Malicious Life
Malicious Life Podcast: Tay: A Teenage Bot Gone Rogue
In March, 2016, Microsoft had something exciting to tell the world: the tech giant unveiled an AI chatbot with the personality of a teenager. Microsoft Tay, as it was nicknamed, could tweet, ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Wild West Hackin’ Fest
The Wild West Hackin’ Fest is a unique security conference - not only because it's held in South Dakota, and not only because of the Wild West visual vibe - but also ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside Operation Flyhook Part 2
To capture Alexey Ivanov and his business partner and bring them to justice, the FBI created an elaborate ruse: a fake company named Invita, complete with a fake website and a fake ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside Operation Flyhook Part 1
Alexey Ivanov was exactly the kind of person to benefit from the early-2000's dot-com boom: he was bright, talented and really knew his stuff. His only problem was the fact that he ...
Malicious Life Podcast: In Defense of the NSA
The National Security Agency is one of the world's most formidable and powerful intelligence agencies. Some people fear that the NSA’s advanced capabilities could one day be directed inwards instead of outwards ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Marcus Hutchins – A Controversial Hero
In May 2017, Marcus Hutchins - AKA MalwareTech - became a hero for stopping WannaCry, a particularly nasty ransomware that spread quickly all over the world. Yet his fame also brought to ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Operation GhostShell – An Iranian Espionage Campaign
In July 2021, Nocturnus - the Cybereason Threat Research and Intelligence team - was called to investigate an espionage campaign targeting Aerospace and Telecommunications companies globally. Their investigation resulted in the discovery ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Smart TVs – a New Security Battlefield
Smart Homes are slowly but surely becoming a part of our everyday lives, and so far it seems that Smart TVs - equipped with microphones, cameras, and an internet connection - are ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Inside the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
In some ways, cybersecurity is like art, but that’s not a good thing… The MITRE ATT&CK framework aims to make sense of the collective knowledge of the security community and share that ...
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 ...
