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Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger, getting the specs on the cyber SPAC. [update]

In this special edition, our extended conversation with Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger from their new company SCVX. Both experienced investors, their plan is to bring a new funding mechanism known as a...

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Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger, getting the specs on the cyber SPAC. [Special...

In this special edition, our extended conversation with Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger from their new company SCVX. Both experienced investors, their plan is to bring a new funding mechanism known as a...

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Dr. Jessica Barker: Cybersecurity has a huge people element to it....

Co-founder and socio-technical lead at Cygenta, Dr. Jessica Barker, shares her story from childhood career aspirations of becoming a farmer to her accidental pivot to working in cybersecurity. With a...

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Using the human body as a wire-like communication channel. [Research Saturday]

Guest Dr. Shreyas Sen, a Perdue University associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins us to discuss the following scenario:. Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone...

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Alleged hardware backdoors, again. Selling game source code. ICS security,...

Bloomberg revives its reporting on hardware backdoors on chipsets. Has someone bought the source code for the Witcher and Cyberpunk? CISA issues ICS alerts. The FBI and CISA offer advice about water...

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Spyware in the Subcontinent. Notes on cyber fraud, cyber theft, and...

Spyware in the Subcontinent. Some crooks auction stolen game source code while others bilk food delivery services. Emotet survived its takedown. Ransomware developments. The US now has a point person...

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Paying for the bomb the 21st century way. Domestic Kitten’s international...

What’s North Korea doing with all that money the Lazarus Group steals? Buying atom bombs, apparently. Iran’s Domestic Kitten is scratching at some international surveillance targets. Not everyone who...

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Almost too much lye in the water, down Florida-way. BlackTech’s new malware...

Florida water treatment plant sustains cyberattack: the hack was successful, the sabotage wasn’t. A new malware strain is associated with Chinese intelligence services. Ben Yelin tracks a surveillance...

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A junta shuts down a nation’s data networks. Lessons from multi-domain ops...

Myanmar blocks data networks. Notes on offensive cyber operations, from present and former Five Eyes officials. SilentFade seems to be back, with more ad fraud. Iranian cyber operators up their...

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Jason Clark: Challenge the way things are done. [Strategy] [Career Notes]

Chief strategy officer and chief security officer for Netskope, Jason Clark, shares his journey as he challenges the status quo and works to expand diversity in cybersecurity. Jason started his career...

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In the clear: what it's like working as a woman in the cleared community....

This special edition podcast highlights three women, Priyanka, Ashley and Lauren, who chose to focus their careers in cybersecurity for the mission-based organization Northrop Grumman. Kathleen Smith...

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"Follow the money" the cybersecurity way. [Research Saturday]

Guest Joe Slowik joins us from Domain Tools to share their research "Current Events to Widespread Campaigns: Pivoting from Samples to Identify Activity" where they examined technical artifacts emerging...

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Lazarus Group seems to have deployed an IE zero day. Electrobras discloses...

Lazarus Group seems to have had an IE zero day. Brazilian power utility discloses a ransomware attack on business systems. TrickBot’s back. Automated attacks are going after web applications. Two...

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Kubernetes clusters attacked. Home insecurity devices. Update on the supply...

Hildegard malware is targeting Kubernetes clusters. Remote access flaws found in consumer security devices. A brief update on the spreading software supply chain incidents. Project Zero sees incomplete...

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China gets in on the SolarWinds act. More SolarWinds vulnerabilities...

It appears Chinese intelligence services have been exploiting a vulnerability in SolarWinds to steal data from a US Government payroll system. The presumed Russian intrusion into SolarWinds may have...

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Coups d’état and Internet disruption. Cyberespionage in the supply chain,...

Myanmar’s junta jams the Internet. Operation NightScout looks like a highly targeted cyberespionage campaign delivered through a compromised supply chain. SonicWall zero day is being actively exploited...

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Solorigate: targeting, collateral damage, or staging? The Cyberspace Solarium...

Untangling Solorigate, and distinguishing primary targets from collateral damage (or maybe side benefits, or maybe battlespace preparation). Congress asks NSA for background on an earlier supply chain...

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Kyla Guru: You are a key piece to our national security. [Education] [Career...

Founder and CEO of nonprofit Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education and undergraduate student at Stanford University, Kyla Guru shares her journey from GenCyber Camp to becoming a cybersecurity thought...

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Security platforms vs best of breed point products: What should you deploy?...

For 20 years, the cybersecurity practitioner’s goto move when confronted with a new risk or compliance requirement has been to install a technical tool somewhere in the security stack to cover it. Over...

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The Kimsuky group from North Korea expands spyware, malware and...

Guest Yonatan Striem-Amit joins us from Cybereason to share their Nocturnus Team research into Kimsuky. The Cybereason Nocturnus Team has been tracking various North Korean threat actors, among them...

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