Security Cocktail Hour

This time we’re revisiting our conversation with Luke Canfield and focusing on how drones are becoming a cybersecurity problem.

Luke walks through war-flying, drone-mounted Wi-Fi Pineapples, rogue access points, cartel drone operations, prison contraband drops, hybrid warfare, and why most security teams are still thinking too flat. The core takeaway: security exists in three dimensions now, and defenders need to start looking up.

Full original episode with Luke Canfield: https://open.spotify.com/episode/18TYWLjiLpqGX995iDmqdL?si=67c757474cc84d33

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Former NASA Administrator and astronaut Charles Bolden joins the Security Cocktail Hour to explain why space is not as isolated as people assume.

We cover:
Why mission control still sits in the middle
Why messages get routed, reviewed, and filtered before reaching a vehicle
How consumer devices expand the attack surface in space
What cooperation in orbit teaches about security and civics
Why he does not buy the hype about easy moon or Mars colonization

Organizations mentioned in this episode:
Intrepid Museum: https://intrepidmuseum.org/
Astronauts for America: https://www.astronautsforamerica.org/

Modern cars are phones with wheels: GPS, telematics, connected apps, and data streams that can expose privacy risks, but also help recover a stolen vehicle before it disappears across jurisdictions.

Maria Santos and Eugene Giordani, co-founders of Autoscope, join the Security Cocktail Hour to explain how law enforcement can use consent-based access to connected-car data after a theft. We talk about relay attacks, key cloning, license plate reader limits, built-in GPS, jurisdiction problems, AirTags, immobilizers, Faraday bags, dash cams, and the practical steps car owners can take before something happens.

If you care about cybersecurity, connected vehicles, public safety, privacy, or just keeping your car in your driveway, this one is for you.

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In this episode, Ché Bolden joins us to talk about drone security, uncrewed systems, satellite security, GPS, autonomy, counter-drone defense, and the growing cyber risks around space-based infrastructure. We get into how drones were originally secured, why unencrypted links were such a problem, how command-and-control attacks can work, and why space is now part of the security conversation.

This conversation sits at the intersection of cyber security, drone warfare, satellite security, space security, and the future of connected systems. If you care about drones, satellites, GPS, cyber risk, or the security of critical infrastructure, this episode is worth a listen.

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Ché Bolden

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Joe South joins the Security Cocktail Hour to discuss the state of communication satellite security and the doctoral research he is doing to change it. Joe is Director of Cloud & AI Security at Abira Security and hosts the Security Unfiltered podcast, one of the larger independent cybersecurity podcasts. The conversation covers what satellite defense actually looks like today: why most of the security is at the ground station rather than on the satellite itself, what happens when CubeSats stay in orbit for 10 to 12 years without meaningful patching, and how a zero trust framework could be made to work on hardware that operates on less than three watts of power. Joe walks through his proposed approach, which combines TPM-based component authentication with a distributed trust ring across satellite orbits.We also get into cyber warfare and the attribution problem, the strategic implications of a compromised satellite fleet, and Joe's personal story about building self-sufficiency. If you work in cloud, infrastructure, or national security and have never had space in your threat model, this is a good place to start. Guest: Joe South, Director of Cloud & AI Security at Abira Security, host of Security Unfiltered (securityunfiltered.com), doctoral candidate at Capital Technology University.Subscribe to the Security Cocktail Hour newsletter at securitycocktailhour.com for a biweekly read on cybersecurity news and upcoming episodes.