Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast

Synopsis: Blue Box #86: Dan and Jonathan provide an update on what's happened in the year since Blue Box #85 and talk a bit about what's next Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #86, a 19-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions. Download the show here (MP3, 9 MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically. You may also listen to this podcast right now: Show Content: 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long! Dan and Jonathan discuss what has happened in the past year and why there have not been new shows. Discussion of what some of the main issues in VoIP security have been over the past year. Mention that fugitive Edwin Pena was extradited back to the US and arraigned in New Jersey court last Friday Mention of the recent traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list Wrap-up of the show 19:38 - End of show  Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com. Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows. You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-415-830-5439 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.  Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show. If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either subscribing to the RSS feed or following BlueBox on Twitter.

Ah, the joys of switching domain name providers. I transferred blueboxpodcast.com from one registrar to another last week shortly before the domain name was set to expire. Unfortunately, I made one serious mistake - I didn't check the DNS nameservers for the domain at the new registrar (GoDaddy) to ensure they were pointing to the new nameservers. They weren't... they will still pointing to the old nameservers. As a result, when the domain name expired at the end of the day on Friday, the web site was no longer available and had the message that the domain name had expired. MANY THANKS to the couple of you who contacted me on Saturday to let me know about this! So I fixed the web site yesterday morning so that "www.blueboxpodcast.com" pointed over to TypePad, where I host this site, and that all seems to be back in action. If you type in "blueboxpodcast.com" without the "www", it was going to a generic GoDaddy page but I've set up the forwarding now so that this should now redirect you to www.blueboxpodcast.com once the DNS propagation occurs. What is still dead, though, is the RSS feed... which is rather annoying since that is what podcast subscription tools like iTunes use! In working through the issues this morning, it appears to be the issue that Feedburner is not using the updated DNS information. The Blue Box RSS feed, which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlueBox is somehow pointing over to the old page. Yet the base feed for this site, http://www.blueboxpodcast.com/atom.xml resolves perfectly fine and does have the RSS information. (Please don't switch to subscribe to that one... I do like the stats I get through Feedburner.) So it appears that I'm waiting for FeedBurner to update its DNS. I've tried all sorts of options in the FeedBurner settings, including the "Resync Feed" but nothing works because it seems that it is unable to get to the new site (because of DNS). I've filed a help request in the FeedBurner Google Group (which appears to be the only way to get help). Hopefully FeedBurner will age out its DNS info soon and the feed will be back in action. What I find strange, though, is that I'm 99% sure that all the DNS records had a TTL of 1 hour (and I'm 100% positive the new ones do). So my question to FeedBurner is - if that is the case, why aren't they respected the TTL settings of the domains? I'll update this post once I have more information. Technorati Tags: feeds, rss, feedburner, google, dns, bluebox

Synopsis: Blue Box #85: Internet phone calls and terrorism, Georgia Tech report on Emerging Cyber Security Threats, phone jamming, 802.1X-REV, 802.1AE, VoIP security news and more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #85, a 32-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.    Download the show here (MP3, 15 MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.  You may also listen to this podcast right now: Show Content: 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long! Programming notes: Three-year anniversary of Blue Box coming up on October 24th - any thoughts you'd like to share with us? (Please send them to us by October 23rd.) The Times: "Internet phone calls are crippling fight against terrorism" - and my response on the Voice of VOIPSA blog FierceVoIP: "UK crimefighting concern over VoIP calls, social networks"  BBC: Data powers behind the times  GA Tech Survey (PDF) (link about the GA conference ) Dark Reading: Cellphone Botnets, Blackmailing VOIP & a Healthy Cybercrime Economy bMighty.com: Georgia Tech Security Report Scarier Than Its Football Team cNet: Botnets on cell phones in 2009? telecoms.com: Smartphone is a hotbed of security issues VNUnet: Security industry falling behind hackers AP: Phone Jamming in NH GigaOm: EEF Challenges Telco Immunity in Court  Information Week: New Protocols Secure Layer 2 Voice of VOIPSA: Asking The Cisco Systems IPICS and JPS Raytheon ACU-2000 Experts: Questions 36-40 Other Voice of VOIPSA articles snom technology AG: snom 820 combines mature VoIP technology with exclusive design IDC Finds Increasing Hype Around Unified Communications Is Affecting How Customers Select Telephony Systems and Services (interesting movement in the top vendors used  - Nortel out and IBM in) Peerless VoIP Peering Comment (IM) from Christian Wieser Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list Wrap-up of the show 32:10 - End of show  Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com.  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-415-830-5439 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.  Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.