

Breaking Badness
DomainTools
Where timely and relevant security meets puns and witty banter. Our goal is to keep defenders apprised of pertinent news and trends in under forty-five minutes.
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Jun 21, 2023 • 55min
158. Zero Days of Our Lives
On this week's episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the new Fortigate firmware updates along with Brian Krebs article on replacing Barracuda hardware.

Jun 14, 2023 • 46min
157. They Ransomware
This week Tim Helming, Sean McNee, and guest researcher Sasha Angus discuss the most prolific ransomware families and share cybersecurity gold, guidance, and grievances.

Jun 7, 2023 • 35min
156. Romancing the Scam
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Kelly Molloy, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a pandemic catfishing scam along with Eclypsium’s detection of backdoor behavior from Gigabyte systems.

May 31, 2023 • 36min
[Mini Series] Stronger Together: Tim Chen, Daniel Schwalbe, and Your Friends at DomainTools
We've made it to the final installment of our Stronger Together Mini-Series! In this episode, you'll hear from folks at DomainTools including CEO Tim Chen, veteran podcaster Daniel Schwalbe, and more!

May 24, 2023 • 1h 9min
155. Sunburst Your Bubble
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss Kim Zetter’s work on the SolarWinds investigation along with the Senate’s hearing on AI regulation.

May 17, 2023 • 54min
[Mini Series] Stronger Together: Katie Nickels, Don Jeter, Ben April, Lesley Carhart & Jeff Stout
We’ve made it to the third installment of our Stronger Together Mini Series! In this episode we’re joined by researchers, threat analysts, and C-Suites including Katie Nickels from Red Canary and the SANS Institute, Don Jeter from Torq, Ben April from Maltego, Lesley Carhart from Dragos, and Jeff Stout from Akamai. We have some great discussions on the pros and cons of AI, protecting industrial control systems, imposter syndrome, and more.

May 10, 2023 • 49min
[Mini Series] Stronger Together feat. Jamie Williams, Jon DiMaggio, Corey Thuen, and Renee Burton
Welcome to episode number two of our Breaking Badness Mini-Series: Stronger Together! We hope you had a chance to check out last week’s episode of our conversation with Allan Liska. This week we’re going to be hearing from Jamie Williams, Jon DiMaggio, Corey Thuen, and Renee Burton as we continue to focus on RSA’s 2023 theme: Stronger Together. We cover a lot of ground in these interviews, but the theme we keep coming back to is how we can take our individual specialities and come together to give bad actors more bad days.

May 3, 2023 • 36min
[Mini Series] Stronger Together with Allan Liska
In this episode for the Stronger Together Mini-Series, we are joined by Allan Liska, Ransomware Researcher at Recorded Future. We sat down (or rather, stood and leaned against a wall away from noise) to discuss his path to infosec, interesting talks at RSA, liberal arts and cybersecurity, a pending passion project, and general geeking out over DNS.

May 3, 2023 • 3min
The Stronger Together Mini-Series Trailer
In this special Mini-Series, Breaking Badness goes on the road to RSA to talk to researchers, intelligence analysts, security advocates, VPs, and C-suites on how we can come together in the industry to give bad actors more bad days.

Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 8min
154. Not Your Neurotypical Episode
This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Travis Hall discuss neurodiversity in cybersecurity including their own experiences, advice for managers, and neurodivergent Employee Resource Groups.