Mark Werremeyer and Bryce Kerley join Dennis Fisher to talk about this year's Hack-a-Sat capture the flag competition, how the challenges have evolved since last year, and how the competition helps players build their hacking skills. 

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. This week we discuss Microsoft’s patch Tuesday security release, new guidance from the Biden administration that requires federal agencies to use software developed using secure practices, and the charges by the DoJ against three Iranian nationals for allegedly hacking hundreds of victims.

Dennis Fisher, Zoe Lindsey, Pete Baker, and Casey Ellis convene to honor the 30th anniversary of the release of Sneakers, the greatest hacker movie ever made, and discuss its legacy, popularity in the hacker community, and why it still holds up today. 

Welcome back to Decipher's Source Code news wrap podcast. Topping the news this week, Albania’s prime minister has blamed Iran for a major cyberattack two months ago that took down parts of the country’s national infrastructure. Also this week, researchers detailed Iranian state-sponsored group APT42 and the software control panel used by the well-known TA505 financial threat group in order to manage its ServHelper malware.

Dennis Fisher talks with Meg Gardiner, the coauthor of Heat 2, the bestselling sequel and prequel to Heat, the greatest crime movie ever made. They discuss the infosec and hacking subplot of the novel, where that idea came from, and how the research into the hacking scene worked. 

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. This week, we discuss a recent FTC lawsuit against a data broker,  a bug bounty program from Google aimed at securing open source software projects, and a recent campaign from a known China-based espionage actor.

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s news wrap podcast that includes input from our sources. Topping the news this week, the Zero Day Initiative announced it was changing its disclosure policy for ineffective patches. In other news, CISA warned that attackers are exploiting multiple flaws that impact Zimbra’s Collaboration Suite. Finally, a recent report highlighted an uptick in organizations being hit by two or more threat actors in recent months.

Peter Mackenzie, director of incident response at Sophos, and Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at Sophos, join the Decipher podcast to talk about why more ransomware attackers are clustering onto vulnerable networks - sometimes simultaneously. 

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources. This week, the U.S. government announced sanctions against the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer. In other news, Black Hat kicked off with keynotes from former CISA director Chris Krebs and investigative journalist Kim Zetter.

Megan Stifel, the chief strategy officer at the Institute for Security and Technology and co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force, talks about how cyber policy has evolved over time and the Ransomware Task Force’s new Blueprint for Ransomware Defense for small and medium-sized businesses.