Archive for May, 2007

A Series of Tubes #9 — Siemens Enterprise Networks, Data Centre Cooling and Unified Communications

May 30th, 2007

On today’s show we take a look inside Siemens Enterprise Networks, we talk to Rimatrix5 about keeping data centres cool and we’ll hear from our sponsor Dimension Data about unified communications.

In our news segment Scott McKenzie from ZDNet talks about the lack of communication between Telstra and the ACCC, and we discuss the slow take [...]

Risky Business #15 — Database forensics

May 29th, 2007

Database forensics, Second Life fraud, the week’s news and more. Your weekly security podcast is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
On this week’s podcast:

Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia joins us with the week’s security news
AusCERT’s Mark McPherson on crime in virtual worlds
NGS Sostware’s David Litchfield talks database forensics
Cybertrust Australia’s [...]

A Series of Tubes #8 — Compliance, Smartphones, IPv6 and Second Life

May 23rd, 2007

On today’s show we’ll take a look at so-called compliance laws which require the secure retention of digital documents, we’ll talk to Microsoft about Smartphones and we’ll hear from our sponsor Dimension Data about IPv6.

Scott McKenzie from ZDNet talks about the value to business of Second Life and ponders whether Microsoft will sue open source [...]

Risky Business #14 — AusCERT special

May 22nd, 2007

AusCERT special. Microsoft’s product security manager, One Laptop Per Child security concerns, the Cybertrust acquisition and more. Risky Business #14 is available for download, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
This week’s show was produced on the ground at the annual AusCERT computer security conference. On today’s show:

Munir Kotadia joins us in the [...]

A Series of Tubes #7 — Patching woes

May 16th, 2007

Patching and EMC Informs. This week we learn how to deal with Patch Tuesday when you have 1000’s of PCs to manage and we check in with EMC to see how their new enlarged Inform user conference is travelling.

Brett Winterford joins us from ZDNet Australia’s HQ to talk networking news
Last week on a Series [...]

Risky Business #13 — Web application research and consumer liability for online fraud

May 15th, 2007

The ethics of Web application security research, and liability concerns for consumers who bank online. Welcome to Risky Business #13, thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte.
On this week’s podcast:

Munir Kotadia from ZDNet Australia discusses this week’s security news
White Hat Security’s Jeremiah Grossman joins us to chat about the ethics of hacking away [...]

A Series of Tubes #6 — Thin clients, WiFi mobiles, EMC informs

May 9th, 2007

Thin Clients, WiFi Mobile Phones and EMC Informs. This week we attempt to find out “whatever happened to” the Network Computer which in the mid-90s was predicted to replace the desktop PC. We try a new mobile phone which uses Telstra’s NextG but can also place a VoIP call if there’s a WiFi network nearby, [...]

Risky Business #12 — Hacker extraditions and the national ID card

May 8th, 2007

Hacker extraditions and the national ID card. The weekly Risky Business IT security podcast is available for download thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. Don’t forget to use the links to the left of this post to subscribe!
On this week’s show:

Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia’s Munir Kotadia chew through this week’s news
Robert [...]

A Series of Tubes #5 – Longhorn, VoIP and SaaS

May 2nd, 2007

Longhorn, VoIP and SaaS. A Series of Tubes is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Dimension Data and hosting partner Vigabyte. On this week’s show:
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Award winning journalist Munir Kotadia, of ZDNet Australia, gets on the line from CeBIT in Darling Harbour
Michael Kleef from Microsoft joins us to discuss the upcoming Windows Server release [...]

Risky Business #11 — IPv6 bugs

May 1st, 2007

IPv6 and bad standards. The weekly Risky Business IT security podcast is available for download thanks to our sponsor Cybertrust and hosting partner Vigabyte. Don’t forget to use the links to the left of this post to subscribe!
On this week’s show:

Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia’s Munir Kotadia chew through this week’s news
IPv6 is insecure… could [...]