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This was one of the most energized and fun Nerdcasts ever! And we even had 8 guests this time!

Dennis Houseknecht

• Wonder where all that spam comes from? Here are the top 10 botnets spewing spam across the globe

• Adobe finally addresses some serious issues with flash. If you have a Power PC-bases Mac, though, your flash-viewing days are numbered

• Dell is introducing a respectable, but ittt-bitty PC. This is a little smaller than the “nettops”, but has an integrated psu and can run on a dual-core Pentium cpu (rather than an Atom processor).

• Web security is important in the cloud, too

• Even Ubuntu is not totally immune to Malware

• The sophistication of bank fraud Malware is frightening, but the entry points are old-school techniques, such as sql injection

Patrick Browne

• - Government pushes forward with internet filtering

• - Government 2.0 taskforce announces winners of MashupAustralia

• - Brains overloaded daily with more info than a laptop can handle

• - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal picture gaffe

Arthur Wiebe

• - "Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher well known for his SSL/TLS attacks, today launched a cloud-based WPA cracking service, where for $34 you can test the security of your WPA password. The WPA Cracker Web site states: 'WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes.'"

• - Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta

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