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.

This week on CyberSpeak we discuss the Techno Forensics Conference Oct 29-31, Guidance Software’s policy on replacing dongles, Vista Recycle bin forensics, ways to securely wipe unallocated or free space, and the first class action law suit against Apples for bricking the iPhone.  This weeks tech segment is all about Windows Mail, Vista’s replacement to Outlook Express.  Bret’s web picks of the week are a great list of security tools, an iPod toilet roll holder and a cool Rube Goldberg Machine.  Ovie’s web site of the week gives you a way to listen to the latest CyberSpeak podcast without an Internet connection.  Just call (214) 283-8997 and you can listen from anywhere.

This week apple deals another blow to their sorry customers, Bret still loves Steve Jobs, Kevin Manson donates a laptop and Jushu Technology, a Chinese company loses their mind and offers a convicted virus writer a job.  A listener sends an email link to an article about Apple feeling bad about ripping off their customers and offers a $7000 rebate for Lisa customers.  Ovie and Bret discuss forensics issues about the Vista Recycle Bin.  Web sites of the week include a link to the Department of Justice Computer Forensic Methodology Flow Chart, a US Sentencing calculator web site and an iPhone hacking web site.

We are back!!!  Thanks to all that wrote in concerned about our wellbeing.  Todays show we discuss listener email, ABC News report on how Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predatorâ€? is making it difficult for law enforcement to prosecute child predators because they are using illegal techniques to initiate sexual talk with predators.  Iam wants us to start an IRC chat channel, Andre started a Google Computer Crime web page. In the News, Forensics Expert Shows Cell Phone Evidence in Rape Case, Bret is quoted in Federal Computer Weekly article, Ovie and Bret discuss the recent news coverage on police use of stun guns. Didier Stevens released his new version 2.3.0 of his UserAssist tool.  We discuss WiebeTech’s new “Hot Plugâ€? device that allows investigators to seize and transport a running computer without having to shut it down. Also discuss is WiebeTech’s new RTX 400 and 600 portable storage devices.  Bret’s web sites of the week was an iPhone site,  http://ibypass.net/ and 35 absolutely essential Mac applications and Ovie’s pick was a web site that analyzes EULA’s.  KEEP THOSE EMAILS COMING TO CyberSpeak at Gmail dot Com.

The DEFCON SHOW!! Wow... Bet you didn't think it was ever going to happen... Its here... Thanks Geoff for getting this out... I am posting this from my hotel room in Texas.. Thanks again to everyone for hanging in there... Bret

Show notes will follow.  We are off to Defcon!!

Today Ovie talks with Didier Stevens about is UserAssist registry parser.  Also, Bret and Ovie talk about the IPHONE!  In addition they talk about Deep Freeze, Vista Forensics, HogFly's blog forensic blog, NAMBLA convention, The Unofficial Apple Webblog, shadowserver.org, myfirstmac.com, energyfiend.com, and streetviewR.com.

Ovie agrees that everyone should own an Iphone and that he sleeps in a black tshirt with jeans. (I love being the one that posts the show notes)

Finally...it's here...the July 1st show!!! 

Technical problems plagued this release...now it is here.

Ovie and Bret talk about lots of stuff.

This weeks show Bret and Ovie discuss the Pentagon’s Confirmation of Hacked Email System , an e-mail scam that includes a Hit-Man Threat, and Microsoft’s new Groove collaboration application.  Ovie test and reports the forensic results of surfing the web with Safari’s Private Browser and answer a question from the episode 72 of the Paul Dot Com show.

Ovies web sites of the week - Instant Domain Search and  

Graffiti and Bret’s pick was http://www.plinko.net/404/links.asp?type=cat&key=16

In today’s show, Ovie and Bret discuss listener email, discuss hard drive write blocks and imaging devices, sleuthkit V2.09 is out, Safari for Windows is but you better patch quickly,

In the news, the first spammer sentenced under CAN-SPAM act, VA budgets 20 million for credit protection for its victims, Secret Service agent spins a tale but surveillance video unravels her story, and Japanese police learn a lesson in security.  The Slurper aggregates 6 unsecure WiFi access points  and web sites of the week: Drobo robotic storage, Cheapest Gas, and Vehicle crash test site.

Listener email, an interview with Paul Ohm, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School about his friends of the court brief. New cell phone forensics document released and web sites of the week, www.1-click.jp, Wii have a problem, securityanalogies,  and Google Street View

Today Ovie and Bret talk about listener email.  They talk about portable monster power strip, freenigma GPG for webmail, sandboxie, VFC for booting from encase files, radiation proof underwear,  wiping data, network visualization tool Eve, Mac forensics class at phoenixdatagroup.com,  upside down and fuzy neighbor wireless Internet access, tubesnow, fuelcostcalculator.com, and key-port.com.

Good to be back!!!  Thanks for hanging in there!!!

In todays show Bret talks about selling his Vette on CraigsList. Ovie wins the lottery (ok he didn't). We get some great listener analogies. Ovie and Bret bust the hard drive wiping myth. New Vista attacks, man could get 10 years for lying about background, Cybersleuth named best of 2007, one in 10 web pages have malicious code, visual periodic table, and TouchGraph.

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Bret is in London, England and Ovie is somewhere in Malaysia this week...So if your a listener in one of these places, drop us a line!

Today we have an interview of Russell Yawn,Chief Investigator, Office of Prosecutorial Services for the State of Alabama and panel mamber for the National Computer Forensics Institute. Also, check out Mount image Pro's new Virtual Forensic Computer that gives you the ability to virtually boot EnCase, DD, and Smart images.  Sorry for any hissing sound on Ovie's side, we are exchanging a defective mixer

Man!!!Busy week...Show notes may not make it...But at least the show got posted!!!

Bret and Ovie talk to Jesse Kornblum, Pricipal Computer Forensic Engineer, ManTech International, about Forensicswiki.org. Ovie talks about analogies (tastes like butter.)  Listener email.  If you have a question for Kevin Mitnick send it to cyberspeak.gmail.com.  Bret and Ovie talk about Vmware differences, Vmware Ace, Virb.com, get your freedns here, and create timelines with timelines.

Ovie is in the dog house, Bret lets listeners off on the April Fools Joke -- Forensicator Pro --Gotcha!!!  Vonage gets a reprieve and can still recruit customers, federal appeals court rules no reasonable expectation of privacy on personal computer at work.  Be nice to your sister and don't offer her up for sexual favors on craigslist.  Tell it to the Bank says UK Fraud Act which requires victims to stop reporting online fraud to police.  Interview with Jim Christy, Defense Cyber Crime Center Director of Futures Exploration and Bret talked about an investigation solved by tracking down the USB drive.  web site picks: Trace from www.x-ways.com .  Stop by  MultimediaForensics for full show notes.

Today Bret and Ovie talk with Kevin Smith from LTU Technologies about Image-Seeker.  They also talk about listener email, rainbowcrack-online.com, TOR not really broken, Bret loves Twitchy, virustotal.com, and GParted-Clonezilla-LiveCD.

Our first Live Show at ShmooCon2007!!!

Lots of interviews on the floor of the show...

Today Bret and Ovie talk with Tony Hogeveen, Sales Director for Deepspar Data Recovery Systems.  Bret and Ovie also talk about the Linksys CIT-400, the Jawbone bluetooth headset (hey what kinda show is this anyway), ShmooCon 2007 meetup, listener email, RFID Powder, DHS launches national center for computer forensics training, Information Week story on Vista being banned, Congressman Ed Markey asks for FTC investigation, Nirsoft USB utility, Max OS X Security Part 1, and a Mac forensics mailing list.

See you all at the Meetup this Friday!

   9 PM on March 23rd @ Chipotle
   2600 Connecticut Ave
   Washington, DC 20008

Ovie flys solo today. On todays show Bret and Ovie interview Trevor Fairchild. Complete show notes as soon as Ovie gets around to it.

Technical problems on my end have prevented us from recording the show this week. We should be back up and running for next weeks show. In the mean time check out our recording of the press conference at Blackhat about the IOActive RFID talk that never was (Warning:  Audio quality of the recording is not good.)

 Ovie and I will see you next week..

-Bret

Today Ovie and Bret talk with Mark Menz from MyKey Technology Inc.  We also drop in on Jeff Moss as he prepares for Black Hat Federal.

In the interest of getting the show out, show notes are HERE..

Get well soon Mike.

Today, in an extended show, Bret and Ovie talk with Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP encryption software.  Phil talks about his new Zfone project.  Bret and Ovie also talk about a UK teacher who is fired for showing porn to students, steps of a forensic exam, new Microsoft Word vulnerability, Shaw Carpenter gets 4.3 million for wrongful termination, a man sentenced for stealing data from the American College of Physicians, another laptop missing; this time from St. Marys Hospital emergency care center, Belgian court upheld ruling that prohibits Google from using snippets of headlines, TubeSock, Mac Media Center Project, Ext2 in Windows, Metalosis Maligna, and online presentations.

Today we talk with Scott Moulton from Forensic Strategy Services.  Scott talks about advanced hard drive recovery topics.  In addition, Bret and Ovie talk about detection of full disk encryption with ZeroView, Danny Garcia didn't hack the SuperBowl, MySpace worm creator sentenced to probation, three men who used internet chat room to hatch a plot to rape, decode your printers secret code, paypal security key, google.com/searchhistory, www.freewareosx.com, and www.xslimmer.com.

Ovie is back!!  Today Ovie and Bret talk with Jesse Kornblum, Principal Computer Forensics Engineer at ManTech about his Buffalo paper on memory analysis.  Also they talk about listener email, fletc legal division podcasts, stego, the million dollar paranormal challenge, why blurring data can be bad, and see who is stealing your laptop at slappingturtle.com.

Today Bret talks with Chad McMillan, Principal Security Engineer and Mandiant.  Chad talks about his new entropy tool for malware detection.  Bret also talks about listener feedback, ShmooCon, Blackhat Federal, ESETs NOD32, flash drives for laptops, Jim Christy in WIRED Magazine, malware trends, canadian coins with RFID chips, iDefense annouced they will pay 800 for each remotely exploitable flaw in Vista and IE, and Delicious Monster.

Today, Bret talks with Jamie Butler, Principal Software Engineer at Mandiant.  Jamie is the co-author of Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel.  He talks with Bret about the state of rootkit technology.  Bret also talks about a man who stumbles into an online law enforcement training class and ends up with an indictment, mapsexoffenders.com, wireless forensics, remote control plane to capture images for Google Earth, DesktopTwo, and a neat code repository website.  Bret also talks about his lovely wife Jill buying him a Canon Rebel XTI and Lego Mindstorms NXT for christmas!

Also Congratulations to Ken Pryor for his "Where's Ovie" submission.  He will be receiving a "one of a kind" autographed CyberSpeak mousepad.  Thanks Ken!!

I had a REAL OVIE SIGHTING the other day.  Hmmmmm...is he coming back soon!?!?!?!

We are light on mail this week...send us your ideas, thoughts, praise, scorn, or whatever.   CYBERSPEAK at GMAIL dot COM

Last show of 2006!!  Today on a short show, Bret talks about Sony's settlement with seveal states, January 2007 is the month of Apple Security Bugs, Vista exploits selling for 50K, congressional aid caught trying to get his grades changed, a fast dictionary, hacker challanges and puzzles, email address that will expire in 15 mins, and a virtual collaboration whiteboard.

You still have time to submit you "where is Ovie" picture at www.multimediaforensics.com.

Happy New Year!!

On this festive pre-Christmas show Bret talks with Mike Younger and Geoff Michelli.  They talk about a Skype lie detector, mac changing utility, anonymous surfing websites, a pop3 aggrigator, secure notepad, the VA Army National Guard members personal data stolen on a laptop, class president at Cooper City High charged with chaging grades, Hackthissite.org founder sentenced to 24 months, interesting password article, imaging Windows memory, hack free zone, your browser information site, and how to hack a master lock at i-hacked.  How to make your bass say "PORK"?

Where is Ovie?!  Check out these submissions and enter the contest!!

http://multimediaforensics.com/viewtopic.php?t=43

The winner will get an autographed CyberSpeak mousepad!!

Today Bret has Mike Younger on the show.  Bret and Mike talk about spam statistics, IT background checks, Blackberry forensics, gmail mail fetcher, preview.local.live.com, and www.tmto.org.

Remember www.multimediaforensics.com!

Today Bret talks with Brian Dykstra, CIO and Director of Education at Mandiant, about the ediscovery rule changes.  Bret also talks about virtual machine detection in malware, spamgourmet, employee comensation, Encase version 6, Nigerian scam still works, FBI dropps boarding pass generator investigation, Parallels build 3036, proxy site lists, 30-essential pieces of free and open software for Windows.

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Drop by Brian Dykstra's site at www.virtualwar.com