Key Takeaways From the Colonial Pipeline - a podcast by WNYC

In recent weeks, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted key players in the U.S. economy. Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter for The New York Times and author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), joins to discuss the future of cybersecurity in light of the recent ransomware attacks, including the most recent developments in the Colonial Pipeline situation. Plus, she helps take listener calls debating if cryptocurrency is an asset or a detriment to improving digital security.

Correction:  Nicole Perlroth mentioned a website during the interview and this shows the corrected url:  the best way for you to protect yourself from these attacks is to do all of the things that cybersecurity experts have told all of us to do for years. The number one thing you can do is assume that all of your passwords have been stolen. Constantly change your passwords. Use different passwords for different websites. You can go to a website called Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/. You can enter your email address, and it'll show you all of the businesses that have been breached and where your password might have been stolen from.

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