This week, Ovie's back from SANS, Bret's on his way back to Kuwait. This week Ovie and Bret answer some great listener email.  Imaging an Apple XRaid, Google getting into the game of image recognition to help identify people exploiting children, Andrew sent in a website with a great collection of file signatures, and Web Sites of the week are Netflix Thief Caught in the Act and http://www.southparkstudios.com/ and Windows Live Mesh

  

Bret and Ovie discuss Didier's email and the possibility of web browser prefetching links in an FBI sting operation. Michael helps clarify the OLD phpBB vulnerability, the UK's founding forensic father escapes a jail sentence for fraud and Kerry sent in a list of hundreds of forensic PDF files and makes sure we knew about Quickview Plus (we also suggest Thumbs plus for reviewing large number of graphics). Symantec Corporation released their comprehensive security report on the malware industry and Microsoft turns out to be the Best at patching vulnerabilities the quickest. The full report is available here.  Bret and Ovie discuss Skype and the technical data points of interest when conducting forensics.  Web sites of the week include Teleflip and Twitter as we are now trying to tweet….er…twitter.  Follow Bret and Ovie.

Bret and Ovie discuss a listeners question about a sting operation to lure people wanting to look at child porn to click on a fake web link and get busted for “attempted possession of child porn”. What do you think? Fair or Unfair? We think it is NOT entrapment but could be too close to the line. It’s Miller Time after hacking an Apple in 2 minutes and Vista proves more secure than apple in CanSecWest. The government can now wiretap for a week before submitting a request to wiretap suspected terrorist. The King of Spam gets 26 years in jail. A new vulnerability affecting PHPbb sites, 30 months in prison for spoofing telephone numbers and placing phony emergency calls to manipulate police SWAT teams, Websites of the week include Stuff White People Like, and A special tech tip - append “&fmt=6” (NO QUOTES) to the URL of your You Tube Video for better resolution.

This week Ovie talks about Samaritans Feet in South East DC, calendar syncing problems, Plaxo suggested by two listeners. A programming mistake leads to a G-Archiver reveation…and 1700 other people’s passwords. Ovie and Bret discuss WiebeTech’s fantastic new forensic combo dock. Web site of the week is Programmers Notepad

Today Bret and Ovie talk with Dr. Simson Garfinkel about the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF). We also cover listener feedback and a Judge raps forensic expert for delaying child-porn cases. LINKS: www.afflib.org www.alberteinstein.info/ google.com/calendar We apologize for some of the audio quality during the interview with Dr. Garfinkel. Thanks again for listening!!! Spread the word!

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This week on Cyberspeak, Ovie’s Invisible Shield came in for his blackberry and he loves it. We discuss US v Boucher and the Fifth Amendment protection not to be compelled to disclose passwords. For some great reading on the issue, check out Susan Brenner’s blog post. Department of Defense considers cutting off all non-official Internet access.   We discuss whole disk encryption and new advertised features in True Crypt V5.  We discuss Nuix, a new forensic utility with special application for analysis of emails.  Do you encrypt you forensic images before transport?  Ovie’s Web site pick of the week is http://www.bureauofcommunication.com/compose/apology and Bret’s is Hackers Diet.

Happy New Year...Today Bret and Ovie talk about 2008 Predictions.  We also talk about Bret breaking his IPhone, Black Hat DC, Mac World 2008, security vulnerabilities in the new Boeing 787, Bill Gates retirement video, www.cybercrime.gov, very quick way to wipe a hard drive with badblocks, private investigator story in the news again, search of computer in tax fraud investigation was ruled valid, Alienware 30 inch curved monitor, and Ovie saves the world with invisibleshield.

Elitist iPhone news, Drive Eraser and Drive Eraser PRO, Florida State Troopers need your help, SANS Top-20 2007 Security Risks (2007 Annual Update), Trojan infected hard drives phoning home to China, One Laptop per Child Extended, Web Picks: http://Everyscape.com and http://elfyourself.com.  Merry Christmas!!  

This week we show you how you can donate a laptop to a child in an under privileged country and get 12 months free -Mobile WiFi hotspot access, apple will not take your cash, apple is so secure they are turning off their firewall and the CEO of IronKey talks about the security features of their IronKey thumb drive.  Web pick of the week is Display Fusion.