Dan Geer’s Source Boston keynote included a declaration that cybersecurity and humanity’s future are forever conjoined.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach.

A member of law enforcement acknowledged at SOURCE Boston that the lack of communication around ransomware remains a serious problem.

Source Boston keynoter Keren Elazari sounded a call to action for industry to extend an acceptance of hackers.

At Source Boston, Josh Corman of the Atlantic Council said that healthcare is suffering from a lack of security talent, devices rife with vulnerabilities, and government incentivizing bad behavior.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the LinkedIn breach, TeslaCrypt closing up shop, and a breakthrough in random number generation. The two also recap this week’s Source conference in Boston. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_20_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Pen-testing engagements are generally a breeze for most red-teamers; roadblocks are few, despite the ones in place being expensive and often paid for by very large companies. Chris Nickerson has been running such engagements for 15 years and he sees companies that throw more money and more servers at security solutions as having far less...