Mike Kiser

When I was seventeen, I played one of the greatest roles of my life: “Mark Jannell.” A younger student who we’ll call “Tim” (not his name, of course) had just started at my high school, and after knowing me for several weeks, asked my name. Amused that he had forgotten it, I vowed not to tell him. I stepped away...

A new season of Mistaken Identity is here with a special focus on election security, voting systems, and their impact on democracy. We have a range of guests coming to explain the ins and outs of election observing, online voting, and the current state of election security both in the United States and throughout the world. (Yes, that’s a big...

A spring without baseball allows time for reflection about the big issues in life—about what really matters. As a result of this past empty April, I’ve come to a realization: the defensive shift is good for baseball. The defensive shift occurs when the defense plays out of its typical alignment. Instead of being distributed across the field relatively evenly, the...

The moment of reckoning has come. A party of eight sit around a table, the white tablecloth strewn with the detritus of a communal meal. Coffee is slowly sipped as they contemplate how to divide the bill. Unlike in years past, this is a simple operation: mobile devices come out and money is rapidly exchanged as modern technology facilitates a...

Lawyer, cybersecurity, and privacy maven Liz Wharton regales us with tales of her hand-to-hand combat experience with the Atlanta ransomware of 2018 and then unfolds the current state of facial recognition in all its manifold splendor (and we didn’t even get to cover the security of drones, yet another of her areas of expertise). Also: the latest update on a...

CatfishingDogfishingSniffingGhostingRootingBenchingDoppelgängingRoachingPharmingHauntingKittenfishingPhreakingOrbitingCrackingPhubbingBreadcrumbingStashingSpoofingSubmariningSnoopingMooningThroningWardrivingTindstagrammingVulturingZombieingPiggybackingSocial Engineering Dating Strategy: 2 (really?), 4, 6 (my entire middle school experience both socially and athletically), 8 (is askmen.com the best source for dating advice?), 10 (cosmo is definitely the canonical source for this kind of info, and possibly originates most of it), 11 (rampant on linkedin, to be fair), 13, 15 (also useful in parenting), 17, 19 (I’m...

Loma Miller joins us to talk about the “customer experience” (16:31)— from pizza to haircuts to University of Michigan Football (yes, we covered a lot of ground.) Hannah Giles and Natalie Reina cover the headlines (2:38), which include a return to prominence by Ashley Madison, how Twitter can allow others to see your phone number without your consent, and the...

Extra, extra hear all about it! The Mistaken Identity podcast is back in action, and today we are introducing a new weekly series ironically named Mistaken Identity Today that will bring you the juiciest news in cybersecurity. Fear not, as we will still keep bringing you great conversations with the smartest minds in the industry, but in between those episodes,...

On September 14, 2019, the full mandate of PSD2 took effect, which means open banking will continue to make inroads into the financial fabric of society. While the full realization of this concept provides an opportunity for innovators, it also represents a unique privacy challenge. An Opportunity for Innovation Opening up a stolid market by allowing consumers to migrate their...

Who was the real Tarra Simmons? On November 16, 2017, she sat before the Washington State Supreme Court. The child of addicts and an ex-addict and ex-felon herself, she had subsequently graduated near the top of her law school class. The Washington State Law Board had denied her access to the bar, fearing that the “old Tarra” would return. She...