Synopsis
Where timely and relevant security news meets ninja jokes and sit down comedy. Our goal is to keep network defenders apprised of pertinent news and trends in under thirty minutes.
Episodes
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173. How To Eat Fried Sandworms
15/11/2023 Duration: 46minThis 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.
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172. SolarWinds of Change
08/11/2023 Duration: 54minThis 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.
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171. The Fancy Bear Necessities
01/11/2023 Duration: 57minThis 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.
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169. DDoSawson’s Creek
18/10/2023 Duration: 46minThis week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss curl 8.4.0 along with one of the biggest DDoSes of all time.
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[Special Report] Two Seans, a Tim, and a Pig Butchering Ring
11/10/2023 Duration: 55minThis 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.
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168. Same-Origin of the Species
04/10/2023 Duration: 42minThis 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.
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167. IR You Feeling Lucky?
27/09/2023 Duration: 51minThis week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the ransom attacks against MGM and Caesars Entertainment along with Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk.
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Voices From Infosec - Tony Robinson aka da_667
20/09/2023 Duration: 51minIn 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!
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166. I’m W3LL Aware of BEC Attacks
13/09/2023 Duration: 50min166. I’m W3LL Aware of BEC Attacks by DomainTools
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Voices From Infosec - Peter Lowe
06/09/2023 Duration: 01h04minPeter 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.
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165. Gorillas in the NIST
30/08/2023 Duration: 51minThis 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:
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164. In Da NightClub Malware
23/08/2023 Duration: 54minThis week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the Downfall Intel CPU vulnerability along with MoustachedBouncer’s espionage against Belarus.
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[Bonus Episode] Voices from Infosec - Allan Liska Returns!
16/08/2023 Duration: 50minA second week of Breaking Badness with a special guest?
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[Bonus Episode] Voices from Infosec with Tracy Maleeff
09/08/2023 Duration: 42minIn 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!
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163. Phisherman's Wharf
02/08/2023 Duration: 57minThis week on the pod, Kali Fencl, Daniel Schwalbe, and Ian Campbell discuss Cisco Talos' blog on what authentication attacks might look like in a phishing-resistant future along with the SEC’s approval of new cyber reporting regulations for public companies
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162. Animal Bot Farm
26/07/2023 Duration: 49minThis week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the investigation of Storm-0558 along with Ukraine’s most recent takedown of a massive bot farm.
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161. The Early Bird Gets the WormGPT
19/07/2023 Duration: 54minMath puns abound in episode 161 of Breaking Badness! But Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce do manage to discuss Daniel Kelley’s blog on how AI is revolutionizing BEC attacks along with details of the national #cybersecurity strategy.
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160. Legends of the Hidden Data
12/07/2023 Duration: 50minThis week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss France’s pending phone monitoring bill along with Nickelodeon’s recent data breach (includes a healthy dose of 90s nostalgia!)
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159. Do or Do Not…There is No Triangulation
28/06/2023 Duration: 53minThis week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the new variant of the Mirai botnet along with Graham Cluley’s article on zero-day flaws used in spy attacks against Kaspersky.