Shared Secrets

This week Kev does a throwback episode to the early 2000s with his friend and former collegue Jacob Wilson.

Den and Kev crack open threat modeling and explain why it doesn't matter how smart people are if they aren't writing things down.

Data security and privacy attorney Nick Merker chats with Kev about his recent BlackHat talk on the common legal pitfalls of incident response for us on a very special episode of Shared Secrets.

Den and Kev are back with the season two premier! They dive in right away with the thrill ride that is A/B testing, false positives, false negatives, and the suspiciously rare usage of coverage analysis to improve the efficacy of dynamic tools.

At long last, Shared Secrets tack the 1995 hit technothriller ‘The Net’ staring Sandra Bullock and a half dozen memorex high density floppy disks. Tune in as denS claims that the best thing about the movie is how easy it is to follow, and then turns out to have mostly not understood anything that was going on. Meanwhile kevN gets starts about a half dozen spin-off podcasts instead of talking about the movie which contains about the same amount of hacking than your average Sandra Bullock romantic comedy. Buckle up folks- or you might end up like the guy impersonating FBI agent Ben- in the season finale of “Summer Blockbuster Season” on Shared Secrets.

In our penultimate summer blockbuster kevN and denS tackle Sneakers with at least as much success as Ben Kingsley tackles his accent in the film. Join us in what essentially ends up being Kev performing Sneakers as a 3hr one man show and Denis identifies at least a dozen flaws in an otherwise perfect film.

Summer blockbuster season continues with the cult classic Hackers starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. On this special episode, denS fervently abandon’s his claim that Hackers is a good movie on minute one; then kevN makes a surprising amount of sense out of the techno babble and incomprehensible plot of the film.

Two 39-year-old hackers kickoff summer blockbuster season by breaking down the 38 year old hacker movie: Wargames; kevN goes deep on retro hacks and denS provides a keen eye on the AI while both scrutinize the workplace dynamics between McKitrick and his subordinates. Tune in to this special season-1.5 teaser that is only slightly longer than the original film!

Den and Kev discuss why the most important aspect of any security program is escape analysis to evolve security and engineering processes. Then Bill Nash joins in the throwback to share how he ended up at Defcon 4, 5, and 6 how he caught the security bug as a network engineer and why he took the time to talk UNIX and Network security with a 16-year-old Kevin at Defcon6.

Kevin tries to squeeze in a quick shared secret regarding the tricky use of the words: except and accept in risk management, but Denis takes acception to it. Then we dive into a great throwback with embedded security expert Josh Berry on how he got into computers, security, and hardware as a kid.