

Breaking Badness
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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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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.

Oct 11, 2023 • 56min
[Special Report] Two Seans, a Tim, and a Pig Butchering Ring
This week on Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Sean McNee speak with Sean Gallagher from Sophos X-Ops on the latest iteration in pig butchering schemes along with how AI could change the game.

Oct 4, 2023 • 43min
168. Same-Origin of the Species
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs along with the Johnson Controls #ransomware attack.

Sep 27, 2023 • 51min
167. IR You Feeling Lucky?
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the ransom attacks against MGM and Caesars Entertainment along with Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk.

Sep 20, 2023 • 52min
Voices From Infosec - Tony Robinson aka da_667
In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl and Tim Helming speak with Tony Robinson, Senior Security Researcher with the Emerging Threats team at Proofpoint. We talk about his path to #infosec, #InformationStealers, and more!

Sep 13, 2023 • 50min
166. I’m W3LL Aware of BEC Attacks
This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Group-IB’s findings on the hidden phishing ecosystem driving BEC attacks along with Microsoft’s follow-up on Storm-0558