In response to the San Bernardino shooting in 2015, the FBI demanded that Apple, Inc. create a "back door" to bypass the shooter's iPhone security, a back door that could also compromise any iPhone, anytime. Thankfully, Apple CEO Tim Cook wasn't playing. But this isn't the first time government and law enforcement has tried to stick their noses into our business without permission, and probably won't be the last. In this episode we also talk about government efforts to compromise consumer security, like the NSA's Clipper Chip of 1993, and why these efforts have always failed.
The 2025 ransomware attack on the state of Nevada’s systems is a great lesson in incident response: they recovered quickly, lost nothing, and ended up with better security in the
You'd think that with all the cybersecurity tools and strategies we have at our fingertips, hacks would be a thing of the past, but they're not. What is that?