Rich is off dealing with the joy of fatherhood (again), leaving Martin and Zach to rope Mike Rothman into the podcast for a few weeks. Our news stories are pretty short tonight, thanks to an interview with the one-and-only Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Martin discusses GPS tracking, the DMCA, and more with Jennifer. We’d also like to welcome Rich and Sharon’s new baby girl… -> Network Security Podcast,... 

I was only able to get a few interviews while I was in Vegas this year.  But one of my favorites was talking to Joe Grand, the creator of all five year’s worth of electronic Defcon badges.  This year’s badge was smaller than previous years but it had some unique and interesting capabilities and it was also the most artistic of them all.  Joe talks about the hardware that went into making the badge, some of the difficulties they... 

Zach Lanier brought up HacKid (pronounced ‘hacked’ I’m told) on the podcast last night and I just realized I haven’t even written a single post on the subject.  Read More →

The gang reunites this week after skipping an episode and, despite wondering if Rich’s house was going to get blown away to the merry old land of Oz, squeezed out a show — and even included our very first bumper (from our friends over at Eurotrash Security Podcast ). Yes, we did cover the proverbial “elephant in the room” (or, in this case, the elephant that ate another elephant for a large sum). Also, remember that we&#  Read More →

Branden Williams is one of the thought leaders in the PCI field, or at least someone like me who blogs about it a lot and hopes others find value in our thoughts.  Read More →

I’ve been working in and around the payment card industry for over four and a half years now.  A year and a half working for a service provider and seeing the worst of credit card storage possible and three years of performing Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) assessments have shown me both the best and the worst of how merchants, service providers and other entities protect our cardholder data.  I’ve seen,... 

Here’s the most complete review of the changes I’ve seen to the update of the PCI-DSS and PA-DSS to version 2.0 over at the PCI Guru blog .  Read More →

This morning the PCI Council released the Summary of Changes for PCI 2.0 .  Read More →

This week’s episode was pretty refreshing- rather than covering our usual news stories, we spent most of our time answering some questions from our listeners (that’s you). Please keep ‘em coming folks- we’d much rather try and help you out than blather about unimportant nonsense in our feed readers. Besides, if you ask enough questions we don’t have to read. Which is good. Because Rich never learned how. Network... 

This year at Black Hat we never got into our normal swing with microcasts of releasing them the same day they were recorded.  Read More →

I make no secret of how much I value privacy.  Read More →

Well, Martin, Rich and Zach all survived another trip to Las Vegas and the trio of conventions known as Black Hat, Defcon and Bsides. Our livers might argue that, but we ignored their cries last week and will probably continue to do so. We discuss a few of the presentations we saw, including the GSM and ATM breaking sessions, as well as the new vulnerability in Safari that uses a PDF rendering issue to jailbreak iOS devices, such as iPads and... 

Cisco recently released the 2010 Midyear Security Report and I caught up with one of the principal authors, Mary Landesman, Senior Security Researcher at Cisco.  Read More →

Well, not quite; I have a few more hours of getting packed and work before I head to the airport, but close enough.  Read More →

Like many people in the security blogger community, Tyler Reguly pays for his blog and other community efforts out of his own pocket.  Read More →