Passwordless? Imagining the Future of Authentication
The average employee in the workplace has 191 passwords. Will we ever rid ourselves of them and, if so, how? Gerald Beuchelt, the Chief Information Security Officer at LogMeIn talks about how changes in authentication may deliver a passwordless...
Episode 170: Cyber Monday is for Hackers
This Cyber Monday may have been the biggest yet - and not just for shoppers and online retailers. Hackers use the year's biggest online shopping day to cover their tracks. Brendon Macareg of Signal Sciences joins us to talk...
Episode 169: Ransomware comes to the Enterprise with PureLocker
In this episode of the podcast, sponsored by PureVPN, Michael Kajiloti of the firm Intezer Labs joins us to talk about the origins and makeup of PureLocker, a new family of ransomware designed to target production servers in the...
Spotlight Podcast: Two Decades On, Trusted Computing Group tackles IoT Insecurity
In this spotlight edition of the podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group* Steve Hanna joins us to talk about TCG's 20th anniversary and how the group is tooling up to confront the challenge of securing billions of Internet of...
Suit against Estée Lauder spotlights 401k Distribution Fraud
A former Estée Lauder employee is suing the company after $99,000 in retirement savings disappeared from her account. Experts say the case raises troubling questions about the security of $5.7 trillion stored in 401k retirement plans.
The post Suit...
Episode 168: Application Security Debt is growing. Also: Web App Security in the Age of IoT
In this week’s episode of the podcast (#168), sponsored by Signal Sciences, Chris Eng of Veracode joins us to talk about the 10th annual State of Software Security Report and the problem of application security debt. Also, Brendan Macaraeg...
Episode 168: Application Security Debt is growing and Securing Web Apps in the Age of IoT
In this week’s episode of the podcast (#168), sponsored by Signal Sciences, Chris Eng of Veracode joins us to talk about the 10th annual State of Software Security Report and the problem of application security debt. Also, Brendan Macaraeg...
Spotlight Podcast: RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on confronting Digital Transformation’s Dark Side
In this Spotlight Edition of the podcast we're speaking with RSA Chief Technology Officer Zulfikar Ramzan about how his company is adapting to help its customers confront the dark side of digital transformation initiatives: increased digital risk, including from...
Episode 167: Made in America? Trade Tensions highlight Supply Chain Risk
In this episode of the podcast (#167): two stories this week - one from Pittsburgh and one from New York - have highlighted anxiety about Chinese made cameras and other security gear deployed in U.S. government agencies and in...
From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military
A complaint unsealed by the Department of Justice on Thursday alleges a New York firm engineered a years-long scheme to deceive the U.S. government: selling Chinese manufactured cameras and other gear to the U.S. Military, the Department of Energy...
Episode 166: But Why, AI? ZestAI’s Quest to make Artificial Intelligence Explainable
In this episode of the podcast (#166): Jay Budzik, the Chief Technology Officer at ZestAI, joins us to talk about that company's push to make artificial intelligence decisions explainable and how his company's technology is helping to root out...
Spotlight Podcast: RSA President Rohit Ghai warns Digital Transformation is magnifying Enterprise Risk
In this interview, recorded at the RSA* Charge conference, RSA President Rohit Ghai talks about some of the ways that digital organizations have to adapt to- and address risks introduced by new transformative technologies like machine learning, multi cloud...
IT Preps for Post Quantum Crypto (Whatever That Means)
Practical quantum computing isn’t here yet. But a new survey by Digicert suggests that isn't stopping IT pros from prepping for a post-quantum reality...even if they aren’t exactly sure what that means.Related StoriesEpisode 163: Cyber Risk has a Dunning-Kruger...
Episode 165: Oh, Canada! Independent Security Researchers Feel the Chill Up North
n this episode of the podcast (#165), we look at the challenges faced by independent security researchers in Canada. We talk with 19 year-old Noah Clements of University of New Brunswick about the blowback he received after reporting a...
Spotlight Podcast: Global Audit Finds Small Firms struggle with Password Hygiene
In this Spotlight edition of our podcast sponsored by LastPass* we’re joined by LogMeIn Chief Information Security Officer Gerald Beuchelt to talk about LastPass’s third annual Global Password Security Report, which finds password hygiene improving at large companies, but...
Pensacola confirms ransomware attack
Pensacola
officials confirmed that an ongoing
cyberattack that began early Saturday morning is a ransomware attack.
While the city did not release any additional details, the Pensacola News Journal said city spokeswoman Kaycee Lagarde confirmed the attack included a ransom, something that...
Trickbot Operators Now Selling Attack Tools to APT Actors
North Korea's Lazarus Group - of Sony breach and WannaCry fame - is among the first customers.
The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions...
Intel Issues Fix for ‘Plundervolt’ SGX Flaw
Researchers were able to extract AES encryption key using SGX's voltage-tuning function.
How to stop spam calls right now
Spam calls drive us all crazy. Here are four ways to stop robocalls and other unsolicited phone calls.
