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Chat with Michael Coates about data security
Episode 149
Josh and Kurt have a chat with Michael Coates from Altitude Networks. We cover what Altitude is up to as well as general trends we're seeing around d…
6 years, 9 months ago
You just got pwnt, what now?
Episode 148
Josh and Kurt talk about public disclosure. We start out with a story about Canva, then discuss what do you do if you have a security incident? Who d…
6 years, 9 months ago
Scams and operations as part of the supply chain
Episode 147
Josh and Kurt talk about a new type of lockbox scams. We also discuss Slack being a target for nation state attacks. Do you consider your operations …
6 years, 9 months ago
What the @#$% happened to Microsoft?
Episode 146
Josh and Kurt talk about Microsoft. They're probably not the bad guys anymore, which is pretty wild. They're adding a Linux kernel to Window. Can we …
6 years, 9 months ago
What do security and fire have in common?
Episode 145
Josh and Kurt talk about fire. We discuss the history of fire prevention and how it mirrors many of things we see in security. There are lessons ther…
6 years, 10 months ago
The security of money, which one is best?
Episode 144
Josh and Kurt talk about the security of money. Not how to keep it secure, but the security issues around using cash, credit, and bitcoin. We also ta…
6 years, 10 months ago
Security lessons from the phone book
Episode 143
Josh and Kurt talk about the phone book (yeah, the big paper book people used to use). Kurt got one in the mail. While it's certainly a relic from an…
6 years, 10 months ago
Hypothetical security: what if you find a USB flash drive?
Episode 142
Josh and Kurt talk about what one could do if you find a USB drive. The context is based on the story where the Secret Service was rumored to have pl…
6 years, 10 months ago
Timezones are hard, security is harder
Episode 141
Josh and Kurt talk about the difficulty of security. We look at the difficulty of the EU not observing daylight savings time, which is probably magni…
6 years, 11 months ago
Good enough security is a pretty high bar
Episode 140
Josh and Kurt talk about identity. It's a nice example we can generally understand in the context of how much security is enough security? When we de…
6 years, 11 months ago