Security Ledger Editor in Chief speaks with Sameer Dixit of the testing firm Spirent about the state of connected vehicle security, what kinds of security flaws may be lurking in late model vehicles and what car makers need to do to get in front of dangerous, remotely exploitable software vulnerabilities.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Sean Dillon, a senior security analyst at RiskSense who has analyzed exploits of key Windows security holes released by the group Shadow Brokers. Those exploits and tools have helped spread WannaCry, a ransomware program. Paul also talks with John Dickson, a Principal at the Denim group regarding President Trump’s Cyber Executive order.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Brian NeSmith, the CEO of Arctic Wolf, and Lior Div, the CEO of Cyberreason about the epidemic of ransomware attacks. Small businesses are being hit especially hard. We talk about what they can do about it.

Are passwords going the way of the horse and buggy? Security Ledger publisher and Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Robert Capps, the Vice President of Business Development at NuData Security. Capps' firm specializes in protecting companies from account takeovers and other online scams. He's no fan of passwords - but he isn’t convinced that the world will do away with them any time soon. Instead, he said, companies need to get better at spotting the actions of fraudulent actors, including scams like the creation of “synthetic identities” that combine stolen and fictional data as a way to defraud banks and merchants.

Security Ledger Publisher & Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Mark Loveless, aka "Simple Nomad," a senior security researcher at the firm DUO Security about the recent hack of more than 100 civil defense sirens in Dallas, Texas. A security researcher at the firm DUO Security - and a Texas resident - Loveless penned a blog post that raises questions about the official account of the incident and whether some element of computer intrusion may have played a part in the incident, which lasted close to two hours. Loveless notes that software based systems are not part and parcel of civil defense and emergency response apparatus. These systems, frequently, are poorly secured and vulnerable to remote, software based tampering.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief talks with Kate Starbird, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. Starbird has long studied an area called “Crisis Informatics,” which looks at the use of social media during crisis events. She talks about observing the growth of online rumoring, conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns as a byproduct of her research in recent years, and why she thinks that many of the conspiracies floating around the Internet today may, in fact, be the work of a small number of players.

With incidents like the hack of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Office of personnel management still fresh in peoples memory, the stakes are high. For an administration that hasn’t been shy about breaking with precedent, what will the impact of the Cyber Executive Order be? We sat down with two experts to get their thoughts.

The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of four men for carrying out a hack of Yahoo in 2014 that netted information on some 500 million users. Two of those indicted have ties to Russia’s FSB intelligence arm, while two appear to be freelancers. What do we know about the four men who were arrested? If true, what does the DOJ’s indictment mean for the state of play between Russia and the U.S. in this newest theater of battle? Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Igor Baikalov of the firm Securonix to get his thoughts.

Sven Dietrich of IEEE and City University of New York discusses the news of the week with Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts. Among the topics: the release of a trove of CIA hacking tools, James Comey's speech in Boston decrying strong encryption and the Orwellian Internet of Things.

Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts sits down to talk with Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at the firm CrowdStrike. An expert in advanced persistent threat style attacks - many of them launched by nation backed hackers - Dmitri talks about the significance of Russia's hacking of the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. and how the U.S. government may respond to future cyber threats.