
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

Feb 28, 2024 • 48min
180. I-Sooner or Later
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss China’s involvement with I-Soon along with DNSSEC and the #KeyTrap vulnerability

Feb 21, 2024 • 47min
179. Scamily Matters
Episode 179 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Kelly Molloy, and Ian Campbell discuss Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post about his experience getting scammed along with the decade-long issue of email sent to .ml addresses rather than .mil ones.

Feb 14, 2024 • 49min
178. Volt Typhoon Lagoon
Episode 178 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the US disabling of Volt Typhoon along with AnyDesk’s recent cyberattack.

Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 3min
[Special Report] Ransomware and Mortgage Brokers
In the latest episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Austin Northcutt, and Yelisey Bohuslavskiy discuss a string of mortgage brokers who have been hit with ransomware over the past several months. What are the targeting patterns? Who are the victims?

Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 31min
Breaking Badness Book Club #3
This week on the Breaking Badness podcast, Allan Liska and Jon DiMaggio join Kali Fencl to discuss Jon’s book, The Art of Cyberwarfare, along with other favorite cybersecurity picks!

Jan 24, 2024 • 49min
177. Just Around the COLDRIVER Bend
This week it’s all about targeting expansions! Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss threat actors COLDRIVER expanding their targeting along with Mint Sandstorm.

Jan 17, 2024 • 46min
Breaking Badness Book Club Episode #2
We’re coming back with another iteration of our Book Club on the Breaking Badness podcast! Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Daniel Schwalbe discuss their top cybersecurity book picks along with books outside the industry.

Jan 10, 2024 • 55min
176. A Tale of OAuth2 Cities
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a new method of hacking compromising Google accounts along with findings from Operation Triangulation.

Jan 3, 2024 • 46min
The Best of 2023
This week we're taking a look back at 2023! We're reminiscing about the guests we spoke with and counting down to the top episode...and the top puns!

Dec 27, 2023 • 55min
2024 Infosec Predictions
It’s been a big year in infosec/cybersecurity, but we could say that almost every year. We did a similar discussion last year if you’d like to check that out, and we wanted to follow up on those predictions along with sharing some new ones for 2024.