Tonight Martin, Joseph, and Steve touch on some fun topics tonight,

revisiting some of our conversations from about this time last year in

Episode 43. Without further ado - our stories for the evening:

It's the breaches of the week!

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-passwords-due-to-security-issue/

http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/24-million-customer-accounts-exposed-in-Zappos-hack/16025/

And for the second half of our podcast, we discussed a return to

Offensive Security, thanks to this article by George Hulme:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/698237/enough-defense-is-it-time-for-an-it-security-offensive-

And for your bonus image for the day, we may have dug up an image of

Alex Hutton during his college days:  

I'm not saying this is Alex, but it's probably Alex

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Martin gets a super opportunity to talk with Alex Hutton (Yes, *THE* Alex Hutton) about what it takes to work towards implementing a risk based information security program.

Martin, Steve, and Joseph gather to discuss the recent breach of STRATFOR passwords and the overall value of complex passwords in the age of easy to obtain high quality cracking tools.

Martin, Martin, and Rich close out 2011 with huge thank you's to our listeners and with some exciting things coming up in 2012.

Thanks so much to all of you who help make this podcast so much fun!

The guys are all together to talk about the Upbeat and Downbeat infosec stories of 2011 as well as provide prognostications for what is to come in 2012.

Oh - and we create some instant memes featuring Wilfred Brimley and the crazy guy from Ancient Aliens.

See www.southernfriedsecurity.com for full show notes and links!

Not the normal episode...  This time we feature a great interview with Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr) where we discuss information security and risk analysis....oh, and why French-Vietnamese fusion cuisine might be a good business investment..

Andy, Steve, and Joseph enjoy a week of recording with Martin around...but that'll come back to bite'em.

Episode 63 - We Welcome Our Alien Overlords

Well, it was too good to be true, we didn't have the whole crew

together, but Martin, Andy, and Joseph hit a couple of topics tonight

anyway:

First was the continuing story of the virus that has hit the U.S.

drone fleet. We also posit the theory that the virus was put there by

aliens. Just saying.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/exclusive-computer-virus-hits-drone-fleet.ars

Then, two articles that we kind of rolled together, discussing first

the role of compliance in a company's outside contractors:

http://www.darkreading.com/compliance/167901112/security/news/231900432/compliance-outside-corporate-walls.html

Then we discussed the article from George Hulme and Eric Cowperthwaite

talking about budget and the role of the CSO.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/691048/hey-csos-suck-it-up-and-accept-budget-cuts

And don't forget, BSidesDFW and BSidesATL are coming up quick! If

you're in the area of either, don't forget to sign up!

Episode 62 - Leaders & Experts

This week, for two weeks in a row, the whole gang is back. We hit two

articles that provoked a lot of thought amongst us, so without further

ado:

Security 101: Security in 140 Characters or Less

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11725&rss

Are you an IT security leader - really?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/100311-are-you-an-it-security-251503.htm

Join us next week, as we continue to put right what once went wrong,

and hope each time that our next leap will be the leap home.

All four of the boys are together after an unplanned hiatus where Andy was on vacation, Steve went on Covert Ops to Romania, Joseph had to get a restraining order for those pesky girls, and Martin had to deal with the magic smoke leaving most of his podcasting gear.

The boys talk about whether SIEM is dead or not (hint: it doesn't want to get on the cart!) and about DigiNotar.

See y'all next episode!