Security Jabber - Episode 4
Guest: Lance James, Chief Scientist at Flashpoint
A journey begins with a single step, our podcast begins with a single question and quickly finds a way to jump of the path to cover everything from patch Tuesday, to RSAC, and that time hackers “swatted” the wrong guy.
This week’s episode is jam packed with all things cyber security. We had Lance James, Chief Scientist at Flashpoint on from the get go and spoiler alert, he didn’t disappoint. The team dove into the stories of the week and among them was an update to Brian Krebs getting swatted in 2013, turns out Lance helped Brian track down the bad guys and help get justice served.
We also talked about the RSA Conference and what the future of cyber security looks like. There are plenty of links below so you can see the coolest booths, best bloggers, and how a few people left their WiFi vulnerable on the show room floor.
In segment three Lance reveals his connection with the hit show Mr. Robot, listen to find out what it is.
Links from this week’s stories
- Spy-Jacking the Booters talk at Black Hat 2013 with Lance James and Brian Krebs
- Microsoft cancels February patch Tuesday
- Brian Krebs - Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced
- Hacked, Android phones unlock millions cars
- EvilAP attack observed at RSA Conference, Pwnie Express
- RSAC blogger awards
- Five best booths at RSAC
- RSAC 2017 in 4 words
- 78% of security pros say threat intelligence is essential to their organization’s security, but just 27% say their organizations effectively use threat data. Why the disconnect?