Sophos Podcasts

Paul Ducklin joins Chet for the first Chet Chat of 2012. This week they discuss the privacy implications of smart meters, the recent research showing how WiFi routers are vulnerable due to an easy setup feature and password hashes.

Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia.

Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about this week's news including giving your friends and family a hand at Thanksgiving, Android security, SCADA hacking and Google's WiFi mapping opt-out scheme.

Chester interviews Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance and Rob Strayer from the Bipartisan Policy Center about National Cyber Security Awareness Month and our upcoming State of Cyber Security event.

John Shier joined Chet this week as they discussed the death of UNIX and C co-creator Dennis Ritchie, the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference, Apple's release of iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and the German R2D2 Trojan.

Brad Arkin joined Chester Wisniewski to discuss the launch of Flash Player 11 and the improvements in security and privacy in this new version. Brad also shares some insights into the success of Reader X in blocking malicious code.

This week Paul Ducklin joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss cooperating to fight hi-tech crime, the Kelihos botnet shutdown, the US government proposal to have ISPs notify infected customers and the impact of BEAST on SSL connections.

Paul Ducklin joined Chet this week from a real life denial of service situation at the Sydney, Australia airport. Topics discussed include Patch Tuesday, UBS losing $3bn, SpyEye on Android, Twit.tv hacked and Windows 8 including anti-virus.

Mike Wood a Senior Threat Researcher with SophosLabs is Chet's guest. They discuss the upcoming Patch Tuesday, the new Firesheep and go in depth on the recent troubles at certificate authority DigiNotar.

Chester Wisniewski welcomes back Paul Ducklin to summarize the week's security news. This week they talk about ATM skimming and recent related research, Juicejacking, the latest Anonymous attacks and the digital bread crumbs we all leave behind on the internet.

Vanja Svajcer joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss the papers and demos they attended at last week's Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. Topics covered include Android patch cycles, Fixing the SSL CA problem, insulin pump hacking, Google ChromeOS flaws and archiving our digital past.

David Schwartzberg joined Chet for this week's Chet Chat. David is a specialist in data protection and shared his thoughts on the new File Vault 2 feature in Mac OS X Lion. Dave and Chet also discussed Google+ privacy, Facebook's compromise on facial recognition and the critical vulnerability in Apple's iOS.

In this week's Chet Chat Kris Braun SophosLabs Threat Operations Manager joins Chet to discuss the week's news. Topics include OS X Lion, Oracle patches, Zeus for Android and Secunia's mid-year threat report.

Richard Baldry is Chet's guest on this week's Chet Chat. Chet and Richard talk about Google blocking the .co.cc domain, Patch Tuesday, Apple's JailBreakMe.com patch and the "phone hacking" and malware related to the News of the World scandal.

In this week's Chet Chat Paul Ducklin is Chet's guest as they cover the latest security news. Topics covered include a paper on the Popureb rootkit, the vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS exploited by jailbreakme.com, WordPress 3.2 and the latest Twitter account hacks.

Paul Ducklin joins Chester this week for Chet Chat episode 65. Chet and Paul discuss the impact of the recent FBI arrests of scareware purveyors, the arrest of Ryan Cleary and LulzSec's latest stunts, Trojanized WordPress plugins and the imaginary world of Bitcoin digital currency.

In SSCC episode 64 Chet's guest is the North American Threat Operations Manager for SophosLabs. They discuss the LulzSec DDoS last week, the attack against the IMF, Nissan's Leaf leaking location data and the latest Adobe fixes. Kris also provided advise from SophosLabs on defending against targeted attacks.

In this week's Chet Chat Rich Baldry joins Chet to discuss the future of Mac OS X security. They also discuss the week's news including RSA, Sony, software patches and Facebook's introduction of facial recognition software

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin discuss this week's news including the latest attacks against Sony, Apple's new malware problem and cloud security.

Chester Wisniewski sits down with one of the most experienced Sophos technical support experts to discuss best practices and how we can use the tools we have to do a better job defending against modern malware.