Decipher Security Podcast

Welcome to the Source Code podcast by Decipher, where we take a look behind the scenes at top news with input from our sources. This week, researchers disclosed a set of seven vulnerabilities in PTC’s Axeda platform, which is preinstalled on connected devices, particularly in the healthcare industry. In other news, researchers detailed three flaws that affect APC SmartConnect and Smart-UPS devices, which are used to supply constant power to many types of network devices,

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Runa Sandvik discusses her work helping journalists to secure their devices and how more newsrooms are recognizing the need for better cybersecurity measures. 

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. In this week’s podcast, security experts discuss a new type of distributed denial-of-service attack technique; as well as the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, which was recently passed by the Senate.

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Mike Hanley, CSO at GitHub and former VP of security at Duo Security, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the open source security summit at the White House, the Log4j response, and how the tech industry can support the open source community.

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. Researchers this week uncovered similarities in the code of the Dridex malware and Entropy ransomware. In other news, Nitin Natarajan, deputy director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), talked to Decipher this week about the agency’s top initiatives.

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Nitin Natarajan, deputy director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), talks about how the agency is tackling various emerging security challenges more effectively.

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. Topping the news this week, CISA is requiring federal agencies to patch actively exploited vulnerabilities in Google Chrome and the Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms. Also this week, the FBI warned of U.S. critical infrastructure compromises by the BlackByte ransomware group.

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Chris Eng of Veracode joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the company's new State of Software Security report and what's driving the increase in enterprises scanning their apps for vulnerabilities. 

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. Topping the news this week, Microsoft plans to block macros obtained from the internet by default for several Office applications, including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. Also this week,  the U.S., UK, and Australia released a joint security advisory that showcased how ransomware attacks became an increased globalized threat in 2021.

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Allan Liska, intelligence analyst with Recorded Future, discusses the challenges that organizations face in implementing security measures to protect against ransomware, and how ransomware actors are evolving their tactics, services-for-hire models and victimology.

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