Black Hat Microcast 4: Jeremiah Grossman

Martin is off in the wonderland known as Madison, WI; home of The Onion. Which means, of course, that I did the recording this week and the audio isn’t quite up to Martin’s standards. I blame him though, since it was mostly his Skype connection. There was a lot to talk about this week, from the great nation of Texas requiring private investigator licenses for PC techs, to sysadmins run amok in San Francisco, to cold boot encryption, and… what was it… oh yeah, some litt... more

Rich and I took a few minutes this morning to talk about what we’re planning for Black Hat and Defcon this year. Rich has been at many of these events and works as a speaker escort part of his time there. This is only my second year attending, so I’m still learning my way aroudn a little. We both have a number of suggestions concerning security at the events. One big rule we didn’t mention is “If you don’t need it, don’t take it.” I think I’l... more

Rich and I are both incredibly busy, trying to get some work done before Black Hat and Defcon start. We’re planning on producing a podcast next week from the showroom floor at BH as well as a few microcasts from the both Black Hat and Defcon. So tune in next week, I promise the audio will be better than episode 113’s was. Because you know it can’t get much worse than last week. ... more

Rich had a chance to catch up to our good friend Mike Rothman after Chris Hoff’s talk on virtualization here at Black Hat. The sky might not be falling, but there’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to be on the look out for in security and virtualization is not the silver bullet some people are hoping for. Black Hat Microcast 2: Mike Rothman ... more