Podcast Episodes

Workday’s bad day.

Season 10 Episode 2373

HR software giant Workday discloses a data breach. Researchers uncover a zero-day in Elastic’s EDR software. Ghost-tapping is an emerging fraud technique where cybercriminals use NFC relay attacks to…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Dr. Rois Ni Thuama: Get into the game. [Cyber governance] [Career Notes]

Season 2 Episode 81

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes.

Head of Cyber Governance with Red Sift, Dr. Rois Ni Thuama shares the circuitous route of her career into cyber governance. She notes the route "looks really…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The CVE countdown clock. [Research Saturday]

Season 9 Episode 389

Bob Rudis, VP Data Science from GreyNoise, is sharing some insights into their work on "Early Warning Signals: When Attacker Behavior Precedes New Vulnerabilities." New research reveals a striking t…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Media server mayday.

Season 10 Episode 2372

Plex urges users to immediately update their Media Server due to an undisclosed security flaw. Cisco warns of a critical remote code execution flaw in their Secure Firewall Management Center software…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Dialysis down, data out.

Season 10 Episode 2371

A ransomware attack exposes personal medical records of VA patients. New joint guidance from CISA and the NSA emphasizes asset inventory and OT taxonomy. The UK government reportedly spent millions t…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

When spies get spied on.

Season 10 Episode 2370

Patch Tuesday. The Matrix Foundation patches high-severity vulnerabilities in its open-source communications protocol. The “Curly COMrades” Russian-aligned APT targets critical infrastructure. Micros…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Kimsuky gets kim-sunk.

Season 10 Episode 2369

Hackers leak backend data from the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Kimsuky. A ransomware attack on a Dutch clinical diagnostics lab exposes medical data of nearly half a million women. One…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Deadlines in the cloud.

Season 10 Episode 2368

CISA issues an Emergency Directive to urgently patch a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange hybrid configurations. SoupDealer malware proves highly evasive. Google patches a Gemini calendar f…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Ed Amoroso: Security shouldn't be the main dish. [Computer Science] [Career Notes]

Season 2 Episode 80

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of TAG Cyber, Ed Amoroso, shares how he learned on the job and grew his career. In his words, Ed "went from my dad having…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

When malware plays pretend. [Research Saturday]

Season 9 Episode 388

Nicolás Chiaraviglio, Chief Scientist from Zimperium's zLabs, joins to discuss their work on "Behind Random Words: DoubleTrouble Mobile Banking Trojan Revealed." Zimperium’s zLabs team has been trac…

Published on 4 weeks ago