The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


Podcast: will Uber’s Florida Man Problem chill Bug Bounties?

December 12, 2017

In our latest podcast: the ride sharing firm Uber finds itself on the wrong side of a Florida Man story after paying $100,000 in hush money to a man from The Sunshine State who stole information on 57 million Uber customers. We speak with Katie Moussouris about how the company’s actions could affect the future of the young vulnerability disclosure industry. Also: with BitCoins trading for $16,000 each, Wandera researcher Dan Cuddeford joins us to talk about mobile crypto-jacking schemes that hijack mobile devices to mine crypto currencies. And we invite Alan Brill of the firm Kroll back to discuss recent House of Representatives hearings on the future of authentication in an age of rampant data sharing and data theft. Welcome to this, the 74th installment of The Security Ledger Podcast. Here’s what we have for you this week. Part 1: Scrutiny on the bounty In our first segment, we […]