The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 124: The Twitter Accounts Pushing French Protests. Also: social engineering the Software Supply Chain
December 11, 2018

In this week’s podcast (#124):  we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Surprise, surprise: they're not french.

Podcast Episode 123: HaveIBeenPwned’s Troy Hunt on Marriott’s Big Mess and GreatHorn on the Asymmetric Threat of Email
December 04, 2018

Thanks to our friends at GreatHorn for sponsoring this week's podcast. In this episode of the Podcast, # 123: Troy Hunt, the founder of HaveIBeenPwned.com joins us to talk about Marriott International's big mess: a breach of Starwood Hotels' reservatio...

Spotlight: Operationalizing Deep Web and Dark Web Intelligence
November 28, 2018

In this episode of the podcast: Chris Camacho of Flashpoint joins us to talk about "the deep web" and "the dark web." Chris and I talk about how companies like Flashpoint monitor the dark web for intelligence and, then,

Podcast Episode 122: will 5G increase Internet of Things Risk?
November 26, 2018

Telecommunications firms like to talk up all the great things that so-called 5G cellular networks will bring to smart phones. But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? And, just as important,

Podcast Episode 121: DMCA Exemptions Set Stage for Right to Repair Fight and DHS Cyber Makeover
November 20, 2018

In this episode of the Security Ledger podcast (#121): the Librarian of Congress gave a big boost to right to repair advocates in late October when she granted exemptions provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act covering repair of most electr...

Podcast Episode 120: They Email Ballots, Don’t They?
November 12, 2018

In this week’s episode (#120): more than 100,000 U.S. voters submitted their ballots in the last presidential election via email in 2016. Despite that: hardly any attention has been paid to the security of email and online voting systems used by 32 sta...

Podcast Episode 119: EFF on Expanding Researchers Rights and AT&T talks IoT Security Fails
November 06, 2018

In this episode of the podcast, #119: Electronic Frontier Foundation General Counsel Kurt Opsahl joins us to talk about the Coders’ Rights Project. Also: we speak with Senthil Ramakrishnan, a lead member of AT&T’s IoT Security group about that company’...

Podcast Episode 118: White Hat Eye on the Gaming Guy
October 29, 2018

In this week’s episode, #118: modern computer games are like mini economies and that makes them a big target for hackers. We talk with four leading researchers from Bug Crowd about how even popular games fall down on security.

Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats
October 23, 2018

In this episode of the podcast (#117), we go deep on one of the hottest sectors around: cyber insurance. In the first segment, we talk with Thomas Harvey of the firm RMS about the problem of “silent cyber” risk to insurers and how better modeling of cy...

Spotlight Podcast: At 15 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Grows with Cyber Risk
October 18, 2018

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by RSA: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. But what does that mean in an era when concerns about cybersecurity permeate every facet of our personal and professional lives?