In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. The post Episode 257: Securing Software on Wheels... Read the whole entry... » Click the icon below to listen. Related Stories Episode 257: Securing Software on Wheels with Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary Robot Vacuum Liberation Movement Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalis ..read more

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. The post Episode 257: Securing Software on Wheels... Read the whole entry... » Click the icon below to listen. Related Stories Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary Robot Vacuum Liberation Movement Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalism? Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity Citing Attack ..read more

A newly discovered campaign pushing malicious open source software packages is designed to steal mnemonic phrases used to recover lost or destroyed crypto wallets, according to a report by ReversingLabs. The post Malicious Python Packages Target Crypto Wallet Recovery Passwords appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency Researcher finds malicious packages lurked on npm for months The surveys speak: supply chain threats are freaking people out ..read more

Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about the risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and LLMs can insulate themselves from those risks. The post Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data... Read the whole entry... » Click the icon below to listen. Related Stories BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency China Calls Out U.S. For Hacking. The Proof? TBD! Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary ..read more

The Chinese government is taking an aggressive approach to countering stories of Chinese cyber offensive campaigns: promoting tales of US hacks on Chinese organizations, but without the data to back them up. The post China Calls Out U.S. For Hacking. The Proof? TBD! appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency Citing Attacks On Small Utilities, Dragos Launches Community Defense Program FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries ..read more

In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) host Paul Roberts interviews Niels Provos of Lacework about his mission to use EDM to teach people about cybersecurity. The post Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related Stories Citing Attacks On Small Utilities, Dragos Launches Community Defense Program FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency ..read more

Security researcher and IoT hacker Dennis Giese talks about his mission to liberate robot vacuums from the control of their manufacturers, letting owners tinker with their own devices and - importantly - control the data they collect about our most intimate surroundings. The post Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary Robot Vacuum... Read the whole entry... » Click the icon below to listen. Related Stories Black Hat: Colin O’Flynn On Hacking An Oven To Make It Stop Lying Episode 250: Window Snyder of Thistle on Making IoT Security Easy Episode 251: Kry10 CEO Boyd Multerer on building ..read more

Dragos Security on Wednesday unveiled a "Community Defense Program" to provide free cybersecurity software for small utilities providing water, electric, and natural gas in the United States. The post Dragos Community Defense Program Helps Small Utilities Facing Cyber Attacks appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency Cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems Jumped in 2022 ..read more

The hack of a Pennsylvania water treatment facility in November is part of a larger campaign by an Iranian APT group against users of Israel-made operational technology. The post FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries first appeared on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories Cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems Jumped in 2022 BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency Forget the IoT. Meet the IoZ: our Internet of Zombie things ..read more

A report from the firm Recorded Future finds that billions in gains from cryptocurrency heists fund close to half of North Korea's military budget. The post BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency first appeared on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs Is a DEF CON Village the right way to assess AI risk? Cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems Jumped in 2022 ..read more