Mark Watney: Space Hacker
Wendy Nather joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the nutrient-rich narrative soil that produced a modern classic that truly epitomizes the hacker ethos. We are the greatest podcasters on Mars!
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Fancy Tools From Fancy Bear, Another Proxy Network Takedown, and A Look Ahead
This week’s news includes a reappearance by an old favorite, APT28, aka Fancy Bear, which is back with some nasty new implants and tools it is deploying against targets in Ukraine (2:10), and we also have another law enforcement disruption of a residential proxy network, this one known as SocksEscort, which had victims all over […]
The Zero Day Landscape, Tycoon 2FA Disruption, and KEVology
Every day is zero day, and this week we talked about the new Google Threat Intelligence Group report on the zero day exploit landscape in 2025 (2:22) and who’s exploiting what, then we discuss Microsoft’s disruption of the Tycoon 2FA cybercrime operation (9:51), and finally we talk about the KEVology report from runZero and our […]
Cisco SD-WAN Zero Day, Google Disrupts Chinese Campaign, and More Cyber on The Pitt
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)!
China Targets Dell Flaw, New Ivanti Exploitation, and Cyber Shenanigans on The Pitt!
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 […]
Six Zero Days From Microsoft, One From Apple, and a CSI: Cyber Throwback
This week was a cornucopia of zero days. We talk about the six (!) actively exploited vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched this week in its February update (2:46), then we discuss the one that Apple fixed in iOS 26.3, a vulnerability that has been used in what the company calls an “extremely sophisticated attack” against a few individuals (7:24). […]