Episode 40

Episode #40 - It's 5:05, Friday, December 23, 2022

It’s 5:05, Friday, December 23, 2022. Happy Holidays! From the Sourced Podcast Network in New York City, this is your host, Pokie Huang. Stories in today’s episode come from Edwin Kwon in Australia, on behind the scenes of Optus response's to their data breach. Olimpiu Pop in Romania, with a report on cybersecurity and foreign interference in the EU information ecosystem, Trac Bannon in Pennsylvania, on open source: always the season for giving and myself on New York’s taxi dispatch got hacked. 

Today’s episode begins with Katy Craig in California on introduction to Amazon Sidewalk

Let’s get to it!

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California

Introduction to Amazon Sidewalk

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/final_privacy_security_whitepaper.pdf

🇺🇸 Pokie Huang, New York City

New York’s taxi dispatch got hacked

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/20/jrk_nyc_russian_hacking/

🇷🇴 Olimpiu Pop, Transylvania, Romania

Cybersecurity and Foreign Interference in the EU Information Ecosystem

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/cybersecurity-foreign-interference-in-the-eu-information-ecosystem

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/foreign-information-manipulation-interference-fimi-and-cybersecurity-threat-landscape

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation


🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia

Behind the scenes of Optus response's to their data breach

https://www.afr.com/technology/inside-the-optus-hack-that-woke-up-australia-20221123-p5c0lm


🇺🇸 Tracy (Trac) Bannon, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Open Source: Always the Season for Giving

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-software-is-it-about-free-or-is-it-about-freedom/ 

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/value-open-source

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