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Oracle cl0p ransomware crisis, EU drone sightings, Cisco bootkit fallout
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 66: We discuss drone sightings that shut down airports across Europe and what they reveal about hybrid warfare and the changing nature of conflict; Oracle ransomware/ex…
Published on 2 months ago
Cisco firewall zero-days and bootkits in the wild
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 65: We zero in on one of the biggest security stories of the year: the discovery of a persistent multi-stage bootkit implanting malware on Cisco ASA firewalls. Details o…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Live at LABScon: Aurora Johnson and Trevor Hilligoss on China's 'internet toilets'
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 64: SpyCloud Labs researchers Aurora Johnson and Trevor Hilligoss discuss the world of “internet toilets," the toxic online communities in China where harassment, stalki…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Live at LABScon: Visi Stark shares memories of creating the APT1 report
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 63: Co-founder of the Vertex Project Visi Stark joins the buddies to reminisce about his work writing Mandiant's famous APT1 report, the China-nexus threat landscape, th…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Live at LABScon: Lindsay Freeman on tracking Wagner Group war crimes
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 62: Lindsay Freeman, Director of the Technology, Law & Policy program at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, joins the show to discuss her team's meticul…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Can Apple's New Anti-Exploit Tech Stop iPhone Spyware Attacks?
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 61: We cover a pair of software supply chain breaches (Salesforce Salesloft Drift and NPM/GitHub) that raises big questions about SaaS integrations and the ripple effect…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Salt Typhoon IOCs, Google floats ‘cyber disruption unit’, WhatsApp 0-click
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 60: We dissect a fresh multi-agency Salt Typhoon advisory (with IOCs and YARA rules!), why it landed late, why the wall of logos matters (and doesn’t), and what’s actual…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Zero-day reality check: iOS exploits, MAPP in China and the hack-back temptation
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 59: Apple drops another emergency iOS patch and we unpack what that “may have been exploited” language really means: zero-click chains, why notifications help but forens…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
On AI’s future, security’s failures, and what comes next...
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 58: The buddies react to the Brandon Dixon episode, digging into what it’s really like to scale products inside a tech giant, navigate politics, and bring features to m…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Live from Black Hat: Brandon Dixon parses the AI security hype
Three Buddy Problem - Episode 57: Brandon Dixon (PassiveTotal/RiskIQ, Microsoft) leads a deep-dive into the collision of AI and cybersecurity. We tackle Google’s “Big Sleep” project, XBOW’s HackerOne…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago