Show 025 – An Interview with Jon Swartz

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Jon Swartz, USA Today‘s award-winning technology reporter and Pulitzer Prize nominee, is Gary’s guest on the 25th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast. They discuss Jon’s new book, Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity and the research that went into writing it. Gary and Jon also cover how cybercrime is driven by capitalist principals, why the general public’s attitude is so lax about software security, and how, even though it’s hard to get an accurate count of identity theft instances, they tend to show a sharp upward trend. Jon ends the episode by disclosing his secret dream career. (Apologies for the below-average sound quality on this episode.) Transcript of this episode [PDF] Jon’s USA Today articles The post Show 025 – An Interview with Jon Swartz appeared first on Cigital » The Silver Bullet Security Podcast with Gary McGraw. The post Show 025 – An Interview with Jon Swartz appeared first on Cigital » The Silver Bullet Security Podcast with Gary McGraw.

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