In this special Black Hat edition of the Podcast, sponsored by UL: Parisa Tabriz, Google’s Director of Engineering for the Chrome Web browser, brought some strong medicine to Las Vegas for her Black Hat keynote speech. We talk about why her simple message was so groundbreaking. Also: Ken Modeste of UL joins us from the Black Hat briefings to talk about UL’s efforts to make cyber security as important to consumers in the 21st century as product safety was in the 20th. Don’t be a Jerk: Parisa Tabriz’s Radical Philosophy “Be a team player. Don’t be a jerk” These were some of the recommendations that Google Director of Engineering Parisa Tabriz laid on the overwhelmingly male and notoriously ornery security experts in her keynote speech opening this year’s Black Hat briefings. The speech was remarkable for a number of reasons. For one, Black Hat made its name by celebrating cyber offense. […]

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