Malicious Life Podcast: Creating BSides – A Grassroots Security Conference
Security BSides - or just 'BSides' for those in the know - is the first grassroots, DIY, open security conference in the world, and has grown to more than 650 events in more than 50 countries ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: China’s Unrestricted Cyberwarfare Part 1
Back in the 1990s, cyberwarfare was a word rarely used in the West - and definitely unheard of in China, which was just taking its first steps on the Internet. Two Chinese military officers, veterans of the semi-conflict with Taiwan, helped shape the role of cyber in modern warfare in ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Can Nuclear Power Plants Be Hacked?
Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions, dives into cybersecurity challenges for Nuclear facilities - how secure are modern nuclear power plants from cyber attacks? Check it out ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Shutting Down the Internet in 30 Minutes
Chris Wysopal (aka WeldPond), cybersecurity pioneer and one of L0pht's founding members, talks about the group's 1998 testimony in the Senate, how they used shaming to force corporations to secure their software, and the (not so fortunate) consequences of the acquisition by @stake - check it out ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Story of LØpht Heavy Industries, Part 2
In the early days, the L0pht crew tinkered with technology they already had laying around or could find dumpster-diving. But things change, of course. By the end of the ‘90s many of the L0pht hackers had quit their day jobs and incorporated under the name “L0pht Heavy Industries” while moving ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Story of L0pht Heavy Industries, Part 1
'L0pht', or 'L0pht Heavy Industries' was one of the most influential hacker collectives of the '90s: its members were even invited to testify in front of the Congress on the current state of Internet security ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside the HAFNIUM Microsoft Exchange Attacks
The recent HAFNIUM attacks hit tens of thousands of organizations’ Microsoft Exchange servers around the globe. Now, an array of other threat actors are leveraging the residual webshells on victim systems to launch new attacks against organizations who thought patching the Microsoft vulnerabilities would have been enough to be protected ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside NotPetya, Part 2
Many of you may have already heard of Amit Serper: he was the first researcher to tackle NotPetya and provide a solution when he was Principal Security Researcher at Cybereason back in 2017 ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside NotPetya, Part 1
On June 28th, 2017, millions of Ukrainians were celebrating Constitution Day. Their national holiday turned into a nightmare, as tens of thousands of computers all over the country were infected by mysterious malware. By that afternoon, the cyber-pandemic was already going global ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside NotPetya, Part 1
On June 28th, 2017, millions of Ukrainians were celebrating Constitution Day. Their national holiday turned into a nightmare, as tens of thousands of computers all over the country were infected by mysterious malware. By that afternoon, the cyber-pandemic was already going global ... Read More
