Category Archives: Interviews

Proofpoint Podcast: How to Be a Cyber Criminal: Ransomware Scams

Following up last week’s podcast, this week I got to talk with the folks at Proofpoint on their ransomware scams episode of their How to Be a Cyber Criminal podcast series.

Proofpoint Podcast: How to Be a Cyber Criminal: Malware Scams

I got to talk with the folks at Proofpoint on their malware scams episode of their How to Be a Cyber Criminal podcast series.

Interview with BBC Online

I recently got to talk with Joe Tidy with the BBC Online about my work as a volunteer along with others as part of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Election Cyber Surge program.

For more details check out “‘Why I bought a voting machine on eBay’ – the hackers protecting US election“.

Interview on Hacker Valley Studio

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ronald Eddings and Chris Cochran with Hacker Valley Studio talking about crisis communications and lessons learned from “making awful news just bad” in their episode “Communicating in a Crisis with Christopher Budd”.

Enjoy!

Comments on the Stratos Digital Wallet Card

I got to talk with KIRO Radio here in Seattle recently about some of the risks with new, untested digital wallet cards like the new offering from Stratos. Plus, my comments on how cash may make a comeback.

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2723041/Digital-payment-is-waiting-in-line-for-when-credit-cards-die

Comments on Intuit’s New Security Changes

I had a chance to talk with Kathleen Pender in my old hometown newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle about some of the recent security changes Intuit made for TurboTax online. Full article here.

Interview on KIRO 7 Seattle on Social Media Scams

I had a chance to talk with KIRO 7 news in Seattle recently about the current crop of social media scams plaguing Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Do you know what not to click on Facebook, Twitter?

Interviews on the Anthem Data Breach

I had a chance recently to talk with reporters from the Associated Press and the Hill about the recent Anthem data breach and what that means for online security and privacy for healthcare and what people need to know about it.

Is your doctor’s office the most dangerous place for data?

Anthem hack raises ObamaCare concerns

Ten Years After Bill Gates’ Trustworthy Computing Memo

Ten years ago yesterday, Bill Gates sent out his Trustworthy Computing memo that marked a significant change in the culture at Microsoft and put security, privacy and reliability at the center of the company as ideals.

I was at Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Security Response Center when that came out. And until I left Microsoft in December 2010, I was involved in security and privacy. So I have a former insider’s long-term view of what that was all like.

As my former colleagues are marking the occasion I’m sharing my own thoughts on what it meant then and what it means for the future.

Here are my comments in Robert X. Cringly’s article “PC security: We’ve come a long way, baby“. And a longer write-up by me over at Betanews “10 years after Bill Gates’ Trustworthy Computing memo: What it meant for Microsoft and why every tech company needs one“.

It was something to be a part of, but the world is different today. Part of my take on it is how this is still relevant in this different world.