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Episode 182
Hazel Burton steps in to host this week's episode as we cover the recent Cisco Talos Incident Response Quarterly Trends Report from the first quarter…
2 years, 5 months ago
How to defend against brute force attacks
Episode 181
After a recent spike in brute force attempts targeting SSH and VPN services, we felt it was a good time to give listeners a lesson on brute force att…
2 years, 5 months ago
What are the dangers of enabling sideloading and third-party apps?
Episode 180
Apple now must allow users to be able to sideload apps onto their phones or access third-party app stores, thanks to a law from the European Union th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Why we need to stop calling as-a-service group takedowns "takedowns"
Episode 179
Hazel Burton and Thorsten Rosendahl join Jon Munshaw on this week's episode to discuss the problem with threat actor "hydras." They recently wrote ab…
2 years, 5 months ago
Turla has been around for 20-plus years at this point, but they're still mixing things up
Episode 178
Holger Unterbrink of Talos Outreach joins the show this week to discuss his recent Turla APT research. This Russian state-sponsored actor has been ar…
2 years, 6 months ago
Why more actors are starting to use Telegram for their communications
Episode 177
Jon started noticing that Talos is finding more threat actors using Telegram nowadays for their communication and coordination, so he decided to brin…
2 years, 6 months ago
Why no one should be relying on passive security in 2024
Episode 176
Nick Biasini joins Jon this week to talk about passive security. He recently wrote about this topic for the Talos blog and joined Wendy Nather in dis…
2 years, 6 months ago
What's new about GhostSec's ransomware-as-a-service model
Episode 175
Chetan Raghuprasad from the Talos Outreach team joins Talos Takes this week to talk to Jon about the GhostSec threat actor that he and a few colleagu…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why are "identity attacks" on the rise?
Episode 174
Now more than ever, adversaries are logging in, not breaking in. They're stealing legitimate user credentials to hide undetected on a targeted networ…
2 years, 7 months ago
The tl;dr of NIS2
Episode 173
Gergana Karadzhova-Dangela and Thorsten Rosendahl, our resident experts on all things European Union cybersecurity law, join the show this week to ta…
2 years, 7 months ago