On the Wire Podcast: Rich Mogull on Apple Differential Privacy
Apple this week announced a new system called differential privacy that it will be implementing in many of its products in the coming months. The system is designed to allow for the collection of user data without being able to tie any of it back to specific users. But it’s more complicated and nuanced than […]
On the Wire Podcast: Jessy Irwin on Password Security
In this episode, Dennis Fisher talks with Jessy Irwin about the recent rash of data breaches and credential dumps and why humans are still so terrible at password security. The conversation touches on alternatives to traditional passwords, the limits of two-factor authentication, and he or if thing might actually improve. Music by Chris Gonsalves and […]
On the Wire Podcast: Ransomware
Ransomware is one of the nastier and more insidious threats to emerge in the last decade, and the attackers using it have targeted consumers and businesses alike. Threats such as CryptoLocker, Locky, Cryptowall, and many others have been locking up users’ files and demanding hundreds or thousands of dollars in order to decrypt them. Security […]
On the Wire Podcast: Alex Howard
Alex Howard has been writing and thinking about technology and open data issues for more than a decade, having worked at O’Reilly Radar, the Huffington Post, and now at the Sunlight Foundation. In this episode of the podcast, Dennis Fisher talks with Alex about the ways in which technology coverage has shifted, the advent of […]
On the Wire Podcast: David Dewey on Phone Fraud
Dennis Fisher talks with David Dewey, director of research at Pindrop, about the data in the 2016 Phone Fraud Report. Since 2013 there has been a 45 percent increase in phone fraud and now more than one in every 2,000 calls to corporate call centers is fraudulent. This kind of fraud is costing business as […]
On the Wire Podcast: Chris Hadnagy
In this episode of the On the Wire podcast, Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hadnagy of Social-Engineer Inc., about the concept of social engineering, how he got into the field, and how social engineering techniques are used by attackers. Chris talks about the way phishing has evolved in recent years, the rise of phone fraud […]
On the Wire Podcast: Patrick Wardle
Patrick Wardle is well-known in the security community for his research on Mac OS X security features and malware. He’s demonstrated practical methods for bypassing Gatekeeper and the other security mechanisms in OS X, and he recently released a free tool called RansomWhere? that’s designed to generically detect OS X ransomware, such as KeRanger. Dennis […]
On the Wire Podcast: Katie Moussouris
Katie Moussouris has been a part of the hacker community since, well, a long time. A former penetration tester at @stake and a longtime security employee at Microsoft, she has spent the last two years as the chief policy officer at HackerOne, the bug bounty coordination platform. Now, she’s starting her own consulting firm to […]
On the Wire Podcast: Mike Mimoso on the Apple-FBI Case
Dennis Fisher talks with Mike Mimoso of Threatpost about the details of Apple’s legal and PR battle with the FBI and federal government. The case involves a lot of oddities, including the FBI’s choice to play it out in public, why the FBI didn’t seek help from forensics experts, and why the government decided that […]