Decipher Security Podcast

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. Topping the news this week, Samba patched a vulnerability that could enable remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on impacted installations. Also this week, the U.S. government launched a Cyber Safety Review Board, which will bring together private and public sector industry leaders to assess the lessons learned from “significant cybersecurity events.”

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. This week, the White House has outlined a number of cybersecurity measures that federal agencies must adopt. Also this week, an easily exploitable vulnerability in a Linux component has been patched. Finally, Jon Callas, director of technology projects with EFF, joined the Decipher podcast this week to talk about invasive data tracking and surveillance during the pandemic.

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Jon Callas, director of technology projects with EFF, talks about invasive data tracking and surveillance during the pandemic.

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. Topping the news this week, president Joe Biden signed a new National Security Memorandum that aims to better secure national security systems. Also this week, Europol announced that several law enforcement authorities dismantled a VPN service that was being utilized by cybercriminals in order to deploy ransomware. 

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Welcome to Source Code: Decipher’s behind the scenes look at the weekly news with input from our sources.  Topping the headlines this week, Microsoft researchers released details for a recently patched vulnerability in macOS. Also in the news, U.S. Cyber Command exposed a number of open-source tools that it said are being used by the MuddyWater APT.  And, researchers with Cisco Talos highlighted a phishing campaign that relied on "complex" obfuscation tactics in order to deliver three different RATs.

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Robert Hansen (aka RSnake) joins Dennis Fisher to talk about his new research on NaN injection in Python and the issues with the software supply chain.

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In a podcast discussion with Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch, Crane Hassold with Abnormal Security discusses how business email compromise attackers are getting savvier and best practices to defend against BEC attacks.

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Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch and Dennis Fisher look back on a wild year in cybersecurity and discuss the ongoing ransomware problem, the increase in zero days used in the wild, our favorite stories and podcasts of the year, and more.

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Zoe Lindsey, Pete Baker, and Dennis Fisher sit down to talk about Die Hard 2, the forgotten member of the Die Hard series, which is not a Christmas movie. It is, however, a movie with a lot of great hacking and social engineering scenes, and Bruce Willis spewing one-liners like a 1950s standup comic.

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Sherrod DeGrippo, vice president of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, talks about Emotet's return; how attackers are fine tuning their malware campaigns to be more targeted; and why "your point of view is the most valuable thing that you bring" in cybersecurity.

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