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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...

We speak with Mikko Hyppönen on the sidelines of the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas to talk about his new book, “If its Smart it Vulnerable."

We speak with John Shegerian of ERI about his new book: “The Insecurity of Everything” and how our e-waste may be exposing sensitive data to other nations. The post Episode 226: The Cyber Consequences Of Our Throw Away Culture appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts .

Malicious software is nothing new. Computer viruses and worms have been around for decades, as have most other families of malware like remote access tools (RATs) and key loggers. But all our experience with malware hasn’t made the job of knowing when our organization has been hit by it any easier. In fact, recent news stories about breaches at Home Depot, Target, Staples and other organizations m...

Martin Roesch is one of the giants of the security industry: a hacker in the truest sense of the term who, in the late 1990s created a wide range of security tools as a way to teach himself about information security. One of them, the open source SNORT intrusion detection system, turned into one of the mostly widely used and respected security tools in the world. SNORT became the foundation for So...