It’s All Just Electrons: The Enduring Legacy of Sneakers
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons."
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"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons."
In the wake of the disclosure of a serious intrusion at F5 that reportedly lasted about a year, we talk about the details of the disclosure, the potential link to Chinese state actors, the fallout from the attackers’ access to source code and bug reports, and what this could mean in the long term.
This week brings some new insights into the origins and length of the Cl0p extortion attacks tied to the Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability, big surges in scanning for Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Fortinet devices, and a huge upgrade to Apple bug bounty payouts.
Dennis and Lindsey dissect a busy week in security news, starting with the Cl0p group’s extortion campaign against Oracle customers (3:24), then moving into the Crimson Collective’s claimed breach of some of Red Hat GitLab’s repos (12:41), and finally the consequences of the expiration of th CISA legislation and de-funding of the MS-ISAC (22:46). We also […]
On the 30th anniversary of the release of Hackers, we are resurfacing this episode of our podcast from 2021 in which Zoe Lindsey and Pete Baker joined Dennis Fisher to talk about the cultural influence of the movie