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[Security Nation] Jack Cable on Ransomwhere

In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Jack Cable, security architect at the Krebs Stamos Group, about Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker. They chat about how Cable came up with the idea, the role of cryptocurrency in tracking these payments, and how better data sharing can help combat the surge in ransomware attacks.

Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod and Jen talk about a remote code execution vulnerability that open-source forum provider Discourse experienced recently, which CISA released a notification about over the weekend. Tod highlights some of the many things Discourse is doing right with its security program.

Jack Cable

[Security Nation] Jack Cable on Ransomwhere

Jack Cable is a security researcher and student at Stanford University, currently working as a security architect at Krebs Stamos Group. Jack formerly served as an Election Security Technical Advisor at CISA, where he led the development and deployment of Crossfeed, a pilot to scan election assets nationwide. Jack is a top-ranked bug bounty hacker, having identified over 350 vulnerabilities in companies including Google, Facebook, Uber, Yahoo, and the US Department of Defense. After placing first in the Hack the Air Force challenge, Jack began working at the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service. Jack was named one of Time Magazine's 25 most influential teens for 2018. At Stanford, Jack is a research assistant with the Stanford Internet Observatory and Stanford Empirical Security Research Group and launched Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education.

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from Rapid7 Blog https://blog.rapid7.com/2021/10/27/security-nation-jack-cable-on-ransomwhere/

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