Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
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Latest Episodes
COVID19 Security & Privacy Tips (Part 1)
In times of great fear and anxiety, we need to be especially vigilant against snail oil salesmen. Never letting a good crisis go to waste, the bad guys are capitalizing on the chaos to lure us into downloading malware and buying fraudulent (or even har...
Have You Been Pwned?
Every time there's a data breach at a company or service where you do business, there's a chance that the bad guys will reverse engineer your password. And once they do that, they will almost surely try to use that email and password combination to log...
Phish Spotting 101
The bad guys are having a field day with all the coronavirus hubbub, using our fears and anxieties to trick us into clicking bad links, downloading infected files, or installing malware. While the topic is new, the techniques are the same: phishing.
Contact Tracing, Privately
As health services and society in general struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, people are desperately seeking new and inventive ways to curb the spread of the disease. A tried and true tool of epidemiologists is contact tracing: interviewing...
Secure & Private Social Distancing
During our global COVID-19 self-quarantining, video conferencing usage has exploded. I've tried to find hard statistics, but they're rising so fast that anything I post now will be stale tomorrow. That said,
Privacy by Design
Wouldn't it be nice if privacy wasn't an afterthought? What if user privacy was built in from the get go? What if the entire design assumed that you didn't want anyone selling your data - and respected those wishes?
Beware COVID-19 Scams
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Though normally applied to politics, it can be equally applied to opportunistic cyber criminals. With the world transfixed by and anxious about this nasty virus, bad guys are seizing on our fears to make a quick buc...
The CCPA and You (Part 2)
In part 1 of this interview, Hayley Tsukayama walked us through the details of the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In part 2, we discuss how this law will affect many of us who are not California residents and how it's influencing potential...
The CCPA and You (Part 1)
On January 1st, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect. While not perfect, the CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation for the United States, even though legally it only protect California residents.
Hacked: A Clearer View of Clearview
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published a bombshell article about a small startup called Clearview AI who was using a massive database of three billion faces scraped from several social media sites to offer a creepy facial recognition app.