![Merritt Baer: No one has to go down for you to go up. [CISO] [Career Notes]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/2314D040A5A2689DFF0F19F617D68766_small.jpg)
Merritt Baer: No one has to go down for you to go up. [CISO] [Career Notes]
This week our guest is Merritt Baer, a Field CISO from Lacework, and a cloud security unicorn, sits down to share her incredible story working through the ranks to get to where she is today. Before wo...
24 Sep 20237min
![Behind the Google shopping ad masks. [Research Saturday]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/2314D040A5A2689DFF0F19F617D68766_small.jpg)
Behind the Google shopping ad masks. [Research Saturday]
Maxim Zavodchik from Akamai joins Dave to discuss their research on "Xurum: New Magento Campaign Discovered." Akamai researchers have discovered an ongoing server-side template injection campaign that...
23 Sep 202314min

Enter Sandman. A look at an initial access broker. Iran’s OilRig hits Israeli targets. Cyber ops and soft power. Update on casino ransomware attacks. Bermuda’s government sustains cyberattacks.
A new APT is found: enter Sandman. Tracking an initial access broker called Gold Melody. Iran’s OilRig group is active against Israeli targets. Cyber ops as an instrument of soft power. Recovery and i...
22 Sep 202332min

Don’t get snatched. Trends in phishing, cyber insurance claims, and threats to academic institutions. Hacktivism in the hybrid war. Updates on the ICC attack. MGM says its casinos are back.
CISA and the FBI warn of Snatch ransomware. A look at phishing trends. Ransomware is increasingly cited in cyber insurance claims. Trends in cyber threats to academic institutions. A Russian hacktivis...
21 Sep 202330min

Hacking the ICC. ShroudedSnooper active, simple, and novel. New criminal malware used against Chinese-speakers. More on the materiality of cyberattacks.
The International Criminal Court reports a "cybersecurity incident." ShroudedSnooper intrusion activity is both novel and simple. Criminal malware targets Chinese-speaking victims. The costs of inside...
20 Sep 202331min

Ransomware in Colombia. An accidental data exposure. Cyberespionage hits unpatched systems. An attack on IT systems disrupts industrial production. Bots and bad actors.
Colombia continues its recovery from last week's cyberattacks. AI training data is accidentally published to GitHub. The cyberespionage techniques of Earth Lusca. Clorox blames product shortages on a ...
19 Sep 202327min

A quick look at some threats from China and North Korea, some engaged in collection, some in theft. BlackCat and other ransomware operators. And a view of cyberwar from Ukraine’s SSU.
Cyber threats trending from East Asia. The Lazarus Group is suspected in the CoinEx crypto theft. Pig butchering, enabled by cryptocurrency. BlackCat is active against Azure storage. a Ukrainian view ...
18 Sep 202327min
![Karl Mattson: Defer gratification. (CISO) [Career Notes]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/2314D040A5A2689DFF0F19F617D68766_small.jpg)
Karl Mattson: Defer gratification. (CISO) [Career Notes]
Karl Mattson, CISO at Noname Security, joins us to share his story. Having started out as a "military brat," traveling the world as the child of a Marine, Karl later joined the Army not long after hig...
17 Sep 20237min




















