Secure AF - A Cybersecurity Podcast
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Description
Think like a hacker. Defend like a pro.
Welcome to the Secure AF Cybersecurity Podcast — your tactical edge in the ever-evolving cyber battlefield. Hosted by industry veterans including Donovan Farrow and Jonathan Kimmitt, this podcast dives deep into real-world infosec challenges, red team tactics, blue team strategies, and the latest tools shaping the cybersecurity landscape.
Whether you're a seasoned pentester, a SOC analyst, or just breaking into the field, you'll find actionable insights, expert interviews, and unfiltered discussions with Alias team members and top-tier guests from across the cybersecurity spectrum.
Stay sharp. Stay informed. Stay Secure AF.
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ShinyHunters Breach of Instructure Canvas LMS 📚✏️: Lessons for SOCs on Third-Party Vendor Risks
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May 20, 2026 |
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Canvas Breach Breakdown: What 9,000+ Outages Teach Us About SaaS Risk
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May 19, 2026 |
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MuddyWater’s Ransomware Decoy: Iranian APTs Hiding Espionage in Plain Sight
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May 13, 2026 |
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Qilin Ransomware’s EDR Killer DLL – How Attackers Are Subverting Defenses
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May 06, 2026 |
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AI’s Inflection Point: From Productivity Tool to Existential Risk
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May 05, 2026 |
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Axios NPM Supply Chain Compromise – Lessons for SOCs on Third-Party Risks
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Black Shrantac Ransomware – LOTL Tactics and Double Extortion on the Rise
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Think Fast or Get Pwned: How Esports Is Forging Elite Cyber Defenders
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Iranian APTs Targeting U.S. PLCs: OT Wake-Up Call for SOCs
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Google Chrome Zero-Days Under Active Attack – What SOCs Need to Do Now
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Beyond the Network: The Rise of Medical Device Security
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Interlock Ransomware Hits Cisco FMC Zero-Day: Lessons for SOCs on Edge Device Security
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Chinese Hackers Breach FBI Surveillance Network: Supply-Chain Lessons for SOCs
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Ransomware as a Business: Inside Qilin’s Rise
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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MuddyWater's New BugSleep Malware – Iran's Cyber Retaliation Ramps Up
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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🚨 The Telus Hack – ShinyHunters Strikes a Telecom Giant 🚨
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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A.I. as a Multiplier: Introducing Vector Pulse A.I.
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Heightened Cyber Threats Amid U.S.-Iran Conflict Escalation
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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OSINT Essentials – Unlocking Not So Hidden Insights for Your SOC
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Talking SOC Shop: How SOCs Show Value to Leadership 📈
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Keeping AI Human-Centered in Digital Forensics 🧑💻⚖️
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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SmarterMail RCE Flaw – Ransomware's New Favorite Door
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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MSI Mayhem – RATs Hiding in Phishing Installers to Evade Detection 🧠
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Love as an Attack Vector 💌
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Double Trouble: Microsoft Office and Fortinet FortiCloud Flaws Under Attack 💥
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Top Ransomware Threats Dominating Early 2026
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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📂 Inside the Breaches: Real Insider Threat Case Files
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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CISA Retires 10 Emergency Directives – Progress for Feds, Wake-Up for the Rest of Us
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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New Year SOC Reset: New Year, New You(r Security Posture) 🔒
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Trusted Access, Malicious Intent: Insider Threats Explained
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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🔐 Holiday Cyber Threats & What’s Coming Next
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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End-of-Year Wrap: 2025 Threat Trends and Bold Predictions for 2026 🎆
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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🎄 Holiday Season Security: Preparing Your SOC for the Festive Chaos
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Episode 100: Retrospective AF!
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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The Reality of Stalking in a Digital Age 🕵️♂️⚠️
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Inside Weekly Threat-Intel Briefings with a vCISO 💼
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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⚠️ React2Shell Zero-Day ⚠️: Chinese Hackers Strike Within Hours
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Tis the Season for Cybercrime: How Hackers Target Holidays 🎄
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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U.S.-Venezuela Tensions: Cyber Risks for American SOCs
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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When People Think They’ve Been Hacked
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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FortiWeb Zero-Day: Silent Patch and Firewall Wake-Up Call 🔥
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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The Halls: 2025 Hacker Gift Guide 🎁💻
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Patch Tuesday: Zero-Day Alert and Patching Must-Dos ✅
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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⚠️ Insider Threats ⚠️: Ransomware Negotiators Gone Rogue
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Art Of The Con (Cyber Edition) 🔐
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Atroposia RAT: The Malware That Scans for Its Own Exploits
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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CAPTCHA Con: Hackers' Evolving ClickFix Malware Trap
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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RondoDox Botnet Expansion: The Shotgun Approach to IoT Exploitation
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Obscura Ransomware: Unmasking a Stealthy New Threat ⚠️
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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🛡️ Pen Test Potential: How Organizations Are Missing Out on Fortifying the SOC 🛡️
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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2025 SECCON Debrief
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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🚨 Ransomware Rising: Variants, Tactics, and Defenses in 2025 🚨
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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💢 FileFix Fiasco 💢 Steganography's Stealthy StealC Drop
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Monitoring the Dark Web for Leaked Data in DFIR
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Mastering Incident Response: Essential for SOC Success
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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DEF CON 33 Debrief
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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⚠️ Crypto24 ⚠️ Ransomware: Bypassing EDR and Bolstering Defenses
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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🚨 Gone Vishing: The Recent Surge of Vishing Attacks
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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🚨 SonicWall Firewall Ransomware Breakdown
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Spilling the Tea: What Happens When Apps Launch Without Locking Down Security ☕
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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🚨⚠️ A Critical ZERO-DAY (CVE-2025-53770)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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🚪 Offboarding isn't just HR's job …
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Aligned by Design: CISO x Legal in Practice - Episode 92
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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🚨 Record-Shattering DDoS Attack Alert 🚨
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Secure AF SOC Brief #5 - Chrome CVE-2025-6554
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Ep 91: The Engineers React to Breach News
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Secure AF SOC Brief #4 - False Positives
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Secure AF SOC Brief #3 - IOCs
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Episode 90: Global Wars - Cyber Strikes Back
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Secure AF SOC Brief #2 - SafePay
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Episode 89: Meet the Alias SOC - on the Battlefront of Cybersecurity
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Secure AF SOC Brief #1 - SOC Life
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Episode 88: Two-Time CISO Showdown Champion (and Chad)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Episode 87: Securing Patient Data with HIPAA's New Security Rules
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Episode 86: How to make your pen test training not suck
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Episode 85: Is SANS the overpriced dinosaur of cybersecurity training?
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 84: New Years Cyber Resolutions Part 2
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Episode 83: New Years Cyber Resolutions Part 1
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Episode 82: Leaving It All On The Table - The What, How, and Why of Tabletop Exercises
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Episode 81: IR Aversion, Part 2
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Episode 80: IR Aversion, Part 1
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Episode 79: Firewall Follies
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Episode 78: S3CCON Debrief
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Episode 77: Defcon Debrief 2024
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Episode 76: Losing the Cyberwar Through Marketing, Part 2
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Episode 75: Losing the Cyberwar Through Marketing, Part 1
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Episode 74: Internship Intrigue
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Episode 73: Never Been Vished?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Episode 72: Security in Process
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Episode 71: When the CISO Speaks Up
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May 30, 2024 |
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Episode 70 - Boeing and Beyond
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May 15, 2024 |
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Episode 69 - AI or BS
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May 02, 2024 |
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Episode 68 - It's Exploit O'Clock
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 67 - The CISO Pen Test
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Episode 65 - Holistic Security
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Episode 64: Rules of Engagement
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Episode 63 - Critial Infrastructure: The Final Frontier
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Episode 62 - Entering Cyber Sideways
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Episode 61 - Pen Test Types
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Episode 60 - Integris' Assumed Incident
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Episode 59 - Pen Test Gaps
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Episode 58 - Solar Winds and Beyond
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Episode 57 - Introducing Phillip Wylie
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Episode 56 - The Human Incident Response
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Episode 55 - The Hacking Business
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Episode 54: Your Family Is The Target
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Episode 53 - DefCon Debrief 2023
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Episode 52 - DEF CON Preview 2023
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Episode 51 - Digital Forensics
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Episode 50! - Targets of Opportunity
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Episode 49 - Pentester vs. Thintester
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Episode 48 - Updates and Announcements - Secure AF
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Episode 47 - IOT and XIOT Devices and Dangers
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May 24, 2023 |
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Episode 46 - Hacking a Cybersecurity Career
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May 11, 2023 |
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Episode 45 - Code of Honor
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Episode 44 - Vendor Due Diligence
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Episode 43 - Cyber Training that Doesn't Suck
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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#42 - SOC It To 'Em
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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#41 APIs: More Risk Than You Think
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#40 Are The Hackers Winning?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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#39 IT vs Cybersecurity
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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#38 Protecting Users From Themselves
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#37 Cybersecurity In Action
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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#36 Mental Health in Cybersecurity
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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#35 Your Internet Identity
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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#34 Password Security
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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#33: Secure The Unexpected
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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#32 Memory Forensics
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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#31 Bonus Episode - We Made the List: Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Companies
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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#30: DEFCON Debrief 2022
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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#29: Catch the Biggest Phish
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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#28: SIEM for Small Business
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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#27: Why You Need a Cybersecurity Homelab
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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#26: Password Cracking: An Overview
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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#25: World Backup Day
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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#24: The Seven Steps of Digital Forensics
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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#23: L33T or Lame: A Hacker Tool Review
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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#22: Using OSINT: A Look at Open Source Intelligence
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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#21: Conti Leak: A Look Inside
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#20: DEF CON 2021: The Alias Experience
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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#19: How Hackers Choose Who to Attack and Why Small Businesses Should Care
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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#18: Pissing Off Your Pentesters: A Storytelling Episode
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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#17: Breaking Into Cybersecurity: How to Get Started in the Industry
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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#16: Rules of Engagement: Why You Gotta Have 'Em
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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#15: Port Scanning and Why it Matters
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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#14: Cyber Security Insurance: What You Need to Know
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#13: Phishing: How to Avoid Being the Bait
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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#12: What You Need to Know About CMMC
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#11: Network Monitoring and Tools
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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#10: Ransomware: What It Is and How to Avoid It
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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#9: Meet the Alias Security Crew
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May 07, 2020 |
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#8: Special Guest Interview: Chris Boykin of Future Com
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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#7: Securing Against the Coronavirus and Computer Viruses
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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#6: Special Guest Interview: Bonus
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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#5: Deepfakes: The Latest Trust Breaker
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#4: The Internet of Things. What Is It?
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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#3: Don't Worry About the Recent VPN Breaches
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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#2: Practical Tips for Cyber Security Awareness Month
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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#1: Our DEFCON 2019 Experience
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Oct 10, 2019 |