Decipher Security Podcast

Decipher

Every week, Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch, the editors of Decipher, bring you exclusive, in-depth conversations with security researchers, CISOs, founders, and security experts to hellp you understand the threat landscape and better protect your organizations.

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Oct 5, 2022 · 52 min
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Dennis Fisher talks with Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, senior director at SentinelLabs, about the investigation into the new Metador APT group that he and his colleagues unveiled at LabsCon recently. Support the show
Sep 30, 2022 · 6 min
Source Code 9/30
Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly security news podcast. This week, we discuss a new Chaos malware family, a phishing campaign that delivers trojanized versions of legitimate open source applications and novel backdoors being installed on VMware ESXi servers. Support the show
Sep 23, 2022 · 6 min
Source Code 9/23
Welcome to Source Code: Decipher's behind-the-scenes look at the weekly news with input from our sources. In this week's podcast, we talk to Mark Montgomery with CSC 2.0 about a progress report on the government's implementation of the Cyber Solarium Commission's recommendations, and to Brigid O Gorman with Symantec about research on recent Noberus/ BlackCat ransomware updates. Support the show
Sep 21, 2022 · 15 min
Asheer Malhotra and Guilherme Venere
Dennis Fisher talks with Asheer Malhotra and Guilherme Venere of Cisco Talos about the group's new research on the Gamaredon APT group, which has been targeting Ukrainian organizations in a new campaign. Support the show
Sep 19, 2022 · 24 min
Hack-a-Sat 2022
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. Support the show
Sep 16, 2022 · 6 min
Source Code 9/16
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. Support the show
Sep 11, 2022 · 51 min
Sneakers at 30
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. Support the show
Sep 9, 2022 · 6 min
Source Code 9/9
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. Support the show
Sep 6, 2022 · 36 min
Meg Gardiner on Heat 2
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. Support the show
Sep 2, 2022 · 5 min
Source Code 9/2
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. Support the show
Aug 19, 2022 · 6 min
Source Code 8/19
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. Support the show
Aug 18, 2022 · 42 min
Chester Wisniewski and Peter Mackenzie
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. Support the show
Aug 12, 2022 · 5 min
Source Code 8/12
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. Support the show
Aug 8, 2022 · 37 min
Megan Stifel
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. Support the show
Aug 5, 2022 · 8 min
Source Code 8/5
Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news podcast with input from our sources. In this week's Source Code podcast, security experts discuss a critical VMware authentication bypass bug and a new attack framework called Manjusaka. Support the show
Jul 29, 2022 · 5 min
Source Code 7/29
In this week's Source Code podcast, Decipher discusses a reissued Security Directive from the TSA, new Microsoft research and a hearing with the House Select Committee on Intelligence about cyber mercenary groups, and an actively exploited Atlassian Confluence bug. Support the show
Jul 28, 2022 · 39 min
Sean Zadig
Sean Zadig, CISO of Yahoo and head of the Paranoids, talks with Dennis Fisher about his start in the security field, protecting a massive user base, and thinking about security critically. Support the show
Jul 22, 2022 · 5 min
Source Code 7/22
Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly security news podcast with input from our sources. In this week's podcast, Decipher goes over a previously unknown macOS backdoor and an announcement by the Department of Justice that it had disrupted the activities of a North Korean state-sponsored group. Support the show
Jul 19, 2022 · 37 min
Mark Arena
Mark Arena, CEO of Intel 471, joins the Decipher podcast to talk about the journey behind founding Intel 471 in 2014 and how cybercrime has evolved over the past few years. Support the show
Jul 15, 2022 · 9 min
Source Code 7/15
Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources. In this week’s podcast, we go over an actively exploited vulnerability disclosed during Patch Tuesday, a Cyber Safety Review Board report that gives new details about the Log4j flaw and research that sheds light on how the ransomware ecosystem is evolving. Support the show