Category Archives: cybersecurity

Spotlight Podcast: How AI Is Reshaping The Cyber Threat Landscape

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Jim Broome, the CTO and President of MSSP DirectDefense about the evolution of cybersecurity threats and how technologies like AI are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape and the work of defenders and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP).

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Spotlight Podcast: How AI Is Reshaping The Cyber Threat Landscape

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Jim Broome, the CTO and President of MSSP DirectDefense about the evolution of cybersecurity threats and how technologies like AI are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape and the work of defenders and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP).

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) host Paul Roberts interviews Niels Provos of Lacework about his mission to use EDM to teach people about cybersecurity.

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) host Paul Roberts interviews Niels Provos of Lacework about his mission to use EDM to teach people about cybersecurity.

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Spotlight Podcast: Chris Petersen CEO Of RADICL On Protecting Defense Industry SMBs Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs

In this Spotlight Security Ledger podcast, Chris Petersen, the CEO and founder of RADICL, talks about his company's mission to protect small and midsized businesses serving the defense industrial base, which are increasingly in the cross-hairs of sophisticated, nation-state actors.

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Black Hat: Colin O’Flynn On Hacking An Oven To Make It Stop Lying

In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts speaks with Colin O'Flynn, CTO and founder of the firm NewAE about his work to patch shoddy software on his home's electric oven - and the bigger questions about owners rights to fix, tinker with or replace the software that powers their connected stuff.

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Episode 247: Into the AppSec Trenches with Robinhood CSO Caleb Sima

Paul speaks with Caleb Sima, the CSO of the online trading platform Robinhood, about his journey from teenage cybersecurity phenom and web security pioneer, to successful entrepreneur to an executive in the trenches of protecting high value financial services firms from cyberattacks.

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Episode 245: How AI is remaking knowledge-based authentication

Six decades in, password use has tipped into the absurd, while two-factor authentication is showing its limits. We talk with Matt Salisbury of Honeybadger HQ, which is using AI and machine learning to re-imagine knowledge-based authentication.

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Unveiled: How xHelper Android Malware Re-Installs Even After Factory Reset

Remember xHelper?A mysterious piece of Android malware that re-installs itself on infected devices even after users delete it or factory reset their devices—making it nearly impossible to remove.xHelper reportedly infected over 45,000 devices last year, and since then, cybersecurity researchers have been trying to unfold how the malware survives factory reset and how it infected so many