Crucial Tech
Unraveling the technology that affects us all but that few of us understand, in a format to give you a basic understanding in the time it takes to drive to and from the grocery store.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 235
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 8.11 - An interview with Rohit Ghai of RSA.
The RSA Conference was a firehose of information, some of it good, some of it absolutely false, but always a good way to get perspective on the industry. I met with Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA to get his …
PR, the Press, and Technology: A rant
Had a disappointing two weeks trying to cobble together an interview for this week, and had no luck for a variety of reasons. Plenty of content, just little worth reporting. But as I head off to the …
Episode 8.10 -- Google needs news. News doesn't need Google
Last week, Google started removing California-based news sites from search results in retaliation for the legislature advancing the California Journalism Protection Act. The act requires Google to pa…
Episode 8.9 - Crystal Morin, tea ladies and personal responsibility
We are neck-deep in politics here in the US, but did you know that by the end of this year, two-thirds of the planet will be making some sort of political decision about their country? That means ele…
Episode 8.8 - Red teaming AI
We have written several articles at Cyber Protection Magazine under the title of Defense Against the AI arts and this interview today falls into that category. The company’s name is Enkrypt and the C…
TikTok: Hoist on its own petard
A very, special episode providing some perspective, without offering an opinion on the legislation, about the TikTok controversy,
The debate over the appropriateness of the Congressional action again…
Episode 8.7: Arming insurance companies for cyberbattle
With the exception of people in insurance, nobody like to talk about insurance. That's why, three years ago, few people felt sorry for the insurance industry as it reeled from claims due to multiple …
Episode 8.6 -- Bad month for cyber criminals.
It has been a bad month for cybercrime. Yes, attacks are on the way up. Yes, they are still extorting money and causing infrastructure chaos. But there is a massive, shadow-busting spotlight on them …
Episode 8.5 -- FIDO, PCI fighting the good fight for security with payment cards
Biometric multi-factor authentication is all the rage in security. And yet it is also the cause of terror for security-minded folk. For every breakthrough we get a news story about how it has caused …
Episode 8.4 - Making your personal medical data safe
Generally speaking, 70-90 percent of digital breaches in the world result from human error; someone just not taking proper precautions like not clicking on a link in an email from someone you don't k…
Episode 8.3 - Centific is fixing AI before it becomes Skynet
Episode 8.2 --The most dangerous people on the Internet: Our take
Every year, Wired Magazine publishes an article naming the most dangerous people on the internet and, quite frankly, who gets chosen is fairly obvious, but not altogether accurate. At least that is w…
Episode 8.1 -- Harri Hursti makes me feel stupid about elections
Harri Hursti is an internationally recognized expert on election security and was a focal point in two HBO specials on the subject: Hacking Democracy (2006) and Kill Chain: The Cyber Wars Against Ame…
Episode 7.29 - Would you bet your job on that post?
Episode 7.28 -- Privacy Not Included, in pretty much anything
Two years ago we interviewed Jen Caltrider, head of Mozilla foundation's Privacy Not Included group and got an earful about how bad Meta's privacy was in its products. This year we caught up to Jen a…
Episode 7.27 - Deep fake acceptance increasing but at what cost?
Synthedia, a data research company focused on generative AI and synthetic media markets, dropped a study recently on awareness of deep fake and voice cloning technology that raised some interesting n…
Episode 7.26 -- Update your software, but pay no attention to the statistics
The bulk of this episode is about the importance of updating your software no matter how painful it is, and we learn some valuable information about the FREE services of Trackd from its CEO Mike Star…
Episode 7.25: Linkedin account hijacked? It's not hopeless
Instances of LinkedIn users having their accounts hijacked are a familiar occurrence on social media. Reddit has multiple discussions about the nightmare of trying to restore access to this crucial b…
Episode 7.24 -- MGM Grand Breach, Social Engineering, and how to protect yourself
Episode 7.23 - Defense against the AI Arts
The rise of generative AI products for commercial use is probably the fastest and most controversial of any technological advance in history. Governments are scrambling to understand and regulate its…