By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

I happen to know some of the more skilled social engineers in the cybersecurity industry, and during Hacker Summer Camp 2019, Sean Martin and I were invited to meet one of the best.

You probably know her. She goes by the handle @sn0ww. This is her story.

Do you want to hear it? Of course, you do. No, really, you do. You don’t want to be the only one not listening to it, do you?

Go ahead, type your in your SSN, and click play... 🔥😇😈🔥

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

No doubt, we are living interesting times—full of incredible technological advancements and achievements. Yet, we still get to see the other side of the picture—cybercrime at its worst.

The dark web is peaking on a global scale. Last year, there were over 4 million users on TOR, and, with that, we are seeing some other “interesting” trends. It’s these trends which lead us to our second conversation with Charity—this time during Black Hat 2019.

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

We care deeply and passionately about creating a diverse cybersecurity workforce — not just when it come to gender, but also for background, origin, age, religion, neuro-makeup, and more — essentially anything and everything that makes us unique; makes us human. We hope to reach a point where we no longer have to shake the box to remind ourselves of the benefits associated with diversity, but until we reach that point, you’ll find us shaking things up at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and society. With this, we ask you to celebrate with us the successes these cybersecurity leaders have achieved.

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

Black and blue, and who knows which is which, and who is who?

It is a matter of perspective and a matter of time — and given the right knowledge, these usually change together. Don't they? What is at stake and what we are fighting for can change yesterday's foe into tomorrow's best ally. But what about today?

I believe that today in technology and infosec, we are at the crossroad where Sean and I have been waiting for a few years now. Exactly 4 years ago, when we founded ITSPmagazine, we did it because we wanted to have the conversation that media, politicians, business owners, technology experts, and politicians were not having yet - and, most still don't.

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

It’s also important to recognize that the products and solutions (and applications) we are building a using are comprised of multiple components from all of the place—custom, commercial, and open source—and from all over the world.

At the end of the day, we’re all speaking about code and we all need to write secure code. Start speaking about it with your peers at the inaugural AppSec Village at DEF CON 27. But first, have listen to this chat to learn more.

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

According to our guest for this chats on the road to Las Vegas, Jeffrey Smith, Managing Partner at Cyber Risk Underwriters, there’s been a considerable uptick in the number of policies written, especially at the small/medium business level.

Be sure to listen to this podcast to learn more about this trend and then join Jeffrey Smith, Jeremiah Grossman, and many more for the inaugural micro summit for cyber insurance at Black Hat.

By Sean Martin &  Marco Ciappelli

Sticking with the transportation theme from some of our DEF CON 26 conversations, for this next chat we take a look under the hood of another new village introduced for DEF CON 27 — the Aviation Village.

To help us understand how multiple parties can (and are) working together to understand the risks, how to mitigate them, and the challenges getting all of the cybersecurity dots connected throughout the entire ecosystem, we connected with one of the leaders of the Aviation Village, Pete Cooper.

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In this chats on the road to Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas, you’ll get to hear from the following Wicked6 Cyber Games contestants:

Nouran Alotaibi represents the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Team: Cyber Seahawks

Shilpa Joshy represents University Of Colorado Boulder
Team: BuffOvrFlows

Franklin Pearson represents ECPI Columbia
Team: D0wn the L1ne

We have three great stories to share in this chat. Have a listen!

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

For ITSPmagazine's An InfoSec Life column Marco and I had the pleasure to speak with a connection we made through a mutual cyber friend from the EU. Our guest today, Chris Cochran, served his country, made the move into the infosec industry, and is also a fellow podcaster where he discusses all things appsec and human element. While he is often the host of his own show, Chris joins us today to tell his own InfoSec life story. It’s one you won’t want to miss.

By Marija Atanasova

#HackerSummerCamp is almost upon us. A plethora of security conferences — Black Hat, BSides, DEF CON, Queercon, Wicked6 Games, The Diana Initiative, and so much more — are all happening in Las Vegas on the same week (Aug 3 - 11).

With the infosec community about to overtake the city in a few days, how are hackers and civilian attendees protecting their data, devices and privacy during the conference? This guide provides you with a few tips.

By Francesco Cipollone

Location, location, location and amazing content is enough of a reason to describe why AppSec California and ISSA-LA are rapidly becoming THE security conferences in SoCal and the places to be. But if that’s not enough to make sure it’s on your to-do list for 2020 — in this special guest post, Francesco breaks down the ISSA-LA conference into specific sessions to tell you more. [Part 2 of 2]

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

Guest: Francesco Cipollone

As part of our In The News series, in this episode, we connect with Francesco Cipollone to host a Q&A session where the questions were driven by the InfoSec community. The questions asked were presented to Francesco via social media and Francesco selected 3 questions to respond to in this episode. These are the people and their questions: Jim Manico [@manicode ] | John Opdenakker‏ [@j_opdenakker] | Tanya Janca [@shehackspurple].

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Holly Rollo, Chief Marketing Officer, SVP at RSA Security. Holly is also one of the keynote speakers at RSA Conference APJ — co-presenting with Rohit Ghai, President at RSA Security, she will be talking about: The New Why of Cybersecurity.

By Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Matthias Yeo, CEO, Fund Technologies Pte Ltd. Matthis is one of three judges responsible for naming the winner at this year’s inaugural Launch Pad Event (for which we are the exclusive media partner!). We really enjoyed our chat with Matthias as we learned more about the state of cybersecurity and innovation in the region coupled with his vision for the inaugural Launch Pad event.

By Sean Martin

Guests: Raluca Saceanu | Elena Steinke

The other day I came across a blog post talking about the impact the EU CyberSecurity Act could have now that it is officially “in force” as of Thursday, the 27th of June, 2019. To dig deeper into this topic, I connected with Elena Steinke and asked her to join me and the author of the blog post, Raluca Saceanu, for a quick chat.

By Marco Ciappelli
A conversation with Dr. Ryan Louie.

In this part 1 of our two-part podcast we talk about telemedicine from a psychological, and societal perspective, starting right from the beginning: the definition of the term. 

For Dr. Ryan, the appropriate general definition of telemedicine is “any type of technology that can connect patients with the care that they need for their health.” I have thought about this for a whole five minutes, and I couldn’t come up with something simpler and yet effective than this.

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

Three years ago, we started having our Chats On The Road to Las Vegas.

As we are gearing up to cover three more conferences, we are having our pre-event conversations for each one. As we are planning to make all them a recurring series, this particular podcast is already part of a solid ITSPmagazine tradition: the third Chats on the Road conversation with Black Hat General Manager, Steve Wylie. This episode kicks off our coverage for such a pillar event in our industry.

By Sean Martin

Guests: Brendan Bonner | John Durcan

Wouldn’t it be good if we could cross the business-to-cybersecurity bridge such that we all have a good picture for what’s important for the business — and ultimately for humanity and the societies for which we create? This is the main driver underneath a two-part conversation I had earlier this year with Brendan Bonner, Chief Technologist — Technology, Content and Business Services at IDA Ireland, and John Durcan, Senior Technologist at Enterprise Ireland.

By Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin

In 1993 according to Timeline of Computer History, we have a few major events:

Doom and Myst are released, Jurassic Park is released, Wired Magazine debuts, Apple ships the first Newton, Free BSD is launched, Gopher Stumbles, Intel Pentium microprocessor is released, Microsoft Windows NT is released, Mosaic popularize the web, online ads kicks off the commercialization of the web.

You know what else happened in 1993? A person that goes by the handle @thedarktangent created the first DEF CON hacker convention. This is his story about the past, present, and future of hacker cons.