DCS Netlink & Catbird Technologies Podcast #1: Phishing and Pharming Attacks

In this podcast, Dane Deutsch (CEO/DCS Netlink) and Michael Berman (CTO/Catbird) discuss Catbird Technologies and the Hacker Threats and Methods on the Internet globally today. Dane and Michael discuss the definition of what a Catbird (which is a real bird) is, and why Catbird can help warn and protect customers when they are doing business on the Internet. In addition, Michael explains the different types of lures coming from malware and Internet security threats today, including: phishing, spear phishing, and pharming. Phishing lures a potential customer to malicious websites, fraudulent website links through email spamming techniques.

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DCS Netlink & Catbird Technologies Podcast #2: Drive By Downloads

Dane Deutsch (CEO/DCS Netlink) and Michael Berman (CTO/Catbird) discuss Catbird Technologies and the methods that hackers use to accomplish "Drive by Downloads." Dane and Michael discuss the dangers of Drive by Downloads and how Catbird services protects websites so that they don't become a victim.

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DCS Netlink & Catbird Technologies Podcast #3: Vulnerability Monitoring 101

In this podcast, Dane Deutsch (CEO/DCS Netlink) and Michael Berman (CTO/Catbird) discuss Catbird Technologies and the methods that Catbird services and products use to proactively monitor vulnerabilities on internal and external networks as well as websites. They discuss how vulnerability monitoring is a critical component of staying vigilant in the security arena. It is important to find the holes in our security before the "bad guys" do. These services run on a daily scheduled basis 365 days per year.

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DCS Netlink & Watchguard Technologies Podcast #1: Botnets

This podcast focuses on a discussion between Dane Deutsch (CEO of DCS Netlink, an Internet Security Company), and Corey Nachreiner, (Watchguard Technologies Senior Security Analyst at Watchguard Technologies) on the definition of botnets and botnet herders/masters. In this podcast, we discuss how botnets are controlled and operated as well as what kinds of attacks and threats botnets represent on the Internet. Even organized crime is involved with botnets today. Over 80% of all Spam is a result of botnets, as well as a majority of the phishing schemes that exist. 2008 promises to be a huge year where the instances of "drive by downloads" caused by botnets increases exponentially. Trojans alone represent a 300% increase in botnet activity. We remind listeners that when you connect to the Internet, everyone and everything on the Internet is now potentially connected to you. Remember: Botnets are the Swiss Army Knife of the malware world.

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DCS Netlink & Watchguard Technologies Podcast #2: Google Hacking for Self-Defense

Google sends robots out to web servers to "grab" information from internet web servers/website pages and then stores that information as a search library for customers to access later. That translates to potential personal and/or company sensitive information that may be disclosed to unauthorized people or organizations without their knowledge. Hackers can sometimes harvest enough information from a google hack to use as a source of intelligence to craft attacks against that web server and/or website in the future. Dane and Corey discuss hackers use of google hacking, google dorks, and other interesting information and resources that google hacking provides for both good and bad purposes. Listen and learn how to protect yourself, and the information your web server/website serves up from google hacks as a method of hardening your webserver, website, and self-defense.

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DCS Netlink & Watchguard Technologies Podcast #3: Web Application Attacks and Google Hacking continued

This podcast focuses on a discussion between Dane Deutsch (CEO of DCS Netlink, an Internet Security Company), and Corey Nachreiner, (Watchguard Technologies Senior Security Analyst at Watchguard Technologies) on Google Hacking and Web Application attacks. Corey explains Johnny I Hack Stuff, Cult of the Dead Cow, Goolag Scanner, the book Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, Google cache poisoning, SQL Server Injection attack methodology, stored procedures for SQL programming, fuzzers, fuzz testing, applications layer content filtering, OWASP.org, and more. Corey points out how important input validation is for search requests on websites. Dane discusses the need for Teamwork on the Internet to make each of us stronger and more secure when doing business and play on the Internet. These resources and tools are great for performing white hat hacks against your own websites to verify their security posture and help you lock down your web servers and make your websites more secure.

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Speaking of Security Podcast #79

Paul Joyal speaks with leading IT author, Shon Harris, about the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and other certifications that IT Security Professionals seek to add to their credential lists and knowledge-bases.

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