Ep 181 | 1.27.22

Useful ransomware protection for you.

Show Notes

Guest Roger Grimes, Data Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4, joins Dave to discuss his new book "Ransomware Protection Playbook," Dave has a story about a Meta (Facebook) group with a cryptocurrency scam that promises "a new way to wealth," Joe's story has tales of account takeover attacks of high-profile gamers, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Jesse about a text they received from "Facebook" about a $600,000 windfall.

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Podcast Info

HOST(S):

Dave Bittner is a security podcast host and one of the founders at CyberWire. He's a creator, producer, videographer, actor, experimenter, and entrepreneur. He's had a long career in the worlds of television, journalism and media production, and is one of the pioneers of non-linear editing and digital storytelling.

Joe Carrigan, is a Senior Security Engineer with the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. He has been a Software Engineer for over twenty years and has been working in the security field for more than ten years focusing on usable security and security awareness. He has experience in a broad range of fields including authentication systems, embedded systems, data migration, and network communication.

Schedule: Thursdays

Creator: CyberWire, Inc.