Jim "Mad Dog" Lawler is a national security consultant, serving as the Senior Partner at MDO Group, which provides HUMINT training to the Intelligence Community and the commercial sector focused on WMD, CI, technical and cyber issues. He served for 25 years as a CIA case officer and is a noted speaker on Insider Threat within the government sector. He stops by and we discuss CIA war stories, Misconceptions of the Agency, Espionage, Counter Intelligence, Detecting Insider Threats and Spy Nov...

Mike Jones AKA the H4unt3d hacker, is a security researcher who formerly hacked underGROUND groups. He served in the military for several years within SIGINT operations. Mike started the H4unt3d hacker podcast from scratch, wanting to give people a unique point of view about cybersecurity. He has built a global community of members from different walks of life, religions, backgrounds and disciplines. Mike transends into BarCode to discuss his origins, Hacktivism, SIGNIT, in the military, pod...

Robert Bateman, head of content at GRC World Forums, is a well-respected expert on data protection, privacy, and security law. He built his reputation by producing in-depth reports on legal updates, compliance guidance documents for businesses, and news articles about the latest industry trends. He also has a deep interest in digital rights and is an avid supporter of free speech. We discuss EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Upstream and Prism NSA, Meta's Threat to the EU, Clearview, Open...

Crane Hassold is a threat researcher at Abnormal Security who specializes in discovering and analyzing malicious email campaigns targeting enterprises. He also works closely with law enforcement agencies to help bring these bad actors out into the open. Before joining Abnormal Security, Hassold was a senior investigator at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), where he worked for over eleven years. While there, he focused on identifying and tracking emerging threats such as sophisticate...

Mikko Hyppönen is considered one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts. He is known for his work on IoT security, where he coined the term “The Hyppönen law”. Currently he is working as Chief Research Officer at Withsecure and as Principal Research Advisor at F Secure. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford and Oxford and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. He was named among the 50 most influential people on the we...

As Imprivata’s VP of Worldwide Engineering, Cyber, Joel Burleson-Davis is responsible for overseeing teams in the organization that build and deliver cybersecurity solutions. Prior to joining Imprivata, he was an engineering manager in Sydney, Australia for 6 years. He holds a master’s degree in liberal arts from St. Edward’s University where his focus was on philosophy and behavioral sciences applied to technology. He has been working in cybersecurity for over 20 years and we link up at the ...

Most of what we do in the cybersecurity field is a direct result of a sinister underworld that most of us will never have full visibility into. This is a story of an individual who started, and led ShadowCrew, a major cybercrime syndicate within that underworld. After being identified and placed on the US Most Wanted List, he was ultimately captured, imprisioned, escaped prison, and captured again. He served his time, and now is considered a leading authority on internet crime, identity theft...

Eran Sinal is the CEO of IDSeal, a company that is dedicated to helping people keep their identities secure and protected from identity thieves. Based out of Charlotte in North Carolina, Eran has been in the business for 25 years and is very passionate about identity protection. He and his company work very hard to keep their clients safe and has dedicated his life to safeguarding people and their reputations. Eran believes that identity theft is one of the biggest security challenges for a...

Robert Leale is the president of CanBusHack, President of Pivvit and is also Founder of Car Hacking Village which can be seen at Def Con, DerbyCON, GrrCON, CypherCon, THOTCON, and many more hacking conferences across the globe. He stops by BarCode and we discuss vulnerable technology in automobiles, manufacturer responsibilities, car hacking tools, how to secure your vehicle and Car Hacking Village. SYMLINKS Twitter CanBusHack Car Hacking Village Flipper Zero ProxMark3 Introduction to Car Ha...

Jack Rhysider is the creator and host of the Darknet Diaries podcast, which features true stories from the dark side of the Internet. He stops by BarCode and we discuss the origin of his own story, masking of his identity, developing storytelling skills, growing an audience, productivity hacks for entrepreneurial content creators, and more. SYMLINKS Twitter Darknet Diaries Khan Academy | Pixar in a box Radiolab Serial This American Life Down the Security Rabbithole Paul’s Security Weekly Sec...