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EPISODE 208
Broadcast Date:
February 24, 202210 minutes
Podcast Feb 24, 2022Root Causes 208: HD Radio Error Bricks Automotive Information Systems
Recently automobile infotainment systems were permanently "bricked" by a HD radio flaw. Our hosts describe what happened and the lessons we can learn.
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What Are the Baseline Requirements?
Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Feb 23, 2022For the first decade-plus of their lifespan as a technology, publicly trusted digital certificates operated with little oversight, transparency, or consistency in operating principles. To create predictable, reliable behavior among public Certificate Authorities (CAs) the CA/Browser Forum undertook the creation of its Baseline Requirements, which first went into effect in 2012.
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EPISODE 207
Broadcast Date:
February 21, 202219 minutes
Podcast Feb 21, 2022Root Causes 207: Former Gartner Analyst Jumps on the Playing Field
Gartner analyst David Mahdi explains the reasons for his optimism about digital trust, including NFTs, Web3, blockchain, PKI, and Zero Trust.
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EPISODE 206
Broadcast Date:
February 14, 202233 minutes
Podcast Feb 14, 2022Root Causes 206: What Is Web3?
Web3 refers to the concept that online content can be attributed to specific known publishers, regardless of web site or online channel.
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EPISODE 205
Broadcast Date:
February 9, 202212 minutes
Podcast Feb 09, 2022Root Causes 205: Anatomy of an Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network
Jason Soroko explains how he was able to quickly and easily create an encrypted communications mesh for use by him and his collaboration team.
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EPISODE 204
Broadcast Date:
February 2, 202223 minutes
Podcast Feb 02, 2022Root Causes 204: PKI's Role in Passwordless
We explain PKI's specific role in passwordless authentication, clarifying the difference between password-masking and true passwordless technologies.
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EPISODE 203
Broadcast Date:
January 31, 202211 minutes
Podcast Jan 31, 2022Root Causes 203: What Is a Credential Vault?
Credential vaults are necessary for secure and functional secrets management for automated systems like DevOps or Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
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EPISODE 202
Broadcast Date:
January 27, 202216 minutes
Podcast Jan 27, 2022Root Causes 202 : What Is Certificate Transparency?
Certificate Transparency (CT) is essential to monitoring the public SSL certificates that are issued. We explain CT logs and the uses we can put them to.
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EPISODE 201
Broadcast Date:
January 24, 202216 minutes
Podcast Jan 24, 2022Root Causes 201: What Are the Baseline Requirements?
The CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (BR) are hugely influential in the world of public-trust certificates. We explain them and why they matter.
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EPISODE 200
Broadcast Date:
January 19, 20227 minutes
Podcast Jan 19, 2022Root Causes 200: Why Not to Copy and Paste Commands from Web Pages
This episode describes newly revealed vulnerabilities where copying and pasting text from a web page can open the site visitor up to attack.
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EPISODE 199
Broadcast Date:
January 14, 202216 minutes
Podcast Jan 14, 2022Root Causes 199: What Is Privileged Access Management?
We explain Privileged Access Management (PAM). We go on to explain some of the ways that networks are still vulnerable to attack and what to do about it.
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EPISODE 198
Broadcast Date:
January 11, 202215 minutes
Podcast Jan 11, 2022Root Causes 198: Deep Voice Fakes
Our hosts explore deep voice fakes, computer generated audio that successfully passes for the voice of a known associate, and the risks they pose.