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Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

The limitations of sandboxing in preventing the negative impacts of malware.

Audible pick of the week: Frost/Nixon Abridged, By Sir David Frost, Narrated by David Frost, by David Frost. To sign up for a free audio 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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Mr. Ledin is getting flack from McAfee and Symantec because of his work and the education he is providing to his students. One of Ledin’s students said, “You can’t really have a defense plan if you don’t know what the other guy’s offense is.” I have to agree.

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Notes:

This Bug Man Is a Pest, Newsweek.

I also know that this is 1 of 2 ‘wild’ malware programs on the net; while there are hundreds of thousands for Windows. Just based on the odds, OS X is in less danger than XP or Vista of getting hacked. Yes, it is true that as Apple market share grows so will the number of viruses, spyware, and trojans for OS X.

With this in mind, we also need to remember that Apple has released it’s Leopard Security Guide and has announced that Snow Leopard will focus on increasing the security in OS X.

No software is perfect, in fact, according to Steve Gibson from GRC.com and Security Now, “code wants to be wrong”.

The War is coming to OS X, but we can be prepared and educated.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Firefox 3, Microsoft advertising, MSN Music, Lotus Symphony, your taskbar, and more.

Topics:

• Paul attends Celtics finals victory in Game 6
• Firefox 3 download day: 8.3 million downloads for the record
• New features: new UI, extensibility, awesomebar, library, malware protection and more.
• Microsoft hires new advertising firm
• Paul bought a new MacBook … to run Windows Vista
• MSN Music

News quickie: Lotus Symphony 1.0 released

Vista tip of the week: Master the taskbar (includes start menu and tray)

Software of the week: Twhirl

Also: Google Talk Labs Edition

Audible.com pick of the week: The Spies of Warsaw (Unabridged) by Alan Furst

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Two useful but lesser-known Microsoft security utilities.

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I grabbed it via iTunes this Friday morning.

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My own name! I couldn’t believe it, but at the end of the latest Security Hype NetCast the gave IronWil.net a shout out for my adding them to my BlogRoll. Now do you want to know something interesting . . . when I posted last nights Security Now NetCast I was considering if I should add Security Hype to my regular NetCast reminders. Well they just pushed me over to YES!

Security Hype 8.1 – Our 2008 Predictions

They have some interesting predictions, like a BotNet war that will take down parts of the net [as fallout], OS X will see it first real malware [virus or otherwise] and IPV6 Hacks.

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• Proactive analysis of malware genes holds the key to network security
• Advanced social engineering and human exploitation
• Free visualization tools for security analysis and network monitoring
• Internet terrorist: does such a thing really exist?
• Weaknesses and protection of your wireless network
• Fraud mitigation and biometrics following Sarbanes-Oxley
• Application security matters: deploying enterprise software securely
• The insider threat: hype vs. reality
• How B2B gateways affect corporate information security
• Reputation attacks, a little known Internet threat
• Data protection and identity management
• The good, the bad and the ugly of protecting data in a retail environment
• Malware experts speak: F-Secure, Sophos, Trend Micro
• AND MORE!

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The importance of this statement is that security, whether online or physical, is always changing and it is a never-ending battle! I am not trying to be an alarmist, talk to anybody in the security industry and they will tell you that things are changing all the time. The good news is that if we are conscious of where we browse, what eMails we open, and what links we click we can protect ourselves better than any software.

When I was a teen, my father was serving in the Army and we were stationed in Germany [which is a fabulous place]. This was a great! We loved it and always enjoyed the food, culture, and people – one thing that we didn’t enjoy was all the trouble some political refugees could cause. We were constantly taught to be aware of our surroundings and pay attention to suspicious looking/acting people. This was not hard, dad taught us things to look for and so did the AFN [Armed Forces Network] commercials that were on the limited US TV channel that was broadcast. To this day my favorite spot in a restaurant is the one where I can put my back to a corner [which bugs my wife a little].

I still watch for suspicious looking/acting people and try to pay a lot of attention to my surroundings. I know since I have been state side for years that I didn’t have to keep these skills up, but I have! I have become just as conscious about where I browse online and with good Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware, I have not had ANY virus or malware problems on my computer [thank goodness].

There are many good programs that help with computer security, but user error still accounts for the majority of problems.

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Notes:

1) ZDNet Australia, Berners-Lee: Web security still a fight.