Decipher Podcast: Reddit’s Matt Johansen on Identity Attacks, Enterprise Security, and Burnout
Reddit's head of application security Matt Johansen joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the highlights of Black Hat USA, the
He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.
Reddit's head of application security Matt Johansen joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the highlights of Black Hat USA, the
Risk management is not one of humanity's strong points, but we can learn some lessons from our own real life experiences to apply
As software systems have become ever more complex, the opportunity for security researchers to show their value has grown, as
The popular polyfill.io JavaScript library has been used to inject malicious code into thousands of sites in the last few days.
A Chinese APT known as ChamelGang has been deploying the CatB ransomware in some intrusions around the world.
Packet Tide has fixed a group of XSS vulnerabilities and an open HTTP redirection bug in its ExpressionEngine content management system, some of which could give an attacker admin access.
A recent proposal in discussion in the European Union Council would mandate "upload moderation" of encrypted content, something that would break encryption for everyone, Singal's president said.
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his knowledge to sell scores to criminals. Meg Gardiner, Casey Ellis, and Dennis Fisher discuss his connection to the hacker ethos.