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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.
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EPISODE 394
Broadcast Date:
June 14, 202411 minutes
Podcast Jun 14, 2024Root Causes 394: Snowflake, Ticketmaster, and MFA
We explore how MFA was used for access to Snowflake in the Ticketmaster breach affecting 500M users' data.
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EPISODE 393
Broadcast Date:
June 11, 202412 minutes
Podcast Jun 11, 2024Root Causes 393: PQC-enabled Chrome Breaks Other Software
Chrome's 124 release supports NIST's PQC algorithms, revealing software and systems failures. We explain what happened, why, and how to address it.