Archive for December, 2007
Risky Business #44 — Bugs in the brain, part two
December 19th, 2007Here it is, the last Risky Business for 2007, with thanks to Verizon Business Security Solutions, our sponsor, and Vigabyte virtual hosting, our hosting partner.
In part two of this fascinating keynote by crypto-legend and New Zealand-based academic Peter Gutmann explains why the people designing computer software are fundamentally different — psychologically speaking — to the [...]
Risky Business #43 — Bugs in the brain
December 17th, 2007In this recorded presentation, crypto expert and University of Auckland academic Peter Gutmann outlines the bugs in the human mind that make the average person susceptible to scams and cons.
In this podcast you’ll hear Gutmann’s fascinating keynote presentation at the Kiwicon security conference, held in November at Victoria University in Wellington.
Gutmann is well known in [...]
Smart Call #2 — Headset acoustic modelling and more
December 13th, 2007The second ever episode of Smart Call is up and available for download, with thanks to our hosting partner Vigabyte. For those of you who haven’t tuned in yet, Smart Call is ITRadio’s new podcast, all about the call centre industry. It’s produced in conjunction with Callcentres.net.
On this week’s show:
Callcentres.net’s Dr. Catriona Wallace and ITRadio’s [...]
A Series of Tubes #37 — Release Candidate One now!
December 13th, 2007This week’s show is the last one for the year in our regular format until we return in the new year.
Love ‘em or loath ‘em you can’t ignore Microsoft and after five years there’s a new server on the horizon. The appropriately named Microsoft Windows Server 2008 will be released in … 2008. You can [...]
Risky Business #42 — Mac malware, MS advisory changes
December 10th, 2007This is the last full-format Risky Business podcast for 2007. Next week we’ll be bringing you some Kiwicon talks and lectures. It’s a summer listening vibe, people. (Offered with sympathy to listeners freezing their extremities off in the Northern Hemisphere. We’re all about to slip off down to the beach with surfboards and cold beer [...]
A Series of Tubes #36 — Thin is in and scary spam
December 6th, 2007Thin client computing has been around for a while but it hasn’t quite taken over the corporate world in the way that all the analysts predicted. However, everyone is going virtual and that’s opened the door wide enough for the thin guy to sneak through. And now there are also thin diskless notebooks. We [...]
Risky Business #41 — WPAD: Register a domain, pwn a country
December 4th, 2007Welcome to this special, “head for the hills” edition of Risky Business. We’ll be talking about the WPAD bug this week. There’s currently NO PATCH for this bug, but seeing as it’s being widely exploited and everyone’s seemed to know about it for years — everyone except Microsoft — we’ll be focussing this week’s podcast [...]