Podcasts – Security

Episode 100: How to Lose 6 Figures the Easy Way

January 15, 2021 by Kathy Zant

Kathy Zant

The recent SolarWinds attack was incredibly sophisticated. What happens when that level of sophistication targets a homebuyer during one of the largest transactions of their lifetime? On this episode, we tell the story of an extremely difficult-to-detect spearphishing attack that almost cost a homebuyer a significant amount. We review the…

CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace

January 13, 2021 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

Security teams are preparing for the inevitable return to the workplace - and the privacy implications of exposure notification apps that companies may need to adopt.

A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets

January 8, 2021 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

Threatpost editors discuss the SolarWinds hack, healthcare ransomware attacks and other threats that will plague enterprises in 2021.

Simplifying Proactive Defense With Threat Playbooks

December 21, 2020 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

FortiGuard Labs’ Derek Manky talks about how threat playbooks can equip defense teams with the tools they need to fight back against evolving attacker TTPs.

Episode 99: SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Affects Government and Fortune 500 Businesses

December 18, 2020 by Kathy Zant

Kathy Zant

Earlier this week, we learned that SolarWinds, the largest provider of network management tools for government and enterprise organizations fell victim to a supply chain attack. This attack affected their Orion network management system. Reportedly, 18,000 enterprise and government customers installed malware that was digitally signed by a valid certificate…

Episode 98: How Application Passwords Work in WordPress 5.6

December 11, 2020 by Ram Gall

Ram Gall

WordPress 5.6 was released this week with a new feature called application passwords. In this episode we talk about how application passwords work, where to find them in your WordPress installation, and why Wordfence decided to turn these off by default in version 7.4.14. We also talk about a new…

Cyber Monday is Every Monday: Securing the ‘New Normal’

December 10, 2020 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

From eCommerce threats, to attacks at the smart edge, Fortinet researchers discuss the top evolving threats of 2020, heading into the new year.

‘Amnesia:33’ TCP/IP Flaws Affect Millions of IoT Devices

December 8, 2020 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

A new set of vulnerabilities has been discovered affecting millions of routers and IoT and OT devices from more than 150 vendors, new research warns.

People who have WOWED us over 25 years

December 7, 2020 by Joel

Joel

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Derek Brink, CISSP, vice president and research fellow at Aberdeen Group talks to Yvonne Eskenzi about how to assess and understand risk…

Episode 97: The Future of WordPress with PHP 8 and WordPress 5.6

December 4, 2020 by Kathy Zant

Kathy Zant

With WordPress 5.6’s imminent release and the recent release of PHP 8, we talk about the rapid changes affecting the future of WordPress with new security features and new functionality available to both WordPress users and developers. We also review a recent vulnerability found by Google Project Zero researchers in…

Smart Doorbells on Amazon, eBay, Harbor Serious Security Issues

November 24, 2020 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

Matt Lewis, with NCC Group, talks to Threatpost about a slew of security and privacy issues found in smart doorbells that are being sold on Amazon and eBay.

Episode 96: Hosting Provider Failures and Incident Response Preparedness

November 20, 2020 by Ram Gall

Ram Gall

Two hosting providers experienced outages this week. GoDaddy had a brief outage affecting numerous systems on Tuesday, November 17. Managed.com had an extensive outage due to ransomware that affected all systems. We discuss what types of incident response preparations site owners should consider when events beyond their control occur. We…

People who have WOWED us over 25 years

November 19, 2020 by Joel

Joel

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Episode 6: In this instalment, Yvonne speaks with Amichai Shulman, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Imperva. Amichai is known as the cyber…

Cybercriminals Batter Automakers With Ransomware, IP Theft Cyberattacks

November 19, 2020 by Lindsey O'Donnell

Lindsey O'Donnell

While the industry focus is on vehicle hacking, when it comes to the automotive industry cybercriminals are opting for less complex and sophisticated attacks - from phishing to ransomware.

Episode 95: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Affect Over 100K WordPress Sites

November 13, 2020 by Kathy Zant

Kathy Zant

Three critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Ultimate Member plugin put over 100,000 sites at risk. We also talk about the Page Experience metric to be added as a ranking signal for Google search in May 2021 and what this means for WordPress sites using page builders or Gutenberg. Microsoft…

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