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EP 12: Adding ICS and OT to the National Cybersecurity Strategy

The Biden-Harris 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy breaks with Cold War thinking and offers a bold new approach to today’s online offense and defense. Danielle Jablanski from Nozomi Networks breaks down the ambitious new policy which includes explicit mention of ICS and OT technologies for the first time.

EP 11: Window Snyder Is Building A Secure IoT and OT Framework

We’ve already seen botnets composed of compromised devices like routers and security cameras. So how do we secure them and our smart lightbulbs too? Window Snyder, CEO of Thistle Technologies, explains how new devices can be partitioned with failovers and then serviced with regular updates all monitored from a central dashboard. Even devices already in the field today can also be upgraded and secured in some cases.  

EP 10: The L0pht, According to Space Rogue

This is the story of Cris Thomas aka Space Rogue, who’s written perhaps the best book about the early days of hacking, Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as the Loft Changed The World. Unlike a journalist merely chronicling events in Boston in the 1990s from the outside, Cris was on the inside. This is not only the story of the L0pht but it's also the story of his life, so he seamlessly provides the often missing context of the time with countless asides and anecdotes woven in instead of tacked on. In this episode of Error Code, Cris also drops a lot of names.

EP 09: Zhadnost

This is the story of Zhadnost, of how an IoT-based botnet was conscripted into an online war in the days immediately before the kinetic Ukraine invasion. Ryan Slaney of SecurityScorecard walks us through the timeline of these attacks and the evidence of attribution he found linking it to Russia’s GRU.

EP 08: A Matter Of Trust

What if a vulnerability exists in popular ICS devices, yet the only fix is to re-issue the hardware? This is true with some embedded security flaws. Ang Cui, founder and CEO of Red Balloon Security, talks about his company’s discovery of CVE-2022-38773, which affects the secure boot process in Siemens S7 1500 PLCs, and what the mitigations for devices using that might look like.

EP 07: Secure Medical IoT Devices

IoT can make patient care easier.. But how do we introduce new IoT medical devices into an ecosystem where we can’t even keep tabs on our legacy devices? Mohammad Waqas discusses conversations he’s had with hospitals about the device profiles they don’t necessarily know about – the over-the-counter glucose monitor app on an iPad that hasn’t gone through IT provisioning - and what they can do about it.

EP 06: Vastaamo

The Vastaamo data breach stands as one of the most heinous of internet crimes because of the 30,000 psychiatric records that were exposed and the lives it ruined. Antti Kurittu discusses his presentation at SecTor 2022, what we know thus far from the public record, and the news of the Finnish arrest warrant for the individual only previously known as “Ransomware_Man”. 

EP 05: Food Production As Critical Infrastructure

IoT and Machine Learning can help farmers provide more food with fewer resources, so long as the devices in the field and the backend systems are secure. Seth Hardy, co-founder and CTO of Bug Mars, a precision agtech company for insect farms, discusses his SecTor 2022 presentation, drawing upon his more than 20 years of security experience in his new role in sustainable food production.

EP 04: Hacking the Quantum Realm

Quantum computing will make great advances in science; it will also have the ability to decrypt banking, healthcare, and other industries' stolen data. Skip Sanzeri of QuSecure explains how quantum computing is advancing rapidly, how it has the power to crack RSA 2048 and other encryption that we know take for granted today, and why his and other companies are talking about our post-quantum encryption world today. Dn3NZumn4pPpnVhpt6GH

EP 03: Hacking Hardware (featuring Joe Grand)

This is the history of hardware hacking and the story of Joe Grand. From testifying before Congress to creating badgelife at DEF CON, Joe has done it all. And he’s darn humble about it, too. Joe just wants to share through his classes, website, and YouTube channel all that he’s learned since his days with the L0pht, the tools he’s created, and the work he’s currently doing with Right to Repair. He just wants to make the art of hardware hacking more accessible to others.