
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

Dec 7, 2022 • 48min
140. Party of Five
It’s a special in-person episode of Breaking Badness! Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, Daniel Schwalbe, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Sean McNee talk about the ongoing T.Swift/Ticketmaster security saga, the war in Ukraine, and the Disneyland Team post from Brian Krebs.

Nov 30, 2022 • 36min
[Bonus Episode] Voices from Infosec with Caitlin Kiska
In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Tim Helming sat down at GrrCon with Incident Responder, Caitlin Kiska, to discuss her path to cybersecurity, the alert fatigue battle, and bird watching.

Nov 16, 2022 • 48min
139. Something’s Polyglot To Give
This week Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, Kali Fencl, and Tim Helming discuss a recent Forbes article on cybersecurity layoffs along with StrelaStealer - the new info-stealing malware.

Nov 9, 2022 • 51min
138. Into The W4SP's Nest
Episode 138 of Breaking Badness, Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and special guest Aaron Gee-Clough discuss SocGholish JavaScript malware along with Phylum’s research regarding PyPI packages in ongoing supply chain attacks.

Nov 2, 2022 • 50min
137. Vishing Persons Report
Breaking Badness gets spooky this week 👻 Recorded on Halloween, Ian Campbell, Kelsey LaBelle, and Daniel Schwalbe discuss clop ransomware (not short for ‘cyclops’ apparently) and its link to the Raspberry Robin worm along with vishing and the latest Twilio breach

Oct 26, 2022 • 52min
136. TTPS. I Love You
Episode 136 of Breaking Badness gets spooky! This week Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, Kelsey LaBelle, and Tim Helming discuss the classic movie Gremlins since it comes up while discussing OldGremlin, along with double extortion attacks from BlackByte. Listen here:

Oct 19, 2022 • 40min
135. Raspberry Pi in the Sky
In this episode of Breaking Badness, Kelsey LaBelle, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and special guest Kelly Molloy discuss the future of Network Time Protocol along with consumer drones used for hacking

Oct 12, 2022 • 42min
134. OSINTillating Conversation
Episode 134 of Breaking Badness is here! This week, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, Tim Helming, and Kali Fencl discuss research into the cybercrime group, LofyGang along with the latest CISA and FBI PSA on disinformation in the upcoming US midterm election

Oct 5, 2022 • 43min
133. A Shot in the Dark Web
On Wednesdays we wear pink! Recorded on National Mean Girls Day, in this latest podcast episode Tim Helming, Kelsey LaBelle, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss two zero day flaws in Microsoft Exchange along with news regarding Brute Ratel.

Sep 21, 2022 • 50min
132. Here, kiTTY kiTTY
Ahoy! Lots of pirate puns in Episode 132 of Breaking Badness! This week Kelsey LaBelle returns and she, Tim Helming, and Daniel Schwalbe discuss the Steam browser-in-the-browser attacks along with a phishing opportunity in WhatsApp.