Why WarGames is Still Predicting the Future 40 Years Later
WarGames may be 42 years old but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever
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AI Attack and Defense With Adam Meyers and Elia Zaitsev of CrowdStrike
Have you heard about this AI thing? It’s wild. Turns out, attackers are using it for all kinds of things we’d rather not have them doing. Dennis Fisher is joined by two experts from CrowdStrike–Adam Meyers, head of counter adversary operations, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO–to talk about how both defenders and attackers are leveraging AI […]
The Hacker Movie Canon: WarGames
What you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination. WarGames may be 42 years old (!) but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever. Dennis Fisher, Lindsey O-Donnell-Welch, Zoe Lindsey, and Pete Baker sit down in front […]
The Hacker Movie Canon: 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. Daniel Cuthbert joins Dennis Fisher to dive into an all-tiime, undisputed hacker movie classic, the 1992 masterpiece, Sneakers. We dissect the movie’s genesis, its technical accuracy and prescience, and discuss […]
New Targeted Phishing Attack Trends With Adam Bateman of Push Security
Adam Bateman, co-founder and CEO of Push Security, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about a new, highly targeted phishing campaign the company uncovered that uses compromised LinkedIn accounts.
The Salesloft Drift Fallout and SBOM Guidance From CISA and NSA
Dennis and Lindsey talk through the continuing fallout of the Salesloft Drift incident (2:05) in light of the disclosure of several new companies that are involved, including Cloudflare, which published an excellent post-mortem on the intrusion. Then they discuss the new Shared Vision of SBOM for Cybersecurity published by CISA, NSA, and many foreign government […]