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[image] This week on the podcast we discuss an often overlooked item for sale on underground forums, authentication cookies. Before that though, we’ll cover a few surprising stats from a recent ransomware study by Cybereason and an update...

[image] This week on the podcast, we discuss operation Trojan Shield, a multi-year program where the FBI in partnership with international law enforcement agencies developed and distributed an encrypted communications application on the...

[image] In an operation headed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Australian Federal Police (AFP), international law enforcement agencies managed to gather 27 million encrypted messages used for criminal communications, through...

[image] A KickAss hacking group member (not the Torrent group) who goes by Leakbook claims to have the full FIFA 21 source code, which they have listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. In addition to the FIFA 21 source code they also claim...

[image] This week on the podcast, we take a look at how soldiers unknowingly leaked highly-sensitive information about the United States’ foreign nuclear arsenal and discuss how we can reprogram humans to not make similar mistakes. We also cover...

[image] A few years ago, in 2017, researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens published a whitepaper showcasing serious vulnerabilities within practically all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. The vulnerabilities lie within the Wi-Fi standard...

[image] This week on the podcast we cover an epic battle between a video game giant and a tech behemoth that has the potential to change mobile security forever. After that, we cover updates to several recent security events including the...

[image] This week on the podcast we cover the ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline which left the east coast of the United States in fear of gas shortages for more than a week. We’ll discuss the threat actors behind it, how they possibly...

[image] In response to recent cybersecurity incidences like the SolarWinds breach, Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, President Biden signed an executive order to increase the cybersecurity...

[image] This week on the podcast we cover a 12 year old vulnerability in Dell’s firmware update driver impacting hundreds of millions of servers, workstations and tablets. Then, we dive in to 21 nails, a collection of vulnerabilities in the Exim...

[image] Another day, another breach. Although, this time, the victim is the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. and the breach was induced by double-extortion ransomware known as Babuk. The group behind the ransomware attack, the...

[image] In the past few months there has been a dramatic increase in cryptocurrency prices. In fact, the crypto market value topped $2 trillion for the first time in history and bitcoin, the largest form of digital currency, hit a record high of...

[image] You know what they say about passwords… You’re only one weak password away from a breach. Despite the increasing sophistication of hacker technologies and tools, the easiest step of a hack is still cracking the password. In fact, it’s so...

[image] This week on the podcast, we mourn a Dan Kaminsky, a well-loved hacker responsible for identifying one of the biggest vulnerabilities in the history of the internet. Then, we continue our dive into web app security standards with a...

[image] According to an article by Techdirt, the Chinese government has created “Uyghur alarms” by an explicitly biased face recognition service which they are using. China uses face recognition to identify and target Uyghur people. Under the...

[image] (Updated 04/22/2021 to include court order) For the last few months, we have seen Exchange Servers fall to vulnerabilities from the HAFNIUN attacks. Even after Microsoft released patches for the serious flaws, we continue to see...

[image] This week on the podcast we cover a couple of major events from April’s Patch Tuesday including four new remote code execution vulnerabilities in Exchange Server and some additional developments in the saga of March’s Exchange Server...

[image] This week on the podcast, we go back to one of our favorite episodes from last year near the start of the pandemic where we sat down with security expert Nina Jankowicz to discuss what the rapid change to remote work would mean for...