PhoneFactor Launches Internet Radio Talk Show on Feb. 13
Security Break Live! Tackles Security Breach Cases in the News
Host Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor’s CTO, Will Be Joined by Co-Hosts To Solve Cases, Offer Advice for Protection, and Take Callers, Live Chat
February 11, 2009 - With news stories breaking weekly about attacks on personal and financial data, PhoneFactor is starting an Internet Radio Talk Show called Security Break Live! With Steve Dispensa. The premiere show will take on ATM fraud and magnetic stripe card cloning.
With the jobless rate continuing to climb and the bad guys getting more desperate, the safety of personal data has never been in greater question. Security Break Live! will broadcast potential solutions to crimes in the news. With live chat and the hosts taking callers, the twice-monthly show will also provide a community venue for critical discussions about whether the law is keeping up with criminals’ ability to break it.
“Identity theft keeps skyrocketing, and we need to start talking about solutions. I want to help people protect themselves, and their businesses, from these imminent threats,” said Steve Dispensa, the show’s host and PhoneFactor’s CTO, who closely monitors emerging threats and the impacts on user authentication. Dispensa was an industry pioneer in transaction-level verification to combat man-in-the-middle attacks against authenticated sessions, and has numerous patents pending for related out-of-band authentication protocols.
The award-winning PhoneFactor, the two-factor authentication provider that secures millions of logins with a simple phone call, will kick off the radio talk show this Friday, Feb. 13, at 12 p.m. ET, at www.blogtalkradio.com/securitybreaklive. Dispensa is also hosting a blog at www.securitybreaklive.com.
The premiere show partners Steve Dispensa with guest co-host John Quain, CBS Up to the Minute tech correspondent and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Together, they’ll take on the two latest cases of ATM fraud and card cloning in broad daylight. Is there anything you can do about the security risk of magnetic stripe cards? ATM cards are the easiest to steal, and the latest cases, where hundreds of cards were stolen, show that PCI regulations can’t stop the crime.
The radio show will be broadcast on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month, with special live broadcasts from security industry shows, such as the RSA Conference in San Francisco, April 20th-24th.
The second show, to air on Friday, Feb. 27, at 12 p.m. ET, will take on the enormous security breach at Monster.com, one of the largest breaches of personal data in history. Joining Dispensa will be guest co-host Elinor Mills, senior writer at CNET News.
