Show Notes The Cybertraps Podcast is a production of The Center for Cyberethics, an independent, non-partisan educational institute dedicated to the study and promotion of cyberethics as a positive social force through research, curricula development, publishing and media, professional training, and public advocacy. Build the Non-Profit One Pillar at a Time First Pillar: Cyberethics in the School Community Draws on experience of Jethro as principal and educational consultant, and Fred as lecture...
Sep 14, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Joshua Powell spent 23 years in the Marines doing Command and Control operations and the last 5 working as a contractor. Spent 3 years with the Navy working Electronic Warfare / Information Operations and the last two working with George Mason University, Rapid Prototyping Research Center as a Senior Research Faculty. Focused on airborne networking technologies. From the time our kids are born they are leaving behind a virtual shadow. This shadow can quickly become a tool for not only nation sta...
Sep 09, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Greg Edwards is the CEO of CryptoStopper™, which provides ransomware protection by automatically detecting and stopping actively running ransomware attacks. The are the world’s first digital security product to offer 100% ransomware protection. Ransomware is affecting so many people. How big of a problem is it really? How can you guarantee to protect companies against ransomware? What steps can every day people take to protect themselves. Why is ransomware the number two threat to businesses tod...
Sep 09, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Heather is a researcher and author in the United States who has spent 15 years studying innovation in education and the rise of blended learning as the enabler of student-centered learning. She is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, as well as The Blended Workbook As the founder of Ready to Blend, Heather leads a team of 150 facilitators in the United States, Middle East, and South America who have been certified to deliver blended-lear...
Sep 05, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 73
WhatsApp Pussy Cat? Today Fred and Jethro talk all about WhatsApp, the background, how it’s used, and what to look out for. What Is It? WhatsApp Messenger Who Built It? Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former Yahoo! employees, wrote the first version in 2009 Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion Who Is Using It? Lots and lots of people … Roughly 2 billion monthly users worldwide WhatsApp has users in 109 countries How Are People Using It? Group chats (up to 256 people) Broadcast feature (m...
Aug 30, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 72
In this episode we talk with Andrea Hainsworth about how to help family members who are struggling with unwanted pornography use. Andrea Hainsworth is an associate licensed mental health counselor in Spokane Washington. She is a graduate of Gonzaga university with a masters degree in marriage and family counseling. She is trained in emotionally focused therapy and owns a private practice which works primarily with couples, many of whom are dealing with unwanted pornography use and associated inf...
Aug 26, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Richard Byrne is the President of Byrne Instructional Media, LLC. He is best known for developing the award-winning blogs Free Technology for Teachers and Practical Ed Tech. His work is focused on helping teachers use technology to improve their students’ learning experiences. He has been a high school social studies teacher and is currently a computer science teacher. Richard’s print work includes columns for School Library Journal, contributing author to What School Leaders Need to Know About ...
Aug 23, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Scott Schober is the author of three best-selling security books: Senior Cyber, Hacked Again, and Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business. He has dedicated himself to educating as many people as possible by telling his own stories of being hacked with the hope that others can learn from his mistakes. As a lifelong technology innovator and inventor, Scott began seeking ways to help seniors seamlessly adapt to our ever-technological world, based on his and his brother Craig’s experiences with their ...
Aug 19, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 69
In this episode we will do a deep dive about TikTok and give parents ideas and suggestions for how to manage TikTok at home. What Is TikTok? A free social network service that focuses on the sharing of short videos (15 seconds to 3 minutes) with background music It is available on iOS and Android It was originally launched in 2017 but did not really take off until it merged with another Chinese social media service called Musical.ly Interesting question: Is TikTok the new Facebook? Who Built It?...
Aug 16, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 68
In this podcast we are talking about the Supreme Court decision this fall regarding Mahanoy Valley v BL and Apple's new policy on cryptographically scanning files for CSAM content. SCOTUS Decision Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (Brandi Levy) SCOTUSblog Language warning Majority [8-1] opinion written by Justice Breyer Facts Levy tried out for varsity cheerleading but was offered a spot on the jv squad Levy was unhappy with the decision. The following weekend, while visiting a Cocoa Hut, she...
Aug 16, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Sam is an IT Director and consultant with experience in K–12 education, corporate training, and telecommunications. He spent over ten years living and working in Bush Alaska, visiting 97 small towns and villages across the state, 3 years in China, and now resides in southern Florida with his wife and two boys. He is certified in a number of technology and vendor platforms/skills, but has focused more on cybersecurity in the last 3 years. He is passionate about privacy, data protection, and cyber...
Aug 12, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Ted Harrington is the #1 best selling author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right , and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) , the company of ethical hackers famous for hacking cars, medical devices, web applications, and password managers. He’s helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Ted has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financi...
Aug 06, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Dr. April Joy Damian is an epidemiologist, health services researcher, and classically trained public health professional with expertise in health equity, social determinants of health, psychiatric epidemiology, and mixed methods. She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Weitzman Institute, a research, education, and policy center dedicated to quality improvement and primary care transformation, with a particularly focus on vulnerable populations. Dr. Damian is also the immediate Pa...
Aug 02, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Tom Kowalski is the Founder and CEO of REP , a global digital security and reputation advisory firm specializing risk protection. REP helps to preserve online assets, and public images. Provide peace of mind and ease worry about reputation. Social media platforms are incredibly unhelpful Model is built on advertising and treating users as users, not customers. Can be difficult to suppress Be cautious about what you put out there. Revealing information inadvertently though using social media Righ...
Jul 29, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Jane Clementi co-founded the Tyler Clementi Foundation alongside husband Joe because she wants to make sure that our society learns the consequences of discrimination and bullying, as she learned all too personally through the loss of her son. A native of New Jersey and devoted mother of three sons, Jane speaks passionately to parents and community leaders about the need to not merely “accept” or “tolerate” children who come out as LGBT, but to embrace them as wondrous creations of God. Jane, a ...
Jul 26, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Heather is a thought-leader in the IT Training and Cybersecurity field. Heather keynotes at conferences, universities, and for enterprise clients. Heather regularly speaks about Cybersecurity, Women in Technology, Women and Diversity in Cybersecurity, creating a Cybersecurity Culture, Entrepreneurship, Privacy, and the shifting regulations and how to manage cybersecurity risks. In 2019, Heather won a national year-long fellowship with the Tory Burch Foundation, received a national scholarship fr...
Jul 22, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Michael Skinner is an award-winning advocate, educator, writer and critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, addressing the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns through public speaking, writing and his music. He has spoken at the National Press Club, was a keynote presenter for a conference held by the United Nations, The State Department and Georgetown University on the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and adults and he was part of the groundbreaking Oprah...
Jul 20, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Brandon Laur has been employed with Personal Protection Systems working as a White Hatter for over 12 years. Since May 2013, Brandon has been operating in a management position in the organization overseeing special project developments; most recently, developing the White Hatter production studio and the subsequent YouTube channel, livestream, and webinar platforms. He has a master’s degree in Professional Communication, specializing in phishing cyberattacks. Brandon actively facilitates educat...
Jul 15, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Ben Meiselas is a civil rights lawyer and the founder of Meidas Touch . Background is a civil rights Lawyer - strange to be associated with Meidas Touch Meidas Touch started during the quarantine. You’ve been in the public spotlight for various things - how has this been different? Be as transparent about who you are. Transparency - putting our personalities out there. How they think about what they post. Thinking about the language that they are using and how it reflects on their biases. Kids u...
Jul 12, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Brian Devine is the Director of Educator Licensure at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He has been with the Department since 1997 and has been leading the Licensure Office since 2004. In 2014 and 2015, he was recognized as part of teams that received the Manuel Carballo Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service for his teamwork on implementing Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners (RETELL) and his leadership in directing the Licen...
Jul 08, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 57
In this episode Jethro and Fred talk with Quinton B. Dale, who investigates teachers who are applying for licensure in Massachussetts. Quinton B. Dale Is currently the Chief of Investigations for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Office of Professional Practices Investigations. He previously served as Director of the Investigation Division, Deputy Director of the Investigation Division and as an Investigator for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Da...
Jul 05, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 56
In this episode we talk with Marlena Gross-Taylor about how to establish screen time policies and routines that will carry them into their lifetimes. We also talk about the ways that schools have had to change because of the pandemic. Marlena Gross-Taylor is an amazing school leader and founder of Edugladiators. They are all about doing what is best for kids. Marlena has been a friend of mine for years, she is also an author, speaker, and consultant. Links Stressed about your kids’ screen time? ...
Jul 01, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Rob Shavell has been working on protecting the online security and digital footprint of individuals and businesses for more than 10 years. He is the founder of Abine & DeleteMe (joindeleteme.com) which seek to prevent data brokers from selling your information. Entrepreneurs want to solve a big problem. For the typical person, what we find isn’t useful information. Blatant exposure of person’s information. We don’t realize that we are giving the resale permission. Technology gets better fast...
Jun 28, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Scott C. Tennant is a Senior Program Strategist with Risk Program Administrators and the Deputy Executive Director of the School Pool for Excess Liability Limits Joint Insurance Fund commonly referred to as SPELL by its 83 school district members. Scott has been in the insurance and risk management field for 33 years, beginning as a retail broker focused on public agencies and migrating to public entity pool management in 1989. Scott is passionate about helping pools support their member public ...
Jun 24, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Louis-David Mangin is the CEO of Confiant, Inc . Confiant is the first company to launch a malvertising product that captured harmful ads in real time, protecting users from forceful redirects and phishing scams (like the very recent Elon Musk bitcoin fiasco). Confiant also just launched the first-ever Privacy Compliance Product to ensure consent matches with GDPR and CCPA and similar evolving regulations (Confiant has a very robust research arm on the pulse of emerging regulatory). What you can...
Jun 22, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Philippe Humeau graduated in 1999 as IT security engineer from EPITA (Paris, France). He founded his first company right after school and dedicated it to red team penetration testing and high security hosting. He was also deeply involved in Magento’s community creation & animation in France and versed into eCommerce (wrote 4 books on the topic). After selling this first company (NBS System), his eternal crushes for Cyber security and entrepreneurship led him to create a new company in 2020. ...
Jun 17, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 51
We are excited to announce the formation of the Center for Cyberethics! We invite you to check out the new web site and of course, Donate! :) We are looking for all kinds of people to help us with the Center, so if you are interested, please reach out! We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by ...
Jun 15, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Neil Gurnhill Founder and CEO of Node International and Cyberman365. We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more: Simplify and streamline technology Save teachers’ time Reliably meet Tier 1 standards Im...
Jun 10, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Bliss Landon is a longtime Insurance Specialist and the Founder, President, and CEO of U-PIC Insurance Services, Inc., where she provides leadership and direction to her senior management team, and dictates the overall culture of the organization. Since 1989, Bliss has been dedicated to providing low cost shipping insurance to individuals and businesses. She understands the need for peace of mind when it comes to shipping valuable items, as well as getting claims processed quickly if any items a...
Jun 08, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Jason Hong is a full professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, which is part of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He was formerly an associate editor for IEEE Pervasive Computing, and currently on the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. He has chaired or co-chaired a number of technical program committees, including HotMobile, Mobisys, and CHI, and has also served on SIGMOBILE’s test of time committee (mobile computin...
Jun 03, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 47
