Podcast Episodes

What does materiality mean exactly?

Season 10 Episode 96

Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses the meaning of cybersecurity materiality.

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Andrea Little Limbago: Look at the intersection of the of humans and technology. [Social Science]

Season 1 Episode 33

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Computational Social Scientist Andrea Little Limbago shares her journey as a social scientist in cybersecurity. Andrea laments that she wishes she'd known there is n…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Prompts gone rogue. [Research Saturday]

Season 8 Episode 341

Shachar Menashe, Senior Director of Security Research at JFrog, is talking about "When Prompts Go Rogue: Analyzing a Prompt Injection Code Execution in Vanna.AI." A security vulnerability in the Vann…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The 18-year stowaway.

Season 8 Episode 2126

Deep firmware vulnerabilities affect chips from AMD. CISA warns of actively exploited Cisco devices. Solar inverters are found vulnerable to disruption. Iran steps up efforts to interfere with U.S. e…

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Cybersecurity leaders gear up for the ultimate test.

Season 8 Episode 2129

Black Hat kicks off with reassurances from global cyber allies. Researchers highlight vulnerabilities in car head units, AWS and 5G basebands. Alleged dark web forum leaders are charged in federal co…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

When updates attack.

Season 8 Episode 2124

Crowdstrike releases a postmortem. LoanDepot puts a multimillion dollar price tag on their ransomware incident. RHADAMANTHYS info stealer targets Israelis. Zola ransomware is an advanced evolution of…

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Cyberattack calls for an early dismissal.

Season 8 Episode 2123

Thousands of education sector devices have been maliciously wiped after an attack on a UK MDM firm. A perceived design flaw in Microsoft Authenticator leaves users locked out of accounts. SharpRino c…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

TikTok in the hot seat...again.

Season 8 Episode 2122

The justice department sues TikTok over alleged violations of children’s online privacy laws. Bad blood between Crowdstrike and Delta Airlines. The UK once again delays upgrades to their cybercrime r…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Cybersecurity is radically asymmetrically distributed.

Season 10 Episode 95

Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses the idea that Cybersecurity is radically asymmetrically distributed. It means that cybersecurity risk is not the same for all v…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Ron Brash: Problem fixer in critical infrastructure. [OT] [Career Notes]

Season 1 Episode 27

Director of Cyber Security Insights at Verve Industrial aka self-proclaimed industrial cybersecurity geek Ron Brash shares his journey through the industrial cybersecurity space. From taking his pare…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago