Robert Leale is the president of CanBusHack, President of Pivvit and is also Founder of Car Hacking Village which can be seen at Def Con, DerbyCON, GrrCON, CypherCon, THOTCON, and many more hacking conferences across the globe. He stops by BarCode and we discuss vulnerable technology in automobiles, manufacturer responsibilities, car hacking tools, how to secure your vehicle and Car Hacking Village. SYMLINKS Twitter CanBusHack Car Hacking Village Flipper Zero ProxMark3 Introduction to Car Ha...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Jack Rhysider is the creator and host of the Darknet Diaries podcast, which features true stories from the dark side of the Internet. He stops by BarCode and we discuss the origin of his own story, masking of his identity, developing storytelling skills, growing an audience, productivity hacks for entrepreneurial content creators, and more. SYMLINKS Twitter Darknet Diaries Khan Academy | Pixar in a box Radiolab Serial This American Life Down the Security Rabbithole Paul’s Security Weekly Sec...
Oct 07, 2022•51 min
Charlie Northrup is the co-founder of NeurSciences, a software technology, architecture, and solutions development company that provides there artificially intelligent digital brain applications to integrate, manage, and automate the things that truly matter to us. He’s focused on the digital transformation of the web into an ecosphere of ecosystems operated by and for the benefit of intelligent agents, working for individuals, households, and organizations. Co-hosts Mike Elkins and Rohan L...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 36 min
Arun Vishwanath, a leading expert in human cyber risk, has held faculty positions at the University at Buffalo, Indiana University, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He has published close to 50 peer-reviewed papers on human cyber vulnerabilities and also written for CNN, The Washington Post, and other major media outlets. Special co-host Dr. Matthew Canham joins me as well. Matt is an expert in Cognitive Psychology, Social Engineering and the Hu...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Jeff Jockisch is a privacy expert with experience in privacy rights, privacy laws, data breaches, intrusion detection, as well as other areas, such as cognitive computing, content development and trust systems. He is also cohost of “Your Bytes, Your Rights” podcast. Dave Burnett is the head of global business development at Zero Biometrics. He’s a serial entrepreneur who brings global executive expertise and experience from private and public companies into the security, biometric, and digi...
Aug 26, 2022•56 min
Alyssa Miller is a life-long hacker and experienced security executive. She has a passion for security which she advocates to fellow business leaders and industry audiences both as a high-level cyber security professional and through her presence in the security community. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive experience to bridge the gap that can often form between security practitioners and business leaders. Her goal is to change the way we look at the security of our...
Aug 11, 2022•54 min
Anastasia Edwards is an innovative thinker and Cybersecurity Professional with refreshing soft skills in empathy, emotional intelligence, awareness communications, and cultural change implementation. Her sweet spot is melding Cybersecurity Awareness together with Insider Threat monitoring and detection. She is a forward thinking Cybersecurity professional with dreams and aspirations of bringing Cybersecurity awareness and best practices for a safer digital lifestyle, to people all over the wo...
Jul 29, 2022•51 min
Mark, aka @LargeCardinal is a researcher and Technical Specialist in Quantum Cybersecurity and ML at a bank. He has specialist knowledge in many areas, including cryptography, embedded systems, quantum information and maths. He has contributed a chapter to various papers and a book, and consults to numerous companies and research groups, including academic and commercial. Victoria, @V__Wave has worked with several startups in wide ranging areas, from deep tech for cybersecurity to consumer ...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Pablos Holman is a notorious hacker, inventor, entrepreneur and technology futurist who thinks differently to solve the world’s biggest problems by inventing new technology. At The Intellectual Ventures Lab, he has worked on a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos – part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. Previously, Pablos helped build spaceships with Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin, the wo...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Frankie McRae is a storied former US Army Special Forces soldier and assault team leader. Since his retirement, Frankie has developed Range 37PSR, founded Raidon Tactics (a premiere training organization), deployed all over the world as a contractor to both combat zones and disaster areas, and taken the stand as an expert witness in homicide cases involving soldiers brought charged with shootings during combat operations. We catch up at the bar to discuss his storied experience, mission pla...
Jun 21, 2022•53 min
Experienced Intelligence Analyst and creator of the Cognitive Stairways of Analysis Framework, Nicole Hoffman has a passion for developing the analytic tradecraft. Her work, research, and presentations have inspired and educated others around the international analytic community. For someone diagnosed with ADHD, intelligence analysis can be mentally taxing. An experienced speaker, Nicole developed frameworks to dive deeper into the process of sensemaking in order to increase her analytic capa...
Jun 16, 2022•33 min
For those unfamiliar with the snowboarding slang term Shred, it means “to ride with exceptional speed, ability, or enthusiasm, especially in difficult terrain and conditions”. Sumo Logic’s CSO, George Gerchow, applies this methodology whether it’s by way of Board, or by Way of Life. George has been carving up IT and Systems Management territory for over 20 years. His background has allowed him to gain unmatched expertise in the areas of security, compliance, and cloud computing. His thought...
May 17, 2022•42 min
Louis Rosenberg, PhD is a technology pioneer in fields of virtual reality (AR), augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). He founded Unanimous AI to amplify the intelligence of networked human groups using the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence combined with AI. The idea panned out, resulting in Swarm AI, an award-winning technology used by a wide range of organizations from Fortune 500 corporations to the United Nations. Rosenberg created the Virtual Fixtures platfor...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min
The YinYang philosophy says that the universe is composed of competing and complementary forces governed by a cosmic duality, sets of two opposing and complementing principles or energies that can be observed in nature. Similarly, the nature of offensive security requires a balance of proper mindset and technical expertise. To truly master this security discipline, you must learn to balance and draw from different sides of experiences in life, including the psychological aspect as well as the...
Apr 01, 2022•41 min
Matt Barnett is a nationally recognized expert on physical and cybersecurity, incident response, identity theft, and digital forensics. His expertise is backed by decades of combined information security and law enforcement experience. As a certified forensic analyst, Matt conducts various investigations for clients in the public and private sectors. It is with his technical competency, professionalism, and strategies, that he is able to protect his clients from threats and cyberterrorism. Ed...
Mar 08, 2022•47 min
Gummo is a former blackhat hacker and reverse engineer turned whitehat who has been breaking shit since '86. His success has been attributed to a unique gift we discuss as well as his extensive knowledge of defeating secure networks and physical vectors. His deep understanding of crypto allowed him to create four supercomputers that were able to mine more than 5.1 billion U.S. dollar’s worth of bitcoin. He has also created high capacity, ultra-secure systems and networks for trading & hed...
Feb 22, 2022•59 min
Jim Tiller is a security executive with over two decades of information security experience, leadership, a history of outstanding performance and growth, business turnarounds, and global recognition for innovation in security strategies and execution. He currently serves as the global CISO for Harvey Nash Group. He joins me at BarCode to discuss organizational targets that have typically stayed in the shadows, security challenges associated with those organizations, the COVID “accelerator”,...
Feb 15, 2022•47 min
Adi Elliott is the Chief Revenue Officer at Canopy, Data Breach Response Software. He has extensive experience building and leading high-performance marketing, sales, product, and strategy teams. He’s also held leadership roles at three companies with $100M+ liquidity events, led multiple marketing and product teams recognized for innovation, and led the positioning, branding, and definition of three of the strongest corporate & product brands in the eDiscovery market. He has deep experie...
Feb 03, 2022•53 min
Igor Volovich has built a career as a global CISO, strategist, advisor, author, speaker, and global cybersecurity leader with 20+ years of service to the world’s largest private and public-sector entities, Fortune 100 firms, and US policy, legislative, and regulatory communities. As a cyber strategy advisor and leader, he has helped large multinationals develop and execute enterprise risk management programs designed to protect hundreds of millions of consumers and billions of dollars in as...
Jan 21, 2022•43 min
Regina Bluman is an infosec professional who previously worked in IT Marketing for almost a decade, before leaving the dark side and moving across! She is an experienced panelist, guest author, podcast guest, and was recently nominated as ‘Technical Employee of the Year’, ‘Role Model of the Year’, ‘Rising Star’, and ‘Woman of the Year’ in the CRN Women in Channel Awards. She also volunteers for the Cyber House Party and is part of the Ladies of London Hacking Society. When not working, Regina...
Jan 09, 2022•28 min
Dr. Magda Chelly is a keynote speaker, serial entrepreneur and a senior security expert. She is a strong activist for women in security, and founded Women on Cyber in Singapore, which is focused on supporting female professionals in the industry. She’s is also the founder of of Responsible Cyber, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Executive Summit at Black Hat Asia. She has conducted research on Cyber Security, the future of localization and positioning, education and more, with publi...
Dec 17, 2021•43 min
The US government and military have recently confirmed investigations and sightings of UFOs, reigniting the phenomenon of aliens among us. Ironically, an unidentified spaceship descends into BarCode, and official contact is made. Sherri Davidoff is the CEO of LMG Security and the author of “Data Breaches.” She is a recognized expert in cybersecurity and data breach response, co-author of Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers Through Cyberspace and is the subject for the book , Breaking and En...
Dec 03, 2021•39 min
In recent years, there has been significant consumer demand for instant payments through their mobile phones. Unfortunately, the security aspect of mobile NFC payments has been ignored and mobile wallet theft is real threat. Timur Yunusov is a Security Expert in the area of payment security and application security, one of the organizers of Payment Village. He has authored extensive research in the field of payment security. He regularly speaks at conferences and has previously spoken at Can...
Nov 18, 2021•42 min
Predicted to be a $20 Billion cybercrime empire by the end of 2021, Ransomware is impacting businesses like never before… resulting in loss of revenue, reputation, and resources for organizations of all types. To put things in perspective, it is reported that an attack hits once every 11 seconds, and as if that stat isn’t hard enough to fathom, it’s predicted to worsen in the near future. As the war against Ransomware continues, I catch up with Ransomware-focused expert Greg Edwards at BarCod...
Oct 27, 2021•40 min
Organizations are increasingly adopting a Zero Trust model, which is based on the philosophy that there should be no implicit trust in a corporate network. Rooted in the principle of “Never Trust, Always Verify”, Zero Trust is designed to protect modern digital environments against successful data breaches. While it has existed for over a decade, Zero Trust is one of the most misused “buzzwords” in the industry today. Vendor marketing and other misleading data has unfortunately caused mass co...
Oct 18, 2021•58 min
Engines require three vital elements to generate power: AIR, SPARK, and FUEL. If any of these three elements aren’t present, the engine will struggle to function or even start. Fuel injectors are a vital part of a complex system that delivers the fuel to an engine, so it’s a critical component for ensuring successful ignition. In the startup world, air and spark may come naturally… such as an idea, concept, or solution to a major problem. Although, let’s think of the third element, FUEL, as s...
Oct 04, 2021•40 min
A former data scientist at Facebook, Sophie Zhang was tasked with investigating “fake engagements” although instead, discovered global political manipulation and opposition harassment in 25 countries. She was fired from Facebook in September 2020, after declining a $64,000 severance package attached to an NDA, restricting her ability to speak publicly about it. Upon leaving, she posted a 7,800 word departure letter to Facebook’s internal message board outlining Facebook’s failure to combat po...
Sep 24, 2021•52 min
A former data scientist at Facebook, Sophie Zhang was tasked with investigating “fake engagements” although instead, discovered global political manipulation and opposition harassment in 25 countries. She was fired from Facebook in September 2020, after declining a $64,000 severance package attached to an NDA, restricting her ability to speak publicly about it. Upon leaving, she posted a 7,800 word departure letter to Facebook’s internal message board outlining Facebook’s failure to combat po...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Jacob Horne is the Managing Director at DEFCERT where he specializes in DFARS and CMMC level three compliance for manufacturers in the Defense Industrial Base. As a former NSA intelligence analyst and U.S. Navy cryptologic technician, Jacob has over 14 years of experience in offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations. As a civilian he has led Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams at AT&T, Northrop Grumman, and the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership. He has developed and taugh...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 3 min
William Lin became an avid technology enthusiast after building his very first computer in elementary school and then began experimenting with the latest venture-backed consumer business models in his spare time. He is now Managing Director and a founding team member at ForgePoint Capital, a VC firm focused on cybersecurity startups. he has worked with more than 20 cybersecurity companies to date. In his spare time he enjoys connecting friends, enabling serendipity and building communities. ...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr