Real CyberSecurity

Bill files his report from his trip to Halifax, how not all cybersec issues are technology, how outsourcing is best as a balanced approach, and how the most complex cybersecurity conversations are actually the business ones.

Bill discusses the great Microsoft report on the revealed details of the cyberwar aspects of Ukraine & Russia war, and The Countdown to Zero Day book about Stuxnet. And Greg discusses why security conferences need to change.

Greg and  Bill review two pieces - Top reasons cybersec people leave their jobs by SecurityMagazine.com, and the Top 7 CyberSecurity Trends by Gartner as reported on by VentureBeat. Kudos to Peter Firstbrook for his comments that clarified the article and press release. Bill gives a really good description of the issues around Identity of Things. Greg opines we're about to enter the golden age of API richness in security, especially APi-API.

Hacked traffic enunciator boards, the reports of the top passwords from a hack, how poor communications security is in the news for the Ukraine war,  security education, and internet of things chat. And a tutorial on Mesh Cybersecurity.

Bill and Greg discuss the impact should Russia disconnect form the internet, Pi Day, Conti Ransomware group messages, and the dynamic of Ransomware - how does the war in Ukraine change ransomware now that state sponsored entities are busy?

Will Bill (not to be confused with Kill Bill, because we really like Bill) be going to prison for tax evasion? Maybe, if you believe the sketchy letter he got in the snail-mail from "The Federal Tax Authorities". 

Scammers continue to evolve. They haven't gone away because they are still making money.  In this episode we discuss some recent  scam trends, and a case from last week of the FBI seizing billions in Bitcoin from alleged money launderers.

We're in a strange place in the cycle of Data Privacy. We give it away, but seem most concerned about it. Greg and Bill pull on some threads including social media, encryption, VPNs, and how we got here. Happy Data Privacy Week!

I think the Union of Cybersecurity Workers Local 404 says we have to talk about Log4J. except we'll discuss some different aspects of it. Avoiding holiday scams and talking to your families about them. Some positive comments about Australian cybersecurity culture.

We dip into some history of hacking and spying where the technical security and physical security were both involved.  The Thing, U2 and SR71 planes, ransomware as a service, bugged embassies, ... so much to discuss! Cybersecurity companies with poor physical security are not to be trusted. Why embedding security in silicon is and will continue to be bad.

This episode we roast the continuing  awfulness of companies and politicians who accuse vulnerability researchers of hacking, Bill gives a history lesson on tarry substances used on crypto boards, and how the Morris Worm changed history.