CyberBites Podcast

As you all may recall I put out an invitation to all of the candidates who are running for positions in the Speedway town government. The first person to take me up on this offer was Monty Combs who is the incumbent for the Clerk-Treasurer position. Monty and I sat down a couple of weeks ago where I had the opportunity to ask him questions about the role of the Clerk-Treasurer, his past four years, his goals for the next four years, and why the citizens of this town should vote for him over his opponent Michelle Lidy. I greatly appreciate Monty for taking the time to sit down with me. I said it in the interview, it takes guts for someone to step up to the plate like he did and going on the record. I give him a lot of credit for coming on the show.

Side note:

This is the first episode that I used my new production setup. Please forgive any loss in my normal recording quality. I am still getting use to editing in with the new setup.

Links:

https://www.speedwayin.gov/clerk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w9Qf43LNX4

This week I was fortunate to be interviewed by Terri Stacy of WIBC here in Indianapolis. Terri invited me on her show to talk cyber safety and the NCSAM. 

Happy October everyone and welcome to National Cybersecurity Awareness month. This year’s theme is Own it, Secure, it, Protect it. NCSAM is in its 16th year and is supported by US-DHS, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, multiple state and local governments and the private sector. My company Iuvare Cyber, which supports this podcast is a NCSAM Champion for the second year in a row. This whole month is meant to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity. I will talk a bit more about NCSAM after bit.

There were some troubling stories that I came across this past week from the US and from the EU about government bodies and individuals in government pushing social medial companies specifically Facebook and Twitter to delete “offense” posts about government officials and political parties to suspend a political rivals account. This is a dangerous and slippery slope that we are facing. In my opinion it is a dangerous if not more dangerous than what the democrats are accusing Trump of doing with the Ukraine’s.

[Links]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/464161-top-eu-court-rules-that-facebook-can-be-forced-to-remove-some-material

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/463952-harris-presses-twitter-to-do-something-over-trumps-coup-tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464006-harris-spokesman-points-to-gabbard-pushback-on-call-to-suspend-trump-on

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/463856-dnc-accuses-facebook-of-allowing-trump-to-mislead-american-people

NCSAM Links

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/themes/

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/get-involved/

https://niccs.us-cert.gov/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/about-ncsam/

We are a generation raised by government, is more government really what we need? So I took a classic Fight Club line and changed it up so sue me. I really get tired of other people wanting to take my money and spend it on things we just do not need and the government making decisions that just end up costing us, the end consumer more and more. 

The past week the New York Times published an opinion article titled “We need a PBS for Social Media” I cannot tell you how wrong and how stupid of an idea this is. At the end of the day all this is doing is expanding government, redistributing money from taxpayers to a government-controlled organization, but most importantly it won’t solve the problem it is saying exists.

The next victim of the U.S versus China tariff war are Apple’s Mac Pro computers. What our fearless political leaders often fail to realize when it comes to economics is that at the end of the day the consumers are always the ones who lose in these wars.

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/opinion/public-broadcasting-facebook.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-will-build-new-mac-pros-in-texas-amid-tariffs?cmpid=NL_SciTech

This week I discuss the accusations being made against the US Government by Huawei. Apparently, the US government is committing cyber-attacks among other tactics against the Chinese telecommunications company. I also talk about an article from Vice about State DMVs selling your data to private companies. Finally, I end the show with my interview with Joel Neidig the CEO of SIMBA Chain.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investigators-making-millions-of-dollars?utm_campaign=sharebutton

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20849092/huawei-cyberattacks-us-government-netowrks-employee-harassment

What does Amazon's Echo and Apple Watches have do with gun control? Why is the DOJ going after user info of a gun scope app? Find out my thought and more. I also was able to connect with Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty to get his views on this subject.

This week’s episode is my latest interview with friend of the show, Lindsay Marie of Townhall.com. We covered the gambit of topics from the field of 2020 Democrat candidates, the Area 51 stormers, disinformation, to her March doxing article. I am super thankful for her taking time out of her schedule to talk liberty, tech, cybersecurity, and politics.

This episode I had the pleasure of sitting down with Teddy Guzek, Cybersecurity Director for Eleven Fifty's Cybersecurity Academy & Cyber Range. We had a really great conversation on training, cyber-skills, workforce development, and the Eleven Fifty's brand new cyber training center in downtown Indianapolis, IN. If you are interested in their cybersecurity course or their other coding courses check them out here https://elevenfifty.org.

This week's show is the second of three interviews I conducted at the CyberTech Midwest 2019 Conference here in Indianapolis, IN. At the end of day two, I was able to get a couple of minutes to talk to CyberTech's own, Julia Kraut.

Over the two days at CyberTech Midwest 2019, I was able to catch up with Chetrice Mosley. Chetrice is the Cybersecurity Program Director for the State of Indiana. I was able to get her thoughts on the conference at the end of day 1 and day 2.