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Story: DDoS History as a Cyber Weapon Like so many advancements in human history, they often have a tendency to be used for more than what the originator had conceived.  The internet provides a vast amount of various beneficial services. Yet, those same services are often besieged by those that weld the collective power of the internet to […] The post Show 9: DDoS History as a Cyber Weapon Part 1 appeared first on Lock Me Down.

STORY: The Business Club and the Zeus Trojan So You Want to Be a Gangster? Whether you hail from the old school shows like Dragnet, or something more recent like The Saprano’s, theres a reason why those shows did so well and attracted long time loyal audiences – its exciting and daring and a life not known […] The post Show 8: The Business Club appeared first on Lock Me Down.

Story: The Story of Stuxnet [01:40] In June 2010, a infected computer was discovered with a unknown strain of malware would end up kicking off a year long investigation that redefined the term cyber warfare.   While many of the anti-virus and security communities opted for sidelining research on the newly discovered malware dubbed Stuxnet by […] The post Show 7: Stuxnet the Story of Digital Sabotage appeared first on Lock Me Down.

Dave Rael is a dedicated father and husband and a seasoned software professional. He specializes in building distributed systems and understanding problem domains, especially via Domain-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Development. Outside work, he’s usually playing with kids, playing basketball, lifting weights, coaching youth sports, and enjoying dirty jokes. He blogs at optimizedprogrammer.com about writing software and getting […] The post Show 6: Interview with Dave Rael appeared first on Lock Me Down.

In everything we do, despite how creative, the level of ingenuity or how cutting edge, there is always an historical flavoring, that is ever present, that comes from the pioneers that came before us.  I am talking about the trail blazers that have helped allow us to get where we are, or helped shaped the […] The post Show 5: The Notorious Hacker appeared first on Lock Me Down.

[headline tag=”div” css_class=”h2″ color=”color2″]Story[/headline] In the chaos that ensued from the Operation Sony, the explicit attack by the hacktivist group Anonymous on the corporation conglomerate Sony, which mainly consisted in DDoS attacks on the Sony Playstation Network (PSN), someone slapped Sony with the homage of “pwned” when they circumvented Sony’s network and made off with […] The post Show 4: Black Wednesday appeared first on Lock Me Down.

Not all security analyst out there have a strong development background that help them relate to the developers perspective.  But when security analyst do, it translates in their capabilities to not only approach their analysis, but also in their teaching and training to developers, you know the ones writing the potentially vulnerable code?  Well, I got […] The post Show 3: Interview – Sijmen Ruwhof appeared first on Lock Me Down.

[headline tag=”div” css_class=”h2″ color=”color2″]Story: Ashley Madison (2:00)[/headline] In August of 2015, Avid Life Media received a stunning ultimatum from some unknown hackers to shut down various sites after having breached the controversial cheating site Ashley Madison or face the concequences of having tens of gigabytes of customer information, source code, company emails and other sensitive […] The post Show 2: Ashley Madison appeared first on Lock Me Down.

[headline tag=”div” css_class=”h2″ color=”color2″]Story: Double Agent (2:00)[/headline] In 2008 Heartland Payment Systems discovered it was the victim of a breach that equated to approximately 130 million credit cards stolen.  At the time, it was the largest company breach and was directly the cause of a SQL injection vulnerability found on the company’s website established nearly […] The post Show 1: Double Agent appeared first on Lock Me Down.