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EPISODE 407
Broadcast Date:
July 26, 202413 minutes
Podcast Jul 26, 2024Root Causes 407: Whatever Happened to Passkeys?
WebAuthn arrived last year with great fanfare. But here we are in the latter half of 2024, and they are rarely used. In this episode we discuss why.
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EPISODE 405
Broadcast Date:
July 19, 202425 minutes
Podcast Jul 19, 2024Root Causes 405: What Is an Adversarial Self-replicating Prompt?
In this episode we explain what an adversarial, self-replicating prompt, otherwise known as a prompt worm.
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EPISODE 404
Broadcast Date:
July 16, 202416 minutes
Podcast Jul 16, 2024Root Causes 404: SCOTUS Ruling Will Change IT Security Regulation
The US Supreme Court has struck down the Chevron Deferment, which stands to weaken regulatory agency power over technology. We explore the consequences.
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EPISODE 403
Broadcast Date:
July 12, 202421 minutes
Podcast Jul 12, 2024Root Causes 403: NIST PQC Contest Round 4 and Onramp with Dustin Moody
We are joined again by Dustin Moody, who leads the NIST search for PQC algorithms. We cover going-forward efforts, including Round 4 and the Onramp.
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EPISODE 402
Broadcast Date:
July 9, 202415 minutes
Podcast Jul 09, 2024Root Causes 402: New Social Engineering Powershell Attack
A new social engineering exploit instructs victims to enter command line prompts to hack themselves on behalf of the hacker.
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EPISODE 401
Broadcast Date:
July 5, 202410 minutes
Podcast Jul 05, 2024Root Causes 401: New SSH Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Revealed
A newly revealed OpenSSH vulnerability can open enterprises to remote code execution. We explain what is happening and what to do about it.
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EPISODE 400
Broadcast Date:
July 2, 202411 minutes
Podcast Jul 02, 2024Root Causes 400: French Court Orders DNS Poisoning
To combat piracy of sporting event transmissions, a French court has ordered major tech companies including Google and Cloudflare to poison DNS settings.
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EPISODE 399
Broadcast Date:
June 28, 202420 minutes
Podcast Jun 28, 2024Root Causes 399: Entrust Distrusted
Google Chrome will distrust Entrust as a public CA starting November 1, 2024. Learn what to expect and Google's reasons leading up to this decision.
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EPISODE 398
Broadcast Date:
June 27, 202425 minutes
Podcast Jun 27, 2024Root Causes 398: History of the NIST PQC Contest with Dustin Moody
Join us with Dr. Dustin Moody from NIST's post-quantum cryptography contest, exploring the contest's background and its journey to the present day.
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EPISODE 397
Broadcast Date:
June 24, 202428 minutes
Podcast Jun 24, 2024Root Causes 397: All Post Quantum Systems Are Terrible
Explore the integration challenges of current PQC systems and potential solutions in our latest discussion with Bas Westerbaan of Cloudflare.
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EPISODE 394
Broadcast Date:
June 21, 202414 minutes
Podcast Jun 21, 2024Root Causes 396: The Trouble with Microsoft Recall
Microsoft's Recall feature uses screen images for AI, raising security concerns. We discuss why and how the proposed technology has changed as a result.
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EPISODE 395
Broadcast Date:
June 18, 202424 minutes
Podcast Jun 18, 2024Root Causes 395: Is Y2Q Like Y2K?
In this episode, we compare the advent of quantum cryptography (Y2Q) to Y2K, uncovering similarities and differences that influence decision-making.