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Cyber Without Borders: Standing guard 210 kilometers from risk. [Special Edition]

In the final installment of our three-part series on ⁠Cyber Coalition 2025⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠, host here at N2K CyberWire, and ⁠⁠⁠Liz Stokes, CyberWire Producer, step back from the cyber range to reflect on what their time in Tallinn really meant. This episode moves beyond th ... Show More

25m 59s

Yesterday

Larry Cashdollar: Always learning new technology. [Intelligence response engineer]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer at Akamai Technologies, sits down with Dave Bittner to discuss his life leading up to working at Akamai. He shares his story from his beginnings to now, describing what c ... Show More

9m 19s

Feb 28

The parking lot of digital danger. [Research Saturday]

This week we are joined by Dr. Renée Burton, Vice President of Infoblox Threat Intel, discussing "Parked Domains and Direct Search: An Underreported Security Risk." Parked domains are no longer harmless ad pages — new research finds that in today’s “direct search” or zero-click p ... Show More

21m 13s

Feb 2021

Tue. 02/09 – Amazon To Release An Alexa ‘Command Center?’

Amazon is ginning up a new Echo device that’s like a dashboard for your household. Big changes to Android leaked to the internet. Reddit raises a big round. Mark Cuban is gunning for Clubhouse. And I’ve been warning y’all of industrial hacking. We almost had a big disaster down i ... Show More

20m 4s

Mar 2022

Thu. 03/31 – Hackers Forging Emergency Data Requests

Another day of all the hacking news. Now the hackers are forging Emergency Data Requests. Apparently there have been vulnerabilities in Wyze security cameras that no one bothered to fix. TSMC warns of a tech slowdown. Masa Son orders his lieutenants to slow down investing just a ... Show More

16m 52s

Mar 2021

Wed. 03/10 – Now The Hackers Are In The Security Cams

Hackers breached the security cameras used by everybody from prisons and hospitals to Tesla factories. Why you will no longer “subscribe” to this podcast, but will “follow” it. Why T-Mobile is signing everyone up to have their usage data tracked by advertisers. And Facebook’s 10 ... Show More

18m 5s

Dec 2020

Thu. 12/17 – The Apple-Facebook Cold War Is Getting Hot

Mommy and Daddy are fighting. This time it’s Apple and Facebook and it’s getting pretty heated. The EU okays Google’s acquisition of Fitbit. Substack has resurrected Google Reader, in spirit at least. And why the new antitrust lawsuit against Google is maybe the most serious yet, ... Show More

17m 26s

Mar 2023

Photo cropping bombshell, TikTok debates, and real estate scams

It could be a case of aCropalypse now for Google Pixel users, there's a warning for house buyers, and just why is TikTok being singled out for privacy concerns?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security v ... Show More

47m 53s

Sep 2021

Thu. 09/23 – USB-C For Everybody! (Maybe By Law…)

We all sort of want the gadget world to move to USB-C, right? But do we want that to be government mandated? Very interesting executive departure from Facebook. Apple is telling leakers they don’t belong in Cupertino. Apple is still telling Fortnite to talk to the hand. And an in ... Show More

17m 29s

Mar 2020

Tues. 03/10 - Hold Me Closer, Tiny iPhone

A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without pr ... Show More

19m 8s

May 2020

The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero

<p>In May of 2017, Marcus Hutchins saved the internet. A vicious ransomware attack known as WannaCry had infected computer systems across dozens of countries. It was the worst cyberattack in history at the time, and it seemed unstoppable. But Hutchins, a 23-year-old-hacker in Ilf ... Show More

30m 39s

Mar 2022

Tech News: Tech Strikes Back at Russia

The tech world has clamped down on Russia in the wake of the country's invasion of Ukraine. A cryptocurrency exchange founder is going to stand trial on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. And we say farewell to a man who co-developed Ethernet technology. Learn more about ... Show More

32 m

Aug 2021

Apple's Spy in the Jailbreak Community

Double agents are a Cold War trope. An American spy has *gasp* secretly been working for the Soviets the whole time. These days, you’re more likely to run into a double agent in the world of corporate information technology. Sometimes hackers are selling company secrets while hel ... Show More

26m 3s

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