BMG Music Service Wants Me Back!
I got an email yesterday from BMG Music Service asking me to re-join. I had dropped them after a long tussle (which I dutifully reported in my blog All Kind Food) because they refused to indicate which of their CD’s were protected by DRM that might prevent later ripping and use of the files on my computers. (more…)
I’m just really getting this vidcasting thing down now. I’ve posted a total of three vidcasts now and I’m even writing a ‘what I’ve learned about vidcasting‘ post at the moment, so I’m a pseudo-expert.
I don’t know how many of you are vidcasters or are on the outside looking in, but I want to remind you of the stat offered on this blog months ago that said 75% of the advertising that will go to vidcasts/podcasts will be allotted for vidcasts. This, and the relatively small amount of people doing it at this point is what makes it so interesting to me. I’d love your thoughts on this.
Podcast Roundtable July, 2006 (Episode 7)
With Martin McKeay, Jeremiah Owyang, and Dennis McDonald
During this episode of The Podcast Roundtable we talk about:
- Gartner’s latest “hype cycle” report (Martin comes down hard on Gartner; Dennis is not as negative)
- WalMart’s targeting of young people with its own social networking application (herein we learn more about Jeremiah’s sartorial preferences than is perhaps wise!)
- The recent court judgement against CleanFlicks, a service that offers rental of “censored” versions of movies on DVD (Dennis fulminates)
- India’s efforts to shut down network support for blogs viewed as connected with terrorism (censorship again, but partly caused by a lack of selectivity in the initial restrictions)
A downloadable MP3 of our session is here: 
Network Security Podcast, Episode 37
Tonight’s guest is Rob Slade, author of the Dictionary of Information Security, his recently released book. Rob talks about the origin of his new book, how language is constantly changing, especially in Information Security and getting his book published. The last half of the podcast is listener feedback (please keep it coming!) and where I’ve been, where I’m going and what I’m doing there. I forgot to add in the podcast, I’m not going to BlackHat, but I am going to Linux World, with a press pass none the less. Maybe I can make BlackHat next year if I start planning now.
Links from tonight:
- Rob Slade’s Dictionary Errata Page: The link given in the show redirects slightly
- 6url.com Personal Public Email: Thanks, Dr. Hinson. I like this idea.
- Portable Media Expo: If you’re going, drop me a line. I’d like to meet as many people as possible at the Expo.
- StillSecure After All These Years: Alan Shimel and I discuss blogging for a few minutes. We talk about me a little too.
- Threat Chaos: Richard Steinnon wanted to know my opinions security in the world today.
- Coming up next week, the Security Wonk, security blogger and professional. I’ve already recorded the interview, so barring catastrophe, it’ll be up next week.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 37, August 1st, 2006
Time: 28:17
Tonight’s Music: Allison Crowe - How Long
Technorati Tags: security, Rob Slade, 6url, StillSecure
Network Security Podcast, Episode 36
This week I talked to Ravi Ganesan, founder of TriCipher.
He fills me in on some of what’s been happening with Man in the Middle
attacks against two-factor authentication used by banks and financial
institutions. It sounds like this is a fairly small issue right now,
but it could quickly grow in the near future. Ravi is clearly an
expert on authentication solutions and gives some hints about where
security professionals need to be looking in the future. I also take a
few minutes to talk about some changes that may be happening to the PCI
standards in the near future, the concept of compensating controls.
By the way, I mistakenly called Ravi the CEO in the podcast, sorry for
the mistake. I’m not a CSO either, so I figure that makes us even.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 36, July 25th, 2006
Time: 45:27
Tonight’s Music: Shemekia Copeland - Breakin’ Out
Technorati Tags: security, podcast, Man in the Middle attack
When Does Group Blogging Make Sense?
This post discusses the advantages and disadvantage of group blogs.
What is a “group blog”? Right now you are reading a post from a group blog called The Podcast Roundtable, but you might not know it if you are reading through an aggregator or feed reader that strips out all the surrounding information related to the group. (And — excuse me while I hold back a tear — you might not even care!) (more…)
Network Security Podcast, Episode 35
Note to self, don’t schedule interview before the second cup of coffe. This past Sunday morning I had a chance to talk to Brian Contos from ArcSight, who has a book coming out next month, Enemy at the Water Cooler: True Stories of Insider Threats and Countrmeasures. Brian has a lot of great stories and experience dealing with the insider threat in the real world, which he’s more than willing to share with us. There’s a lot more Brian has to share, so we’ll very likely be hearing from him again in the near future. It ended up being a long interview, but I hope you get as much out of our conversation as I did.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 35, July 18th, 2006
Time: 51:20
Tonight’s Music: Michael Burks - Heartless from Alligator Records
Technorati Tags: security, insider threat, Brian Contos
Network Security Podcast, Episode 34
It’s back to being just me on the podcast, at least for tonight. I was supposed to have a special guest on the show tonight, but he had to back out due to other commitments. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out who it was going to be. I hope I’ll still be able to interview him in the near future. But I’m learning not to count my interviews before they’re recorded. Vacation was a lot of fun, and you can find an expanding set of photos on my Flickr account.
Thanks to Mike Farnum and Steve Murawski for pointing me to Sudo for Windows.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 34, July 11, 2006
Time: 29:14
- ADP lost 125,000 records to a social engineering hack
- FBI wants more wire-tapping capabilities
- Bruce Schneier on:
- Brennan Center Report on Security of Voting Systems
- Terrorists, Data Mining and the Base Rate Fallacy
- Retailers fail to pass security test
Tonight’s music: Stop Watching Your Enemies by Koko Taylor
Technorati Tags: security, government, PCI
Technorati Tags: security, government, PCI
I got an email last night from iTunes. They alluded to their most recent RSS changes with their subcategories:
Most of the old categories and subcategories are now automatically mapped to corresponding ones within the new system. For example, if your podcast was listed under “Arts & Entertainment > Photography”, it will now appear under “Arts > Visual Arts.” However, 3 categories have been removed and do not have a similar replacement: “International”, “Talk Radio”, and “Public Radio”. Those categories overlapped with others in the old system, making some podcasts difficult to find. If one of these categories is listed as the first subject in your podcast feed, that category information will be ignored and the second category will be used to determine eligibility and placement in that feature page.
Changes to your categories may take 1-2 weeks from the time you edit your feed, so please review and add new category data as soon as possible to ensure your podcast is listed appropriately. New categories and subcategories that did not exist in the old browse structure will appear as podcasts are mapped to them.
If you’re podcast is affected, you can get more details here: iTunes New RSS Specs
