SECURITY NOW!! (A Podcast)

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Former Tech TV host Leo Laporte (now with Call for Help) & Security Expert Steve Gibson Host a 20-30 minute weekly show about personal computer security issues like Spyware, malware, Viruses and seek to understand and address the problems that alot of us are encountering. Each episode discuss a certain topic and provide a history and an understanding in great detail and hepls us to protect our PC. The last episode Deals with RootKits and how it can install itself to your PC and remain stealth even when using your updated anti spyware.

the link: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

its now in the 9th episode, i recommend listening from the first.

Hope you find it intresting as i have.

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nindot ni dah! thanks bay!

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nindot ni dah! thanks bay!

Your welcome, episode 10 is out its all about Open Wireless Access Points. It discuss the various ways of protecting privacy when untrusted strangers can 'sniff' the data traffic flowing to and from your online PC.

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Episode 11 is out.

The direct link: http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/sn/SN-011.mp3

In this episode Steve debunks three popular forms of Wi-Fi security: MAC address filtering, WEP encryption, and SSID hiding. He explains why none of these are effective security except against casual snoops. If you're responsible for protecting a Wi-Fi access point, this is a must listen podcast.

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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123362,00.asp

Sony/BMG CD will install rootkits on your system. Rootkits? what harm can it do to my computer?

Your computer http://www.seifried.org/security/ports/0/528.htm is wide open.

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Episode 12 is here!!!

This is a very important episode it explains Sony BMG using RootKit technology to enforce its DRM (Digital Rights Management).

This poorly written software unnecessarily employs classic rootkit technology (see episode #9) to hide from its users after installation. It can not be uninstalled easily, it can be easily misused for malicious purposes, and it has been implicated in many repeated BSOD "blue screen of death" PC crashes.

Rootkits technology can also be use for spyware like CoolWebsearch that installs and hides in the OS by hooking itself in the windows kernel, so your anti-virus, anti-spyware cant detect it.

Here are tools to Find out if you have Rootkits in your system.

*RootkitRevealer: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...tRevealer.html
*F-Secure BlackLight: http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/