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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! This week, Chris and Grant discuss the potential cybersecurity implications of the new administration, the sudden (but unsurprising) rise of DeepSeek, and several trending threats. Watch the episode here.
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https://app.beta.fletch.ai/p/CVE-2024-12857
https://app.beta.fletch.ai/p/CVE-2024-52320
https://app.beta.fletch.ai/p/CVE-2025-24085
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! This week, Chris and Grant discuss strategies of MSSPs, threats targeting the healthcare industry, and how a renaissance in the language we use in cybersecurity is long overdue.
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! This week Chris is joined by Grant Wernick, CEO and Founder of Fletch, to discuss a new way of predicting cyber threats that is radically shifting how cybersecurity is done. We also discuss several trending threats that you need to know about.
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! This week Chris is joined by Grant Wernick, CEO and Founder of Fletch, to discuss a new way of predicting cyber threats that is radically shifting how cybersecurity is done. We also discuss several trending threats that you need to know about.
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! In this special year-end episode, Darien and Chris get down to the brass tacks of what went down in cybersecurity this year.
From the tactics that made practitioners lose sleep, to the most targeted industries in 2023, to looking towards technology that will drastically alter cybersecurity in 2024 and beyond. This episode’s discussion is the perfect way to close out the wild ride that was cybersecurity in 2023.
We also discuss three trending threats that you need to know about.
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! In this episode, we're joined by Michael Coates, CISO and VP of Engineering at CoinList, a token distribution platform that helps launch new crypto assets.
Michael is a cybersecurity executive, startup founder, and investor/advisor to emerging cybersecurity startups. With over 20 years of experience, he has held pivotal roles in some of the world's most prominent companies, such as CISO of Twitter and Head of Security at Mozilla.
Beyond his corporate achievements, Michael is also a thought leader in the cybersecurity community. He's frequently invited to speak at industry conferences, webinars, and educational programs, where he shares insights on security management, and the future of cybersecurity.
We discuss how businesses can safely transact with cryptocurrency, the need for security technology to be better and lift the burden of ransomware off of non-security people, and more.
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Welcome to The Threat Show, powered by Fletch! In this episode, we're joined by Leon DuPree, a consultant with the heart of a teacher.
Throughout his career, Leon has worked with larger consulting firms, such as Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers, holding positions such as Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Systems Manager, Lead Consultant, Senior Security Architect & Auditor. He’s also a published security author in the cloud security and the healthcare space.
We discuss the importance of strong organizational cultures, knowing how to communicate complex cybersecurity issues, and more.
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This week, we're joined by Andrew Peterson, Co-founder of Aviso Ventures, a seed venture capital fund investing in the next generation. Prior to Aviso, Andrew was CEO and Co-Founder of Signal Sciences.
He is a celebrated figure in Information Security, boasting experience as a founder, board member, advisor, and investor. Andrew has a proven track record of establishing high-performance product and sales teams worldwide for prestigious organizations like Etsy, Google, and the Clinton Foundation. He also wrote the book "Cracking Security Misconceptions" to promote security awareness among non-security professionals.
We discuss challenges stemming from the cybersecurity industry's immaturity, if CISOs need stronger whistleblower protections, how to be a personable (and therefore effective) security practitioner, and more.
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This week, we're joined by Ivan Tsarynny, the CEO and Co-founder of Feroot, a behavior-based web security monitoring platform dedicated to helping their customers do business securely online by diminishing a threat actor’s ability to breach customer data or damage websites via client-side attacks. He serves on the Standards Council of Canada GDPR Committee, a national forum that develops and adopts standards to provide Canadian organizations with effective means to comply with GDPR.
In recent months, Ivan has appeared on several national broadcasts, including CNN and Yahoo! News, to discuss the security risk associated with tracking pixels.
We discuss how organizations can securely use pixels, malicious ads, 5 threats you should know about, and more.
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This week, we're joined by John Masserini, a 30-year veteran CISO who has worked for major, multinational companies, including Dow Jones, Millicom, and MIAX.
As a Senior Security Analyst at TAG Cyber, John spends his days assisting enterprise clients on how to mature and enhance their security programs while also meeting with new security technology vendors and digging into how their solutions would benefit enterprise security programs.
We discuss how many organizations underfund their security teams, increased regulations changing how CISOs think, the eight tribes of CISO, six trending threats, and more.
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Generative AI is one of the most widely discussed emerging technologies, with new applications and capabilities developing at a rapid pace. It has been a recurring topic on The Threat Show, during which we've shared insights into the current state of the technology, where it's heading in the future, and its potential for both positive and negative impacts from many of our visionary guests including Kathy Wang, Simon Crosby of DCVC, David Neuman of TAG Cyber LLC, Smith Tennyson of Harbinger Solutions Group, Graham Thompson of Privacy Dynamics, Jason Rivera and Chris Camacho of Flashpoint, and Guru Chahal of Lightspeed.
New episodes of The Threat Show are back next week, starting July 11th with special guest John J. Masserini of TAG Cyber LLC. Tune in to get caught up on the Threat Landscape with Darien Kindlund and Christopher Wilder.
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We have compiled the best advice and discussions on the topic of social engineering from throughout our first 33 episodes. Our impressive roster of cybersecurity experts have shared not only mitigation strategies but also common and emerging techniques exploited by bad actors, how generative AI will be used to target the human attack surface, and more.
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This week on The Threat Show, we're joined by Jono Bacon, a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He's the founder of Community Leadership Core, an accelerator that develops industry-leading community engagement and growth via personalized training, coaching, and accountability.
He has an impressive career path, having served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. At Ubuntu, he led community strategy for one of the most popular technology platforms in the world, growing it into a community of millions of users. Jono has also authored the books 'People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams' and 'The Art of Community'.
Jono shares his insights on community building in cybersecurity, communicating with your customers during a security crisis, and the importance of getting your community involved in shaping your brand. We also cover the threat landscape and four trending threats you should know about.
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This week on The Threat Show, we're joined by Guru Chahal, a seasoned investor, and founding member of multiple successful startups, currently a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
Early on in his career, he was Manager and then Director of product management at Nuova Systems, later acquired by Cisco. Then he made strategic investments in companies like Zscaler, Avere Systems, and Avi Networks, the latter of which he joined as a co-founder and helped grow to serve over 20% of Fortune 50 businesses. Guru joined Lightspeed after VMware acquired Avi Networks in 2019 where he uses his deep understanding of technology, product expertise, and extensive network to invest in Enterprise sectors such as security, DevOps, observability/ops tools, cloud infrastructure, and application development.
We discuss how to approach cloud security as an SMB, the shared responsibility model, the autonomous SOC (security operations center), six trending threats, and more.
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This week on The Threat Show, we're joined by Corey White, Founder, CEO, and Chief Experience Officer at Cyvatar, an innovative cybersecurity company offering subscription-based solutions to a multitude of problems.
Corey brings eye-opening facts about the increasing amount of cyberattacks that highlight the importance of continuous remediation for small/medium-sized businesses, and the need for the cybersecurity industry to mature and catch up with the bad actors.
We also cover six trending threats SMBs should know about, and more.
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This week on The Threat Show, we cover the threat landscape and seven trending threats you should know about with an emphasis on ransomware. We explore the recent surge in ransomware activity, warn of the extent of damage these attacks can cause, and provide actionable steps for small/medium-sized businesses to enhance their protections.
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This week, we're joined by Matt Polak, Founder & CEO of Picnic, a Cybersecurity firm focused on helping companies stop social engineering attacks before they start. He is a subject matter expert in intelligence collection, having spent his career applying these skills to protect people from open-source intelligence gathering by hackers.
We talk to Matt about practical steps SMBs can take to protect themselves from ransomware, simulating social engineering attacks as an educational tool, the threats posed to organizations by the human attack surface, five trendings threats you should know about, and more.
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This week, we're joined by Chris Camacho, the Chief Revenue Officer at Flashpoint, a risk intelligence platform. Chris has over 15 years of cybersecurity leadership experience, including several years of security operations for financial institutions such as The World Bank and Bank of America. He’s joined by his colleague Jason Rivera, the Executive Director of Partnerships at Flashpoint, who has over 16 years of experience in threat analysis. They discuss how cybersecurity is affected by recent developments in the financial services industry, highlights from the RSA Security Conference, new technologies that are fundamentally changing the way the security industry operates, and much more.
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This week, we're joined by Graham Thompson, the founder and CEO of Privacy Dynamics, a data anonymizer designed for innovative and ethical data teams. With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, including positions at Microsoft and Apple, Graham shares his insights on why organizations should invest in effective data segmentation to protect against supply chain attacks, responsible customer information management, the role of data anonymization in generative AI, and more.
This week on The Threat Show, Darien and Chris break down four interesting threats, including a ransomware group with a double extortion model, a popular point-of-sale system hit with ransomware, a 6-year-old flaw that can give Russian state-sponsored threat actors backdoor access to Cisco Routers, and two Apple zero-day vulnerabilities.
This week on The Threat Show, Darien and Chris go over five trending threats, including several vulnerabilities affecting Windows systems, Mastodon servers leaking data, and even a hack that can help a bad actor steal a car.
We also look at the recent discussion surrounding Tik Tok/Bytedance, and give our thoughts on who should be concerned and practical advice for small/medium sized businesses who rely on the app for promotion.
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This week on The Threat Show, Darien and Chris cover a diverse range of threats, from a 10 year old bug that led to the 3CX supply chain attack we covered last week, to a new vulnerability affecting Samba and small businesses who host sensitive information in Samba’s active directory. Then, a compromised tax filing service that could install malware on everyday taxpayer’s computers. Finally, we go over another example of a naming snafu between a former cybersecurity vendor and a current ransomware group. We expand on our conversation surrounding the need for consistency and clarity in the language security practitioners use.
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Here at Fletch and The Threat Show, we're all about making complex cybersecurity conversations simple and digestible, and a huge part of that hinges on the language we use. From a daunting list of acronyms, to naming conflicts where malware and vulnerabilities discovered in quick succession of each other coincidentally end up sharing the name, Darien and Chris discuss how the cybersecurity industry can change to become more accessible for both newcomers and veterans.
They also break down the state of the threat landscape and go over five interesting threat you should know about.
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This week we're joined by Smith Tennyson. Smith has had three decades of experience in the physical and cybersecurity industry, working with clients from around the world. For the past 7 years, Smith has served as the founder of Harbinger Solutions Group, a security operations service that provides comprehensive physical and cybersecurity solutions.
Smith explains how cyber and physical security run parallel to each other, why communication between the two fields is crucial, and much more.
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This week Darien Kindlund breaks down the state of the threat landscape as we near the end of Q1, five major threats you need to know about, and answers some questions from you, our audience. Topics include if we Use ChatGPT in Fletch to help determine your tailormade threat list, when threats are typically reported on, and more.
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This week we're joined by Dave Neuman. Dave works alongside Chris as a Senior Analyst at Tag Cyber, in addition to being an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio and being a Member Of The Board Of Advisors at Sightgain, an breach/attack simulation company.
We’ll talk to Dave about his 28 years of experiences in the US Air Force, why it's so important to pass knowledge down to the incoming generation of cybersecurity practitioners, his advice for smaller cybersecurity teams, and more. The team also discusses five threats you need to know about.
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This week we're joined by Simon Crosby. Simon has an impressive list of experiences, from founding and serving as CTO of XenSource and Bromium, to lecturing at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is an investor and equity partner at DCVC, a venture capital company focused on implementing AI in parts of the economy that have yet to adopt the technology.
We talk to Simon about the role AI will play in the future (and present) of cybersecurity, for both the good guys and the bad actors. The team also discusses five threats you need to know about.
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This week Chris Wilder and Darien Kindlund break down the state of the threat landscape in early 2023, as well as five major threats you need to know about, from a new Apple zero-day vulnerability to a ransomware threat that goes after your insurance details to set the perfect price.
We also discuss five threats you need to know about.
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This week we're joined by Nancy Phillips. Nancy was recently the SVP of IT and CISO at Ensemble Health Partners, and has previously worked in security leadership roles at Centura Health and Kaiser Permanente. Nancy talks about the unique challenges facing cybersecurity in the healthcare sector, the importance being encouraging to incoming cybersecurity talent, and much more.
We also discuss five threats you need to know about.
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This week we're joined by Patrick Pocalyko, the EVP/GM of North America at CYREBRO, a SOC platform that offers incident response and threat hunting services to clients in order to protect their businesses from costly disruptions to business operations. Patrick talks about why SMEs should hire a SOC provider, how to spot the threats that actually matter to your business, and much more.
We also discuss five threats you need to know about.
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This week we're joined by Mackenzie Jackson, a developer advocate for GitGuardian, a French cybersecurity startup tackling source code issues that plague countless businesses. Mackenzie breaks down why open source code attacks are so popular and easy for attackers and what you can do to protect yourself.
We also discuss four major threats involving remote code execution you need to know about.
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This week we're joined by Alan Cohen, a deep-tech investor and a partner at DCVC, a venture capital company focused on implementing AI in parts of the economy that have yet to adopt the technology. Alan breaks down why the cybersecurity industry is so complex and why practitioners should focus on extracting simplicity rather than mastering complexity.
We also discuss four major threats involving remote code execution you need to know about.
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This week Chris Wilder helps break down how the current economic downturn is affecting security teams, and what your team should do to adapt. We talk about making the right cuts for the right reasons, how layoffs can help a company become more focused, and more.
We also discuss four major threats you need to know about.
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This week we sat down with Aaron Didier, a Threat Intelligence Analyst for Red Canary.
Aaron talks to us about threat intelligence and sheds light on some of the most common mistakes he sees and how they can be avoided. The team also discusses four major threats you need to know about. Enjoy the show!
This week we sat down with Todd Haverkos, a Manager of Global Vulnerability Management at a financial exchange based in Chicago, with two decades of experience working in security.
Todd gives critical vulnerability management advice and gives tips on how to avoid some of the most common mistakes found in the field. The team also discusses four major threats you need to know about. Enjoy the show!
Welcome to the first Threat Show of 2023! This week’s special guest is Kathy Wang, a technology and business executive and the CSO of Discord. Kathy has worked in a variety of roles in her 20+ years in the InfoSec and business fields, from security scientist, to CISO, to cofounder, investor, and more.
She gives advice for new and aspiring security leaders, talks about what early stage companies need to do to build their security infrastructure, and how to ensure that you have a diverse team. The team also discusses four major threats you need to know about. Enjoy the show!
This week’s special guest is Todd Inskeep, a CISO and cybersecurity executive with over 30 years of experience who helps businesses balance their objectives with the need for protection against modern security threats.
We discuss fractional CISOs, their rising prominence in the InfoSec space, how to know when your organization needs one, and how they can be helpful to businesses of different sizes. The team also discusses four major threats you need to know about. Enjoy the show!
This week’s special guest is Nathan Case, an executive with 10+ years planning and implementing technology programs in healthcare and other industries, currently working as a security advocate for Datadog. He gives critical advice related to security hygiene, SBOMs, and how up and coming security leaders can do things right in an ever changing landscape . The team also discusses four major threats you need to know about. Enjoy the show!
Welcome to The Threat Show powered by Fletch! This week, we're focusing in on trending threats you need to know about including a ransomware attack on a large food that was handled poorly, another Google Chrome zero-day vulnerability, typosquatting targeting Black Friday shoppers, a new USB-based threat out of China, and ransomware spreading through a fake COVID-19 site. Chris Wilder of TAG Cyber also gives us a peek into what 2023 could hold for the cybersecurity world with several predictions for the coming year.
Welcome to The Threat Show powered by Fletch! This week’s special guest is David Kennedy, the founder and Chief Hacking Officer of TrustedSec and Binary Defense. He gives critical advice that small to medium sized businesses can start taking advantage of to step up their security game. We also cover this weeks trending threats including a threat group repackaging malware as Colbalt Strike, a threat group compromising commerical Certificate Authorities, Russian hackivists repurposing ransomeware as a destructive wiper, malware hosted on decentralized bulletproof hosting, and a vulnerability that can allow attackers to physically open doors via digital door entry systems.
Welcome to The Threat Show powered by Fletch! This week’s special guest is Kevin Johnson, the CEO/Founder/self-proclaimed "Head Nerd" of Secure Ideas. We discuss the need for cybersecurity training to move away from a profit driven model and tactics to help align security teams with the goals of a business. We also go over emerging threats including China stockpiling vulnerabilities, hackivist groups exposing the Iranian government, and the ransomware that has infiltrated French defense contractor HENSOLDT.
Welcome to The Threat Show powered by Fletch! Today’s special guest is Mike Kavka, known on Twitter as “Silicon Shecky.” Mike is a senior security engineer at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms and regular guest of the Black Hills Security podcast. He tells us the one thing that most small businesses overlook when tuning their EDR systems. We also go over the panic caused by two 'critical' OpenSSL threats, a vulnerability affecting Chromium browsers, and an Apple flaw that allows rogue apps to listen into your bluetooth headphones.
Welcome to The Threat Show powered by Fletch! This week we break down major threats you need to know about if you’re using Apple devices, SQLite, or Microsoft Azure. Then, an interview with Peter Schawhacker, a cybersecurity veteran leader of a quarter century, about the changing role of CISO and where things are headed.
In this series, Robert and Darien with our guest speaker, Chris Wilder from TAG Cyber discuss the top trending threats and how it can affect your team. This week's threats include a Zoom vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution, a flaw in the Apache Commons Text Library , a critical threat affecting Windows CLFS , and several serious threats affecting Linux Wi-Fi Kernal Driver Stacks . We also update you on Zimbra’s previous vulnerabilities (not a good update) and discuss the importance of software inventory management for staying safe from threats.
Welcome to The Threat Show! We will discuss the do's, don'ts, and everything in between to make sure that you and your team stay secure from everyday threats. You’ll want to tune in if you use Microsoft Exchange, Fortinet, or Zimbra. We round out our episode with a discussion with our recurring guest host Chris Wilder from TAG Cyber on the ethics of critical cybersecurity information disclosure.
Welcome to The Threat Show for the week of Nov 7th. Today’s special guest is Mike Kavka, known on Twitter as “Silicon Shecky.” Mike is a senior security engineer at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms and regular guest of the Black Hills Security podcast. Today he tells us the one thing that most small businesses overlook when tuning their EDR systems. Also, Darien delivers the Fletch Threat Index report and the team discusses three major threats you need to know about.