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March 17, 2010

Off the Hook
Off The Hook show for March 17, 2010


Command Line
TCLP 2010-03-17 Inner Chapter: Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, my thanks to Lee and Cory for their generous support through their donations this past week. Both qualify for the limited edition cmdln merit badges. I also share an update on the badge experiment for the benefit of those who don't read the web site.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is fall through .

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on tools. In it, I mention The Pragmatic Programmers.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Distrowatch Weekly
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 345, 15 Mar 2010
First look at Haiku, openSUSE 11.2 "LXDE" and "Xfce" live CDs, Wolvix 2.0.0, PC/OS 10.1, and more.

The Linux Link Tech Show
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 344
Just us tonight with Lord D. Google: good or evil, gaming, drm, android, alcohol, food, fun.

Hak.5
Airport WiFi Challenge and your Ultra Software Picks - Hak5
While meeting up with family in Florida this week Darren takes on a WiFi Challenge using the airport friendly Pineapple Mark II and Airdrop-ng. Plus, Shannon has a follow-up to the Ultra Software including your picks.

March 16, 2010

NetSec
Network Security Podcast, Episode 189
We’ve been hearing about the Aurora attacks on Google and a host of other companies since early January.  So why is it that NSS Labs is finding that the majority of the End Point Protection (aka AV) companies aren’t protecting against the vulnerability yet?  And why is AVG upset with NSS Labs and their testing [...]

Paul Dot Com
PaulDotCom Security Weekly - Episode 190 - March 12, 2010

Live from CCDC!

Episode 190 Show Notes

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Hosts: Larry "HaxorTheMatrix" Pesce, Paul "PaulDotCom" Asadoorian, John Strand, Mick Douglas, Carlos "Dark0perator" Perez

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All Games Considered
AGC 125 March 16th 2010 (State of the Hobby) (1:05:14)
With Mark Kinney and Mags. Carol is still sick. Mags' plans for her AD&D2 Greyhawk game for the RPG Buffet. Mark's adventure at ConCave, and a quick look at one of Mark's gaming purchases, Legends of Wrestling. Mark also got a new tech toy (finally). The state of the hobby: where we've been, where we are, and how we got there (from our perspective, of course). A look at a couple of forum discussions (Red Box and the Players episode).


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Show links
Martian Fluxx (Looney Labs)
Legends of Wrestling (Filsinger Games)
Ryan Dancey on the Acquisition of TSR


Promos
Gamer's Haven
The Jesus Geeks


Hacker Public Radio
Ep0529: Interview with Peterwood
finux and the tracsec crew interview Peter wood

March 15, 2010

Linux Action Show
Goodbye Novell | The Linux Action Show! s11e04

This week on The Linux Action Show!

Rumor has it: The Big Novell Purchase was JUST aproved we discuss what this means for Linux!

THEN - Microsoft's VP of "Trusted Computing" wants to tax the American people to fix Windows, we light our mics on fire with RAGE!

PLUS - We take a whole batch of your calls, AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!




Couple of Admins
MOR 134 - Sewing With AppFabric
Recorded: March 10, 2010 Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith Albright Show Length: 1:07:36 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much [...]

Bad Apples
badAppleLinux_5x07
Klaatu brings us a blast from the past, playing an old Gort segment from season 1, about webcam security, apropos now more than ever, in light of the recent US school district that was caught spying on their students via their Macbooks. This Gort segment teaches you (or your mac-using friends) how to hunt down the webcam driver in Mac OS and remove it so that the webcam cannot be activated without your knowledge. Klaatu also examines how the free software philosophy encourages understanding computers as opposed to how proprietary software encourages people to not even think about their computer or what might be happening behind the scenes...like spying webcams. Klaatu then talks about how to get your favourite free software on openSolaris via openCSW, and howto get animated desktop backgrounds for Fluxbox. He then takes listener feedback; he talks about why the Windows Registry sucks, technically, about docapps.org (and gives the wrong URL for it so please see the show notes), Blender 2.5 alpha, meego, Off The Wall and an article in 2600 by sigflup, and a windows virus.

March 14, 2010

Power Scripting
Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast - PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan

Tonight  we talk to Keith Hill & Oisin Grehan about PSCX 2.0

News

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Interview

 

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Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.

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Distrowatch Weekly
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 344, 8 Mar 2010
Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0, KNOPPIX 6.3 CeBIT edition, RHEL 6 shell tips, Elive 2.0, Linux From Scratch 6.6, and more.

Command Line
TCLP 2010-03-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 209, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, a call for help with my new experiment, this time with a way to reward and encourage donors. Also, happy Pi Day.

This week's security alerts are researchers build an 8K smart phone botnet and share their motivations for doing so and some findings and a serious Apache exploit is discovered.

In this week's news theoretical breakthrough for quantum crypto, Apple iPhone developer agreement comes to light leading to my own moment of principle where I've decided once my iPod Touch is worn out I will be buying an Android based PMP, the value of BASIC as a first language, and improving the bandwidth of quantum memory.

Following up this week web cames disabled in PA school laptops and Open Source for America rebuts IIPA's petition to the USTR including a post, a paper and a personal meeting.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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March 13, 2010

All Games Considered
AGC Feedback March 13 2010 (21:41)
Recorded March 9th, 2010, with Mark and Mags. A quick programming note. Starting with voicemails today. More Zune info, and large game discussion. An AGC LARP episode? Jungle Speed. More apparent AGC matchups, and KantCon. The story behind "Not A Deathtrap." Reminiscing about Shadis. Buttonmen and Frag! Feedback on the Red Box. A cooking tip for the Buffet.


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Show links
Bang! (daVinci Games)
Memoir '44 (Days of Wonder)
BattleLore (Fantasy Flight Games)
Ten Buck Review
Jungle Speed English Site (Asmodee Editions)
Red November (Fantasy Flight Games)
KantCon
Orgsnization of Gamers and Roleplaying Enthusiasts)
Frag (Steve Jackson Games)
RPG Buffet: A Year of Dungeons and Dragons


Promos
Zero Fortitude


March 12, 2010

Make
Weekend Project: Making the Weekend Projects
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Take a look "behind the scenes" as Kipkay shares what goes into shooting the Weekend Project videos and shares some tips to help you be a better movie maker. To download the Making The Weekend Projects video click here

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March 11, 2010

All Games Considered
AGC News March 11th 2010 (9:58)
With Mark and Mags. Carol is not well. Neither is GenCon UK, apparently (although there are still alternatives). Robot Chicken D&D videos no longer podcast. 3.5 Monster app for the iPhone. Free RPG Day coming June 19th!


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Show links
GenCon UK is No More (UK Role Players)
UK Games Expo
DragonMeet
No More Robot Chicken D&D Podcasts (wizards.com)
Robot Chicken D&D Videos (YouTube)
3.5 Monster App (iTunes)
Free RPG Day


All Games Considered
AGC Promo 2010 (00:58)
A new promo for the podcasters in our audience. This one is up to date for the new format and the ENnie. Let us know if you play it (and send us your promo, too).

Download the mp3 here.

Thanks!


Hacker Public Radio
Ep0528: Bordless Networking
Robert Laymans Borderless networking talk

March 10, 2010

Command Line
TCLP 2010-03-10 Hacking 101: Databases (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, my thanks to Kreg Steppe and Geoff for their generous support through their donations this past week. Also, if you have not taken the Ada Lovelace Day Pledge please do so. Sydney Padua's madcap web comic has my favorite depiction of Ada, one I'll bear in mind as I choose my subject to blog on the day.

Listener feedback this week is from Eric and Jon in response to my interview with Nina Paley, specifically our discussion of the non-commercial option with the Creative Commons licenses. Jon shared a blog post on the fuzzy nature of non-commercial.

The hacker word of the week this week is fairings.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on databases.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Off the Hook
Off The Hook show for March 10, 2010


Couple of Admins
MOR 133 - Riding The Geocache To Virginia
Recorded: March 3, 2010 Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith Albright Show Length: 1:00:25 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much [...]

The Linux Link Tech Show
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 344
Special Guest Christian Linhart - DemoRecorder - Linux screen recording, android apps and other good stuff.

Hak.5
Malware Analyzis Sandbox and PC Remote Control over Twitter - Hak5
Following up with last week's desktop sandboxing challenge Darren's taking a look at another kind of sandbox -- one for malware analysis. Shannon thinks your VNC and SSH servers are pretty spiffy, but how about controlling your computer over twitter? Free text messaging to your PC anyone?

March 09, 2010

NetSec
The Network Security Podcast, Episode 188
Can you hear that? That’s the sound of air escaping as we all finally recover from the RSA conference. Rich and Martin are back, and Zach… never left (but did celebrate a birthday last week). We do a quick recap of RSA and then dig into the security news… much of which had nothing to [...]

All Games Considered
RPG Buffet 5 (Second Helping: Lady Blackbird) (20:23)
With Mags and the RPG Buffet. Launching a new subset of the RPG Buffet to run concurrent with the Year of D&D, with the steampunk story game Lady Blackbird.


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Show links
Lady Blackbird (One Seven Design)


Paul Dot Com
PaulDotCom Security Weekly - Episode 189 - March 5, 2010

Episode 189 Show Notes

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Top ten tips to socially engineer management into implementing security the right way, plus all sorts of interesting stories including the "porn detection stick"!

Hosts: Larry "HaxorTheMatrix" Pesce, Paul "PaulDotCom" Asadoorian, John Strand, Mick Douglas, Carlos "Dark0perator" Perez

Audio Feeds:



Hacker Public Radio
Ep0527: HPR RoundTable 9
The roundtable discussesthe low budget (no budget?) science fiction film "Infest Wisely", available from the Internet Archive at: http://www.archive.org/details/InfestWisely

March 08, 2010

NetSec
RSAC2010: Sourcefire
Snort was one of the first security tools I ever used.  When I was working in a small computer lab years ago, I set up a Snort sensor just to see what was there.  And there was a lot in that particular environment.  I’ve used it many times since then and I found out at [...]

Linux Basement
LB - Episode 51 - Eating the Tonido by Linux Basement

Chad, Chickenfudge, Threethirty and Snacky have a mighty show:

They talk:
Android http://www.android.com/
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/

Ssh
Drupal http://drupal.org
Tonido! http://tonido.com

Great show, thanks guys!



Linux Basement
LB - Episode 51 - Eating the Tonido by Linux Basement

Chad, Chickenfudge, Threethirty and Snacky have a mighty show:

They talk:
Android http://www.android.com/
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/

Ssh
Drupal http://drupal.org
Tonido! http://tonido.com

Great show, thanks guys!



NetSec
RSAC2010: ISC2
I’ve been a member of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium [(ISC)2] for nearly a decade; I passed my CISSP test in November of 2002 and don’t have to worry much about CPE’s until at least 2011.  So when I was offered an opportunity to talk to Hord Tipton, Executive Director of the (ISC)2, [...]

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0526: Interview with a whitehat
Finux interviews TmacUK

March 07, 2010

Power Scripting
Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast - MDT 2010 with Keith Garner

Tonight we talk to Keith Garner from the Xtreme Consulting Group on MDT 2010

News

Now a word from our new sponsor, PowerWF.

Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.


 

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Interview

 

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

 

Links

Questions

  • stuwee: ## Assuming WinPE is used within MDT, how is powershell used with it?

Hero/Power - Batman

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Tips

 

Our tips are brought to you today by ServerFault and StackOverflow, the best place to find answers to your toughest questions!

 

  • Need to prompt a user for information with a GUI dialog box? PowerShell InputBox to the rescue!


NetSec
RSAC2010: Kaspersky Lab
It’s hard doing interviews on the showroom floor at RSAC.  Even the relatively quiet places are incredibly noisy when you get right down to it.  The good thing is it hopefully masked the worst of my mispronunciation of Roel Schouwenberg’s name.  Roel is the Senior Anti-Virus Researcher at Kaspersky Lab and spent some time talking [...]

Command Line
TCLP 2010-03-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 208, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, a huge thank you to Chris Miller for his ongoing donation. Also inspired by my latest appearance on The Secret Lair to discuss free content and supporting artists, some brief thoughts on my own views towards the show and earning something from it.

This week's security alerts are a several OpenSSL flaw and research on statistical attacks on security questions. I recommend treating security answers where they are required like passwords, storing them in a password vault and securely, randomly generating them.

In this week's news a fan sequel to King's Quest is shutting down (the original publisher playing a large role in Steven Levy's "Hackers" which I reviewed previously), a hearing was schedule last week to discuss internet freedom abroad including circumvention though we might do well to apply the same standards at home, two storied about plugless brain-computer interfaces with a compelling first hand account of one, and Google search index to go real time.

Following up this week the USTR responds to Senator Wyden's letter about ACTA with some good analysis and the problems with a revised censorship amendment to the DEB that now targets weblockers.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Linux Action Show
Apple Attacks Android & Webcam Studio for Linux | The Linux Action Show! Season 11 Episode 3

This week on, The Linux Action Show!

The Linux Action Show, Season 11 Episode 3: Apple fires the first shot in their new war against Android, we go over what YOU NEED TO KNOW!

Then – We load up the coolest new Desktop Linux app that turns your webcam into a production studio POWER HOUSE!

Plus so much more!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!




NetSec
RSAC2010: Astaro Internet Security
Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro Internet Security, and I met in one of the quieter hallways of the 2010 RSA Convention.  Of course, ‘quiet’ is a relative term when it comes to RSA, but the audio came out acceptable in any case.  We talked about several of the new products Astaro is offering this year, [...]

March 06, 2010

Hackervoice
Sun 7th Mar 2010
Not your usual HVR but a Drum and Bass mix from our resident DJs DJ CasualT and DJInsurgent.

NetSec
RSAC2010: F-Secure
While I’m sure Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, is getting as tired as hearing the term APT* as the rest of us are, he had some insight into what’s really happening with this threat and the fact that it’s not something new, it’s just the acknowledgment that it’s happening that’s new.  He’s been [...]

NetSec
RSAC2010: Panda Security
I caught up with Pedro Bustamante, Senior Research Analyst from Panda Security, for a brief interview about what his company is doing in 2010.  Panda recently received ICSA Lab certification of their cloud AV product, which required some retooling of the ICSA processes.  Panda is releasing a new, free, no-registration version of their product as [...]

March 05, 2010

Make
Weekend Project: Gourd Lanterns


Turn hard-shell gourds into decorative party lights. Thanks go to Diane Gilleland for the original article in MAKE Volume 21. To download The Gourd Lanterns video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Gourd Lanterns article in MAKE Volume 21 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. You can get pre-cleaned gourds here

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Distrowatch Weekly
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 343, 1 Mar 2010
Desktop comparison - Zenwalk Linux, Salix OS, and GoblinX, Removing zombie processes, PC-BSD 8.0, Igelle 1.0.0, Vine Linux 5.1, and more.

Hacker Public Radio
Ep0525: Seccubus
Frank, Jason and Secubuss - HPR spreading the word The first show is a continuation for a previous show http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0467 Frank Breedijk, asked HPR listeners to supply him name suggestions for his security assessment tool, autonessus. One of HPR listeners supplied him a name which he liked and now the project is known as Seccubus. The show is an interview with both Frank and the fellow that supplied the name Jason.

March 04, 2010

All Games Considered
AGC 124 March 5th 2010 (Hate The Player, Not The Game) (59:14)
With Mark Kinney, Carol, and Mags. Updates: Carol's new toy, and Mark's still working on Doctor Who stuff. Being a good player. Out of game, in game, and everything in between. Closing up on the question of "It's what my character would do..."


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Show links
Mags' RPG.Net thread
RPG General Tips


Promos
NerdBound
RPG Podcasts.com


Cyber Speak
CyberSpeak February 28, 2010
- Bret talks about his new toys
- Ovie flees the country, again

News and Commentary
New Britain Youth Bureau Gets Conviction
After a two year long investigation, two individuals have been sentenced to jail time for child molestation.

Via Forensics Released Android Forensics Application
Via Forensics has released a beta version of its open source Android Forensics application.

Exclusive Interview
This week we speak with Christa Miller about the need for law enforcement and digital forensics specialists to manage their online resumes. With so many different social networking sites, it's important that they all appear consistent in voice and purpose.

Tech Topics

FreeBSD Tips on SANS Forensic Blog
Hal Pomeranz has a great post on the SANS forensic blog detailing tips for how to conduct a forensics investigation against a FreeBSD system.

FireFox Internet History Analysis
A new FireFox Internet history analysis program, dubbed FoxAnalysis, has been released.  This software purports to gather all kinds of interesting goodies from FireFox history files.

Website of the Week
http://grc.com/passwords.htm - Randomly generated passwords (Thanks Ralph)
Read It Later - Keep a list of web pages your want to read from your computer or iPhone
InstaPaper - Allow you to read a webpage later from your computer, Kindle or iPhone
Gazelle - Get cash for your old gadgets

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Hacker Public Radio
Ep0524: TiT Radio 019 - interview with sigFLUP
TiT Radio 019 - interview with sigFLUP monsterb chats with sigFLUP about the demoscene, old gaming consoles, and so much more. Please visit http://titradio.info/019.html for shownotes.

March 03, 2010

Command Line
TCLP 2010-03-03 Chris Miller on PyCon 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

No listener feedback this week.

Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with my good friend and fellow podcaster, Chris Miller. Chris has provided me with conference reports twice before, for Google I/O in 2008 and SCALE 7x in 2009. This time he joins me to report on his experience at PyCon 2010. In the course of the discussion, we mention his employer, The Linux Outlaws, Watts Humphrey's Personal Software Process, David Beazley's presentation on the Python GIL, Mark Shuttleworth, and Catherine Devlin's presentation on cmd2.

If you want to hear more conversation between Chris and myself on less technical but still crunchy subjects, check out episode 24 of The Secret Lair.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Off the Hook
Off The Hook show for March 3, 2010



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