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 20, 2023 • 53min
175. BazarCall of the Wild
Episode 175 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss bad actors using shell companies in Wyoming for global attacks along with BazarCall attacks leveraging Google Forms.
Dec 13, 2023 • 55min
[Special Report] Father Phishmas, Give Us The Money
A special Phishmas episode of Breaking Badness is here! We’re talking with @nullcookies about the recent phishing attacks targeting the United States Postal Service, its implications, and possible mitigations. Listen here:
Dec 6, 2023 • 51min
174. Pick Your DNS Cache Poison
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a recent attack on a municipal water authority along with Timo Longin and SEC Consult’s latest research on DNS cache poisoning
Nov 29, 2023 • 53min
Breaking Badness Book Club #1
Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Sean McNee discuss their favorite #cybersecurity books! Listen and learn what we’ve enjoyed and what we’ve found helpful in our careers along with non-industry books we’re currently enjoying.
Nov 22, 2023 • 1h 1min
Special Report - Quadrant Security [Re-Release]
We're taking this opportunity to share how grateful we are for the guests and discussions we've had this past year on Breaking Badness. One of which is our conversation with Champ Clark III and Steven Drenning-Blalock from Quadrant Security on how they thwarted the Black Basta ransomware gang. If you didn't have a chance to listen when we initially released this episode, now's a great time to catch up!
Nov 15, 2023 • 47min
173. How To Eat Fried Sandworms
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a private industry notification from the FBI along with Mandiant’s findings from a #Sandworm attack targeting Ukraine.
Nov 8, 2023 • 55min
172. SolarWinds of Change
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the SEC charges against SolarWinds and its CISO along with the 0-day exploitation impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances.
Nov 1, 2023 • 57min
171. The Fancy Bear Necessities
This week on Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the latest accusations against Fancy Bear along with a look at 404 Media’s findings about the SIM Swapper group known as The Comm.
Oct 25, 2023 • 44min
170. MOVEit on Up
We like to MOVEit MOVEit on Breaking Badness. This week on the pod, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco’s zero-day vulnerability along with the latest from the Clop ransomware gang and the MOVEit file transfer software.
Oct 18, 2023 • 47min
169. DDoSawson’s Creek
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss curl 8.4.0 along with one of the biggest DDoSes of all time.
