Phishing and Curling: Vulnerabilities, not Winter Sports

Droning on about Cyber

The U.S. FBI and CISA recently released guidance concerning a growing hobby. What are the concerns, and how does it relate to SASE and cybersecurity? Join Bill Carter as he demysifies governmental guidance, and provides you clear steps so you're ready for whatever's next.

Shells and Flipper Hells: SSH Problems and Pocket Hacking

In the first episode of 2024, Bill and Robin dive into a vulnerability impacting SSH across the world, as well as explore how something in your pocket may get you unwarranted attention. What is the Terrapin attack, and why should you leave your FlipperZero in check-in luggage? Learn all this and more on the latest episode of the Ring of Defense!

Reporting and Alerting: Gootloader and the NCSC

Join Bill and Robin as they dive into the latest and greatest cybersecurity news. In this week's episode, Bill covers the ever-present threat of Gootloader, and Robin dives into a recent 70+ page report published by the UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC.) What is Gootloader? What threats/trends have the NCSC identified, and what are their recommendations for the future? Learn all this and more on the latest episode

Solarwinds and Cisco 10.0: Big Problems for Big Companies

In this week's episode, Robin and Bill explore the recent SEC charges against Solarwinds (and their Chief Information Security Officer) with fraud, as well as a CVE with a perfect CVSS rating of 10.0 against Cisco! Why is a CISO getting charged with fraud? What does a a CVSS rating of 10 mean, and why should you be worried if you use Cisco IOS or IOS XE today? Learn all this and more on the latest episode

Phishing and Curling: Vulnerabilities, not Winter Sports

In this week's episode, Bill and Robin dive into the dangers of EvilProxy, as well as discuss a hot new vulnerability in the curl framework (CVE-2023-38545) Should you be concerned about this CVE? How can you tell if personal parameters are being sent to threat actors? and how can you help mitigate against these security challenges? Learn all this and more on the latest episode of The Ring of Defense!