Bill and Bob discuss what other people think are the information security trends for 2008. Paul Kocher’s theory is that you don’t “win” at security, the best you can hope for is to be able to keep playing: a “stalemate” mentality versus a “checkmate” mentality. That’s a great theory, but Bill’s trying to figure out how [...]

Show Notes for 8.1: Shout-outs to: Thank you to the mysterious and powerful Bill @ Apple for technical assistance Thank you to Wil Becker (http://ironwil.net/blog/) for adding us to his blogroll - THANKS! Bob’s sarcastic predictions: Microsoft will claim that Vista will be the most secure OS EVAR! Virtualization will prove to be a new shiny toy for malware authors. [...]

How paranoid are you? keylength.com What RSA keysizes are you using at your company? What is your guidance? Are you sticking with RSA or moving to ECC? Macs are under attack (include link to new trojan house): http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/11/02/mac_trojan/ eweek article link full disclosure versus responsible disclosure (link to resp. disclosure RFC) mac versus windows updates: Windows does a better job [...]

Bill and Bob discuss misinformation about SSL represented in the February issue of Popular Mechanics and from BEA technical documents. We also discuss why hackers aren’t concerned by PayPal’s announcement to issue One Time Password (OTP) tokens to protect their members: the hackers already know how to defeat them. (Technical glitch: the 8-second gap in [...]

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