Avast Hacker Archives

In the Season 1 finale of the Avast Hacker Archives podcast, world renowned security analyst Keren Elazari joins Avast CISO Jaya Baloo to relate her story about entering the cybersecurity world, to explain how hacking is like the internet’s immune system, and to stress the importance of protecting your digital identity.

In the ninth episode of the Avast Hacker Archives podcast, Google Senior Director of Information Security and Privacy Heather Adkins talks with Avast CISO Jaya Baloo about the emergent needs and future direction of cybersecurity.

In the eighth episode of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives, security expert Dave Aitel demystifies the NSA, explains the fallacy of the term “zero-day,” and tells Avast CISO Jaya Baloo what started him down the hacker’s path.

In the seventh episode of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives, Avast CISO Jaya Baloo talks with Phil Zimmermann, creator of the PGP email encryption package and longtime activist for privacy and human rights.

In the sixth episode of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives, Avast CISO Jaya Baloo talks with Wendy Nather, Head of the Advisory CISO team at Cisco, about the challenges CISOs face today and the steps we need to take to make security effective for everyone.

Eva is currently Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Tech Advisor at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She’s on the front lines of the fight against stalkerware, and she tirelessly works to protect the digital freedom of the individual, particularly those likely to be preyed upon, like journalists, activists, and victims of abusive relationships. In our podcast, she explains to Avast CISO Jaya Baloo how she got so involved in the fight against stalkerware.

Welcome to Avast Hacker Archives, a new series that uncovers the AHA! Moments hackers and researchers have had over the course of their careers.

I am Jaya Baloo, CISO at Avast, and today’s guest is Troy Hunt, well-known web security consultant.

Troy is the Creator of “Have I Been Pwned?”, a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. He is most recognised for his commentary on high-profile data breaches in the media and to the US Congress. He is also an international speaker on web security and the author of many top-rated security courses for web developers on Pluralsight.

Thank you for joining us today!

In our third episode of Avast Hacker Archives, Avast CISO Jaya Baloo interviews seasoned hacker Chris Roberts, one of the world’s foremost experts on counterthreat intelligence and vulnerability research, about his “Aha!” moments in the world of hacking.

In Episode 2, Jaya interviews Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security. She specializes in helping businesses and governments work with hackers to better defend themselves from digital attacks.

We are very excited to share Episode 1 of our brand new series Avast Hacker Archives (AHA). Hosted by Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, the series showcases those valuable “Aha!” moments achieved by white hat hackers and researchers that changed the course of our digital world.

We’re kicking it off with our special guest Joe FitzPatrick, the Hardware Security Trainer and Researcher at SecuringHardware.com. Educated as an electrical engineer, Joe has spent over a decade working on silicon debugging, security validation, and penetration testing of CPU systems on chips and microcontrollers. He has worked at Intel, and he has trained hundreds of budding hackers and researchers. In his spare time, he contributes to the NSA playset.