Russia’s accused of jamming a jet carrying the UK’s defense minister. Senators introduce a bipartisan Section 702 compromise bill. The Cybercrime Atlas initiative seeks to dismantle cybercrime. StopCrypt ransomware grows stealthier. A Scottish healthcare provider is under cyber attack. Workers in France are at risk of data exposure. CERT-BE warns of critical vulnerabilities in Arcserve UDP software. The FCC approves IoT device labeling. Researchers snoop on AI chat responses. A MITRE-Harris poll...
Mar 15, 2024•37 min•Season 8Ep. 2025
In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this episode of the International Spy Museum's SpyCast podcast featuring part 1 of Andrew Hammond's discussion with Dr. Ursula Wilder of the Central Intelligence Agency. Summary Dr. Ursula Wilder (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss the intersections between psychology and intelligence. Ursula is a clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience working at the Central Intelligence Agency. What You’ll Learn Intelligence How psy...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 621
The US House votes to enact restrictions on TikTok. HHS launches an investigation into Change Healthcare. An Irish Covid-19 portal puts over a million vaccination records at risk. Google distributes $10 million in bug bounty rewards. Nissan Oceana reports a data breach resulting from an Akira ransomware attack. Meta sues a former VP for alleged data theft. eSentire sees Blind Eagle focusing on the manufacturing sector. Claroty outlines threats to health care devices. A major provider of yachts i...
Mar 14, 2024•34 min•Season 8Ep. 2024
Teresa Rothaar, a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) analyst at Keeper Security sits down to share her story, from performer to cyber. She fell in love with writing as a young girl, she experimented with writing fanfiction which made her want to grow up to be in the arts. After attending college she found that she was good at math, lighting the way for her to start her cyber career. Teresa moved to being a writer at Keeper, finding she wanted to spread out and try more, so she ended up becom...
Mar 14, 2024•7 min•Season 3Ep. 131
ODNI’s Annual Threat Assessment highlights the usual suspects. The White House meets with UnitedHealth Group’s CEO. A convicted LockBit operator gets four years in prison. The Clop ransomware group leaks data from major universities. Equilend discloses a data breach. Fortinet announces critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. GhostRace exploits speculative race conditions in popular CPUs. Incognito Market pulls the rug and extorts its users. Patch Tuesday notes. On the Learning Layer, Sam Mei...
Mar 13, 2024•31 min•Season 8Ep. 2023
Biden’s budget earmarks thirteen billion bucks for cybersecurity. DOJ targets AI abuse. A US trade mission to the Philippines includes cyber training. CISA and OMB release a secure software attestation form. CyberArk explores AI worms. Russia arrests a South Korean on cyber espionage charges. French government agencies are hit with DDoS attacks. Jessica Brandt is named director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center. Afternoon Cyber Tea host Ann Johnson speaks with her guest Keren Elazari about ...
Mar 12, 2024•27 min•Season 8Ep. 2022
Founder and CEO of nonprofit Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education and undergraduate student at Stanford University, Kyla Guru shares her journey from GenCyber Camp to becoming a cybersecurity thought leader. Seeing the need. for cybersecurity education in her own community spurred Kyla into action engaging our civilian population in understanding their role in the cybersecurity space. Kyla recommends putting yourself out there: taking courses, getting more knowledge, getting internships, meetin...
Mar 12, 2024•6 min•Season 1Ep. 34
A roundup of news out of CISA. California reveals data brokers selling the sensitive information of minors. Permiso Security shares an open-source cloud intrusion detection tool. Darktrace highlights a campaign exploiting DropBox. EU's Cyber Solidarity Act forges ahead. A White House committee urges new economic incentives for securing OT systems. Paysign investigates claims of a data breach. Our guest is Alex Cox, Director Threat Intelligence, Mitigation, and Escalation at LastPass, to discuss ...
Mar 11, 2024•36 min•Season 8Ep. 2021
Ground Labs' Head of Engineering, Swati Shekhar, shares her circuitous route from and back to engineering. Always being interested in leveraging the tools available to solve problems, Swati talks about how she found her place in engineering. She mentions how she had her first real experience with a computer when she was 17 in her first year at college. Aside from being one of 30 young women in a sea of 500 young men there, Swati described it as a "good culture shock because anything that takes y...
Mar 10, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 75
In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this encore of Dr. Sasha Vanterpool's webinar. In this webinar, N2K Networks Cyber Workforce Consultant Dr. Sasha Vanterpool shares how to update job descriptions to better reflect cyber role expectations to improve hiring, training, and retention. To view the original webinar on demand, visit here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 10, 2024•21 min•Season 9Ep. 58
This week we are joined by Jamie MacColl and Dr. Pia Hüsch from RUSI discussing their work on "Ransomware: Victim Insights on Harms to Individuals, Organisations and Society." The research reveals some of the harms caused by ransomware, including physical, financial, reputational, psychological and social harms. Researchers state "Based on interviews with victims and incident responders, this paper outlines the harm ransomware causes to organisations, individuals, the UK economy, national securi...
Mar 09, 2024•23 min•Season 8Ep. 320
Russian hackers persist against Microsoft’s internal systems. Change Healthcare systems are slowly coming back online. Russian propaganda sites masquerade as local news. Swiss government info is leaked on the darknet. Krebs on Security turns the tables on the Radaris online data broker. The NSA highlights the fundamentals of Zero Trust. The British Library publishes lessons learned from their ransomware attack. Researchers run a global prompt hacking competition. CheckPoint looks at Magnet Gobli...
Mar 08, 2024•38 min•Season 8Ep. 2020
In honor of International Women's Day, please enjoy this encore of our 2023 Women in Cyber panel. In the dynamic field of cybersecurity, it’s well established that creating more opportunities for diversity and inclusion is essential for developing a highly skilled workforce. As an industry, we are starting to see the fruits of that labor, but there is a growing need for diverse leadership to nurture continuous innovation and resilience in cybersecurity. As part of N2K’s 2023 Women in Cyber conte...
Mar 08, 2024•51 min•Season 8Ep. 56
A former Google software engineer is charged with stealing AI tech for China. State attorneys general from forty-one states call out Meta over account takeover issues. Researchers demonstrate a Stuxnet-like attack using PLCs. Buyer beware - A miniPC comes equipped with pre installed malware. A Microsoft engineer wants the FTC to take a closer look at Copilot Designer. There’s a snake in Facebook’s walled garden. Bruce Schneier wonders if AI can strengthen democracy. On our Industry Voices segmen...
Mar 07, 2024•33 min•Season 8Ep. 2019
In honor of International Women's Day, please enjoy this encore of Dinah Davis sharing her story. Coming from her love of math, VP of R&D at Arctic Wolf Networks Dinah Davis shares how she arrived in the cybersecurity industry after finding her niche. Dinah recalls how at a time of indecision, a computer course at university and a job with the Canadian government helped to solidify her career direction. Dinah mentions how "security and cryptography specifically was this perfect mix of real world...
Mar 07, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 40
CISA says Super Tuesday ran smoothly. The White House sanctions spyware vendors. The DoD launches its Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment program. NIST unveils an updated NICE Framework. Apple patches a pair of zero-days. The GhostSec and Stormous ransomware gangs join forces. Cado Security tracks a new Golang-based malware campaign. Google updates its search algorithms to fight spammy content. Canada's financial intelligence agency suffers a cyber incident. On our Industry Voices segment, ou...
Mar 06, 2024•38 min•Season 8Ep. 2018
In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this episode of the Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 podcast, Threat Vector, featuring David Moulton's discussion with Wendi Whitmore about the evolving threat landscape. In this conversation, David Moulton from Unit 42 discusses the evolving threat landscape with Wendi Whitmore, SVP of Unit 42. Wendi highlights the increasing scale, sophistication, and speed of cyberattacks, with examples like the recent Clop ransomware incident, and emphasizes that at...
Mar 05, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Is the ALPHV gang pulling up a twenty two million dollar rug? Meta platforms are experiencing outages. Ukraine claims a cyberattack on the Russian Ministry of Defense. Malicious phishers hope to hook hashes. TeamCity users are warned of critical vulnerabilities. The Discord leaker pleads guilty. AmEx suffers a third-party data breach. Amazon is flooded with fake copycat publications. Our guest is Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser from the FBI Cyber Division to discuss Volt Typhoon. And, D...
Mar 05, 2024•28 min•Season 8Ep. 2017
In honor of International Women's Day, please enjoy this encore of Monica Ruiz sharing her story. Cyber Initiative and Special Projects Fellow at the Hewlett Foundation Monica Ruiz shares her career development from aspirations of being a weather woman to her current role as a grantmaker and connector in cybersecurity. Monica discusses how her international study experience changed her outlook and brought her to the field of security. She shares the difficulties she faced as a woman of color whe...
Mar 05, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The US healthcare sector is struggling to recover from a cyberattack. Russia listens in via Webex. The former head of NCSC calls for a ransomware payment ban. An Indian content farm mimics legitimate online news sites. The FTC reminds landlords that algorithmic price fixing is illegal. FCC employees are targeted by a phishing campaign. Experts weigh in on NIST’s updated cybersecurity framework. Police shut down the largest German-speaking cybercrime market. Guest Mike Hanley, Chief Security Offi...
Mar 04, 2024•30 min•Season 8Ep. 2016
Product Manager in Anti-Fraud Solutions at SpyCloud, Pattie Dillon shares her journey from raising her family to specializing in the anti-fraud space. Upon reentering the workforce, Pattie worked on identity verification and developed a system with privacy concerns in mind. She moved to work in gift cards and was exposed to money laundering. Traveling along the fraud spectrum, Pattie learned about underground data and feels that this data can be leveraged to actually prevent and fight online fra...
Mar 03, 2024•9 min•Season 2Ep. 69
This week we are joined by, Selena Larson from Proofpoint, who is discussing their research, "Bumblebee Buzzes Back in Black." Bumblebee is a sophisticated downloader used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors and was a favored payload from its first appearance in March 2022 through October 2023 before disappearing. After a four month hiatus, Proofpoint researchers found that the downloader returned. Its return aligns with a surge of cybercriminal threat activity after a notable absence of man...
Mar 02, 2024•21 min•Season 8Ep. 319
A court orders NSO Group to hand over their source code. The Five Eyes reiterate warnings about Ivanti products. Researchers demonstrate a generative AI worm. Fulton County calls LockBit’s bluff. SMS codes went unprotected online. Golden Corral serves up a buffet of personal data. Ransom demands continue to climb. A US Senator calls on the FTC to investigate auto industry privacy practices. Dressing up data centers. Our guest is Dominic Rizzo, founder and director of OpenTitan and CEO at zeroRIS...
Mar 01, 2024•36 min•Season 8Ep. 2015
Iran-Linked Cyber-Espionage Targets Middle East's Aerospace and Defense. SpaceX is accused of limiting satellite internet for US troops. Savvy Seahorse' Floods the Net with Investment Scams. GUloader Malware draws on a crafty graphic attack vector. Repo confusion attacks persist. European consumer groups question Meta’s data collection options. Allegations of Russia targeting civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine. Cisco patches high-severity flaws. The US puts a Canadian cyber firm on its ...
Feb 29, 2024•32 min•Season 8Ep. 2014
President Biden is set to sign an executive order restricting overseas sharing by data brokers. US Federal agencies warn of exploited Ubiquiti EdgeRouters. A new ransomware operator claims to have hacked Epic Games. A cross-site scripting issue leaves millions of Wordpress sites vulnerable. The Rhysida ransomware group posts a multi-million dollar ransom demand on a Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Mandiant tracks Chinese threat actors targeting Ivanti VPNs. The former head of DHS weighs in on a ...
Feb 28, 2024•37 min•Season 8Ep. 2013
NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework gets an upgrade. ONCD makes a case against memory-related software bugs. A recent cyberattack targets Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police. US dethrones Russia as top target in cyber breaches. Caveat podcast cohost Ben Yelin discusses remedies in the generative AI copyright cases.And, Reggaeton Be Gone, a creative way to deal with your neighbors’ music choices. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up ...
Feb 27, 2024•27 min•Season 8Ep. 2012
LockBits reawakening. China's ramp up to safety for vital sectors. Data leak leaves China feeling exposed. Malware hidden by North Korea in fake developer job listings. UK Watchdog rebukes firm for biometric scanning of staff at leisure centers. SVR found adapting for the cloud environment. DOE proposes cybersecurity guidelines for the electric sector. Wideness of breach in the financial industry revealed. Moving on to better things. Things are looking up in the cybersecurity startup ecosystem. ...
Feb 26, 2024•29 min•Season 8Ep. 2011
Director of Security Engineering at Marqeta and Host of Hacker Valley Studio podcast Chris Cochran describes his transitions throughout the cybersecurity industry, from an intelligence job with the Marine Corps, to starting the intelligence apparatus for the House of Representatives, then on to leading Netflix's threat intelligence capability. Chris points out that when pivoting to different roles and responsibilities, you must rely on your own strengths to move forward and bring value to your w...
Feb 25, 2024•6 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Assaf Dahan and Daniel Frank from Palo Alto Networks Cortex sit down with Dave to talk about their research "Manic Menagerie 2.0: The Evolution of a Highly Motivated Threat Actor." From late 2020 to late 2022, Unit 42 researchers discovered an active campaign that targeted several web hosting and IT providers in the United States and European Union. The research states "They have further deepened their foothold in victims’ environments by mass deployment of web shells, which granted them sustain...
Feb 24, 2024•24 min•Season 8Ep. 318
The FTC fines Avast over privacy violations. ConnectWise's ScreenConnect is under active exploitation. AT&T restores services nationwide. An Australian telecom provider suffers a data breach. EU Member States publish a cybersecurity and resilience report. Microsoft unleashes a PyRIT. A new infostealer targets the oil and gas sector. A cyberattack cripples a major US healthcare provider. Our guest is Kevin Magee from Microsoft Canada with insights on why cybersecurity startups in Ireland are havi...
Feb 23, 2024•30 min•Season 8Ep. 2010
