Five Questions with... cyber-security expert Dan Woods

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Woods, cyber security expert at Shape Security, to answer five big question about hacking and online crime. 1. How likely is it that your online details are for sale online right now? (3:10) 2. What are the weirdest scams he has found? (6:40) 3. Are state actors or criminal gangs the biggest threat? (11:35), 4. Why is being a cyber criminal so easy (20:35) and 5. What should you do to protect yourself (24:40).

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0:32.4	Yo.
0:34.3	Technology.
0:35.3	What is it all about?
0:44.5	Hello and welcome to your special bonus episode of danny in the valley where this week the subject of our five questions gambit is cyber security or more pointedly
0:51.4	the lack of it and i have found a perfect person to talk about it.
0:56.0	His name is Dan Woods, and he knows far better than most about what is happening in the darkest
1:02.0	corners of the web.
1:04.0	But before we go on any further, I will let him introduce himself.
1:08.0	I'm Dan Woods.
1:09.0	I'm the Vice President of the Shape Intelligence Center at Shape Security.
1:14.6	And prior to shape, I spent 23, 24 years in various law enforcement and intelligence
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