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PaulDotCom Security Weekly is a weekly podcast hosted by Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce. The first episode was released on 27 October 2005.

Recorded each Thursday via Live audio stream, PaulDotCom Security Weekly (PSW) consists of Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce discussing various issues in computer security. They cover vulnerabilities, firewalls, password security, spyware, rootkits, Wi-Fi and many other topics.

Podcast feed
PaulDotCom Security Weekly is distributed via its main podcast RSS feed (link). The audio is encoded as 80 kilobit per second MP3 files. There have also been several PaulDotCom Security Weekly TV episodes, although these are far less frequent.

Show format
PSW runs for approximately 1 hour, with the actual discussion of the subject of the podcast typically starting 10 minutes into the show. The first part of the show, approximately 25-30 minutes, is usually a 'Technical Segment' where Paul and Larry have an in-depth discussion about a particular security tool, attack or methodology. The remainder of the show is spent discussing current security news, vulnerabilities and research. Paul and Larry also frequently host guests on the show, or interview various members of the security community. Every week Paul and Larry have a different beer for the show, a log of which can be found on the PSW Beer Wiki

Additional content
All of the information relating to the 'Technical Segment', and links to the discussed news and research, can be found in podcast's Show Notes on the PaulDotCom Wiki.

PaulDotCom Community
The PaulDotCom Security Weekly community is quite important to the podcast, with listeners submitting newsworthy articles to the PSW Wiki, posting on the PSW Community Blog and PSW Mailing List, contributing sweepers, and generally helping out wherever possible. A large portion of the community reside in the podcast's IRC channel on the Freenode network at irc.freenode.net, channel #pauldotcom.