I love to listen to these guys chat, Leo and Steve.  Recently I needed to get a friend up to speed on secure key exchange. Not the simplest topic on the roster.  Just how do we share a secret over the Internet.  While we know others are watching and intercepting our communications.  We do it with math.  Math , when used like this, forces you to want to learn even more math.  Really, math is fun and you will be smart if you learn math.

The first 15 minutes of this podcast prove to me that the more math you can take in the better off you will be in life.

http://media.grc.com/sn/SN-034.mp3 100% relevant regardless of when it was recorded.

Visa and others.  The first time the page came up “verified by Visa” you said cool this is a very good thing Visa is making the web safer.  If you thought that you can now go to the back of the class.  You should have been thinking what sort of phishing scam is this?  Where is the URL bar for this pop up and why would I sign up for this service from this little dialog on some site?  Does Visa even have a web site?  Does my bank know about this?

Now for those of you at the back of the class the zbot botnet has been augmented to shoot phish in a barrel.  You are the phish unfortunately.  Thank you Visa for the swimming lessons (NOT).

Click to read more news on the zbot botnet and how it is mimicking the Verified by screens.

http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=12&issue=56#sID301