Breaking Badness

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Peter Lowe joins Kali Fencl and Daniel Schwalbe for this edition of Voices from Infosec! We discuss Peter’s background, AI, its progress, and where we think it’s headed, informed consent on the Internet, and some of Peter’s interests outside of cybersecurity.

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss telekopye and online marketplace scams along with NIST’s publication of the first draft standards for post-quantum cryptography. Listen here:

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the Downfall Intel CPU vulnerability along with MoustachedBouncer’s espionage against Belarus.

Upcoming comic book author and cyber insurance investigator, Allan Liska, discusses his passion project of a cybersecurity comic book. They also talk about their love for comic books, movie watch alongs, unique film recommendations, and the appeal of the cyber security insurance investigator character, Johnny Dollar. A cyber council meeting sparks a hilarious discussion about a movie concept featuring a ransomware negotiator, and they brainstorm catchy titles for the film. The conversation also includes lighthearted discussions on naming ransomware gangs, creating a Kickstarter project, and previous Christmas card anecdotes.

In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl and Tim Helming speak with none other than Tracy Maleeff (aka InfoSec Sherpa!) We’re excited to share our conversation on her background, empathy in infosec, industry myths she’d like to bust, and more!