"The Building Has Malware." Adventures in Appsec 🕷 Darknet Diaries Ep. 165: Tanya

About this episode

Tanya Janca discusses her journey from developer to hacker and the challenges of application security in her role with the Canadian government.

Tanya Janca's worldview changed suddenly when she realized how easy it was for hackers to crack her applications. From that point on, she vowed to be both a developer AND a hacker, and to spread the gospel of application security to other programmers. But when she took a job with the Canadian government, nothing could prepare her for the looming threats. Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/165/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU9uJwZyy9Q

People in this episode

Host: Jack Rhysider

Guest: Tanya Janca

Topics covered

• application security
• hacking
• software development
• government cybersecurity
• threats

Keywords

• malware
• hackers
• applications
• security
• programmers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canadian government

Books & works: Darknet Diaries

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