Category Archives: Hackers

PODCAST: Sivan Rauscher

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Sivan Rauscher

Sivan Rauscher is the Co-Founder and CEO of SAM Seamless Network. Previously, Sivan worked at Comsec Global, overseeing cyber projects and high-level strategic consulting in Israel and Europe. Prior to Comsec Global, she served as a Captain and project manager in the Israeli Intelligence Corps. Sivan holds a master’s degree from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

In this interview we discuss Sivan’s experience in the Israeli Intelligence Corps, her work at SAM Seamless Network, securing IoT devices at home, artificial intelligence, the future of cybersecurity and more!

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Podcast: Marcus Carey

 

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Marcus J. Carey

Marcus J. Carey is a cybersecurity researcher, hacker, and the founder and CEO of Threatcare. He describes himself as a hacker who helps people not suck at cybersecurity. He started his technology voyage in U.S. Navy Cryptology and later went on to refine his knowledge while working at the National Security Agency (NSA).

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Marcus is also the author of a new book with Jennifer Jin entitled Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World. The book is a collection of interviews with 70 top hackers and is available now on Amazon. A free pdf of the book is available here.

Marcus sat down with me at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco in March to discuss his path to a career in cybersecurity, the NSA, Edward Snowden, his book Tribe of Hackers, the future of the cybersecurity industry and much more.

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PODCAST: Charles Tendell

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Charles Tendell

This episode’s guest is North Carolina based security researcher and podcast host Charles Tendell. He joins the podcast to discuss his path to a career in cybersecurity, his experience dealing with Hurricane Florence, Hacker’s List, social engineering, political correctness, virtue signaling, racism, dating apps, cybersecurity pet peeves, Twitter drama, laying the pipe and more!

 

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PODCAST: RSAC 2018 – Katie Moussouris

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Guest Katie Moussouris

Katie is the founder and CEO of Luta Security. She presented a talk on bug bounties, penetration testing and vulnerability disclosure entitled “Bug Bounty Buzzword Bingo—Deep Dive under a Jumped Shark” at the RSA Conference last week in San Francisco. Check out her slides here.

After her talk she spoke with me about the evolution of bug bounty programs, her work in developing ISO standards for vulnerability disclosure, her path to a career in information security and much more.

This episode is the 1st in a series dedicated to RSA Conference 2018. Stay tuned for more!

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PODCAST: Amazon Key & HID Attacks with MG

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Guest: MG

This episode’s guest is Bay Area based security researcher MG. He joins the podcast to share his work experimenting with various HID (Human Interface Devices) attacks using USB drives and cables. MG has also made news recently for disclosing a vulnerability in the Amazon Key smart lock technology and shares his experience developing the proof of concept and eventually sharing it with Amazon’s security team.

Check out MG’s work here!

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MG’s HID attack platform for USB Type-A connectors

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MG’s HID attack platform for USB Type-C connectors

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PODCAST: Judy Towers & Michael Goedekr

This episode is an interview with intelligence analyst Judy Towers and Michael Goedekr, CEO of hackdefnet, conducted over the summer at DEFCON 25 in Las Vegas (2017). Judy and Michael share their thoughts on threat intelligence, risk analysis, dealing with C suite executives and more.

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PODCAST: Ray Watson

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Ray Watson

This episode’s guest is Ray Watson who presented at Black Hat 2017. He joins me to talk about hacker history and share some of his infosec pet peeves. We recorded this interview in July 2017 during the week of Black Hat and DEFCON in Las Vegas. His talk was entitled “Jedi Masters, Sith Lords, and Droids: 5 Generations of Hacking” and can be seen in it’s entirety below.

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Ray and Vince hanging out after recording the podcast interview.

 

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