Podcast Episodes

Decipher Podcast Ep. 10 - Stefan Tanase

Episode 10

Dennis Fisher talks with Stefan Tanase, a principal security researcher at Ixia, about the concept of Internet Balkanization, the consequences of large-scale censorship for users, and how technical a…

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 9 - Deciphering Office Space

Episode 9

For anyone who has worked a thankless job for a tyrannical, ineffectual boss, Office Space touches a nerve. The story of a trio of programmers--Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton, and Samir Nagheenanajar-…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 8 - Deciphering Hackers

Zero Cool. Acid Burn. Phantom Phreak. Cereal Killer. Lord Nikon. Twenty-three years after its release, the movie Hackers is still a touchstone for a generation that grew up with AOL disks in their ma…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 7 - Deciphering WarGames

Episode 7

Released in 1983 and starring '80s movie icons Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, and Dabney Coleman, WarGames was a huge hit in theaters and remains a classic 35 years later. The movie helped shape the…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 6 - Melanie Ensign

Episode 6

Communicating the fundamentals of privacy and security is a difficult task, but no more so than helping security and privacy professionals with the fundamentals of communication. In her role at Uber,…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 5 - Katie Moussouris

Episode 5

Hacker Katie Moussouris probably knows more about bug bounties, how companies use and misuse them, and the incentives that they create than just about anyone on the planet. She created Microsoft's fi…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Decipher Podcast Ep. 4 - Mikhail Davidov

Episode 4

Decipher Editor-in-Chief Dennis Fisher talks with Mikhail Davidov of Duo Labs about his new research paper on Apple's T2 security chip. The T2 is now included in all of the forthcoming MacBook Pro mo…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Decipher Podcast Episode 3- Richard Bejtlich

Decipher Editor-in-Chief Dennis Fisher talks with Richard Bejtlich, a veteran security practitioner, consultant, and author, about his new role at Corelight, the evolution of network defense, and the…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

Decipher Podcast Episode 2- Andy Greenberg

Andy Greenberg of Wired magazine joins Decipher Editor-in-Chief Dennis Fisher to discuss his in-depth cover story on the NotPetya malware outbreak of 2017 that masqueraded as ransomware but actually …

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

Decipher Podcast Episode 1

Episode 1

Decipher editors Dennis Fisher and Fahmida Rashid preview the talks at Black Hat USA 2018 and discuss the ways in which the conference has evolved in recent years.

Published on 7 years, 3 months ago