Hosted by Paul Roberts, The Security Ledger podcast features interviews with leading minds in the area of cyber security, threats and attacks. The Security Ledger is an independent security news website that explores the intersection of cyber security with business, commerce, politics and everyday life. Security Ledger provides well-reported and context-rich news and opinion about computer security topics that matter in our IP-enabled homes, workplaces and daily lives.
In-brief: Russia, China and North Korea are increasingly willing to use offensive cyber operations to weaken their enemies, including the United States, according to a report by the firm Flashpoint, which released its Business Risk Index report on Tuesday.
Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Jon Condra, the Director of East Asia Research at the firm Flashpoint. Condra is the author of Flashpoint’s Business Risk Intelligence Decision Report which presents the firm’s thinking about major cyber security actors including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, and trends, including cyber crime and hacktivism.
In-brief: In this Security Ledger podcast, Paul speaks with Sameer Dixit of Spirent Security Labs, a leading tester of connected (“smart”) vehicles. Truly secure, connected vehicles may be years away, he says. In the meantime, security flaws and poorly implemented features are a major issue, Dixit says, with many car companies still preferring bolt on security fixes over secure design.
Security Ledger Editor in Chief speaks with Sameer Dixit of the testing firm Spirent about the state of connected vehicle security, what kinds of security flaws may be lurking in late model vehicles and what car makers need to do to get in front of dangerous, remotely exploitable software vulnerabilities.
In-brief: We speak with Sean Dillon of the firm RiskSense, who helped reverse engineer DoublePulsar and EternalBlue, the Windows exploit tools used to help spread the WannaCry ransomware. We also chat with John Dickson of The Denim Group about the impact of President Trump’s Cyber Executive Order.
