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Every week, Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch, the editors of Decipher, bring you exclusive, in-depth conversations with security researchers, CISOs, founders, and security experts to hellp you understand the threat landscape and better protect your organizations.
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The Shrinking Exploit Window, Patch Schedule Changes, and the Vulnpocalypse
This week was blessedly free of any major supply chain compromises, so we start by talking about new research from Anthropic on the shrinking window between bug disclosure and exploitation, then we…
How The Conversation Predicted Our Surveillance Society 50 Years Ago
Perhaps no film captures the paranoia and anxiety of the 1970s better than The Conversation, Francis Ford Copolla's masterpiece about reclusive surveillance expert Harry Caul, a man who it's safe to…
Shai Hulud Returns, How Attackers are Using AI, and More Weird MSRC Behavior
We regret to inform you that there are more npm supply chain attacks this week, and a new variant of the Shai Hulud worm is involved. We also talk about the new analysis from Anthropic on a year of…
Microsoft Has Forgotten Its Vulnerability Disclosure History
The recent Nightmare-Eclipse zero day drop and attendant drama has stirred up all kinds of trouble and unfortunately spurred Microsoft to publish a post scolding security researchers for not using…
Lessons in Resilience, Perseverance, and Leadership With Matt Eversmann
After being caught in one of the more notorious battles in modern American history, Matt Eversmann's military career has become the stuff of legend. The Battle of Mogadishu, immortalized in the book…
Chain Chain Chain of Compromises
In the spring, a young attacker's fancy turns to supply chain compromises, and this season's crop includes the GitHub breach and the Grafana intrusion, which are connected and trace back to the…
What the Data Tells Us About Claude Mythos and Bug Exploitability | Jay Jacobs and Michael Roytman
Finding a huge pile of bugs with Claude Mythos is great, but the logical next step is figuring out how many of those vulnerabilities are likely to be exploited in the near future. Jay Jacobs and…
Solving Hard Security Problems With an Outsider's Perspective | Sravish Sridhar
Unlike a lot of founders in the industry, Sravish Sridhar hasn't spent his career in the security world. He comes from a background in distributed computing and advanced math, and is a successful…
AI Has a Security Measurement Problem | Gary McGraw
Few people (if any) have spent more time thinking about and working on the hard problems in security and software than Gary McGraw, and he also happens to have a PhD in cognitive science and computer…
Inside the $285M Drift Protocol Heist | Ari Redbord
Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, talks about the insane background behind the $285 million Drift Protocol crypto heist, how law enforcement agencies are investigating ransomware-linked…
The Canvas Attack, Ivanti and Palo Alto Exploits, and Dirty Frag
If we needed any more evidence that the internet was a mistake, this week provided it. We kick things off with a discussion of the Canvas breach that has affected thousands of schools worldwide, then…
Fighting Cybercrime With Global Intelligence | Will Dixon
Will Dixon has seen the evolution of cybercrime as both a GCHQ intelligence officer and a private sector executive and analyst, and has seen the way these groups operate up close. He joins Dennis to…
The fast16 Mystery, Stuxnet, and the History of Cyber Espionage | Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
JAGS joins Dennis Fisher to unpack the complex history of fast16, a highly targeted cyber espionage platform that goes back as far as 2005, many years before Stuxnet, and was deployed against targets…
cPanel Exploits, Copy Fail, and the History of Branded Bugs
The security news was out of hand this week, so we had to pick our spots. We start with the nasty cPanel/WHM vulnerability that affects tens of millions of domains in shared hosting environments,…
Defeating Online Scams and Disrupting the Cybercrime Chain | Ariana Mirian
Ariana Mirian, cofounder of startup Beesafe, joins Dennis to talk about the mechanics of online romance and finance scams, how the scammers draw in victims over weeks or months, and why user…
The Vercel Intrusion and What is Happening at CISA
This week we dig deep into the Vercel intrusion that emerged last weekend, how it happened, what the response was, and what the downstream effects may be for defenders. Then we talk about CISA's…
Claude Mythos, Automated Bug Hunting, and AI Eating Everything
It's been A WEEK. Security news never sleeps, and neither does AI, so Dennis and Lindsey dive into all of the storylines coming from the Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing announcements, how…
The Era of AI-Led Vulnerability Research With Tom Ptacek
Dennis sits down with Tom Ptacek of Fly.io, a veteran security researcher, founder, and observer of the vulnerability landscape, to talk about the recent wave of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery…
Mapping the Cybercrime Ecosystem With Andrew Northern of Censys
The internet is dark and full of terrors, but thanks to folks such as Andrew Northern, a principal security researcher at internet-mapping pioneer Censys, it doesn't have to be, Andrew joins Dennis…
The Rapid Rise of AI Exploit Development and More Axios Compromise Effects
It's been quite a week in security news, and Dennis and Lindsey dig into the continued effects of the axios supply chain attack, the incredibly fast adoption of AI tools for vulnerability research…
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