It's a Mal, Mal World

Life used to be so simple. The golden days when a simple virus was all you had to worry about seem almost idyllic compared to the mean electronic streets that we walk today. I recently spoke with Shane Coursen, a senior technology consultant at Kaspersky Labs, about the once and future world of malware. You can hear the podcast here.

Thanks to everyone who sent in ideas for an end-of-year show. As you can tell, I missed the deadline for that, but I'll wrap the ideas into a review and prediction show in the near future. Don't let my somewhat overloaded schedule keep you from sending in ideas, though--there have been some great conversations resulting from notes listeners have sent in.

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The music in this podcast is "Anubis Claws" from the album Aeonblue by subatomicglue. They release their music under a Creative Commons license--if you like the sound, head over to their web site and check out the rest of their music.