“I work in the most interesting field in the world – cybersecurity. I’ve been doing this since I was 14 and I’ve not been bored a single day!” Keren Elazari tells Avast CISO Jaya Baloo early in the interview of our tenth episode and Season 1 fi

#9 - Heather Adkins

Aug 19th, 2021 38m 50s

She doesn’t just talk the talk, she also walks the walk every day in and day out for a service most of the planet has come to depend on,” says Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, introducing Heather Adkins, Senior Director of Information Security and Privac

#8 - Dave Aitel

Jul 15th, 2021 39m 30s

“I’ve always found the best way to get a kid to learn how to hack is to tell them to just never use the computer,” Dave Aitel confides to Jaya Baloo in Episode 8 of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives (AHA). Dave is speaking from experience. When

#7 - Philip Zimmermann

Jun 22nd, 2021 47m 15s

“Here’s how it works!” Dan Aykroyd energetically tells the SNL audience. “Catch a bass, remove the hook, and drop the bass – that’s the WHOLE bass – in the Bass-O-Matic 76!” As he says this in his best punchy announcer voice, he picks up a real

#6 - Wendy Nather

May 18th, 2021 39m 48s

At the age of 12, Wendy Nather was living in Israel. Her father was a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, and when she complained to him one day that she was bored, his response launched her on the course that quickly became her life’s cal

#5 - Eva Galperin

Apr 13th, 2021 42m 13s

t’s no coincidence that when our pandemic-stricken world went into lockdown mode in 2020, incidents of abuse via stalkerware spiked, especially in situations where the victimizer did not live with the victim. Then, as the lockdown began to be l

#4 - Troy Hunt

Mar 17th, 2021 41m 40s

Troy Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created Have I Been Pwned?, a data breach search website that allows non-technical users to see if their personal information has

#3 - Chris Roberts

Feb 16th, 2021 43m 59s

Several years ago, Chris Roberts was waiting for a train in Chicago. Bored, he found himself staring at one of the station’s LED display screens. Twenty minutes later, he had that screen programmed so that it pulsed the lyrics of “God Save the

#2 - Katie Moussouris

Feb 1st, 2021 40m 2s

Katie started with computers at age eight in her bedroom on a Commodore 64. She was the first female in her high school to take AP Computer Science and has continued to achieve many firsts in the hacking community. Katie is now an established

#1 - Joseph FitzPatrick

Jan 19th, 2021 35m 47s

In this episode, Joe recollects about the first hack he ever presented at a conference. It was a Nikon D800 camera. The high-end apparatus used a very expensive proprietary Wi-Fi adaptor, and Joe didn’t understand why a generic $50 adaptor, at

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Jan 14th, 2021 19s

Avast Hacker Archives, new video and podcast series, that uncovers the “Aha!” moments that hackers and researchers have had over the course of their careers. Jaya Baloo, Avast CISO and the host of the series, is chatting with renowned security

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