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Podcast Episode 94: Black Report takes Hacker View and Securing the Open Source Supply Chain

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast we do a deep dive into the recent Black Report by NUIX – which flips the script by asking hackers and pen testers their opinions about how they hack firms and what defensive strategies and technologies work best at stopping them. Also: Rami Sass the CEO and co-founder of this week’s sponsor, WhiteSource Software, joins us in the Security Ledger studios to talk about how a white knuckle audit of his company’s open source dependencies eight years ago prompted him to start WhiteSource, which makes a tool for managing the open source software supply chains. 

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Report: Chinese Ties to US Tech Firms put Federal Supply Chain at Risk

China poses a serious and immediate cybersecurity threat to the federal supply chain in part because of connections Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have to key tech companies working in the government sector, a report recently issued by the U.S. China Commission has found.

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Episode 85: Supply Chain Attacks and Hacking Diversity with Leon Johnson

In this week’s Podcast (#85), we’re joined by Adam Meyers of the firm CrowdStrike to talk about that company’s Global Threat Report for 2018. Also: we continue our observation of Black History Month in the US by talking to prominent information security professionals from the black community. This week, our guest is Leon Johnson, a principal pen tester at the firm Rapid 7 about becoming the first person in his family to go to college and then finding his way to information security.

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Cisco warns of Internet of Things, Supply Chain Risk

Cisco Systems warned that companies need to do a better job monitoring IoT devices and third party software providers, as Internet of Things based botnets and supply chain attacks become more common.

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Is CCleaner the Tip of an Iceberg of Supply Chain Hacks? And Alexa: did China hack us Last Night?

In the latest Security Ledger podcast, Paul speaks with Michael Gorelik of the firm Morphisec about the hack of security software vendor CCleaner – a hack that Gorelik’s firm discovered. CCleaner, he says, may just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to supply chain hacks. And: “Alexa: have we been hacked by China?” Paul speaks with Grant Wernick of the firm Insight Engines, which is releasing a product this week that integrates the Splunk log management tool with Amazon’s voice assistant. 

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