Spyware Warriors and the Digital UnderGround: Part 1 Podcast

by SpywareGuide Staff

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We talked about this some time ago and gave you a teaser. Now  Part 1 has been put out on the net- and it gets wild! If you want to hear spyware researchers taking you into the inner workings on how it all goes down, along with some other tidbits that will shock and awe, surf on over to hear about the following subjects:

00:01 - 02:37 Introduction
02:38 - 04:08 What does Facetime do and for whom?
04:09 - 05:19 What is a botnet network? (Boyd)
05:20 - 06:11 What are hackers and e-criminals motivations? (Boyd)
06:11 - 07:54 Things changing for the worse; paradigm shift (Porter)
07:55 - 10:19 The story of RinCe, tipster on major bust (Boyd, Porter)
10:20 - 11:43 Anatomy of a good tipster; motivations (Boyd)
11:44 - 12:53 Changing vectors & new dangerous hacker tactics (Porter)
12:54 - 13:23 Instant Messaging no longer safe (Porter)
13:24 - 13:43 Botnet criminal motivations (Boyd)
13:44 - 14:33 New perspectives (Molander)
14:34 - 16:23 Attack complexity increasing, vectors changing (Porter)
16:24 - 16:58 Dark Economy: Organized crime moving online (Porter)
16:59 - 19:02 Cloak & Dagger: How to penetrate a botnet (Boyd)
19:03 - 21:56 Gathering intelligence from 'the underbelly' (Boyd)
22:54 - 23:33 Fallout from adware, spyware & Web crime (Porter)
23:34 - 25:10 Warning to e-commerce executives (Porter)

Count on Part 2 to appear shortly. If you liked Part 1, why not vote for it on Digg.com?

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