This podcast is brought to you by the Greater Lafayette Security Professionals (GLSP) group, SecurePurdue, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University.

Show Notes

Hosts

• Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA
• Mike Hill, CISSP
• Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA

Announcements

• The next Greater Lafayette Security Professionals August meeting will be a presentation by Pascal Meunier on August 9th on Trusted Digital Repositories. Please bring your lunch. The metasploit workshop that was canceled in July has been rescheduled for September 13.
• The first of the Fall CERIAS Security Seminars will be held on August 22 with Scott Anderson from Lockheed Martin presenting. The seminar will begin at 4:30pm in Stewart G52 and will also be shown on the Purdue channel. These seminars are recorded and made available as podcasts through iTunes and on YouTube.

Security Updates

• Google Chrome Stable updated to 20.0.1132.57, correcting 3 high security vulnerabilities and updating Flash player as well, July 11th. >
• Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were updated to release 14, correcting 14 vulnerabilities, 4 critical, 4 high. Firefox updates to 14.0.1 and Thunderbird is at 14, July 17th.

Discussion

• Social networks scan for sexual predators, with uneven results by Joseph Menn (Reuters), How Facebook catches would-be child molesters by analyzing relationships and chat contentby Lisa Vaas (nakedsecurity blog), After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Bans Minors by Nicole Perlroth (The New York Times)
• Which browser is safest? The browser wars are back and this time you win by Chester Wisniewski (nakedsecurity blog)
• Russian hacker’s App Store fraud site adds Mac support by Paul Ducklin (nakedsecurity blog), Apple’s App Store bypassed by Russian hacker, leaving developers out of pocket by Paul Ducklin (nakedsecurity blog)