Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks the news of the week including Robert "RSnake" Hansen on the Equifax data breach, Chris Sumner of Online Privacy Association on Facebook's analysis of fake news operations and ASPertise: a consulting firm that specializes in hiring professionals with Aspergers and Autism spectrum disorders.

Security Ledger's Paul Roberts talks with Kyle Wiens of Repair.org about efforts in Massachusetts and other states to pass 'right to repair' laws covering a wide range of connected and Internet of Things devices. Also: Facebook awarded its $100,000 Internet Defense prize to a team from UC Berkeley that came up with a better way to spot spear phishing campaigns. And: Johannes Ullrich of The SANS Internet Storm Center talks about his experiment to see how common attacks on Internet connected Digital Video Recorders are. The results may surprise you.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with maritime cyber security expert Ruben Santamarta of IOActive about the recent spate of US navy collisions and whether hacking may have played a role. Also: Alan Brill of Kroll's cyber security division talks about pending legislation on Capitol Hill that would set standards for the Internet of Things. Finally, Paul speaks with Mary Loughlin of the firm Veracode about a recent survey that found almost two thirds of computer science graduates don't believe their security education prepared them for their current job.

Security Ledger publisher and Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks to Leah Figueroa, a Texas-based researcher who warns that colleges and universities - maybe even K-12 school districts - regularly divulge reams of student data to whomever asks, some of it is so-called personally identifying information or PII. Also: Paul talks with Assaf Harel about the future of the "Devil's Ivy" vulnerability in gSOAP. Will it lead to the next Mirai botnet? Finally, Ashwin Almad of Endgame talks about a new Forrester survey that finds companies struggling to find the people and tools to prevent hacks and data leaks.

With DEFCON's Voting Village in the rear view mirror, Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks about the security of elections systems with two experts: Bev Harris, the founder of Black Box Voting, and Eric Hodge, the director of consulting at CyberScout, which is working with the Board of Elections in Kentucky and in other states to help secure elections systems.

Policy makers may worry about so-called "Black Swan" events - low probability occurrences that 'nobody saw coming.' But is it ever the case that things happen that nobody saw coming? Our guest on this week’s podcast would say “no.” He is Richard Clarke, a former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States and a veteran of four administrations, from President Ronald Reagan through to President George W. Bush. In his new book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, Richard and co-author R.P. Eddy interview people who warned fruitlessly about pending disasters like 9/11 and the Fukashima nuclear power plant, as well as those who are warning us today about threats that elected officials, government experts and policy makers are ignoring.

Could a cyber attack darken US cities for days? weeks? months? The Security Ledger talks with Joe Weiss, a noted expert on the cyber security of the electric grid and critical infrastructure. Joe says that the means to achieve a long term power outage is there. All that's missing is the motive.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Michael Daniel, President of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Cybersecurity Coordinator under President Barack Obama about the evolving US-Israel relationship as it relates to cyber security. The two spoke on the sidelines of Tel Aviv University's Cyber Week Conference on June 26th.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Richard Moulds of the firm Whitewood about the struggle to produce truly random numbers that are needed to generate strong encryption keys.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Jon Condra, the Director of East Asia Research at the firm Flashpoint. Condra is the author of Flashpoint's Business Risk Intelligence Decision Report which presents the firm's thinking about major cyber security actors including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, and trends, including cyber crime and hacktivism.