Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it. Eventually though, he discovered programming and went to school at the University of Texas at Arlington, studying computer science.

He spends a lot of time with his dog Twix, bike riding, rock climbing, and staying outdoors when he can. Note... he didn't get into rock climbing until he moved to San Francisco, because - its not really a thing in the flat lands of Texas.

Post school, he spent some time in the Bay Area, working for technology startups. He lived the Silicon Valley dream, coding at Pivotal and OpenDoor, pair programming with amazing developers and people.

When he was a sophomore in college, he ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items.

This is the creation story of Gozova.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-moreau/

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Rest Of World is a new publication that covers technology outside of North America and Europe. Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis join Big Technology Podcast to discuss why they believe it's setting a new path forward for international tech coverage. Schmidt founded the publication in 2019 after growing convinced that the next tech decade belongs to the rising giants outside of the Western world. Growing up while her father, Eric Schmidt, ran Google taught her some important lessons along the way. Matsakis, formerly of Wired, joined the publication after pitching Schmidt on a role for herself. She is now a senior editor. In this conversation, we discuss the publication's editorial philosophy, along with tech in China, South Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, and elsewhere.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Raspberry Pi Pico
• New MongoDB ODM: Beanie
• Sourcery
• Neomodel
• Conference radar
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/225

If you use email, there is a good chance you’re familiar with email scams. Who hasn’t gotten a shady chain letter or suspicious offer in their inbox? Cybercriminals have been using email to spread malware for decades and today’s methods are more sophisticated than ever. In order to stop these attacks from ever hitting our inboxes in the first place, threat analysts have to always be one step ahead of these cybercriminals, deploying advanced and ever-evolving tactics to stop them.

On today’s podcast, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla are joined by Elif Kaya, a Threat Analyst at Microsoft. Elif speaks with us about attacker email infrastructure. We learn what it is, how it’s used, and how her team is combating it. She explains how the intelligence her team gathers is helping to predict how a domain is going to be used, even before any malicious email campaigns begin. It’s a fascinating conversation that dives deep into Elif’s research and her unique perspective on combating cybercrime. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:  

• The meaning of the terms “RandomU” and “StrangeU” 
• The research and techniques used when gathering intelligence on attacker email structure 
• How sophisticated malware campaigns evade machine learning, phish filters, and other automated technology 
• The history behind service infrastructure, the Netcurs takedown, Agent Tesla, Diamond Fox, Dridox, and more 

Some Questions We Ask:

• What is attacker email infrastructure and how is it used by cybercriminals? 
• How does gaining intelligence on email infrastructures help us improve protection against malware campaigns? 
• What is the difference between “attacker-owned infrastructure” and “compromised infrastructure”? 
• Why wasn’t machine learning or unsupervised learning a technique used when gathering intelligence on attacker email campaigns? 
• What should organizations do to protect themselves? What solutions should they have in place? 

  

Resources:

What tracking an attacker email infrastructure tells us about persistent cybercriminal operations

Elif Kaya

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts, and did his PHD at Penn, focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability. His doctorate taught him how to write at length, but out of the norm, he knew early on he didn't want to be an academic.

He is married, with a young son - and he really enjoys being a father. Today, his life consists of his startup and his young family, which are about the same age.

As he was as grad student doing his PHD, he came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution.

This is the creation story of Materialize.

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Links

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunravinarayan/

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Ian is Brooklyn bred a tech junkie, NBA stats nerd, hip hop connoisseur, and co-creator of GameFlo and Ujima Now. He graduated from Brown University and was a teaching fellow at FullStack Academy before coming to Stack Overflow. You can find him on Twitter and Github.

Kyle  Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and  programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada.  You can find him on Github, Twitter, and his website.

Our lifeboat this week goes to  Max Pevsner, who answered a question, but cautioned against taking his advice: Don't reuse cell in UITableView

Jim Walker, Federal Chief Technology Officer at UiPath and former Deputy Chief Information Officer at NASA joins the show to discuss the evolution of robotic process automation in government. We also discuss the many ways that RPA has been vital to the public sector’s shift to a hybrid work environment, how the technology is supporting the future of work, and how it has become an important tool in a CIO’s toolbox.

Senator Amy Klobuchar will be leading the charge in Congress as the legislature interrogates the power of big tech, and potentially takes action to restrain it. She's the new Chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, so it's in her hands now.

Klobuchar and I spoke this past week ahead of the first hearing she held to kick the off process. And rather than simply writing the conversation up, which I did on the Big Technology newsletter this week, I wanted to make it available for you to listen to, in full.