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Crucial Tech

Unraveling the technology that affects us all but that few of us understand, in a format to give you a basic understanding in the time it takes to drive to and from the grocery store.

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00:15:43

Episode 9.11 - Who do you Trust?

Crucial Tech ·

2024/12/06

The available guests for this last podcast of the year dried up pretty quickly so I thought I would give some closing thoughts on a big issue facing the world: Trust and the lack of it.Also, our last threat reports courtesy of Fletch.ai --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:05:10

Threat report for Thanksgiving week

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2024/11/27

Our friends at Fletch provide a grand slam of threats for Thanksgiving week, covering Apple, Android, AWS and Microsoft vulnerabilitiesNo regular podcast this week but we will be back next week with a possible new way to abuse AI. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:28:42

Episode 9.10 - Are consumers getting fed up with...

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2024/11/21

This is part two of our mashup of recent surveys. This time we talk with Tom Tovar, CEO of Appdome about their comprehensive annual survey of consumer attitudes regarding security in digital technology. The good news is there is a groundswell of security "consciousness" regarding the subject. The bad news is the consumers are not confident that corporations even care.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:25:12

Episode 9.9 - The mental toll cause by AI

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2024/11/20

This week, a two-parter. I’m still trying to make sense of all the surveys and studies sent to me. Between trying to figure out if they are plagiarized, use inadequate samples, are a lame attempt at self-promotion or are actually good data is almost a full-time job. Luckily I got a couple of good ones this month and am doing another mashup.Today’s interview is with Frank Teruel, CFO of Arkose Labs. We are talking about a finding in their latest survey showing that managers and developers of apps

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00:13:38

Episode 9.8 - Top threat reports and a preview of...

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2024/11/15

This episode includes our weekly top cyber threats with help from Fletch and this week Cyjax, and a shot interview with cybersecurity contrarian James Bore, a consultant in the UK with a kindred spirit. The interview is introducing the theme for Cyber Protection Magazine next year. Put up or shut up. The past decade has been filled with optimism in the tech sector about what they thought they could accomplish. Social media companies thought they could democratize the internet and provide a public

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00:26:19

Episode 9.7 - How to boost customer confidence in...

Crucial Tech ·

2024/11/05

I received more than dozen studies and reports on the "state of cybersecurity" all with different foci depending on the company that was pushing the document. It seems like they are replacing press releases as a primary marketing tool. But there was one thing that jumped out of me. Almost every one of them had a throwaway line that customers had #zerotrust in the effiicacy of the tools and services they bought to keep them secure. Of course that's what I went after. We talked to executives from

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00:07:12

Special episode: Threat reports for Nov 5

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2024/11/04

Here's our top three threat reports for the week. Hackers are targeting gambling apps on mobile devices and obsolete Microsoft products. Thanks to the folks at Fletch for the info --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:05:25

Special episode: Top three threat reports for the week

Crucial Tech ·

2024/10/28

Our friends at Fletch.AI dropped a bunch of threat reports this week, here's what we see as the top three.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:32:23

Episode 9.6 - FHE starts getting serious

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2024/10/24

I bet you never heard of FHE. Me neither. Then I got a pitch about it. Tried to ignore it because I had never herd of it, but they were insistent. Turns out to be interesting. Fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, has been talked about for about five years but not it has its very own industry association and NIST is starting to take it very seriously. It doesn't eliminate quantum encryption standards, but it might be a better defense against nation state attempts to break the strongest modern

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00:08:26

Special episode -Threat reports for October 21

Crucial Tech ·

2024/10/21

After getting knocked for a loop with a dose of Covid I'm slowly crawling back to the desk and providing some timely advice regarding current and predicted threat reports from our friends at Fletch. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:22:32

Episode 9.5 - Pig butchering: It's not just for...

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2024/10/04

Quick, what is the biggest single category of cybercrime today?If you said pig butchering, you get a gold star. (If you said ransomware you need to stop believe press releases). It's big. $75 billion in stolen funds, mostly cryptocurrency last year alone. And it wasn't from lonely elderly people. We talked with Arkose Labs CEO Kevin Gosschalk about the growing phenomenon and how you can defend yourself. (Hint: don't be naive) --- Support this podcast:

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00:33:02

Episode 9.4 - Digital tech is hitting the physical wall

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2024/09/27

Firts, apologies for the sound quality. Tried out a new microphone and I definitely do not like it. Going back to the tried and true. But it stands as an example of what we are talking about today. When people from one discipline start talking about moving into another discipline where they lack expertise, things go haywire. Such is the case with the digital world and energy production.The big news this week is Microsoft plans to open up Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant to power their

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00:17:17

Episode 9.3 - AI and telemarkeing: Marriage from Hell?

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2024/09/20

I had an encounter with an AI-driven telemarketing scam a day before I got pitched to talk to a company introducing and AI-driven telemarketing services. So I was ready for bear when we started. Turns out I may have been talking to the one entrant in this field that was not only following the law but using AI in a productive way for both potential customers and the merchant.The company is 2X and it's founder/CEO had a good reason for creating the company. He needed a service that was both

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00:24:37

Episode 9.2 - Innocence is not a defense against...

Crucial Tech ·

2024/09/12

Recently, someone on Mastodon asked, "Looking for an article or blog or text, that succinctly describes, at grade 1 level English, why “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” is a crazy and bad argument, and perhaps also includes what some good arguments are. Need it for a family member. "I thought that was an excellent request. So along with an article posted with this podcast, I interviewed John Gilmore, head researcher at the data-scrubbing company Deleteme, about the

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00:39:09

Episode 9.1 - Getting serious about PQC

Crucial Tech ·

2024/09/06

About twice a year, the post-quantum computing (PQC) niche of the cybersecurity industry pushes out truckloads of press releases and articles about the coming quantum computing apocalypse. In all of this content there is little explanation regarding what this means for most people.It seems like everyone should be concerned, based on the level of urgency the companies present, but in the end, no one has yet built a quantum computer capable of breaking even the most standard 256-bit encryption. To

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00:18:11

Episode 8.23 - Fixing marketing in Tech

Crucial Tech ·

2024/08/22

The tech industry is more than technology. It's also marketing. Underfunded, questionably productive, and often plagiarized marketing. The job of a journalist is to poke through the piles of news releases, reports, studies, and other assorted verbiage like a scatologist on safari and find something valuable.That has gotten more difficult as the number of journalists have dropped since the turn of the century by close to 50 percent. But the mountain of information has grown by orders of

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00:32:34

Episode 8.22 - Social engineering affects nations

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2024/08/09

The English riots this past week provide a Dickensian “best of times…worst of times.” context to politics in the United Kingdom and possibly the United States later this year. They highlight the fact that digital security concerns reaches far beyond the confines of corporate CISO offices.We spoke with Cyjax CISO Ian Thornton-Trump about the English riots and the potential for that to come to the US in November, --- Support this podcast:

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00:21:00

Episode 8.21 - Have we reached peak ransomware? One...

Crucial Tech ·

2024/08/02

i was surprised at how many people responded positively with the question of this podcast and am working on a larger story about it for Cyber Protection Magazine. One respondent was surprising, however: Heather Clauson Haughian, founder and managing partner for Culhane PLCC. Having a non-techie view of the situation was illumiinating.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:22:22

Episode 8.20 - Crowdstrike: who's at fault?

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2024/07/25

This podcast will be the kickoff to a larger article about the Crowdstrike failure, which is the current obsession with technology. We talked with Action1 founder Mike Walters about the complexity of current technology and whether the problem is fixable.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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00:33:32

Episode 8.19 -- Are we losing the data war, Part 2

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2024/07/05

In the first part of this series we provided a potential solution to the out-of-control growth of data theft, for individuals that could be most at risk. Today we talk to John Meyer, senior director at Cornerstone Advisors, to help us understand just how bad the situation is.For example, ner the end, John states quite flatly that everyone whould just assume their social security number is being sold en masse by criminals. And there is nothing we can do about it. Think about that. --- Support

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