Crucial Tech

Nov 05 2024 198 ep. 24 mins 1

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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. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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Episode 9.7 - How to boost customer confidence in security

Nov 05 2024 26 mins

I received more than dozen studies and reports on the "state of cybersecurity" all with different foci depending on the company that was pushing the document. It seems like they are replacing press releases as a primary marketing tool. But there was one thing that jumped out of me. Almost every one of them had a throwaway line that customers had #zerotrust in the effiicacy of the t

Special episode: Threat reports for Nov 5

Nov 04 2024 7 mins

Here's our top three threat reports for the week. Hackers are targeting gambling apps on mobile devices and obsolete Microsoft products. Thanks to the folks at Fletch for the info --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Special episode: Top three threat reports for the week

Oct 28 2024 5 mins

Our friends at Fletch.AI dropped a bunch of threat reports this week, here's what we see as the top three. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Episode 9.6 - FHE starts getting serious

Oct 24 2024 32 mins

I bet you never heard of FHE. Me neither. Then I got a pitch about it. Tried to ignore it because I had never herd of it, but they were insistent. Turns out to be interesting. Fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, has been talked about for about five years but not it has its very own industry association and NIST is starting to take it very seriously. It doesn't eliminate quantum e

Special episode -Threat reports for October 21

Oct 21 2024 8 mins

After getting knocked for a loop with a dose of Covid I'm slowly crawling back to the desk and providing some timely advice regarding current and predicted threat reports from our friends at Fletch. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Episode 9.5 - Pig butchering: It's not just for breakfast

Oct 04 2024 22 mins

Quick, what is the biggest single category of cybercrime today? If you said pig butchering, you get a gold star. (If you said ransomware you need to stop believe press releases). It's big. $75 billion in stolen funds, mostly cryptocurrency last year alone. And it wasn't from lonely elderly people. We talked with Arkose Labs CEO Kevin Gosschalk about the growing phenomenon and how y

Episode 9.4 - Digital tech is hitting the physical wall

Sep 27 2024 33 mins

Firts, apologies for the sound quality. Tried out a new microphone and I definitely do not like it. Going back to the tried and true. But it stands as an example of what we are talking about today. When people from one discipline start talking about moving into another discipline where they lack expertise, things go haywire. Such is the case with the digital world and energy produc

Episode 9.3 - AI and telemarkeing: Marriage from Hell?

Sep 20 2024 17 mins

I had an encounter with an AI-driven telemarketing scam a day before I got pitched to talk to a company introducing and AI-driven telemarketing services. So I was ready for bear when we started. Turns out I may have been talking to the one entrant in this field that was not only following the law but using AI in a productive way for both potential customers and the merchant. The co

Episode 9.2 - Innocence is not a defense against online fraud

Sep 12 2024 24 mins

Recently, someone on Mastodon asked, "Looking for an article or blog or text, that succinctly describes, at grade 1 level English, why “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” is a crazy and bad argument, and perhaps also includes what some good arguments are. Need it for a family member. " I thought that was an excellent request. So along with an artic

Episode 9.1 - Getting serious about PQC

Sep 06 2024 39 mins

About twice a year, the post-quantum computing (PQC) niche of the cybersecurity industry pushes out truckloads of press releases and articles about the coming quantum computing apocalypse. In all of this content there is little explanation regarding what this means for most people. It seems like everyone should be concerned, based on the level of urgency the companies present, but