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This is a special joint webcast from the teams of Black Hills Information Security, Wild West Hackin’ Fest, and Active Countermeasures, presented by John Strand.  In this webcast, we cover […]

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We’ve been having a problem with people that want to play with Security Onion or RITA at home. If a home router does not have a mirror port it can […]

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Originally Aired on July 12, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: 00:00 – BHIS | Talkin’ Bout News 2021-07-12 01:56 – Story # 1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/biden-asks-putin-to-crack-down-on-russian-based-ransomware-gangs/ 03:09 – Russia’s R.A.R.E. Program […]

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Originally Aired on July 6, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: 00:00 – BHIS | Talkin’ Bout News 2021-07-06 02:32 – Story # 1 – CISA self-assessment audit tool – […]

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Originally Aired on June 1, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: 00:00 – PreShow Banter™ — Fishing Attacks 02:40 – Story 1: https://m1racles.com/ 05:33 – Story 2: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/vulnerability-in-vmware-product-has-severity-rating-of-9-8-out-of-10/ 11:26 – […]

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There has been a huge explosion of different free and open-source options for EDR in the security space. Which is nice because the commercial offerings are stupid expensive. In this […]

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This is a joint emergency webcast from the teams of Black Hills Information Security, Wild West Hackin’ Fest, and Active Countermeasures, presented by John Strand. There have been a couple […]

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Originally Aired on May 3, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://threatpost.com/deepfake-attacks-surge-experts-warn/165798/ https://threatpost.com/linux-kernel-bug-wider-cyberattacks/165640/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/n36x7h/arbitrary_code_execution_in_exiftool/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experians-credit-freeze-security-is-still-a-joke/ https://github.com/alievk/avatarify-python https://media.ccc.de/v/29c3-5327-en-writing_a_thumbdrive_from_scratch_h264

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Originally Aired on April 19, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22382821/fbi-doj-hafnium-remote-access-removal-hack https://apnews.com/article/russia-safe-harbor-ransomeware-hacking-c9dab7eb3841be45dff2d93ed3102999 https://threatpost.com/critical-cloud-bug-vmware-carbon-black/165278/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/18/22390379/federal-investigators-breach-software-codecov-solarwinds https://threatpost.com/google-project-zero-cuts-bug-disclosure-timeline-to-a-30-day-grace-period/165432/

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Originally Aired on March 22, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://threatpost.com/google-spectre-poc-exploit-chrome/164787/ https://threatpost.com/office-365-phishing-attack-financial-execs/164925/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/weleakinfo-leaked-customer-payment-info/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/critics-fume-after-github-removes-exploit-code-for-exchange-vulnerabilities/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/expert-hackers-used-11-zerodays-to-infect-windows-ios-and-android-users/

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The Livestream of our first Backdoors & Breaches (B&B) session using our new Tabletop Simulator (TTS) version of the game was a success! If you have STEAM / TABLETOP SIMULATOR […]

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It is another year for the Sacred Cash Cow Tipping Webcast. For those of you who are new to our email list within the past year, this is a webcast […]

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Originally Aired on March 8, 2021

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Originally Aired on March 1, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://threatpost.com/yeezy-sneaker-bots-boost-sun/164312/ https://www.darknet.org.uk/2021/02/gitlab-watchman-audit-gitlab-for-sensitive-data-credentials/ https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-data-breach-ddosecrets/ https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/hunting-azure-blobs-exposes-millions-of-sensitive-files https://github.com/cyberark/blobhunter

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Originally Aired on February 24, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/government-and-defense/fireeye-and-microsoft-execs-senators-dissect-mandatory-breach-disclosure-in-wake-of-solarwinds/ https://www.wired.com/story/russia-gru-hackers-us-grid/

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Originally Aired on February 22, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-cybercrime-pfizer-idUKKBN2AG0NI https://threatpost.com/silver-sparrow-malware-30k-macs/164121/ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-hackers-cloned-equation-group-exploit-years-shadow-brokers-leak

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