT.  Also Bret talks about a zero-day Firefox exploit, a New Zealand man who recently escaped a hacking conviction, would you hire a black hat?, great TV shows online, and backtrack bootable CD at remote-exploit.org.I apologize in advance for the audio quality of the interview with Brian Kaplan.  I tried my best to clean it up.rm -rf *

Today Bret talks about listener experiences with LiveView (Harlan Carvey posted his experiences here and Richard Betlich posted here),  the Techno Forensics Conference 2006, the Highpoint X4 Multi-lane 4 Bay External SATA Enclosure with PCI-X Controller for multi-terrabyte external storage, an individual who posted his google search history, ATM manual and default password list, hunting phishers, security of Diabold's evoting machine, metadata tools, cross site scripting, escalating your privileges on a windows XP system, a real time HTML editor, and an airline ticket forecasting site.  We are giving away a copy of Enemy at the Watercooler to the best listener email.  Also, don't forget to support Mandiant First Response and go to SC Magazine's Best Computer Forensic Solution. VOTING IS NOW ON, check it out here.

Today Bret and Mike talk about Forensic Imaging issues.  We also discuss a man who reprograms an ATM, free forensics training, child porn found after 911 call, liveview, how to create a context menu to print filelistings in Windows XP, creating gmail spam filters, a Mac OS X disk inventory utility, and Techno Forensics 2006.

Show notes will be posted soon

This is a repeat of the September 3rd posting. There was a problem with the file being posted. If you have the September 3rd edition of the show with the Keith Jones interview you can delete this one.

Back from vacation.  This week we talk with Special Agent David Farquhar from the Federal Bureau of Investigations about his recent successful botnet case in Seattle Washington.  We also talk about the Motorola Q, DefCon, speedtest.net, thinkfree.com, and listener email.

This show we have a special guest Richard Bejtlich, founder of TAO Security, who talks about his security blog and his book Real Digital Forensics (see link on cyberspeak page).  Bret has a short show this week, Ovie is recovering from his Blackhat hangover (ok really he is working this weekend, but hangover sounds more interesting).  Bret talks about BlackHat 2006, changes on the cyberspeak site, Kevin Mandia's SC Magazine article "What pill can I take for cyber insecurity?",  and real time airport monitoring.

This show we interview Brian Contos, Chief Security Officer for ArcSight.  He talks about his new book Insider Threat: Enemy at the Watercooler.  Also on this show we discuss the new FBI computer crime survey results, Web Historian 1.3, new look to CyberSpeak site, and a couple of websites of the week.  This show is dedicated to Tim Poole's "bloody left mouse clicking finger."

This episode we have an exclusive talk with Jesse Kornblum about his new SSDeep tool for piecewise fuzzy hashing!!  This is a revolutionary way to approach computer forensics!  We also talk about antivirus solutions clamav and AVG, why antivirus doesn't work, CISCO to get  new vulnerabilities released at BlackHat, speedtest website, and how to make fake biometrically sound fingerprints.  Extra credit this show goes out to our Producer/Editor Tim Poole.

This show we speak with the Dark Tangent about changes this year for DEF CON and BlackHat. Also in this episode we discuss the UBS Painwebber logicbomb trial, consultant hacks FBI, two-factor authentication phishing attacks, Semantec says Windows Vista is less secure than Windows XP, throw away email accounts, truecrypt flash toutorial, sodaplay (let me know what this is), website to transer and share files, tv on the web, Xyloc devices, and a tool to obfuscate your email address in javascript code.  The show is 61 mins long.  This show is brought to you by the letter 45.

Today we send Ovie overseas and talk with Johnny Long.  Johnny talks about his upcoming talks at Blackhat and DEFCON this year.  We also cover how to detect if you are being spied on by the NSA, the VA gets it laptop back, and guess what, Microsoft is getting sued!

This week we talk about Mandiant's webinar, vmware, DOJ CCIPS, police using data brokers,  Blackhat,  the top 100 security tools, Windows call back, a Washington Post story incorrectly quoting Kevin Mandia, and ZoHoShow.