Michael Argast is my guest on this weeks Chet Chat as we discuss the weeks news you can use.

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Michael and I began by discussing the boat load of patches dropped by Microsoft and Adobe on Tuesday. We talked about the ins and outs of the HBGary hack, Google putting 20 G’s on the line at Pwn2Own, the hacking of Nasdaq and the guilty plea of a Russian hacker in the RBS WorldPay incident.

(7 February 2011, duration 12:33 minutes, size 9.05MBytes)

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