Best Alexander Bennett Podcasts (2025)

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Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, "Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News" (Columbia UP, 2025) 1:00:44

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From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a check on power or a source of objective information but a means by which governments and leaders can propagate their versions of reality, however biased or false. In Dictating Reality: The…

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Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025) 25:52

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Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics, little is known about how polarization influences international cooperation and conflict. Democracies are thought to have advantages over nondemocratic nati…

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AI Cheating?, O, Canada, npms, passkeys, Exchange, Solaris, the amazing Rob Allen - Rob Allen - SWN #525 32:25

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AI Cheating?, O, Canada, npms, passkeys, Exchange, Solaris, the amazing Rob Allen of Threatlocker, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Segment Resources: Ingram Micro Working Through Ransomware Attack by SafePay Group | MSSP Alert: https://www.msspalert.com/news/ingram-micro-working-through-ransomware-attack-by-safepay-group This …

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Cybersecurity Is Dead - PSW #898 2:03:55

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In the security news this week: Cybersecurity is dead, and AI killed it Exploiting the patching system Apple makes it easier for spyware Who is patching Cisco ASA? Shove that DMCA somewhere HTTPS - a requirement Russia wants to own all the exploits Abandonware challenges Reversing at its hardest with Lua Hacking team is back, and leetspeak malware …

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Emergence of the Chief Trust Officer as CISOs Earn Business Respect and Agenda Shifts - Jeff Pollard - BSW #419 1:00:15

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Organizations that successfully earn and keep the trust of their customers, employees, and partners experience better business outcomes, more engagement, and competitive differentiation. But what does that trust look like and who's responsible for building and maintaining that trust? Jeff Pollard, Vice-President, Principal Analyst on the Security a…

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Lockpick chaos, CoPhish, Atlas, Turing, ForumTroll, PKD, Kilgore Trout, Aaran Leyland - SWN #524 34:35

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Lockpicks, Microsoft, CoPhish, Atlas, Turing, ForumTroll, PKD, even Kilgore Trout, the Amazing Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-524

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Quantum Computing Isn’t A Threat To Blockchains - Yet - Martha Bennett, Sandy Carielli - ASW #354 58:52

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The post quantum encryption migration is going to be a challenge, but how much of a challenge? There are several reasons why it is different from every other protocol and cypher iteration in the past. Is today's hardware up to the task? Is it just swapping out a library, or is there more to it? What is the extent of software, systems, and architect…

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Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries 42:09

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A podcast from Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy Center on Global Democracy About the Podcast Each week, co-hosts Rachel Beatty Riedl and Esam Boraey bring together leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore the challenges and possibilities facing democracy around the world. Produced by Cornell’s Center on Global…

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Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025) 57:57

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Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalized enslaved workforce produced cotton for its factories? In Ruth…

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Securing AI Agents with Dave Lewis, Enterprise News, and interviews from Oktane 2025 - Mike Poole, Conor Mulherin, Dave Lewis - ESW #430 1:39:12

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Segment 1: Interview with Dave Lewis from 1Password In this week's sponsored interview, we dive into the evolving security landscape around AI agents, where we stand with AI agent adoption. We also touch on topics such as securing credentials in browser workflows and why identity is foundational to AI agent security. 1Password Addresses a Critical …

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R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025) 44:24

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R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and the Wharton School of Business. It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of …

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Robo Bees, side, AI Risk, Red Tiger, SessionReaper, Bad Bots, Willow, Josh Marpet - SWN #523 32:35

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Venomous Robo Bees and Rabid Cocaine Weasels, sidebar spoofing, AI Risk, Red Tiger, SessionReaper, Bad Bots, Willow, Josh Marpet, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-523

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Its Always DNS - PSW #897 2:04:27

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In the security news: When in doubt, blame DNS, you're almost always correct How to Make Windows 11 great, or at least suck less CSRF is the least of your problems Shady exploits Linux security table stakes (not steaks) The pill camera Give AI access to your UART Security products that actually try to be secure? Firmware vulnerabilities, lots of th…

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Control Pod 15 18:55

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CONTROL POD - When circumstances prevent us from being able to perform an experiment, it's time for Control Pod. Follow the experiment (https://twitter.com/BYesterdayPod - https://www.instagram.com/byesterdaypod/?locale=zh-hans) Follow Andy Barr (https://linktr.ee/andybarrcomedy) and Alexander Bennett (https://linktr.ee/alexanderbennettcomedian) Em…

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Security That Sticks: Shaping Human Behavior - Rinki Sethi, Nicole Jiang - BSW #418 1:03:00

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As the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has stated year after year, most breaches start with human error. We've invested a lot in Security Awareness and Training and Phishing solutions, but yet human error is still the top risk. How do we actually reduce human risk? Rinki Sethi, CSO at Upwind Security, and Nicole Jiang, CEO of Fable Securi…

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Yong-Shik Lee, "Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia" (Anthem Press, 2023) 1:02:36

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In the long run, countries in Northeast Asia will have to see the need for collective defense. Otherwise, you won’t be able to stop rivalry between powers like the U.S. and China. It sounds utopian now, but so did the idea of French and German soldiers serving under the same command a century ago. – Y.S. Lee, NBN Interview (2025) Sustainable Peace …

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The Afterlife, AWS, ClickFix, Agentic AI, Robot Lumberjacks, Robocalls, Aaran Leyland - SWN #522 37:43

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The Afterlife, AWS, ClickFix, Agentic AI Galore, Robot Lumberjacks, Robocalls, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-522 This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn mor…

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Reacting to Ransomware and Setting Secure Defaults - Rob Allen - ASW #353 1:03:39

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Ransomware attacks typically don't care about memory safety and dependency scanning, they often target old, unpatched vulns and too often they succeed. Rob Allen shares some of the biggest cases he's seen, what they have in common, and what appsec teams could do better to help them. Too much software still requires custom configuration to make it m…

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Mitigating attacks against AI-enabled Apps, Replacing the CIA triad, Enterprise News - David Brauchler - ESW #429 1:38:26

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Segment 1: David Brauchler on AI attacks and stopping them David Brauchler says AI red teaming has proven that eliminating prompt injection is a lost cause. And many developers inadvertently introduce serious threat vectors into their applications – risks they must later eliminate before they become ingrained across application stacks. NCC Group’s …

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Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021) 46:28

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In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a distinct, quantifiable climate impact. While all oils and gases pollute, some are much worse for the climate than others. In clear, accessible language, Gordon expla…

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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018) 1:11:35

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The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian(Harvard University Press, 2018), Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, examines how his successors reorganized Pers…

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Piotr Pietrzak, "Strengthening International Relations Through Transformative Theory and Practice" (Information Science Reference, 2025) 1:02:46

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As the world becomes more connected, strengthening international relations is essential for fostering global stability for economic and cultural growth. By integrating theory and practice applications, nations can move beyond traditional diplomatic approaches to embrace new strategies. By applying transformative theories, it allows for fresh perspe…

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Erotic Chats, UEFI, F5, Cisco, Doug Sings, Insiders, Lastpass, Sora, Aaran Leyland... - SWN #521 35:31

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Erotic Chats, UEFI, F5, Cisco, Doug Sings, Insiders, Lastpass, Sora, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-521

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AI, EDR, and Hacking Things - PSW #896 2:04:54

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First up is a technical segment on UEFI shells: determining if they contain dangerous functionality that allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot. Then in the security news: Your vulnerability scanner is your weakest link Scams that almost got me The state of EDR is not good You don't need to do that on a phone or Raspberry PI Hash cracking and explo…

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Automating Compliance and Risk with Agentic AI as CISOs (R)Evolve - Trevor Horwitz - BSW #417 54:20

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Still managing compliance in a spreadsheet? Don't have enough time or resources to verify your control or risk posture? And you wonder why you can't get the budget to move your compliance and risk programs forward. Maybe it's time for a different approach. Trevor Horwitz, Founder and CISO at TrustNet joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how th…

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Bikers, Apple, Storm-657, Astaroth, EES, Salesforce, Aaran Leyland, and more... - SWN #520 32:37

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Bikers, Apple, Storm-657, Astaroth, EES, Salesforce, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-520

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Inside the OWASP GenAI Security Project - Steve Wilson - ASW #352 1:07:32

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Interest and participation in the OWASP GenAI Security Project has exploded over the last two years. Steve Wilson explains why it was important for the project to grow beyond just a Top Ten list and address more audiences than just developers. He also talks about how the growth of AI Agents influences the areas that appsec teams need to focus on. W…

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New book from Dr. Anand Singh, why CISOs buy, and the latest news - Anand Singh - ESW #428 1:43:44

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Segment 1 - Interview with Dr. Anand Singh We're always thrilled to have authors join us to discuss their new book releases, and this week, it is Dr. Anand Singh. He seriously hustled to get his new book, Data Security in the Age of AI, out as soon as possible so that it could help folks dealing with securing AI rollouts right now! We'll discuss wh…

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Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, "Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic" (Yale UP, 2025) 37:24

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A vital account of the state of the Arctic today--emphasising the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is declining rapidly, wildfires are burning, and permafrost is thawing. All the while, global interest is g…

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Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025) 48:30

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Suggested additional channels: Political Science, National Security, American Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European Studies, New Books with Miranda Melcher NB: I don’t think this needs to go on General History The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, re…

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Ballistic Hot Dogs, Clayrat, Twonet, Lockbit, Resumes, Discord, Aaran Leyland and... - SWN #519 31:50

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Ballistic Hot Dogs, Sonicwall, Clayrat, Twonet, Lockbit, Breachforums, Resumes, Discord, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-519

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IoT Hacks Galore - Kieran Human - PSW #895 2:09:14

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This week we kick things off with a special interview: Kieran Human from Threat Locker talks about EDR bypasses and other special projects. In the security news: Hacking TVs Flushable wipes are not the only problem People just want to spy on their pets, except the devices can be hacked Linux EDR is for the birds What does my hat say we love exploit…

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What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala 1:09:38

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The speech debates have not abated, and it’s clear that invoking the First Amendment, and the importance of free speech for democracy, does not settle these debates but provokes more questions. We have lost our way, it seems, since people on all sides invoke free speech and then try to silence those they disagree with. Historian Fara Dabhoiwala of …

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Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025) 49:06

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Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935 (Northern Illinois UP, 2025) examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period. Maria Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise. She reveals t…

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Control Pod 14 18:24

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CONTROL POD - When circumstances prevent us from being able to perform an experiment, it's time for Control Pod. Follow the experiment (https://twitter.com/BYesterdayPod - https://www.instagram.com/byesterdaypod/?locale=zh-hans) Follow Andy Barr (https://linktr.ee/andybarrcomedy) and Alexander Bennett (https://linktr.ee/alexanderbennettcomedian) Em…

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Forrester's Global Cybersecurity Market Forecast Before AI Fully Kicks In - Merritt Maxim - BSW #416 52:51

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Global spending on cybersecurity products and services will see a strong 14.4% CAGR from 2024 through 2029 and will hit $302.5 billion in 2029, driven by continued concerns around cyberattacks across all verticals and geographies. But where is the spending occuring and how do you prepare? Merritt Maxim, VP & Research Director at Forrester, joins Bu…

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Tyler Jost, "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 49:23

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Why do states start conflicts that they ultimately lose? Why do leaders possess inaccurate expectations of their prospects for victory? Bureaucracies at War (Cambridge UP, 2024) examines how national security institutions shape the quality of bureaucratic information upon which leaders base their choice for conflict – which institutional designs pr…