Sophos Podcasts

Chester talks to Paul Ducklin in Sophos Security Chet Chat Episode 101. Spend an enjoyable quarter-hour as our duo take on a range of security issues with their usual mixture of insight, expertise, skepticism, advice and occasional outright puzzlement.

In this 100th episode of the Chet Chat, Duck and Chester discuss the bizarre story of John McAfee, OS X malware, Switzerland losing intelligence data, NASA laptops and Romanian carders.

Michael Argast rejoined Chet this Halloween to catch up on the week's news including new DMCA exceptions, Hurricane Sandy scams, Yahoo! ignoring do not track, Barnes and Noble credit cards skimming and Facebook's donation to spam research.

This week Paul Ducklin is in the guest seat as he and Chester discuss Patch Tuesday, weak RSA certificates, losing $250,000 worth of bitcoins, Do Not Track, Blackhole exploit kit and the Nitol botnet takedown.

Peter Szabo from SophosLabs joins Chet to chat about 4 more talks from this year's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. Topics include MSCHAPv2, Frack, smart meters and hacking public transit.

Java brings with it some significant risks, yet for many people, it's "just there on my computer." In this episode, Duck and Chet tell you All about Java, and help you to make an informed decision in balancing its risks and rewards at work and at home.

Peter Szabo, a senior threat researcher with SophosLabs, joins Chet this week to to share what they learned at this year's Blackhat and DEF CON conferences. They discuss NFC, a file disinfection framework, steganography and the dangers of IPv6 and DNSSEC.

To many of us, SSL isn't much more than "the padlock in the browser." But how does it work? Who verifies SSL certificates? How do we know we can trust them? What happens if we realise we can't? Duck and Chet discuss all this, and more, in this episode of the Techknow podcast.

Paul Ducklin joins Chet this week to discuss the quarterly Oracle patches, the theft of a USB stick belonging to Elections Ontario, the bypass of in-app purchases from the App Store and how WiFi hackers stole $3 million.

Do you really need seven committee meetings and a 90 day waiting period before you update your computers with the latest patches? Duck and Chet take on the challenges of security patches in this episode of the TechKnow podcast.

Paul Ducklin joins Chet once again to discuss the latest security news. This week's topics include DNS Changer, Patch Tuesday, Find and Call, San Diego's fireworks fiasco and password breaches.

Michael Argast joins Chet once again to discuss Flame, LinkedIn, warrantless wiretapping, Patch Tuesday, border patrol spying and Microsoft's BlueHat prize.

Michael Argast from Telus joined Chet once again to discuss the week's news. Topics covered include Flame malware, Do Not Track, TACK, Conficker and Sophos Mobile Security for Android.

This week's Chet Chat returns to our usual news format this week with guest Gary Korhonen (@hundredaire). Gary and Chet discuss the Utah data breach, Facebook hacker's prison term, OS X Leopard's FlashBack removal tool, Pentagon data sharing and Operation Phish Phry sentancing.

This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from the show floor at Interop 2012. John Shier and Chet Wisniewski have some fun and share highlights from the expo hall.