Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Do you have a “smart” TV? Or an Internet-connected baby monitor? Then you are a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)! Welcome to the world of everyday devices being connected to the network, allowing you to change the temperature of your home while traveling, check up on your dogs from work, and have a Bluetooth speaker that can also fetch tomorrow’s weather forecast. While there are lots of great uses for these devices, their security (or lack thereof) is making many of us vulnerable to attack.

Today I speak at length with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, about the Internet of Things and how it’s already wreaking havoc on our world. We’ll tell you how to be smart about your smart devices!

We’ll also talk about the massive OneLogin password system breach and how hackers are increasingly turning to social media to target people for phishing attacks.

John Graham-Cumming is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. In 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing. He is a licensed radio amateur.

For Further Insight:

Website: http://jgc.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc

Additional Resources:

Save 40% off next year’s domain registration (and get FREE privacy) https://hover.com/transfermydomain

Social media increasingly used by hackers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/technology/hackers-hide-cyberattacks-in-social-media-posts.html

The Geek Atlas: https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

EFF’s page to help send comments to FCC on Net Neutrality: https://dearfcc.org/

Do you have a “smart” TV? Or an Internet-connected baby monitor? Then you are a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)! Welcome to the world of everyday devices being connected to the network, allowing you to change the temperature of your home while traveling, check up on your dogs from work, and have a Bluetooth speaker that can also fetch tomorrow’s weather forecast. While there are lots of great uses for these devices, their security (or lack thereof) is making many of us vulnerable to attack.

Today I speak at length with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, about the Internet of Things and how it’s already wreaking havoc on our world. We’ll tell you how to be smart about your smart devices!

We’ll also talk about the massive OneLogin password system breach and how hackers are increasingly turning to social media to target people for phishing attacks.

John Graham-Cumming is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. In 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing. He is a licensed radio amateur.

For Further Insight:

Website: http://jgc.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc

Additional Resources:

Save 40% off next year’s domain registration (and get FREE privacy) https://hover.com/transfermydomain

Social media increasingly used by hackers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/technology/hackers-hide-cyberattacks-in-social-media-posts.html

The Geek Atlas: https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

EFF’s page to help send comments to FCC on Net Neutrality: https://dearfcc.org/

Do you have a “smart” TV? Or an Internet-connected baby monitor? Then you are a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)! Welcome to the world of everyday devices being connected to the network, allowing you to change the temperature of your home while traveling, check up on your dogs from work, and have a Bluetooth speaker that can also fetch tomorrow’s weather forecast. While there are lots of great uses for these devices, their security (or lack thereof) is making many of us vulnerable to attack.

Today I speak at length with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, about the Internet of Things and how it’s already wreaking havoc on our world. We’ll tell you how to be smart about your smart devices!

We’ll also talk about the massive OneLogin password system breach and how hackers are increasingly turning to social media to target people for phishing attacks.

John Graham-Cumming is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. In 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing. He is a licensed radio amateur.

For Further Insight:

Website: http://jgc.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc

Additional Resources:

Save 40% off next year’s domain registration (and get FREE privacy) https://hover.com/transfermydomain

Social media increasingly used by hackers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/technology/hackers-hide-cyberattacks-in-social-media-posts.html

The Geek Atlas: https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

EFF’s page to help send comments to FCC on Net Neutrality: https://dearfcc.org/

Do you have a “smart” TV? Or an Internet-connected baby monitor? Then you are a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)! Welcome to the world of everyday devices being connected to the network, allowing you to change the temperature of your home while traveling, check up on your dogs from work, and have a Bluetooth speaker that can also fetch tomorrow’s weather forecast. While there are lots of great uses for these devices, their security (or lack thereof) is making many of us vulnerable to attack.

Today I speak at length with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, about the Internet of Things and how it’s already wreaking havoc on our world. We’ll tell you how to be smart about your smart devices!

We’ll also talk about the massive OneLogin password system breach and how hackers are increasingly turning to social media to target people for phishing attacks.

John Graham-Cumming is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. In 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing. He is a licensed radio amateur.

For Further Insight:

Website: http://jgc.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc

Additional Resources:

Save 40% off next year’s domain registration (and get FREE privacy) https://hover.com/transfermydomain

Social media increasingly used by hackers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/technology/hackers-hide-cyberattacks-in-social-media-posts.html

The Geek Atlas: https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

EFF’s page to help send comments to FCC on Net Neutrality: https://dearfcc.org/

Summer is upon us and for many of us that means travel - but before you even pack your bags, you need to listen to this podcast! In my second interview with Michael Kaiser (the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance), we discuss all the cyber security and privacy issues you need to consider: before you go and while you’re traveling. Going abroad this summer? There are even more things you need to consider well before you leave!

Also in this episode, I’ll tell you why Twitter’s new privacy policy changes are not in your favor, and how to fix it. Android’s next major software release, due out later this year, should finally address some of the major problems with getting updates. And I answer two questions from listeners on how best to deal with getting off mailing lists and tell you how secure Apple’s Message system really is.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

NCSA’s Cyber Trip Advisor: https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/resources/preview/tip-sheet-ncsas-cyber-trip-advisor

Undoing the new Twitter privacy settings: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/how-opt-out-twitters-new-privacy-settings

Secure messaging apps:

WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/

Signal: https://whispersystems.org/  

Summer is upon us and for many of us that means travel - but before you even pack your bags, you need to listen to this podcast! In my second interview with Michael Kaiser (the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance), we discuss all the cyber security and privacy issues you need to consider: before you go and while you’re traveling. Going abroad this summer? There are even more things you need to consider well before you leave!

Also in this episode, I’ll tell you why Twitter’s new privacy policy changes are not in your favor, and how to fix it. Android’s next major software release, due out later this year, should finally address some of the major problems with getting updates. And I answer two questions from listeners on how best to deal with getting off mailing lists and tell you how secure Apple’s Message system really is.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

NCSA’s Cyber Trip Advisor: https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/resources/preview/tip-sheet-ncsas-cyber-trip-advisor

Undoing the new Twitter privacy settings: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/how-opt-out-twitters-new-privacy-settings

Secure messaging apps:

WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/

Signal: https://whispersystems.org/  

Summer is upon us and for many of us that means travel - but before you even pack your bags, you need to listen to this podcast! In my second interview with Michael Kaiser (the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance), we discuss all the cyber security and privacy issues you need to consider: before you go and while you’re traveling. Going abroad this summer? There are even more things you need to consider well before you leave!

Also in this episode, I’ll tell you why Twitter’s new privacy policy changes are not in your favor, and how to fix it. Android’s next major software release, due out later this year, should finally address some of the major problems with getting updates. And I answer two questions from listeners on how best to deal with getting off mailing lists and tell you how secure Apple’s Message system really is.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

NCSA’s Cyber Trip Advisor: https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/resources/preview/tip-sheet-ncsas-cyber-trip-advisor

Undoing the new Twitter privacy settings: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/how-opt-out-twitters-new-privacy-settings

Secure messaging apps:

WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/

Signal: https://whispersystems.org/

The WannaCry virus hit over 200,000 computers in over 150 countries in a matter of days. While WannaCry spread quickly, it had some fatal flaws that prevented it from doing a lot more damage. However, these flaws will soon be fixed - Round 2 of this virus is already upon us. I speak with Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance to find the lessons we need to learn and what we need to do to protect ourselves from the next generations of this nasty malware. We also take a good look at who might be to blame for all of this and some thorny issues exposed by this attack. In other news, I’ll tell you how to find out if your HP laptop might be logging all of your keystrokes and how to fix it.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

10% off your first domain name order! https://www.hover.com/welcome/Firewalls

HP key logger: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-in-audio-driver-of-hp-laptops/

Got ransomware? Go here before paying! https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Start With Security: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/start-security-guide-business

Dept Homeland Security C-Cubed: https://www.dhs.gov/ccubedvp

The WannaCry virus hit over 200,000 computers in over 150 countries in a matter of days. While WannaCry spread quickly, it had some fatal flaws that prevented it from doing a lot more damage. However, these flaws will soon be fixed - Round 2 of this virus is already upon us. I speak with Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance to find the lessons we need to learn and what we need to do to protect ourselves from the next generations of this nasty malware. We also take a good look at who might be to blame for all of this and some thorny issues exposed by this attack. In other news, I’ll tell you how to find out if your HP laptop might be logging all of your keystrokes and how to fix it.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

10% off your first domain name order! https://www.hover.com/welcome/Firewalls

HP key logger: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-in-audio-driver-of-hp-laptops/

Got ransomware? Go here before paying! https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Start With Security: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/start-security-guide-business

Dept Homeland Security C-Cubed: https://www.dhs.gov/ccubedvp

The WannaCry virus hit over 200,000 computers in over 150 countries in a matter of days. While WannaCry spread quickly, it had some fatal flaws that prevented it from doing a lot more damage. However, these flaws will soon be fixed - Round 2 of this virus is already upon us. I speak with Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance to find the lessons we need to learn and what we need to do to protect ourselves from the next generations of this nasty malware. We also take a good look at who might be to blame for all of this and some thorny issues exposed by this attack. In other news, I’ll tell you how to find out if your HP laptop might be logging all of your keystrokes and how to fix it.

Michael Kaiser joined the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in 2008. As NCSA’s executive director, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet.

Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) each October, Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Mr. Kaiser has served on several nonprofit boards. He is currently the chair and a founding board member of SPINUSA, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Destiny Housing Corporation in New York City.

For Further Insight:

Web site: staysafeonline.org

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKaiserNCSA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staysafeonline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kaiser-3579752b

Additionally Important:

10% off your first domain name order! https://www.hover.com/welcome/Firewalls

HP key logger: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-in-audio-driver-of-hp-laptops/

Got ransomware? Go here before paying! https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Start With Security: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/start-security-guide-business

Dept Homeland Security C-Cubed: https://www.dhs.gov/ccubedvp