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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
Tod Beardsley, VP of security research at runZero and former KEV section chief at CISA, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the evolution of the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, how much value defenders should place on a specific bug being in the KEV, and his new KEVology report that breaks down all of the data […]
This week Lindsey rejoins Dennis to talk about the attacks targeting a zero day in Cisco’s Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (2:17), Google’s disruption of a China-linked cyber espionage campaign targeting telecom infrastructure (6:30), and the new cyber developments on everyone’s favorite tech show, The Pitt (13:13)!
Cisco released software updates on Feb. 25 to fix the vulnerability, which affects both on-premises and cloud deployments of the Catalyst SD-WAN Controller.
This campaign is an offshoot of the more familiar and pervasive fake job interview and phony tech worker scams that have been coming from North Korea for several years.
It’s a light news week, but we have some fun content for you! This week, we talk about our latest hacker movie episode–STAR WARS–which is up on the site and all of our feeds now (0:25), then we dig into a nasty hard-coded. credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines that Chinese threat actors are exploiting […]
STAR WARS isn’t just one of the ore successful and iconic movies of all time and the basis for a worldwide sci-fi empire, it’s also a true hacker story. Wade Baker and Rich Mogull, two Star Wars scholars, join Dennis Fisher to break down the Empire’s pathetic perimeter defenses, R2D2’s arc as a wily hacker, […]
