Breaking Badness

On this week's episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the new Fortigate firmware updates along with Brian Krebs article on replacing Barracuda hardware.

This week Tim Helming, Sean McNee, and guest researcher Sasha Angus discuss the most prolific ransomware families and share cybersecurity gold, guidance, and grievances.

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Kelly Molloy, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a pandemic catfishing scam along with Eclypsium’s detection of backdoor behavior from Gigabyte systems.

We've made it to the final installment of our Stronger Together Mini-Series! In this episode, you'll hear from folks at DomainTools including CEO Tim Chen, veteran podcaster Daniel Schwalbe, and more!

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss Kim Zetter’s work on the SolarWinds investigation along with the Senate’s hearing on AI regulation.

We’ve made it to the third installment of our Stronger Together Mini Series! In this episode we’re joined by researchers, threat analysts, and C-Suites including Katie Nickels from Red Canary and the SANS Institute, Don Jeter from Torq, Ben April from Maltego, Lesley Carhart from Dragos, and Jeff Stout from Akamai. We have some great discussions on the pros and cons of AI, protecting industrial control systems, imposter syndrome, and more.

Welcome to episode number two of our Breaking Badness Mini-Series: Stronger Together! We hope you had a chance to check out last week’s episode of our conversation with Allan Liska. This week we’re going to be hearing from Jamie Williams, Jon DiMaggio, Corey Thuen, and Renee Burton as we continue to focus on RSA’s 2023 theme: Stronger Together. We cover a lot of ground in these interviews, but the theme we keep coming back to is how we can take our individual specialities and come together to give bad actors more bad days.

In this episode for the Stronger Together Mini-Series, we are joined by Allan Liska, Ransomware Researcher at Recorded Future. We sat down (or rather, stood and leaned against a wall away from noise) to discuss his path to infosec, interesting talks at RSA, liberal arts and cybersecurity, a pending passion project, and general geeking out over DNS.

In this special Mini-Series, Breaking Badness goes on the road to RSA to talk to researchers, intelligence analysts, security advocates, VPs, and C-suites on how we can come together in the industry to give bad actors more bad days.

This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Travis Hall discuss neurodiversity in cybersecurity including their own experiences, advice for managers, and neurodivergent Employee Resource Groups.

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Aaron Gee-Clough discuss the 5 pillars of the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy.

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco Talos’ Ukraine task unit one year into the Ukraine/Russia conflict along with the Google Pixel and Windows 11 uncropping bugs

This week on Breaking Badness, Kelsey LaBelle, Daniel Schwalbe, and Tim Helming discuss the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. We’ll dive into what we’ve been seeing on our end, predictions on what we may see from bad actors, and practical advice for moving forward.

The 150th celebration of Breaking Badness continues this week for Part II! We’re talking to Daniel Schwalbe, Sean McNee, Aaron Gee-Clough, and Kelly Molloy about their paths to infosec favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.

We’re celebrating 150 episodes of Breaking Badness! Join us for Part I of a 2 week extravaganza! We’re talking to Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Ian Campbell this week on their paths to infosec, favorite pod memories, and interests outside of work.

Oooh it’s the last episode of Breaking Badness before the big 150! This week Kelsey LaBelle, Daniel Schwalbe, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the rise of phishing as a service along with a discussion on how mental health data is obtained via third parties.

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Ian Campbell, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce get out the

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss malvertising using Google Ads along with ProofPoint’s recent research on use of Microsoft OneNote for delivering malware

This week Kelsey LaBelle, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the FBI takedown of the Hive ransomware variant along with insights from the 2022 GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team ransomware report.

This week on Breaking Badness we've got a Special Report. We're talking to Champ Clark III and Steven Drenning-Blalock from Quadrant Security about a re-emergence of the Black Basta ransomware group. Plus—we’ll get their Gold, Guidance and Grievances.