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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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We Need to Talk About KEV With Tod Beardsley
Tod Beardsley, VP of security research at runZero and former KEV section chief at CISA, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the evolution of the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, how much value…
Cisco SD-WAN Zero Day, Google Disrupts Chinese Campaign, and More Cyber on The Pitt
This week Lindsey rejoins Dennis to talk about the attacks targeting a zero day in Cisco's Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (2:17), Google's disruption of a China-linked cyber espionage campaign targeting…
China Targets Dell Flaw, New Ivanti Exploitation, and Cyber Shenanigans on The Pitt!
It's a light news week, but we have some fun content for you! This week, we talk about our latest hacker movie episode--STAR WARS--which is up on the site and all of our feeds now (0:25), then we dig…
The Hacker Movie Canon: Star Wars
STAR WARS isn't just one of the more successful and iconic movies of all time and the basis for a worldwide sci-fi empire, it's also a true hacker story. Wade Baker and Rich Mogull, two Star Wars…
Six Zero Days From Microsoft, One From Apple, and a CSI: Cyber Throwback
This week was a cornucopia of zero days. We talk about the six (!) actively exploited vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched this week in its February update (2:46), then we discuss the one that…
How to Stay Ahead of Attackers With watchTowr's Ryan Dewhurst
Attackers are moving faster and faster every day, and the challenge of keeping pace is a daunting one. But it's not impossible. watchTowr's Ryan Dewhurst joins Dennis Fisher to talk about how the…
Dumping Edge Security Devices, the SystemBC Botnet, and the Joy of Joybubbles
This week we talk about the new CISA Binding Operational Directive that sets a deadline for removing end of support edge security devices from federal government networks (1:15), then we discuss the…
Fortinet and WinRAR Exploitation, Google's IPIDEA Disruption, and Our Favorite Cybersecurity Creators
It was a busy week in the cybers! Today we start with the targeted exploitation of another Fortinet vulnerability (CVE-2026-24858) that enables simple authentication bypass (1:15), then we discuss…
The RedVDS Takedown, Yet Another Chinese APT Emerges, and the StackWarp AMD Bug
This week, we talk about how Microsoft disrupted a long-running, large-scale cybercrime-as-a-service platform called RedVDS that has been active since 2019 and was used in high-volume phishing and…
The Future of Vulnerability Management With Jeremiah Grossman and Robert "RSnake" Hansen
Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen, two of the more influential and accomplished leaders and entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity community, have seen and done it all in their careers. From their…
A New Chinese APT Debuts and React2Shell Attacks Spike
The new year is here! And so are the attacks. The first full week of 2026 brought us new research from Cisco Talos on a China-nexus APT group called UAT-7290 that is expanding its targeting and…
The Hacker Movie Canon: Home Alone
There may not be any computers in Home Alone, but few movie characters embody the old-school hacker ethos like Kevin McCallister does. Resourceful, clever, determined, and creative, Kevin uses all of…
Russian Targeting of Edge Devices. Cisco AsyncOS Zero Day, and React2Shell Won't Go Away
As we ease into the holidays, the security news doesn't stop coming. This week we discuss the research from AWS threat intelligence on Russian adversaries targeting a variety of network edge devices…
The Hacker Movie Canon: Die Hard
Pete Baker and Zoe Lindsey join Dennis Fisher on the roof of Nakatomi Plaza to discuss one of the great action classics* and a beloved movie in the hacker community: Die Hard. Yippee ki-yay! *NOT a…
More React Bugs Reaction, the Challenge of Vulnerability Management, and CI Attacks
This week gave us the gift of some more React Server Components vulnerabilities and further exploitation of the previously disclosed bugs by a variety of threat groups. There were also a long list…
From CIA Officer to a Career in Cybersecurity With Erin Whitmore
Coming from a military family, Erin Whitmore was prepared for a career of service. But her path took her not into the military, but the intelligence community, first in the private sector supporting…
React2Shell, Typhoon Attacks, and Why Our Infrastructure is So Vulnerable
Dennis and Lindsey react (!) to the React2Shell vulnerability disclosure and the quick exploitation of it by Chinese threat actors, then discuss the continues intrusions into critical infrastructure…
Jeff Gothelf on Designing for Users, Enterprise Agility, and the AI Conundrum
Jeff Gothelf, a renowned author and product strategist and co-founder of Sense and Respond Learning, joins Dennis to discuss the need to design products with users in mind, how critical thinking can…
DoJ Sanctions, the SEC Abandons the SolarWinds Action, and the FCC Reverses Course on Telecom Security
It's an acronym-filled, government-only bonanza this week! We discuss the DoJ sanctioning Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land (0:53), the SEC dropping its enforcement action against…
Rich Mogull on the Cloudflare Outage, Resilience, and Single Points of Failure
Dennis is joined by Rich Mogull, chief analyst at the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security trainer, and all around good guy to talk about the Cloudflare outage, why the internet is now just six…
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