
Breaking Badness
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.
Latest episodes

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.

Apr 5, 2023 • 53min
153. It’s Pillar Time!
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Aaron Gee-Clough discuss the 5 pillars of the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Mar 29, 2023 • 55min
152. Good Will Threat Hunting
This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco Talos’ Ukraine task unit one year into the Ukraine/Russia conflict along with the Google Pixel and Windows 11 uncropping bugs

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Mar 22, 2023 • 46min
151. Epic Bail: The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Its Impact on Infosec
This week on Breaking Badness, Kelsey LaBelle, Daniel Schwalbe, and Tim Helming discuss the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. We’ll dive into what we’ve been seeing on our end, predictions on what we may see from bad actors, and practical advice for moving forward.

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Mar 15, 2023 • 50min
150. Thrifty, Nifty, Never Shifty (Part II)
The 150th celebration of Breaking Badness continues this week for Part II! We’re talking to Daniel Schwalbe, Sean McNee, Aaron Gee-Clough, and Kelly Molloy about their paths to infosec favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.

Mar 8, 2023 • 56min
150. Thrifty, Nifty, Never Shifty (Part I)
We’re celebrating 150 episodes of Breaking Badness! Join us for Part I of a 2 week extravaganza! We’re talking to Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Ian Campbell this week on their paths to infosec, favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.