High-tech hacking tools and how to defend against them | Guest Bentsi Ben-Atar

Published: Dec. 20, 2021, 8 a.m.

Bentsi Ben-Atar of Sepio Systems talks about some truly scary high-tech hacking weapons and techniques, from Raspberry Pis in your mouse or keyboard to charging cables that can exfiltrate data from a mile away. What do we do? How do we prepare?

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0:00 - Intro\xa0
3:18 - Getting into cybersecurity
4:30 - Career highlights\xa0
5:50 - Co-founding two companies\xa0
7:22 - Typical work day at CTO and CMO
11:29 - New stealthy hacking tools
13:08 - Hacking a smart copy machine
17:46 - Stealing data with a Raspberry Pi
26:01 - The ninja cable\xa0
32:11 - Security awareness while traveling\xa0
35:20 - How to work battling high-tech cybercrime
36:35 - Exploring cybersecurity\xa0
37:47 - More about Bentsi\u2019s companies
39:31 - Find more about Bentsi\xa0
39:57 - Outro

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