Podcast

Ever wonder what it's like to be a real spyware hunter? What it's like to get paid to spend your day gaining the confidence of… and then infiltrating… rings of real life cyber criminals… all the while risking they'll catch and punish you with a denial of service attack? How must it feel to gather evidence on such lowlifes and then turn it over to the States' Attorney General's office, even the Federal Authorities. Well, according to FaceTime Security Labs researchers Wayne Porter and Chris Boyd it feels great.

Spyware Warriors: "The Digital Underground" (Part 1)
Porter and Boyd recently gave Jeff Molander the goods on their latest bust where they infiltrated a ring of cyber criminals that truly shock and awe. Enter a world where trading snapshots of your PayPal account is common among thieves and paired with attacks on the world's largest instant messaging and Internet-based networks.

Download the podcast at Thoughtshapers.com/podcasts as Jeff presents part one of a two part series.

Click here to listen to a teaser from the podcast or click here to read the transcript for Part 1.

Spyware Warriors: "The Digital Underground" (Part 2)
Hosted by: Jeff Molander
Guests: Wayne Porter, Sr. Dir. Greynet Networks & Chris Boyd (PaperGhost), Dir. Malware Research FaceTime Communications

In part two, Wayne Porter starts out discussing how and why major name advertisers (and advertising networks they work with) unknowingly get caught funding criminal activity. Where he ends up, though, is remarkable. Porter actually predicts that the realm of click fraud is bound to get a lot more ugly as massive, criminal-operated networks of "zombie" PC's ("botnets") turn their guns in a new direction. Detecting them may, as it turns out, not be easy for Google, Yahoo Search or even sophisticated operations like Porter's team of researchers.

Download part two of the podcast at Thoughtshapers.com/podcasts.

Click here to read the transcript for Part 2.