Make systems to mitigate the mistakes.
Guest Margaret Cunningham from Forcepoint talks with Dave about cognitive biases that lead to reasoning errors in cybersecurity, Joe shares some follow-up from a listener named Alex about the Alexa ph...
22 Huhti 202142min
cold boot attack (noun) [Word Notes]
A type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer’s Random Access Memory or RAM during the reboot process in order to steal sen...
20 Huhti 20216min
Being aware can go a long way to prevent attacks.
Guest Herb Stapleton, the FBI’s cyber division sector chief, joins Dave to talk about the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report and its findings, Joe's story is about an ongoing IR...
15 Huhti 202135min
cloud computing (noun) [Word Notes]
On-demand pay-as-you-go Internet delivered compute, storage, infrastructure, and security services that are partially managed by the cloud provider and partially managed by the customer.
13 Huhti 20216min
Finding targets of opportunity.
Guest Peter Warmka, founder of the Counterintelligence Institute, joins Dave to talk about how insider targets are chosen and assessed, Joe shares a weird phone call he received, Dave's story from a T...
8 Huhti 202140min
APT (noun) [Word Notes]
An acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat to describe hacker groups or campaigns normally, but not always, associated with nation state cyber espionage and continuous low-level cyber conflict operatio...
6 Huhti 20216min
The pandemic is slowing, time to travel?
Guest Fleming Shi of Barracuda joins Dave to talk about about travel-related phishing attacks now that vaccines are more readily available, Dave and Joe share listener advice about preventative email ...
1 Huhti 202134min
backdoor (noun) [Word Notes]
An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages.
30 Maalis 20215min
