Archive for August, 2007
A Series of Tubes #22 — Open Office XML and ISO approval
August 30th, 2007After months of deliberation International Standards Organisation national bodies, including Standards Australia, will convene this Friday to decide whether to support Ecma Open Office XML as a new global standard for document file formats.
If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that this standard was originally defined by Microsoft and that’s got a lot [...]
Risky Business #28 — Infosec and human rights
August 27th, 2007This week’s Risky Business podcast is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor Verizon Business Security Solutions, powered by Cybertrust.
On this week’s show:
Patrick Gray and Sydney Morning Herald and Age columnist Adam Turner discuss the week’s security news
Human rights campaigner Dimitri Vitaliev tells Risky Businesses how computer security is helping in the global fight [...]
A Series of Tubes #21 — Unix, I nix, we all nix
August 24th, 2007Your weekly networking podcast is now available for download. Sorry we’re late this week!
Last week we paid rather a lot of attention to Microsoft so this week we’re taking a look at Unix to see if there’s any life left in the old warhorse. Once upon a time mainframes ruled the data centres but then [...]
Risky Business #27 — Ruxcon off, Kiwicon on
August 21st, 2007This week’s Risky Business security podcast is now available for download. On this week’s show:
ITRadio’s Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia’s Munir Kotadia discuss the week’s news.
Adam Boileau words listeners up on Kiwicon, Australasia’s newest “hacker conference”. Aussies welcome, BYO sheep.
Verizon Business Security Solutions’ Andrew Valentine talks Web content management system security in this week’s sponsor [...]
A Series of Tubes #20 — Tech Ed special
August 15th, 2007Last week we were up on the Gold Coast at the Microsoft TechEd conference so we grabbed a few experts to find out how the newly released Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server are going, and we also got an update on the progress of Windows Server 2008 as it moves through Beta 3 and [...]
Risky Business #26 — Joe Wang, CEO, Watchguard
August 14th, 2007What a week for security news. Privacy laws here in Australia could move the way of the USA and develop teeth. Concerns raised about Australia’s SCADA expertise, patch Tuesday is here and Symantec AV gets pwned.
On this week’s security podcast:
Patrick Gray and ZDNet Australia’s Munir Kotadia discuss the week’s news
Joe Wang, CEO and president of [...]
A Series of Tubes #19 — Certification
August 10th, 2007This week the itradio team is up on the Gold Coast, but we’re not skiving off we’re attending Microsoft’s TechEd conference. The topic of discussion for this week’s show is certification. Do you need to be certified? Is a computer science degree and some experience on the job all you really need?
We asked Cisco’s [...]
Risky Business #25 — Cyber crime investigations and anti-forensics
August 7th, 2007Australian Federal Police agent Nigel Phair is this week’s feature guest on Risky Business, your weekly security briefing. On this week’s show:
Patrick Gray does his best impersonation of a news reader for this week’s news segment
Australian Federal Police officer Nigel Phair discusses his new book Cybercrime: The Reality of the Threat
Verizon Business Security Solutions’ forensics [...]
A Series of Tubes #18 — 802.11n
August 2nd, 2007This week we’re taking a look at wireless networks, specifically to find out how the new faster 802.11n standard is going. There’s an official draft standard released and the real thing should be out at the end of next year. Is it time to take the plunge and upgrade to faster wireless? We asked Gartner [...]