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Podcast Episode 112: what it takes to be a top bug hunter

Podcast Episode 112: what it takes to be a top bug hunter

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:54 — 45.7MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS 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? We talk with Jason Haddix of the firm Bug Crowd to find out. Also: The Internet Society’s Jeff Wilbur talks about the new #GetIoTSmart campaign to educate device makers and the public about Internet of Things security. 

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SIM swapping attacks allow attackers to reassign phone numbers to phone hardware they control. (Image courtesy of iFixit.)

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

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:08 — 21.9MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSSYour 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, we speak with Flashpoint* head of research Allison Nixon about how a recent rash of SIM swapping attacks highlights a looming crisis in online identity. 

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The Internet of Things is raising the stakes of destructive, cyber physical attacks, Bruce Schneier argues in his new book, Click Here to Kill Everybody.

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

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:10 — 67.7MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSSIn 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. Also: everyone knows that cyber security talent is hard to come by, and even harder to keep. But why does precious cyber talent walk? In our second segment, we’re joined by Deidre Diamond of cyber security placement firm CyberSN, who has all the answers.

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Electronic voting machines have been shown to be vulnerable to hackers.

Opinion: The Corporate Lessons of Election Hacks

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Recent demonstrations of election hacks are about more than ballots. They also contain important lessons for enterprises,  Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts argues in this opinion piece. (Note: this post first appeared on Hitachi Systems Security* web site.)

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