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Episode 260: The Art of Teaching Secure Coding with Tanya Janca

In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts welcomes Tanya Janca of She Hacks Purple back into the studio. Tanya talks about her newly released book: Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding, published by Wiley and the larger problem of how to promote the teaching of secure coding practices to developers.

A Subaru being remotely unlocked following a hack of the owner's STARLINK account. (Image courtesy of Sam Curry)

More Of The Shame: Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data

A now-patched flaw in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service exposed location information and driver data for millions of vehicles with nothing more than the vehicle’s license plate number – the latest jaw dropping smart vehicle security flaw discovered by the researcher Sam Curry.

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KIA KO! Web Hackers Vs. The Auto Industry Round 2

Researcher Sam Curry revealed a flaw in a KIA website that gave anyone with the license plate number of a KIA vehicle access to vehicle controls and driver data – highlighting the dire state of smart vehicle cyber security. 

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GitGuardian’s HasMySecretLeaked Is HaveIBeenPwned for DevOps

Amid a spike in attacks on software supply chains, GitGuardian launched HasMySecretLeaked.com, a site that allows developers and appsec teams to search for exposed secrets.

Spotlight: Traceable CSO Richard Bird on Securing the API Economy

In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview Richard Bird, the CSO of the firm Traceable AI about the challenge of securing application programming interfaces (APIs), which are increasingly being abused to steal sensitive data.