How to Deal With Hackers, With Former Black-Hat Hacker Hector Monsegur
The Equifax hack made one thing clear: we are all vulnerable to such attacks. But how do you keep your information (and money) safe? What steps do you need to take to protect yourself? To find out, we brought in Hector Montsegur, a former black hat hacker who is now Director of Evaluation at Rhino Labs – and one of our favorite guests from last year. He tells us what companies like Equifax should do to keep us safe (r), who he thinks might be behind it, what we should look out for after an attack, and how we can prevent hacks like this from causing too much damage. …
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Discussed in this episode
- Hacking Equifax (obviously)
- How Apache Struts May Have Made Equifax Vulnerable
- What does the red team compare to the blue team for the company’s security infrastructure
- Websites that list companies that have been hacked in the last 20 years.
- NASA gets hacked
- What is “attack surface”
- Hacking Deloitte
- Hack CCleaner
- Social engineering in elections and social engineering that is still ongoing
And much more.
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