The Threatpost Podcast

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Podcast: Why Securing Microsoft Active Directory Is Such a Nightmare Jul 28, 2021

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SpecterOps researchers Lee Christensen and Will Schroeder discuss their work, to be presented at Black Hat, on how AD "misconfiguration debt" lays out a dizzying array of attack paths such as the one in the PetitPotam exploit for which Microsoft rushed out a fix.

IoT Piranhas Are Swarming Industrial Controls Jul 23, 2021

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Threat actors have been building enormous botnets using IoT devices to try to compromise the computing systems that control crucial infrastructure, such as pipelines (case in point: the DarkSide ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline) and other utilities, preying on legacy systems that have decades-old vulnerabilities. In this Threatpost podcast, Armis CISO Curtis Simpson delves into how to fight back.

What's Next for REvil's Victims? Jul 19, 2021

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Protecting Phones From Pegasus-Like Spyware Attacks Jul 19, 2021

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Podcast: Is protecting your phone from spyware attacks a la NSO Group's Pegasus as simple as getting a new SIM card? Former spyware insider, current mobile white hat hacker Adam Weinberg on how to block three types of spyware attacks.

What's Making You a Ransomware Sitting Duck Jun 17, 2021

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SophosLabs Principal Researcher Andrew Brandt discusses what makes organizations prime targets for ransomware threat actors, what steps could help them to protect themselves, and what's stopping them from implementing those steps.

SASE & Zero Trust: The Dream Team Jun 11, 2021

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"Trust is a human emotion. Computers don't have emotions. They don't need that trust, inherently" – that's the heart of Zero Trust cybersecurity, and SASE is how to make it happen.

Forcepoint's Nico Fischbach, global CTO and VPE of SASE, and Chase Cunningham, chief strategy officer at Ericom Software, on using SASE to make Zero Trust a reality.

Insider Risks In the Work-From-Home World Jun 11, 2021

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Forcepoint's Michael Crouse talks about risk-adaptive data-protection approaches and how to develop a behavior-based approach to insider threats and risk: particularly important as security perimeters have expanded due to the pandemic.

The State of Ransomware with Fortiguard's Derek Manky Jun 02, 2021

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Effective Adoption of SASE in 2021 Jun 02, 2021

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Why and How Cybercrooks Milk Exploits in Underground Markets Jun 01, 2021

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