CyberSpeak January 31, 2010

Published: Jan. 31, 2010, 5:52 p.m.

DoD CyberCrime Conference was last week in St Louis MO and was their biggest event ever with over 1100 attendees, 175 presentations and 15 simultaneous tracks. Check out the SANS website (http://www.sans.org/) for the SANS 2010 Orlando coming up March 6-15.

News and Commentary
SanDisk Corp and Verbatim join Kingston in a Crypto No-no
A hole found in the AES-256 encryption on USB flash drives from these three companies allows unauthorized access to the devices without knowing the password.

Creedent Finds 4,500 Drives Sent to Dry Cleaners
UK based company Creedent finds large amounts of devices left in pockets of clothes sent to dry cleaners and left behind in taxis.

Exclusive Interview
Robert Botcheck, founder and owner of Tableau, joins us today.  Tableau, makes some of the most popular and reasonably priced write-blocking devices.  Their newest product is a software imaging program that promises such features as multi-threading and sequential scheduling.  Check out the interview for more information.

Website of the Week
 - The Macintosh Forensics Podcast