DoD CyberCrime Conference was last week in St Louis MO and was their biggest event ever with over 1100 attendees, 175 presentations and 15 simultaneous tracks. Check out the SANS website (http://www.sans.org/) for the SANS 2010 Orlando coming up March 6-15.

News and Commentary
SanDisk Corp and Verbatim join Kingston in a Crypto No-no
A hole found in the AES-256 encryption on USB flash drives from these three companies allows unauthorized access to the devices without knowing the password.

Creedent Finds 4,500 Drives Sent to Dry Cleaners
UK based company Creedent finds large amounts of devices left in pockets of clothes sent to dry cleaners and left behind in taxis.

Exclusive Interview
Robert Botcheck, founder and owner of Tableau, joins us today.  Tableau, makes some of the most popular and reasonably priced write-blocking devices.  Their newest product is a software imaging program that promises such features as multi-threading and sequential scheduling.  Check out the interview for more information.

Website of the Week
 - The Macintosh Forensics Podcast

This week on CyberSpeak, Bret or Ovie are both regretful that they are not going to the DoD CyberCrime Conference. CyberSpeak is not on STITCHER. Now you can listen to the latest show, on demand from your cell phone. You can also go directly there by going to this link http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=11119 Bret and Ovie briefly discuss Apple's big announcement, everyone is thinking it is the ipad/slate. Bret says he don not know exactly what it is but he is getting one....with his wife's permission. 
Listener Email - Tom sent us an email saying : Hi fellas, and suggest we check out his UK forensic blog called Happy as a Monkey. 
In the news, Forensic Focus have compiled a directory that details all the academic institutions worldwide that offer computer forensics courses.  We discuss an interesting murder trial in Waco TX that has some great forensics work, nice job to the forensic examiner, Neal Kersh. We also discuss a Twitter Jokester being banned for life from an airport after twittering "Robin Hood airport is closed," he wrote. "You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" We also talk about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech last week where she said that her department will introduce several initiatives aimed at fighting Internet censorship. Clinton said: âThose who disrupt the free flow of information in our society pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society. Countries or individuals that engage in cyber-attacks should face consequences and international condemnation.â Last, we talk about the latest Microsoft vulnerability that affects all 32 bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and Server 2003 and 2008.
Our Web Sites of the week are https://www.mobiledefense.com and http://www.domystuff.com.

Listener Email

 - PGP released PGP10 with one license for all operating systems
 - Expunging data vs destruction of data
 - Reaction of the industry to push-button tools like Paraben's Porn Detection Stick


News and Commentary

Google Grows a Pair
Last week brought computer security into the spotlight when Google announced it was no longer going to abide by the Chinese censorship rules and might be pulling out of China all together.  This news was closely followed by reports that Google, and many other US companies, had their computer networks compromised by agents of the Chinese government.


Exclusive Interview
Didier Stevens joins us this week to talk about some of his recent forensic tools and research, including the changes to the UserAssist registry keys in Windows 7 and his malicious PDF tools.  He speaks about some of his other tools like his SafeMode restore tool.

Website of the Week
L5 Technology
Stitcher.com
WoanWare

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News and Commentary
Digital Forensic Research Challenge

Results are in from the DFRWS Forensics challenge. This year contestants look at forensics of a Sony Playstation.

GSM Vulnerability Released

At the recent 26th Computer Chaos Conference Chris Paget and Karsten Nohl presented a new crack in the GSM armor. By using an equivalent of rainbow tables they can economically crack GSM encryption.


Exclusive Interview
Ovie interviews CEO of Paraben Forensics, Amber Schroader.  Schroader talks about and what's going on at Paraben and what we have to look forward to!

Website of the Week
iFixIt.Com - Repair manuals, now for FREE!

Anti-Forensics for Mac OSX from BlackHat DC