Error Code

Jan 21 2025 55 ep. 40 mins 30

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Error Code is a biweekly narrative podcast that provides you both context and conversation with some of the best minds working today toward code resilience and dependability. Work that can lead to autonomous vehicles and smart cities. It’s your window in the research solving tomorrow’s code problems today.

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EP 54: From Cyber Chaos to Control: Lessons from a Kansas Water District

Jan 21 2025 34 mins

Imagine your best worst day during a cyber attack. Can you switch to manual systems in case of a failure? Has your team practiced for that?

EP 53: Securing Smart OT Systems Already In The Field

Jan 07 2025 31 mins

This is the story of how the security of OT devices in the field can be modernized virtual isolation in the cloud, adding both authentication and encryption into the mix. Bill Moore, founder and CEO of Xona, explains how you can virtualize the OT network and interact with it, adding 2FA and encryption to legacy systems already in the field.

EP 52: Hacking Cellular-Enabled IoT Devices

Dec 17 2024 37 mins

This is the story of the secret life of cellular chips and why we need to mitigate against the unintended access they provide. Deral Heiland, Principal Security Research for IoT at Rapid 7, describes a research project he presented at the IoT Village at DEF CON 32 where they compiled AT command manuals from various vendors, discovering unexpected functionalities, such as internal w

EP 51: Hacking High-Performance Race Cars

Dec 03 2024 43 mins

When we think of IoT, we first think of our smart light bulbs, our smart TVs, our smart baby monitors. However, we don't typically associate IoT with high-performance race cars, and yet they collect terabytes of data each race. Austin Allen, Director of Solutions Architecture at Airlock Digital, discusses the growing presence of smart devices and the responsibility of securing them

EP 50: Keeping The Lights On In Ukraine

Nov 19 2024 44 mins

What would happen if your GPS signal were jammed? It would impact more than just navigation – you'd also lose access to financial data and power. Joe Marshall, Senior IoT Strategist and Threat Researcher at Cisco Talos, discusses an innovative solution to maintain the country's power grid operations in the event of GPS jamming, whether it's a precautionary measure or an act of wa

EP 49: Hacking Android-Based ICS Devices

Nov 05 2024 39 mins

Cybercriminal tactics against ICS include direct threats against individuals for MFA credentials, sometimes escalating to physical violence if they won’t share.

EP 48: The New Insider Threat: Hacking Corporate Office Devices

Oct 22 2024 40 mins

If smart buildings are vulnerable to hacking, what about smart offices? Even devices like printers and lighting systems could give an attacker a way in. John Terrill, CSO at Phosphorus, recalls a moment while working at a hedge fund when he found himself in a room filled with priceless art. He realized that the security cameras safeguarding these artworks were operating on outdated

EP 47: Hacking Smart Buildings

Oct 08 2024 41 mins

If you are in IT, you are probably not thinking about the risks associated with the Otis Elevator or the Coke machine. Maybe you should. Chester Wisnieski, the director and global field CTO at Sophos, points out that IoT devices, big and small, create an outsized threat to any organization. And that’s why IoT vendors need to secure these devices, even if they only “phone home�

EP 46: Hacking Israeli-made Water Treatment Devices In Pennsylvania

Sep 24 2024 33 mins

Political hacktivism once mainly focused on website defacement. Now it has shifted to targeting physical devices, affecting critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants. At Black Hat USA 2024, Noam Moshe from Claroty highlighted how the HMIs in PLC devices from Israeli manufacturers may be susceptible to political attacks by nation-state actors using unknown vulnerabiliti

EP 45: Laser Fault Injections on a Shoestring Budget

Sep 10 2024 32 mins

What if you could build your own embedded security tools, glitching devices for a fraction of the cost that you might expect. Like having a $150,000 laser setup for less than $500. A talk at Black Hat USA 2024 says you can.