The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


Latest Episodes

Podcast Episode 116: Cryptojacking and MikroTik’s Bad-Feeling Feel Good Patch Story
October 15, 2018

MikroTik is part of a bigger problem: the failure of infrastructure owners to take appropriate action to address serious security holes in products.

Podcast Episode 115: Joe Grand on Unicorn Spotting and Bloomberg’s Supply Chain Story
October 09, 2018

Did Bloomberg get it right on their supply chain story? We speak with noted hardware expert Joe Grand (aka Kingpin).

Episode 114: Complexity at Root of Facebook Breach and LoJax is a RAT You Can’t Kill
October 02, 2018

In this week’s podcast: Facebook revealed that a breach affected 50 million accounts and as many as 90 million users. Is complexity at the root of the social media giant’s troubles? We speak with Gary McGraw of the firm Synopsys about it.

Podcast Episode 113: SAP CSO Justin Somaini and Election Hacks – No Voting Machines Required!
September 25, 2018

Everybody worries about hacked voting machines. But an exercise in Boston last week showed how hackers can compromise the vote without ever touching an election system. Also: October is just around the corner and that means Cyber Security Awareness Mon...

Podcast Episode 112: what it takes to be a top bug hunter
September 17, 2018

In this week’s episode (#112): top bug hunters can earn more than $1 million a year from “bounties” paid for information on exploitable software holes in common platforms and applications. What does it take to be among the best?

Spotlight Podcast: Flashpoint’s Allison Nixon on SIM Swapping and the Looming Online Identity Crisis
September 12, 2018

Your smart phone does double and triple duty: letting you do banking, buy a cup of coffee, board a plane or access a sensitive online account. But that doesn’t mean that your phone number is equally as trustworthy. In this Spotlight Podcast,

Podcast Episode 111: Click Here to Kill Everybody and CyberSN on Why Security Talent Walks
September 10, 2018

In this week’s podcast (episode #111), sponsored by CyberSN: what happens when the Internet gets physical? Noted author and IBM security guru Bruce Schneier joins us to talk about his new book on Internet of Things risk: Click Here to Kill Everybody.

Podcast Episode 110: Why Patching Struts isn’t Enough and Hacking Electricity Demand with IoT?
August 27, 2018

In this week’s episode (#110): the second major flaw in Apache Struts 2 in as many years and has put the information security community on alert. But is this vulnerability as serious as the last, which resulted in the hack of the firm Equifax?

Spotlight Podcast: Arctic Wolf on Nurturing Talent for the Evolved SOC
August 22, 2018

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Arctic Wolf Networks: sessions at this month’s Black Hat Briefings on PTSD and substance abuse among security workers are proof that the high pressure, high stakes world of information security can take its toll....

Podcast Episode 109: What’s The US Freedom Army? Ask Russia.
August 20, 2018

In this week’s episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#109): what lurks in the dark recesses of online information operations? How about a secret “US Freedom Army” linked to Russia? Dave Aitel of Cyxtera joins us to talk about it.