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EPISODE 193
Broadcast Date:
December 16, 202116 minutes
Podcast Dec 16, 2021Root Causes 193: 4 Positive Security Trends for 2022
Our hosts look back at four positive security trends in 2021 that industry should continue in 2022.
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EPISODE 192
Broadcast Date:
December 13, 202124 minutes
Podcast Dec 13, 2021Root Causes 192: 14 Security Fallacies We Still Have in 2021
In this year-end lookback episode, our hosts describe 14 common fallacies that still haunt IT professionals in 2021 - and the negative effects they bring.
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EPISODE 191
Broadcast Date:
December 8, 202115 minutes
Podcast Dec 08, 2021Root Causes 191: What Is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?
An important trend sweeping enterprise IT is Robotic Process Automation. Our hosts define RPA and explain the importance of digital identity for RPA.
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What Shortened Lifecycles Mean for Enterprises
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Blog Post Nov 30, 2021Certificate terms have continued to decrease, making S/MIME certificates used to secure and sign emails one of the last holdouts. Until recently, that is.
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EPISODE 190
Broadcast Date:
November 29, 20219 minutes
Podcast Nov 29, 2021Root Causes 190: Phishing Coinbase
Our hosts describe a recently discovered exploit where attackers use weaknesses in one-time-password-based MFA to steal Coinbase accounts.
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EPISODE 189
Broadcast Date:
November 17, 202117 minutes
Podcast Nov 17, 2021Root Causes 189: What Is CA Agnostic?
Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms that can provision certificates of all types from all CAs, private and public, are "CA agnostic."
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EPISODE 188
Broadcast Date:
November 11, 202120 minutes
Podcast Nov 11, 2021Root Causes 188: Introduction to Web Security
Malware and other web site attacks can result in reputational damage and site access being blocked or hindered by end user software and services.
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EPISODE 187
Broadcast Date:
November 8, 202117 minutes
Podcast Nov 08, 2021Root Causes 187: Apple Limits Term for S/MIME Certificates
Apple recently announced that it would limit the allowable term for public S/MIME certificates to 825 days. We explain this declaration's implications.
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EPISODE 185
Broadcast Date:
November 2, 202117 minutes
Podcast Nov 02, 2021Root Causes 185: EU Covid Passport Root Key Stolen
The root certificates of the EU's Covid Passport program have suffered a private key compromise and counterfeit passports are for sale on the black market.
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EPISODE 184
Broadcast Date:
October 27, 202112 minutes
Podcast Oct 27, 2021Root Causes 184: Popular College WiFi Vulnerability Revealed
Certificate misconfiguration in commonly used college WiFi can expose logins. We discuss WiFi authentication, EAP, and how this vulnerability occurs.
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EPISODE 183
Broadcast Date:
October 21, 202114 minutes
Podcast Oct 21, 2021Root Causes 183: New MSCA Attack Toolkits
A new white paper and set of toolkits illuminate MSCA root key attacks. We provide a clear action list for IT professionals in charge of Microsoft CA.
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EPISODE 182
Broadcast Date:
October 18, 202125 minutes
Podcast Oct 18, 2021Root Causes 182: Let's Encrypt Root Expiration
Let's Encrypt's recent root expiration caused widespread service outages. We discuss this expiration and the recipe for avoiding problems in the future.