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EPISODE 111
Broadcast Date:
August 10, 202012 minutes
Podcast Aug 10, 2020Root Causes 111: Secure Data Interconnects
Unencrypted replication across data centers leaves data open to theft. Our hosts explain how this happens and what we can do about it.
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EPISODE 110
Broadcast Date:
August 6, 202023 minutes
Podcast Aug 06, 2020Root Causes 110: Single, Multi-domain, and Wildcard SSL Certificates
Our experts explain the pros and cons of single-domain, multi-domain, and wildcard certificates.
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EPISODE 109
Broadcast Date:
July 29, 202015 minutes
Podcast Jul 29, 2020Root Causes 109: Examining MFA Through Phone-based SMS
SMS-based one time password (OTP) is a common form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). Our hosts explain how this scheme fails the security test.
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EPISODE 108
Broadcast Date:
July 24, 202020 minutes
Podcast Jul 24, 2020Root Causes 108: Why Do Certificates Expire?
Root expirations occasionally make headlines by breaking systems, but it's a fact that certificates expire every day, each a outage waiting to happen.
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EPISODE 107
Broadcast Date:
July 20, 202021 minutes
Podcast Jul 20, 2020Root Causes 107: IoT Security Baseline Requirements from ETSI
ETSI has published its new Baseline Requirements for consumer IoT device security.
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EPISODE 106
Broadcast Date:
July 14, 202027 minutes
Podcast Jul 14, 2020Root Causes 106: Massive Intermediate Certificate Distrust on the Way
14 public CAs have to revoke intermediates and destroy their keys, putting millions of active SSL, S/MIME, and other public certificates at risk.
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EPISODE 105
Broadcast Date:
July 8, 202021 minutes
Podcast Jul 08, 2020Root Causes 105: TOR, How and Why
Many people know that TOR is a browser used for anonymous online activity, but most of us don't know much more than that.
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EPISODE 104
Broadcast Date:
July 6, 202029 minutes
Podcast Jul 06, 2020Root Causes 104: 21 PKI Pitfalls to Avoid
Our hosts often discuss the idea of errors in PKI implementations and the potential negative consequences for organizations.
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EPISODE 103
Broadcast Date:
June 29, 202017 minutes
Podcast Jun 29, 2020Root Causes 103: Work-from-Home IT Impact Study
The need to suddenly enable nearly 100% of information workers for secure, productive work-from-home was a curve ball for IT departments to deal with.
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EPISODE 102
Broadcast Date:
June 26, 202016 minutes
Podcast Jun 26, 2020Root Causes 102: Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act
A newly proposed US Senate bill called the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act is discussed in this week's episode.
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EPISODE 101
Broadcast Date:
June 21, 202015 minutes
Podcast Jun 21, 2020Root Causes 101: Google RCS Chat with End-to-End Encryption
Google has just announced the coming availability of end-to-end encryption for its chat service.
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EPISODE 100
Broadcast Date:
June 15, 202012 minutes
Podcast Jun 15, 2020Root Causes 100: OpenSSH Deprecates SHA-1
Once widely used, SHA-1 is considered insecure today and has been deprecated from the most common PKI use cases.