Archive for the 'Internet Security' Category
Security Now 153: Bad Phorm - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
More on the privacy threat from the Phorm system.
Guest: Alexander Hanff, UK technologist and activist.
Audible pick of the week:
The Black Hole War: My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Unabridged) by Leonard Susskind, Narrated by Ray Porter. To sign up for you free book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:01:49
No commentsSecurity Now 152: Listener Feedback 45 - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.
Audible pick of the week:
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, narrated by Paul Michael. To sign up for you free book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:22:45
No commentsSecurity Now 151: Frakking Phorm - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
How third parties are gaining footholds in ISP facilities in order to access your data.
Audible pick of the week: Ringworld by Larry Niven. Narrated by Tom Parker. To sign up for you free book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/SecurityNow.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:46:37
No commentsSecurity Now 150: Listener Feedback 44 - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:30:45
No commentsMcafee Releases interesting malware report….
You can see it here:
http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=45044
Introduction and Key Findings In March 2007, McAfee released the first comprehensive map of malicious web sites across the world. For the first time, Mapping the Mal Web offered a comprehensive guidebook for web tourists—where it was safe to surf and where searchers should avoid. A year later, we revisited the data and found both remarkable continuity—and remarkable change—in the web safety landscape.
Overall risk in 2008 remains roughly • constant compared to 2007, with 4.1 percent of web sites in these 74 domains rated red (avoid) and yellow (use caution), the
same percentage as last year.
• At 5.26 percent, .com (the most heavily trafficked toplevel
domain, or TLD) is riskier than the average web site
by 1.16 percentage points, or 28.3 percent.
• Hong Kong (.hk) soared in 2008 to become the most risky
country TLD, with 19.2 percent of all sites tested rated
red or yellow. China (.cn) was second with 11.8 percent.
By comparison, last year, Tokelau (.tk) was first with
10.1 percent.
• The most risky generic TLD remains .info, with 11.8
percent of all sites tested rated red or yellow. The most
popular domain, .com, is rated ninth riskiest overall with
5.3 percent, and is the fourth riskiest generic TLD.
• In the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions, Romania
(.ro) and Russia (.ru) continue to be risky surfing
destinations; 6.8 percent of Romanian and 6.0 percent of
Russian domains are rated risky.
• In the North, South, and Latin America regions, the
United States (.us) domain is riskiest, with 2.1 percent.
The Americas TLDs remain relatively safe to surf.
This is just a small snipit of the 14 page pdf
No commentsSecurity Now 149: ISP Privacy - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
An overview of next-generation behavioral tracking and profiling systems.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:07:16
No commentsSecurity Now 148: Listener Feedback 43 - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 1:40:13
No commentsSecurity Now 147: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer - Sponsored by Astaro Corp.
Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Two useful but lesser-known Microsoft security utilities.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Running time: 56:50
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