Information security podcasts

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• 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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Security Wire Weekly: Hackers Are People Too
Ashley Schwartau, director of a new documentary Hackers Are People Too, explains the challenges of making a movie about hackers. The documentary looks at the human side of the hacking community. The film debuted at DEFCON 16.

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Podcasts for the week of August 4, 2008

Threat Monitor -- August 7, 2008
Threat Monitor: Web advertising exploits: Protecting Web browsers and servers
Web browser exploits are nothing new, but few security managers are consciously aware of the threat that Web advertisement exploits represent. Marcos Christodonte II details how attackers use adverts and flaws in Web software to victimize enterprises.

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Podcasts for the week of July 28, 2008

Security Wire Weekly: Infiltrating Phishers
Security researchers Billy Rios and Nitesh Dhanjani explain how they infiltrated the phishing underground in a preview of their upcoming Black Hat presentation: "Bad Sushi: Beating Phishers at Their Own Game."

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Security Newsmaker: Four years of data breaches
Verizon Business went through more than 500 data breach investigations over four years to determine trends in attack vectors and where victim organizations fell down. Th