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Welcome to the SecureMaryland Podcast Episode 18 “Let’s go Mobile” re-recorded on Wednesday, May 16th. SecureMaryland is part of The Cast Cast network. For show notes, visit www.thecastcast.com

A very big thanks to SmartLogic Solutions for making this possible. Visit www.smartlogicsolutions.com for more information.

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Our Hosts are:

• Raymond Gabler: Overall tech geek with over 15 years of experience in the Information Security/Risk Threat management side of IT.
• Shawn Grimes from Shawn’s Bits.com . I’ve been a Security Engineer for about the last 10 years and I can be found on twitter at @shawng
• Jon Sawyer – Sr System administrator of 12 years an IOS Developer Mac Developer and a sagittarius twitter @joninthearmy (Jon in the army)

Topics

• Breaking news: VMWare code possible stolen – A file released by Anonymous indicates they may have gotten ahold of at least some of the code. http://thehackernews.com/2012/04/vmware-source-code-leaked-by-anonymous.html
• Saw some interesting articles/points for Mobile Security
  1. QR Codes – The next generation of barcode are becoming a very easy way to share data: URLS, Contact Info, etc. but w/o sanitization they could allow for malicious content. SET – the social engineering toolkit even allows for building QR codes as part of the bundling of the package/exploits. As security folk we always tell people to watch where they are going on the internet – with QR codes they may not know. Also with the wide acceptance of QR codes the likelihood that a desktop applications are developed and become common place are higher.
  2. Taploger – new and unique ways of exploiting phones: http://thehackernews.com/2012/04/taplogger-android-trojan-can-determine.html
     Used “non protected” pieces to find out “protected” data. what do these new attacks mean for phones.
  3. Apps stealing money now… http://www.phonearena.com/news/Instagram-Android-clone-contains-malware-ramps-up-your-phone-bill_id29271
  4. Ubuntu on mobile devices. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57424335-94/androids-new-ally-against-the-iphone-ubuntu/
  5. Good article on how to protect your phone: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/how-to-harden-your-smartphone-against-stalkers-iphone-edition/

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Welcome to the SecureMaryland Podcast Episode 17 “Yottabyte – yo thats a lot of data” recorded on Thursday, April 19th. SecureMaryland is part of The Cast Cast network. For show notes, visit www.thecastcast.com
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Welcome to the SecureMaryland Podcast Episode 15 “Advanced Persistent Computer” recorded on Thursday, March 8th. SecureMaryland is part of The Cast Cast network. For show notes, visit www.thecastcast.com

A very big thanks to SmartLogic Solutions for making this possible. Visit www.smartlogicsolutions.com for more information.

Announcements:

The Avengers opens May 4th, if you are listening to this local to the Maryland area we invite you to join us at the midnight showing – details to come soon.

Our Hosts are:

• Raymond Gabler: Overall tech geek with over 15 years of experience in the Information Security/Risk Threat management side of IT.
• John Linkous: Vice President, Chief Security and Compliance Officer for eIQ Networks. John brings more than 15 years of technology management and consulting experience specializing in enterprise systems management, information security and regulatory compliance.
• Shawn Grimes from Shawn’s Bits.com . I’ve been a Security Engineer for about the last 10 years and I can be found on twitter at @shawng

Topics

• IPAD (2012) – can’t be a techie group w/o discussing
• FBI RAT
  • http://gizmodo.com/5890825/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous
  • http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/truth-simmers-pot-of-sabu.html
• Advanced persistent threats meet “advanced persistent computers”. – A look into the concept of “drop boxing” and what it means to an organization. For today I want to focus on introducing the concepts and some of the risks that they pose to a company. Additionally, want to talk about the high level prevention ideas. On later shows we may get into how to build one (I have purchased one and plan on getting Pwnie Express community edition installed on it soon – but not in time for tonight).
  • http://www.pwnieexpress.com
  • http://www.minipwner.com/
  • the “pineapple” – http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/wifi-pineapple

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