Hackwerk

Imagine you have a look on your wallet and all the crypto currencies asstets vanish...

With the rise of bitcoin we see also the rise of crypto crime and fraud. In this episode of hackwerk.io we discuss with our guest Koen Maris the impact of Crypto crime from Mt. Gox towards the IOTA seed fraud scheme. Koen share his insights from forensic work in Ccypto space with the show hosts Tyler Cohen Wood and Mirko Ross.

About our guest Koen Maris:

Koen Maris started an IT career as a software developer. This experience provided solid background in multi tier environments and a basis in the roll-out of complex IT projects. After a few years, he swapped development for ethical hacking because of a natural curiosity to find how systems fail. The start of technical career in IT security, however due to rise of security problems his career evolved from ethical hacking to security solutions integration and eventually to the more managerial side of security.

He has been CISO and security officer preceding his current role (since 2015) as a Chief Technology Officer at Atos for the region Benelux and the Nordics. He advices large organizations in a multi-industry environment to think on a long-term basis on Cyber Security and addresses complex security topics in layman terms for board of directors and executive committees.

Koen Maris serves as a trusted advisor for many organizations as the IOTA foundation and is becoming a known speaker that challenges his audience and questions current applied security models.

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Can you use a fleet of hacked smart devices to force a nationwide power blackout? Our guest and expert Harm van den Brink says YES.

Tyler Cohen Wood and Mirko Ross are discussing with the power grid and electric vehicle cybersecurity expert Harm van der Brink on the challenges to defend the power grids from being attacked.

Shownotes:

Read more from Harm on his Medium articles:

https://medium.com/codex/the-cyber-security-challenges-of-the-internet-of-energy-5b6fc966dba7

A button to switch off our entire electricity grid? We are creating one with unsecure high-power connected devices. Should we worry about it? The more high power devices (home appliances) are connected to the grid, the more we should worry about our grid stability and the availability of power. We should have cyber security in place before millions of those devices will be added to the grid. The regulation should be done on (at least) the European level.

https://harmvandenbrink.medium.com/a-european-wide-blackout-almost-e5b7ed2a6cfb

Luckily almost nobody noticed it, but last Friday, 8th of January, at 14:05 CET the whole of Europe was on the brink of a total blackout. Due to an instant loss of energy production, the frequency (see it as the heartbeat of the grid) fell below the critical threshold. Such a high deviation is rarely seen on European grids. The frequency should be as close to 50Hz as possible for a smooth running grid. This time it dropped to 49.74, very close to a catastrophic failure.

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Why is Cybersecurity in Internet of Things is broken and what is needed to protect consumers and industries from vulnerabilities in IoT? And why major botnets are still based on a mass of Zombie IoT devices? At hackwerk.io the hosts Tyler Cohen Wood and Mirko Ross are discussion this with their guests.

The two IoT Experts in this show:

Rob Tiffany, VP IoT at Ericsson and IoT Guru, Seattle

LinkedIn; Twitter

Dimitri Volkmann, Executive Advisor, Novela Neurotech, Cupertino

LinkedIn; Twitter

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