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In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts welcomes Tanya Janca of She Hacks Purple back into the studio. Tanya talks about her newly released book: Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding, published by Wiley and the larger problem of how to promote the teaching of secure coding practices to developers. The post Episode 260: The Art of Teaching Secure Coding with Tanya Janca appeared first on The...

The pandemic isn't the only thing shaking up development organizations. Application security is a top concern and security work is "shifting left" and becoming more intertwined with development. In this podcast, Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks about it with Jonathan Hunt, Vice President of Security at the firm GitLab. The post Podcast Episode 189: AppSec for Pandemic Times, A Co...

In this Spotlight episode of the Podcast, sponsored* by ForAllSecure we speak with CEO David Brumley about application "fuzzing" and how advancements in machine learning technology are allowing security researchers to find more and more serious vulnerabilities faster. The challenge now, Brumley says, is to keep up with the machines. The post Spotlight Podcast: How Machine Learning is revolutionizi...

In this week’s podcast (#124):  we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Surprise, surprise: they're not french. Also: Brian Fox of the firm Sonatype joins us to talk about the recent compromise of the Github event-stream project and why social engineering poses a real risk to the security of the...

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#91): with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying he will testify before Congress, we ask Harvard’s Matthew Baum about what Congressmen and women should ask him and how to best fight fake news. Also: Adam Kujawa of Malwarebytes updates us on that company’s latest quarterly threat report and helps us answer the question “what’s with all the cryptomining”...