Each week on pm73media, Matt Stephenson chats with people who secure the things, hack the things or write about securing and hacking the things that surround us in everyday life. From voting machines to social engineering to the critical infrastructure, if it can be secured, it can be hacked. On pm73media, we meet the people who do one or the other… and sometimes both.
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Robert Kerbeck: Shank the Man and Rake in the Bucks
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Let’s just say you didn’t grow up wanting to become a spy. You just wanted out of the family car business. You’re armed with an Ivy League education in your back pocket. You have a more noble profession in mind. I don’t know... maybe... to be an actor. But... to support yourself... you need a survival job. Before you now it, while your acting peers…
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Chris Humphreys: Forest Gump Ain’t Got Shit on This Guy
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“I’m like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.” -- The Joker, The Dark Knight, 2008, Jonathon and Christopher Nolan Matt Stephenson welcomes Chris Humphreys to pm73media. How does a nice boy from Metro Washington DC start playing pro football (or soccer for you heathens) in England, then move o…
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Mike Fraser: Developers... Adapt or DIE!
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How can we make a better mousetrap if the designers of and the materials that go into the contemporary mousetraps aren’t good enough to keep pace with the current mouse? Adapt or perish… now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative --HG Wells It is not the strongest species that survie, nor the most intelligent… but the ones most responsive to ch…
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Matt Donato: Rethinking your Strategy in the Hunt for Cybersecurity Talent
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Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime 'Cause they can't buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes Just for fun he says, "get a job" That's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is Ah, but don't you believe them -- Bruce Hornsby You tired of hearing a…
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Greg Fitzgerald: Notes from a Serial Startup CMO
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” —Wayne Gretzy “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enoug…
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Jamil Jaffer: Is Big Tech Horrible for America?
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -- Albert Einstein It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are -- Clive James, writer and poet If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must a…
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nez&pez: Going Meta with the Idea of Founder Identity
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If you’re a founder of a company whose purpose is to tell the story of other companies… how do you tell the story of your own company… and your own story? Jim Garrison : And who killed the President? David Ferrie : Oh man, why don't you fuckin' stop it? Shit, this is too fuckin' big for you, you know that? Who did the president, who killed Kennedy,…
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Bill Hunter: Water Can Flow or It Can Crash
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"Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -- Bruce Lee After all of the bullshit of the past couple of years… wh…
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Brandon Gilmore and Marco Figueroa: Where are the Young Black and Brown Men in Cyberscurity
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Brandon Gilmore and Marco Figueroa: Where are the Young Black and Brown Men in Cyberscurity? Photo by F. Scott Schafer Let us begin, what, where, why or when Will all be explained like instructions to a game See I'm not insane, in fact I'm kind of rational When I be asking you, "Who is more dramatical?" This one or that one, the white one or the bl…
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Carter Schoenberg: Compliance Borne of a Perfect Storm of Badness
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How hard is it to do your job when your job involves government, the military and the commercial sector? “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help” -- Ronald Reagan Does that actually have to be the case? What if you are really good at what you do and you happen to work for the govern…
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Rob Bathurst: Helping People Suck Less Since 1999
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Have you heard the cliché about sharks? The one that says if they don’t keep swimming they’ll die? Turns out it’s pretty much true… stick around for the metaphor -- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. -- Henry Rollins On this episo…
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Brian Haugli: Applying the NIST Protocols for Human Sanity
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Brian Haugli: Applying the NIST Protocols to Human Sanity Some serious people have worked very hard to create the protocols put in place to secure the world’s networks… why don’t we take to same amount of time and energy to secure the physical, mental and emotional health of our business leaders? I’m funny all the time… I’m not happy all the time… …
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Anthony Freed: Lead Them Where They’re Dying to Go
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CAFFEE: I need to shake him, put him on the defensive and lead him right where he’s dying to go. WEINBERG: That’s it? That’s the plan? CAFFEE: That’s the plan. WEINBERG: How you gonna do it? CAFFEE: I have NO idea -- A Few Good Men, 1992: written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Rob Reiner When you look back over the last 10+ years of what has happened…
Tom Pace: Pick Your Frustrating If you’re going to anything interesting… you’re gonna have to go hard -- Henry Rollins Welcome to the premier episode of the pm73media podcast! For those of you who have been with me for awhile you will recall the era of Insecurity where we had some fabulous guests. Our brief stint as the No Name Security Podcast had…
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Greg Crabb: What CISOs can learn from the US Postal Service and… the Russian Security Service?
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Messenger of Sympathy and Love Servant of Parted Friends Consoler of the Lonely Bond of the Scattered Family Enlarger of the Common Life Carrier of News and Knowledge Instrument of Trade and Industry Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance Of Peace and of Goodwill Among Men and Nations -- Inscription found on the the Smithsonian Institution's National Post…
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Elisa Costante and Ellen Sundra: Do you know what the NicheStack TCP/IP stack is…?
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On this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson welcomes Elisa Costante, VP of Research and Ellen Sundra, Chief Customer Officer at Forescout for a discussion about the vulnerabilities that plague Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure. With nearly 40 years of combined experience finding, understanding and solving the security issues that…
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Clint Bodungen and Brian Proctor: How At Risk is our Critical Infrastructure?
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On this Very Special Episode, Matt Stephenson brings in ThreatGEN Founder/CEO and Hacking Exposed: Industrial Control Systems author Clint Bodungen alongside Forescout Technologies Inc. Principal OT Strategist Brian Proctor for a sit-down. We take a hard look at the state of security for Operational Technology, Blue and Red teaming for OT, the cybe…
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Mitch Greenfield: Hospitals are Under Continuous Cyberattack… What Can We Do?
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Once upon a time, Gartner predicted that by 2020, more than 25 percent of cyberattacks in healthcare delivery organizations would involve some kind of IoT device. In medical terms, that means wirelessly connected and digitally monitored implantable medical devices like pacemakers, deep brain neurostimulators and insulin pumps. These aren’t the esot…
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INFRA:HALT: Discovering and Mitigating Large-Scale Operational Technology Vulnerabilities
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INFRA:HALT vulnerabilities impact the closed source TCP/IP stack NicheStack that is used in millions of Operational Technologies and Industrial Control Systems, especially in the discrete and process manufacturing industries. Among the vulnerabilities are DNS cache poisoning, TCP spoofing, Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution. Successful att…
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Patrick Miller and Brian Proctor: What’s Left to Hack in Critical Infrastructure?
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism -- Chuck Palahniuk…
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Kurtis Minder, Tom Pace and Scott Scheferman: Black Hat 2021… What Did We Learn?
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Coolness is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style which is generally admired. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well as its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning. It has associations of composure and self-control and often is used as an expression of admiration or approval. Altho…
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Black Hat 2021 Volume Two: The Conversations We Missed in 2020
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“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down For Episode Two of our Black Hat coverage, we sat down for a chat with two Founders to …
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Black Hat 2021 Volume One: Not the Show We’re Used to… But the Show We Need
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Elijah Snow: It's a strange world Jakita Wagner: Let's keep it that way" -- Planetary: Warren Ellis & John Cassaday Black Hat 2021 was unlike any other previous edition and likely will be unlike any that follow. The rise of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 put the world back on edge after we had been slowly creeping toward something that felt like nor…
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Sajed Naseem: Does Cybersecurity Need a Kick in the Pants?
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-- Calvin and Hobbes courtesy of Bill Waterson None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy. -- Leslie Odom, Jr. What if the worst day of your life ended up being just another Zoom meeting on someone else’s calendar…
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Scott Scheferman: Is Ransomware about Money, Power or Leverage?
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-- Photo credit: Huss Harden When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power -- Top Dog; 2014, written by Dougie Brimson Ransomware is the biggest buzzword in the news right now, and rightfully so. You can’t turn on a network police proce…