Podcast Episodes

Twitter’s Paywall 2FA, Mental Health Data for Sale, Meta’s Verified Program

Twitter is phasing out its free text message two-factor authentication (2FA) and putting the feature behind a paywall, prompting security experts to advise Twitter users to switch to other authentica…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company

Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems.

Advice on man…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Layoffs, Recruiting, and The Year Ahead for Cybersecurity Job Seekers

In this episode host Tom Eston sits down with Kathleen Smith, Chief Outreach Officer at ClearedJobs.net, to discuss the current state of the job market in the cybersecurity industry. With a recent su…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Password Managers Under Attack, Shady Reward Apps on Google Play, Meta Account Center 2FA Bypass

The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks, AI-Powered Phishing, Wi-Fi Used to See Humans Through Walls

A hacker discovered a copy of the US No Fly List, which contains the names of people banned from traveling in or out of the US on commercial flights, on an unsecured Jenkins server connected to a com…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Social Zombies Revisited: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains

On this week’s episode, We’re excited to bring you a classic conference talk that Tom Eston gave with co-host Kevin Johnson back in 2009 at DEF CON 17 in Las Vegas. The talk is called “Social Zombies…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Meta’s EU Ad Practices Ruled Illegal, Twitter API Data Breach, Vulnerabilities in Major Car Brands

Facebook has been ordered to pay a fine of $414m by EU regulators who ruled that the company had broken EU law by forcing users to accept personalized ads. The ruling could have a major impact on Fac…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

LastPass Password Vaults Stolen, Pig Butchering Scams, Okta Source Code Theft

Things get worse for LastPass as a security breach in November resulted in the theft of customer data, including encrypted password vaults and unencrypted web addresses.

Pig butchering scams, a varia…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

How to Stop Online Tracking: 3 New Ways

In this episode host Tom Eston discusses one of the biggest privacy concerns people have today, online tracking by companies and advertisers. Tom will cover the following topics, tips, and new techni…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The Year in Review and 2023 Predictions

In our last episode of the year, we discuss the year that was 2022. What did we get right? What did we get wrong? And what are our cybersecurity and privacy predictions for 2023?

Thank you to all of …

Published on 3 years ago