Welcome to Source Code: Decipher’s behind the scenes look at the weekly news with input from our sources.
Amanda Gorton, CEO and cofounder of Corellium, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss her path from studying classics to found two security startups, the challenges of building a unique platform, and the opportunity to help address IoT security.
Welcome to Source Code: Decipher’s new behind the scenes look at the weekly news with input from our sources. Topping the headlines this week are two key cybersecurity-related moves by the U.S. government. These include the government blocking exports to NSO Group, Positive Technologies and other companies, and creating a catalog of known, actively exploited vulnerabilities that federal agencies must address. In other news, researchers have uncovered a threat group targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers with ransomware. A new report also shed light on various network access brokers selling credentials that they claimed belonged to logistics companies.
Courtney Nash of Verica joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the new Verica Open Incident Database, which centralizes reports of software outages, security incidents, and near misses, and why studying the way systems fail is so valuable.
On the anniversary of the release of Hackers, Zoe Lindsey and Pete Baker join Dennis Fisher to talk about the cultural influence of the movie, the effect it's had on hacker culture, and why it is still so beloved today.