Podcast Special: Views from the Valley

07 Aug 2009

Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols discuss the stories that made the headlines in Silicon Valley this week.

Today's podcast covers the Black Hat and DefCon events in Las Vegas, including Microsoft's 'community security' initiative, and the discovery of a fake ATM scam. Also in the news was the denial-of-service attacks on social networking web sites, and plummeting morale at EDS after another round of pay cuts.

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