Malicious Life Podcast: Should the U.S. Ban Chinese and Russian Technology?
Every year, seemingly, there’s a new story of some software like 'Tik Tok' or 'FaceApp' from a hostile country that may or may not be a security threat to us in the West. So what should be done in cases like this? What if the U.S. just banned all technology ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Jack Rhysider and the Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider's show Darknet Diaries is the most popular cybersecurity podcast around - and one of the most successful tech podcasts in the US in general. We spoke with Jack about the origins of Darknet Diaries, his heroes and role models, and the effect the show’s success has had on ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Tesla Hack
It's every company's nightmare: a mysterious stranger approached an employee of Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada, and offered him 1 million dollars to do a very simple job - insert a malware-laden USB flash drive into a computer in the company and keep it running for 8 hours - check it ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Understanding China’s Cyber Culture
Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Bill Hagestad examines how China's culture and troubled history of western colonialism influenced its government views and actions regarding the global internet and its interactions with western technology companies such as Google and Nortel - check it out ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Times of John McAfee
What do you get when you take a gun-toting cybersecurity pioneer and add some drugs and a serious amount of money to the mix? You get a life so bizarre, so unbelievably extreme that people will tell your story long after you’re long gone. It's all part of John McAfee's ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: Ten Years On – Are We Doing Security Right?
The company's leadership knew they had been breached in a sophisticated APT-style attack, but it was unknown whether the attackers had gained access to the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt sensitive client data. It was March of 2011, and security vendor RSA was the target of an attack that compromised ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: DeadRinger – Exposing Chinese APTs Targeting Major Telcos
Cybereason recently discovered several previously unidentified attack campaigns targeting the telecoms industry across Southeast Asia that are assessed to be the work of multiple Chinese APT groups. The attacks are detailed in the threat intelligence report titled DeadRinger: Exposing Chinese Threat Actors Targeting Major Telcos ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Jester – Hacktivist for Good
The Jester is a patriotic, pro-American Hacktivist that since 2010 has waged a personal cyberwar against an array of targets he considers to be “the bad guys.” But detractors have insinuated that some of the Jester's operations were little more than internet sleight-of-hand. So, who is The Jester and what ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The State of Credit Card Security
In 2005, when Albert Gonzalez was hacking his way into the networks of many retail chains in the US (listen to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), credit cards were still very insecure: magnetic stripes and signed receipts did little to stop smart hackers such as Gonzalez and his ... Read More
Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 3
In this third installment of the series (Part 1, Part 2), we come back to the story in early 2007 when a Secret Service agent operating out of San Diego takes a flight halfway across the world. He’s going to meet with Europe’s most prolific stolen credit card salesman. It ... Read More
