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01 Jan 2008

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Information security podcasts
Looking for a great information security podcast? SearchSecurity.com has a variety of information security podcasts you can download to your PC or MP3 player.

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P O D C A S T D E S C R I P T I O N S

  • Security Wire Weekly recaps the week's top news in the world of information security, plus features interviews with industry luminaries, experts and information security pros just like you. RSS Feed
  • Newsmaker is an occasional interview series featuring in-depth technical knowledge and industry analysis from one of information security's leading visionaries. RSS Feed
  • Threat Monitor is a semimonthly tip that focuses on current information security threats, including hack attacks, viruses, worms, Trojans, backdoors, bots, spyware and DDoS, and provides you with the tactics required to defend against them. RSS Feed
  • Security360 offers fresh perspectives from more than one source -- from vendors, experts and infosec pros -- on a variety of complex information security issues. RSS Feed
  • Meet the Security Squad. In this podcast series, the writers and editors of SearchSecurity.com and Information Security magazine debate today's hot-button security issues. RSS Feed

Our featured Security School podcasts are tutorials led by infosec experts who offer tips and tactics to help with the latest information security challenges.

Secure Reads and Hot Type: Security books in audio are regular podcast series that feature chapters from popular information security books, read by the authors themselves. Hot Type podcasts exclusively feature books from authors affiliated with publishers Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall.

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Podcasts for the week of June 30, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: SQL injection protection
In this podcast, Scott Matsumoto, a secure coding expert with Cigital Inc., explains the tools available to software developers and security pros to protect against SQL injection.

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Threat Monitor -- July 3, 2008
Hidden endpoints: Mitigating the threat of non-traditional network devices
Organizations have many safeguards in place for network-enabled devices like PCs and servers, but few realize the threat posed by non-traditional devices like printers, physical access devices and even vending machines. Endpoint security expert Mark Kadrich offers up some worst-case scenarios and explains how these and other endpoints can be protected.

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Podcasts for the week of June 23, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: PCI compensating controls
Mike Rothman, president and principal analyst of Atlanta-based Security Incite, sheds some light on PCI compensating controls. He describes why companies choose a compensating control and how assessors determine if they meet the regulation's security requirements.

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Podcasts for the week of June 16, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: Risk management standards, secure software coding
Jim Hietala, vice president of security at the vendor standards consortium Open Group, talks about a project underway to develop risk management standards. Also, SearchSecurity.com Executive Editor Dennis Fisher discusses the state of secure software development and whether software vendors will ever certify the security of their products.

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Threat Monitor -- June 19, 2008
Protecting exposed servers from Google hacks (and Google 'dorks')
Recently, a security professional asked our application security expert, Michael Cobb, "How are phishers using search engines like Google to seek out and hack vulnerable PHP applications?" Cobb explains how to keep phishers from finding your exposed servers and using them to stash stolen data.

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Security Squad: Rise of managed security services
In this podcast, editors of SearchSecurity.com and Information Security magazine discuss the growing use of managed security services, the sudden increase of SQL injection attacks and the state of secure software development.

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Podcasts for the week of June 9, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: Email security market in flux
Peter Firstbrook, an analyst at Gartner Inc., explains why the email security market is saturated with vendors. Learn which vendors are thriving. Firstbrook gives his take on email security vendor, Tumbleweed and its merger with managed file transfer software and services vendor, Axway.

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Podcasts for the week of June 2, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: Securing the nation's critical infrastructure systems
In this podcast, Senior Technology Editor Neil Roiter explores the state of security in the power, oil and gas, chemical, water and transportation sectors with Bruce Ahearn, president and CEO of Industrial Defender, which specializes in the security of critical infrastructure systems.

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Threat Monitor -- June 5, 2008
Windows registry forensics guide -- Investigating hacker activities
The Windows registry can be used as a helpful tool for professionals looking to investigate employee activity or track the whereabouts of important corporate files. In this tip, contributor Ed Skoudis unveils several commands and explains how investigators and administrators can interact with the registry to analyze a compromised system.

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Podcasts for the week of May 26, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: VeriSign defends SSL, EV-SSL
Tim Callan, a product manager for VeriSign's SSL business unit, explains the vendor's response to the OpenSSL vulnerability in Debian-based Linux distributions. He also defends the vendor's Extended Validation Certificate business. Later, Paul Wood, a Senior Analyst at MessageLabs, explains why the latest phishing attacks are targeting a bank's new initiative to "go green."

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Podcasts for the week of May 19, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: ING security chief addresses authentication, encryption
Robert Weaver, head of IT security at ING Direct, talks about his bank's authentication methods and new encryption software designed to lock out malware from sniffing customer transactions. The bank has gotten high security marks, but Weaver admits there's more work to do.

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Security School
Fact or fiction: Am I a bot or not?
This week's featured podcast is from SearchSecurity.com's Messaging Security School.

Sandra Kay Miller, technical editor for Information Security magazine, puts some of today's biggest botnet myths to rest.
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