Peter Lowe joins Kali Fencl and Daniel Schwalbe for this edition of Voices from Infosec! We discuss Peter’s background, AI, its progress, and where we think it’s headed, informed consent on the Internet, and some of Peter’s interests outside of cybersecurity.
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss telekopye and online marketplace scams along with NIST’s publication of the first draft standards for post-quantum cryptography. Listen here:
Aug 30, 2023•52 min
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the Downfall Intel CPU vulnerability along with MoustachedBouncer’s espionage against Belarus.
Aug 23, 2023•54 min
A second week of Breaking Badness with a special guest? 😱 Allan Liska is back to talk about his upcoming comic book: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - America’s fabulous cyber insurance investigator, taking on #ransomware attacks, insider threats, and more!
Aug 16, 2023•51 min
In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl and Tim Helming speak with none other than Tracy Maleeff (aka InfoSec Sherpa!) We’re excited to share our conversation on her background, empathy in infosec, industry myths she’d like to bust, and more!
Aug 09, 2023•43 min
This week on the pod, Kali Fencl, Daniel Schwalbe, and Ian Campbell discuss Cisco Talos' blog on what authentication attacks might look like in a phishing-resistant future along with the SEC’s approval of new cyber reporting regulations for public companies
Aug 02, 2023•58 min
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the investigation of Storm-0558 along with Ukraine’s most recent takedown of a massive bot farm.
Jul 26, 2023•49 min
Math puns abound in episode 161 of Breaking Badness! But Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce do manage to discuss Daniel Kelley’s blog on how AI is revolutionizing BEC attacks along with details of the national #cybersecurity strategy.
Jul 19, 2023•54 min
This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss France’s pending phone monitoring bill along with Nickelodeon’s recent data breach (includes a healthy dose of 90s nostalgia!)
Jul 12, 2023•51 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the new variant of the Mirai botnet along with Graham Cluley’s article on zero-day flaws used in spy attacks against Kaspersky.
Jun 28, 2023•53 min
On this week's episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the new Fortigate firmware updates along with Brian Krebs article on replacing Barracuda hardware.
Jun 21, 2023•55 min
This week Tim Helming, Sean McNee, and guest researcher Sasha Angus discuss the most prolific ransomware families and share cybersecurity gold, guidance, and grievances.
Jun 14, 2023•46 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Kelly Molloy, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a pandemic catfishing scam along with Eclypsium’s detection of backdoor behavior from Gigabyte systems.
Jun 07, 2023•35 min
We've made it to the final installment of our Stronger Together Mini-Series! In this episode, you'll hear from folks at DomainTools including CEO Tim Chen, veteran podcaster Daniel Schwalbe, and more!
May 31, 2023•36 min
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss Kim Zetter’s work on the SolarWinds investigation along with the Senate’s hearing on AI regulation.
May 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min
We’ve made it to the third installment of our Stronger Together Mini Series! In this episode we’re joined by researchers, threat analysts, and C-Suites including Katie Nickels from Red Canary and the SANS Institute, Don Jeter from Torq, Ben April from Maltego, Lesley Carhart from Dragos, and Jeff Stout from Akamai. We have some great discussions on the pros and cons of AI, protecting industrial control systems, imposter syndrome, and more.
May 17, 2023•54 min
Welcome to episode number two of our Breaking Badness Mini-Series: Stronger Together! We hope you had a chance to check out last week’s episode of our conversation with Allan Liska. This week we’re going to be hearing from Jamie Williams, Jon DiMaggio, Corey Thuen, and Renee Burton as we continue to focus on RSA’s 2023 theme: Stronger Together. We cover a lot of ground in these interviews, but the theme we keep coming back to is how we can take our individual specialities and come together to gi...
May 10, 2023•49 min
In this episode for the Stronger Together Mini-Series, we are joined by Allan Liska, Ransomware Researcher at Recorded Future. We sat down (or rather, stood and leaned against a wall away from noise) to discuss his path to infosec, interesting talks at RSA, liberal arts and cybersecurity, a pending passion project, and general geeking out over DNS.
May 03, 2023•36 min
In this special Mini-Series, Breaking Badness goes on the road to RSA to talk to researchers, intelligence analysts, security advocates, VPs, and C-suites on how we can come together in the industry to give bad actors more bad days.
May 03, 2023•3 min
This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Travis Hall discuss neurodiversity in cybersecurity including their own experiences, advice for managers, and neurodivergent Employee Resource Groups.
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Aaron Gee-Clough discuss the 5 pillars of the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy.
Apr 05, 2023•53 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco Talos’ Ukraine task unit one year into the Ukraine/Russia conflict along with the Google Pixel and Windows 11 uncropping bugs
Mar 29, 2023•55 min
This week on Breaking Badness, Kelsey LaBelle, Daniel Schwalbe, and Tim Helming discuss the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. We’ll dive into what we’ve been seeing on our end, predictions on what we may see from bad actors, and practical advice for moving forward.
Mar 22, 2023•46 min
The 150th celebration of Breaking Badness continues this week for Part II! We’re talking to Daniel Schwalbe, Sean McNee, Aaron Gee-Clough, and Kelly Molloy about their paths to infosec favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.
Mar 15, 2023•50 min
We’re celebrating 150 episodes of Breaking Badness! Join us for Part I of a 2 week extravaganza! We’re talking to Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Ian Campbell this week on their paths to infosec, favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.
Mar 08, 2023•56 min
Oooh it’s the last episode of Breaking Badness before the big 150! This week Kelsey LaBelle, Daniel Schwalbe, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the rise of phishing as a service along with a discussion on how mental health data is obtained via third parties.
Feb 21, 2023•51 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Ian Campbell, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce get out the 🍿 to discuss the dismantling of Exclu along with hackers who exploited a 2 year old VMware vulnerability.
Feb 15, 2023•39 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss malvertising using Google Ads along with ProofPoint’s recent research on use of Microsoft OneNote for delivering malware
Feb 08, 2023•47 min
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the FBI takedown of the Hive ransomware variant along with insights from the 2022 GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team ransomware report.
Feb 01, 2023•51 min
This week on Breaking Badness we've got a Special Report. We're talking to Champ Clark III and Steven Drenning-Blalock from Quadrant Security about a re-emergence of the Black Basta ransomware group. Plus—we’ll get their Gold, Guidance and Grievances.
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr