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Episode 84: Free Alexa! Cory Doctorow on jailbreaking Voice Assistants and hacking diversity with Rapid7’s Corey Thomas

In this week’s Security Ledger Podcast (#84): The 1990s era Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it a crime to subvert copy protections in software and hardware.  We speak with Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about his group’s efforts to win an exemption from that law for voice assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Also: February is Black History Month in the United States. We interview Corey Thomas, the Chief Executive Officer of the firm Rapid 7 about what it means to be a black man in the information security industry and about his path to the field.

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NIST Floats Internet of Things Cybersecurity Standards

There are plenty of standards that can be used to help secure The Internet of Things, but not much evidence that they’re being used, according to NIST, which calls on government and industry to settle on conforming standards for IoT products in a new report. 

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What the UK Knows: Five Things That Link NotPetya to Russia

The UK’s Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad said that the UK Government believes Russia was responsible for the destructive NotPetya cyber-attack of June 2017. How can they be sure? We look at five, strong clues pointing back to the Kremlin.

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Sour Patch: NotPetya’s Cleanup Cost to Mondelez Tops $80 million

The NotPetya wiper malware took a bite out of candy maker Mondelez International’s 2017 earnings, the company has reported. 

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IoT Security’s Known Unknowns | Network World

As Internet of Things devices proliferate, it’s more important to discover how many and what kind are on your network and figure out how to make them secure. Editor’s Note: this article first appeared on Network World. You can read the article here at Network World Insider. 

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