pm73media
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEach week on pm73media, Matt Stephenson chats with people who secure the things, hack the things or write about securing and hacking the things that surround us in everyday life. From voting machines to social engineering to the critical infrastructure, if it can be secured, it can be hacked. On pm73media, we meet the people who do one or the other… and sometimes both.
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Robert Kerbeck: Shank the Man and Rake in the Bucks
June 03, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour - 181 MBLet’s just say you didn’t grow up wanting to become a spy. You just wanted out of the family car business. You’re armed with an Ivy League education in your back pocket. You have a more noble profession in mind. I don’t know... maybe... to be an actor. But... to support yourself... you need a survival job. Before you now it, while your acting peers are waiting tables, you begin your apprenticeship as a corporate spy. Dear listeners... everything you about to hear is entirely true......
Chris Humphreys: Forest Gump Ain’t Got Shit on This Guy
May 26, 2022 17:10 - 1 hour - 169 MB“I’m like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.” -- The Joker, The Dark Knight, 2008, Jonathon and Christopher Nolan Matt Stephenson welcomes Chris Humphreys to pm73media. How does a nice boy from Metro Washington DC start playing pro football (or soccer for you heathens) in England, then move on to multiple other international squads before landing in the United States Army as a linguist with a focus on security? After tha...
Mike Fraser: Developers... Adapt or DIE!
May 18, 2022 18:46 - 1 hour - 167 MBHow can we make a better mousetrap if the designers of and the materials that go into the contemporary mousetraps aren’t good enough to keep pace with the current mouse? Adapt or perish… now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative --HG Wells It is not the strongest species that survie, nor the most intelligent… but the ones most responsive to change --Charles Darwin You improvise! You adapt! You overcome! -- Gunnery Sgt Tom Highway; Heartbreak Ridge ...
Matt Donato: Rethinking your Strategy in the Hunt for Cybersecurity Talent
May 10, 2022 21:54 - 1 hour - 162 MBStanding in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime 'Cause they can't buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes Just for fun he says, "get a job" That's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is Ah, but don't you believe them -- Bruce Hornsby You tired of hearing about that 3.5 million open cybersecurity jobs number? You know for the open I like to bring either culture or data… let’s go with s...
Greg Fitzgerald: Notes from a Serial Startup CMO
April 25, 2022 19:09 - 1 hour - 168 MB“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” —Wayne Gretzy “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.” —Mario Andretti Sometimes our show has very eloquently prepared blogs that would bring a tear to Shakespeare...
Jamil Jaffer: Is Big Tech Horrible for America?
April 13, 2022 20:46 - 1 hour - 153 MBIt has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -- Albert Einstein It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are -- Clive James, writer and poet If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it -- Lyndon B. Johnson The adv...
nez&pez: Going Meta with the Idea of Founder Identity
April 05, 2022 20:44 - 1 hour - 162 MBIf you’re a founder of a company whose purpose is to tell the story of other companies… how do you tell the story of your own company… and your own story? Jim Garrison : And who killed the President? David Ferrie : Oh man, why don't you fuckin' stop it? Shit, this is too fuckin' big for you, you know that? Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, fuck man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?...
Bill Hunter: Water Can Flow or It Can Crash
March 25, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 139 MB"Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -- Bruce Lee After all of the bullshit of the past couple of years… what do you do? How do you evolve? In these turbulent times, are we reinventing ourselves? Are we reimagining ourselves? A...
Brandon Gilmore and Marco Figueroa: Where are the Young Black and Brown Men in Cyberscurity
March 23, 2022 14:28 - 1 hour - 151 MBBrandon Gilmore and Marco Figueroa: Where are the Young Black and Brown Men in Cyberscurity? Photo by F. Scott Schafer Let us begin, what, where, why or when Will all be explained like instructions to a game See I'm not insane, in fact I'm kind of rational When I be asking you, "Who is more dramatical?" This one or that one, the white one or the black one Pick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one -- KRS One; My Philosophy, 1989 Want to have a fun and easy convers...
Carter Schoenberg: Compliance Borne of a Perfect Storm of Badness
March 08, 2022 22:07 - 1 hour - 181 MBHow hard is it to do your job when your job involves government, the military and the commercial sector? “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help” -- Ronald Reagan Does that actually have to be the case? What if you are really good at what you do and you happen to work for the government… Or you are a civilian contractor who does government work… Or insert any of a thousand variables involved with providing pro...
Rob Bathurst: Helping People Suck Less Since 1999
February 28, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBHave you heard the cliché about sharks? The one that says if they don’t keep swimming they’ll die? Turns out it’s pretty much true… stick around for the metaphor -- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. -- Henry Rollins On this episode of pm73media, Matt Stephenson sat down with Epiphany Systems co-founder and ZZ Top Level beard sophisticant Rob Bathurst for a ...
Brian Haugli: Applying the NIST Protocols for Human Sanity
February 21, 2022 22:59 - 1 hour - 163 MBBrian Haugli: Applying the NIST Protocols to Human Sanity Some serious people have worked very hard to create the protocols put in place to secure the world’s networks… why don’t we take to same amount of time and energy to secure the physical, mental and emotional health of our business leaders? I’m funny all the time… I’m not happy all the time… but at least I’m funny. I mean… if you’re gonna be anything all the time… you might as well be funny -- Henry Rollins Let’s acknowledge up ...
Anthony Freed: Lead Them Where They’re Dying to Go
February 15, 2022 01:37 - 1 hour - 140 MBCAFFEE: I need to shake him, put him on the defensive and lead him right where he’s dying to go. WEINBERG: That’s it? That’s the plan? CAFFEE: That’s the plan. WEINBERG: How you gonna do it? CAFFEE: I have NO idea -- A Few Good Men, 1992: written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Rob Reiner When you look back over the last 10+ years of what has happened in the world of Cybersecurity, something that is incredibly important is how the stories are portrayed. That’s a key word: sto...
Tom Pace: Pick Your Frustrating
February 07, 2022 22:35 - 48 minutes - 111 MBTom Pace: Pick Your Frustrating If you’re going to anything interesting… you’re gonna have to go hard -- Henry Rollins Welcome to the premier episode of the pm73media podcast! For those of you who have been with me for awhile you will recall the era of Insecurity where we had some fabulous guests. Our brief stint as the No Name Security Podcast had its moments but is kind of the Timothy Dalton James Bond if you feel me… Lots of great things are in motion and I am back on the schedule so make...
Greg Crabb: What CISOs can learn from the US Postal Service and… the Russian Security Service?
October 27, 2021 22:12 - 1 hour - 150 MBMessenger of Sympathy and Love Servant of Parted Friends Consoler of the Lonely Bond of the Scattered Family Enlarger of the Common Life Carrier of News and Knowledge Instrument of Trade and Industry Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance Of Peace and of Goodwill Among Men and Nations -- Inscription found on the the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum Победить и вернуться -- Motto of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Imagine being ...
Elisa Costante and Ellen Sundra: Do you know what the NicheStack TCP/IP stack is…?
September 27, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 156 MBOn this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson welcomes Elisa Costante, VP of Research and Ellen Sundra, Chief Customer Officer at Forescout for a discussion about the vulnerabilities that plague Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure. With nearly 40 years of combined experience finding, understanding and solving the security issues that can cripple a nation, our guests bring some very esoteric knowledge in a way that the rest of us can understand. Dig it… About...
Elisa Costante and Ellen Sundra: Do you know what the NicheStack TCP/IP stack is…?
September 27, 2021 17:52On this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson welcomes Elisa Costante, VP of Research and Ellen Sundra, Chief Customer Officer at Forescout for a discussion about the vulnerabilities that plague Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure. With nearly 40 years of combined experience finding, understanding and solving the security issues that can cripple a nation, our guests bring some very esoteric knowledge in a way that the rest of us can understand. Dig it… About...
Elisa Costante and Ellen Sundra: Do you know what the NicheStack TCP/IP stack is…?
September 27, 2021 17:52On this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson welcomes Elisa Costante, VP of Research and Ellen Sundra, Chief Customer Officer at Forescout for a discussion about the vulnerabilities that plague Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure. With nearly 40 years of combined experience finding, understanding and solving the security issues that can cripple a nation, our guests bring some very esoteric knowledge in a way that the rest of us can understand. Dig it… About...
Clint Bodungen and Brian Proctor: How At Risk is our Critical Infrastructure?
September 08, 2021 15:14 - 59 minutes - 148 MBOn this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson brings in ThreatGEN Founder/CEO and Hacking Exposed: Industrial Control Systems author Clint Bodungen alongside Forescout Technologies Inc. Principal OT Strategist Brian Proctor for a sit-down. We take a hard look at the state of security for Operational Technology, Blue and Red teaming for OT, the cybersecurity Skills Gap and a few other things. About Clint Bodungen Clint Bodungen (@R1ngZer0) is a world-renowned industrial...
Mitch Greenfield: Hospitals are Under Continuous Cyberattack… What Can We Do?
August 31, 2021 19:47 - 1 hour - 169 MBOnce upon a time, Gartner predicted that by 2020, more than 25 percent of cyberattacks in healthcare delivery organizations would involve some kind of IoT device. In medical terms, that means wirelessly connected and digitally monitored implantable medical devices like pacemakers, deep brain neurostimulators and insulin pumps. These aren’t the esoteric things that mioght make the world go round, but are difficult to explain to the layperson. But the people who are literally kept alive...
INFRA:HALT: Discovering and Mitigating Large-Scale Operational Technology Vulnerabilities
August 26, 2021 19:41 - 1 hour - 180 MBINFRA:HALT vulnerabilities impact the closed source TCP/IP stack NicheStack that is used in millions of Operational Technologies and Industrial Control Systems, especially in the discrete and process manufacturing industries. Among the vulnerabilities are DNS cache poisoning, TCP spoofing, Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution. Successful attacks can result in taking OT and ICS devices offline and having their logic hijacked. Hijacked devices can spread malware to where they com...
INFRA:HALT: Discovering and Mitigating Large-Scale Operational Technology Vulnerabilities
August 26, 2021 19:41INFRA:HALT vulnerabilities impact the closed source TCP/IP stack NicheStack that is used in millions of Operational Technologies and Industrial Control Systems, especially in the discrete and process manufacturing industries. Among the vulnerabilities are DNS cache poisoning, TCP spoofing, Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution. Successful attacks can result in taking OT and ICS devices offline and having their logic hijacked. Hijacked devices can spread malware to where they com...
Patrick Miller and Brian Proctor: What’s Left to Hack in Critical Infrastructure?
August 20, 2021 00:27 - 1 hour - 162 MBPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism -- Chuck Palahniuk; author We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies t...
Patrick Miller and Brian Proctor: What’s Left to Hack in Critical Infrastructure?
August 20, 2021 00:26Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism -- Chuck Palahniuk; author We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies t...
Kurtis Minder, Tom Pace and Scott Scheferman: Black Hat 2021… What Did We Learn?
August 13, 2021 17:02 - 1 hour - 178 MBCoolness is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style which is generally admired. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning. It has associations of composure and self-control and often is used as an expression of admiration or approval. Although commonly regarded as slang, it is widely used among disparate social groups and has endured in usage for generations. -- Wikipedia ...
Black Hat 2021 Volume Two: The Conversations We Missed in 2020
August 11, 2021 23:26 - 53 minutes - 122 MB“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down For Episode Two of our Black Hat coverage, we sat down for a chat with two Founders to see what their experience of Black Hat 2021 looked like. This was a raw, real conversation… no edits… no podcast host questions… just...
Black Hat 2021 Volume One: Not the Show We’re Used to… But the Show We Need
August 10, 2021 15:54 - 1 hour - 153 MBElijah Snow: It's a strange world Jakita Wagner: Let's keep it that way" -- Planetary: Warren Ellis & John Cassaday Black Hat 2021 was unlike any other previous edition and likely will be unlike any that follow. The rise of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 put the world back on edge after we had been slowly creeping toward something that felt like normalcy. When the show was announced, the cybersecurity industry rejoiced as this meant it was time to really get back to how we h...
Black Hat 2021 Volume One: Not the Show We’re Used to… But the Show We Need
August 10, 2021 15:54Elijah Snow: It's a strange world Jakita Wagner: Let's keep it that way" -- Planetary: Warren Ellis & John Cassaday Black Hat 2021 was unlike any other previous edition and likely will be unlike any that follow. The rise of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 put the world back on edge after we had been slowly creeping toward something that felt like normalcy. When the show was announced, the cybersecurity industry rejoiced as this meant it was time to really get back to how we h...
Sajed Naseem: Does Cybersecurity Need a Kick in the Pants?
July 19, 2021 21:57 - 1 hour - 182 MB-- Calvin and Hobbes courtesy of Bill Waterson None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy. -- Leslie Odom, Jr. What if the worst day of your life ended up being just another Zoom meeting on someone else’s calendar? What if that day ended up being a part of a data breach due to a cyberattack from someone half a world away who didn’t know or c...
Scott Scheferman: Is Ransomware about Money, Power or Leverage?
June 28, 2021 22:37 - 1 hour - 183 MB-- Photo credit: Huss Harden When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power -- Top Dog; 2014, written by Dougie Brimson Ransomware is the biggest buzzword in the news right now, and rightfully so. You can’t turn on a network police procedural without someone getting extorted for $100,000 in Bitcoin. But are the news agencies getting the story completely accurate? Y...
Kurtis Minder: The Seven Dirty Words of Cybersecurity
June 22, 2021 02:32 - 1 hour - 153 MB“The bad guys know they are bad guys—they are trying to pretend to be businesspeople… as long as you pretend with them that this is just a normal business transaction, it goes better.” -- Kurtis Minder; Fortune, 01 June 2021 If you have been reading about or watching news shows discussing ransomware, more than likely, you have seen Kurtis Minder. He has been nearly omnipresent across multiple platforms because his team at Groupsense has been putting in the work to help the v...
David Finn and Tony Douglas: How at Risk Are Our Healthcare Networks?
June 17, 2021 14:34 - 1 hour - 145 MBHow at Risk Are Our Healthcare Networks? Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict. -- Geneva Conventions; Article 18, Section 3, Fourth Geneva Convention Even at humanity’s worst, we could reach agreements on the kind of behavior that was acceptable in times of war. Attacks on healthcare ...
Bad Guys Hacked the National Oil Supply Chain… Now What?
May 21, 2021 17:43 - 1 hour - 148 MBWhen the DarkSide hacking group attacked the Colonial Pipeline, they may have gotten a bit more than they bargained for. Colonial has acknowledged paying $4.4 million in ransom in order to bring their systems back online as quickly as possible. It was a decision they had to make quickly, but had to consider a myriad of variables in the process. Joseph Blount, Colonial CEO stated “I know that’s a highly controversial decision… I didn’t make it lightly. I will admit that I wasn’t comfo...
Once More Unto the Breach: Disinformation is the Malware of a Free Society
March 18, 2021 20:44 - 1 hour - 147 MB“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true” -- Lady Gaga “The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” -- Garry Kasparov In this week’s Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson shares a LinkedIn LIVE event featuring Jamil Jaffer and Brandon Soroudi for a chat about the role cybersecurity has and must play in the ...
International Women’s Day: Hacking Inclusion and Diversity
March 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB“I would like to see people, the public and the press and other athletes in general just realise and respect women for who we are, what we are and what we do… I’ve been working at this since I was three years old… Basically my whole life I’ve been doing this and I haven’t had a life and I don’t think I deserve to be paid less because of my sex. Or anyone else for that matter, in any job.” -- Serena Williams On this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson moderated a discussion...
Tony Cole: Using Deception to Safeguard the Truth
March 01, 2021 19:47 - 48 minutes - 76.2 MBI believe that we should be teaching our kids, students and employees when and how to lie -- Maurice Schweitzer; professor, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. -- Lord Byron; Don Juan, Canto 11 This week, Matt Stephenson welcomes Attivo Networks CTO Tony Cole to InSecurity for chat about the role deception techniques play in security. But that’s not all… we get into how the privatiza...
Paraneon: Cyberpunk Comics for Hackers, by Hackers
February 24, 2021 04:14 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBWe face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy. -- James Comey I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal. -- Mikko Hypponen What happens on InSecurity when Matt Ste...
Bill Hunter: Hacking the Stock Market with Emojis and Catch Phrases
February 18, 2021 22:07 - 59 minutes - 92.7 MB“You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've ...
Once More Unto the Breach: Protecting Embedded Systems and Public Infrastructure
February 11, 2021 19:17 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBSecuring embedded systems presents unique and complex challenges when it comes to organizing and assessing software assets during assurance activities. The closed source nature of the supply chain and volume of differing components has made this a onerous and costly activity -- IIOT World On this Very Special Episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson spoke with BlackBerry CTO Adam Boulton and IoT Security Services Lead Ian Todd about protecting embedded systems and how that ...
Jamil Jaffer: What Role Should Government Play in Cybersecurity?
February 05, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBTogether we stand, divided we fall Come on now people, let's get on the ball and work together Come on, come on let's work together, now now people Because together we will stand, every boy every girl and a man -- Let’s Work Together, Canned Heat A truly rollicking episode of InSecurity finds Matt Stephenson trying to keep up with National Security Institute Director Jamil Jaffer as we run all over the cybersecurity world. The private sector isn’t charged with de...
Chris Blask: Securing the Global Supply Chain with DBOM
February 02, 2021 17:49 - 1 hour - 117 MBThe diversity of the global supply chain that makes it critical to modern society also makes it very difficult to know where all of the components of a device came from. Who designed each part, who made it, who put it into a device, who sold it, and who bought it? Inside the sheet metal or plastic shells of our personal and business equipment is a fractal maze of assemblies and subassemblies reaching down to the nanometer scale and beyond into the virtual world. Securely Capitalize ...
Cybersecurity: Looking Ahead in 2021
January 29, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutes - 115 MBI was a peripheral visionary I could see the future, but only way off to the side -- Steven Wright, 1990 A Very Special Episode of InSecurity… Matt Stephenson hosted a web event with BlackBerry Senior Leadership including CTO John McClurg, Chief Evangelist Brian Robison, VP Research Operations Tony Lee and Director Threat Hunting & Research Claudiu Teodorescu. We had a chat about what they were looking at in the cybersecurity universe for 2021. They are particularly int...
Richard Stiennon: Security Can’t Get Any Worse… Can It?
January 25, 2021 21:37 - 1 hour - 108 MB“It's just a straight sequence, which is mind-numbing to me… This is like a Computer Science 101 bad homework assignment, the kind of stuff that you would do when you're first learning how web servers work. I wouldn't even call it a rookie mistake because, as a professional, you would never write something like this." -- Kenneth White, codirector of the Open Crypto Audit Project On this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson sits down with Richard Stiennon for a chat abo...
InSecurity 2020: The Best of the Worst Year EVAR, Fourth Quarter
January 20, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBThis is not the end - it's just another song It's only one opinion, right or wrong Open up your heart - just one more time for me Before we turn to face reality Don't stop to think This perfect chance may never come again This is not the end Let me use your ears - just for a little while I've got to find a way to make you smile This is not my fault, I'm not responsible These tiny grooves can only take so much There's only one more thing I have to say to you So long for now, be...
Manish Gupta: How Has Development Changed in the Last 5 Years?
January 14, 2021 22:44 - 1 hour - 103 MBABC "A", always "B", be "C", closing ALWAYS BE CLOSING Always be closing. -- Blake; GlenGarry GlenRoss, David Mamet, 1992 Now we are taking some liberties there with that bit… but apply that philosophy to secure code development… now swap in Integrating or Developing for Closing… ABD… "A", always. "B", be. “D” Developing… or… well you get the point On this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson speaks with Manish Gupta, CEO of ShiftLeft about the imp...
InSecurity 2020: The Best of the Worst Year EVAR, Third Quarter
January 12, 2021 02:21 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBPlanets are lining up California's gonna slide into the sea It's the third great woe It's the thousand-year peace (Spin your partner while you can) No one wants to hear Spoon-feed me the good news forget about the rest Lemmings never fear I repeat, this is only a test I'm much better now I was down there for awhile, I guess I saw the light Oh, it was crazy, anyhow It's no worse than before, I guess you folks were right Yeah, I'm much better now Pass me the chips, tur...
InSecurity 2020: The Best of the Worst Year EVAR, Second Quarter
January 05, 2021 21:54 - 1 hour - 115 MBHard times spreading just like the flu Watch out homeboy, don't let it catch you P-p-p-prices go up, don't let your pocket go down When you got short money you're stuck on the ground Turn around, get ready, keep your eye on the clock And be on point for the future shock -- Run DMC; Hard Times, 1983 Back for more! The 2nd quarter of 2020 saw the world go into full lockdown. We all had to learn to live in a world where busines and personal happened at the same time in t...
InSecurity 2020: The Best of the Worst Year EVAR, First Quarter
December 30, 2020 22:09 - 1 hour - 108 MBIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. -- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities It’s that time again! Time to take a look back on the year that was. This episode takes a look at the time from January through the end of March. Ah y...
Alan Pentz: What is the Long Competition?
December 23, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 106 MBI know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones -- Albert Einstein If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on t...
Ted Harrington: You Need to Secure Your App… then PROVE It
December 18, 2020 19:41 - 51 minutes - 80.5 MBELLIE: How do you know you’re not deluding yourself? As for me, I’d need proof. PALMER: Proof. Did you love your father? ELLIE: Huh? PALMER: Your Dad, did you love him? ELLIE: Yes, very much. PALMER: Prove it. That is, of course, Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway and Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss in Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 adaptation of Carl Sagan’s 1984 novel Contact On this week’s InSecurity, Matt Stephenson got some time with ethical hacker Ted Harrington, ...