Beers with Talos Podcast
Episodes
BWT Live from San Diego!
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 6/12/19 - God knows why, but we bring you another live EP from the Talos Threat Research Summit at Cisco Live US in San Diego, CA. We are jo...
Patch After Listening, RDP and Wild 0-days
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 5/24/19 - There is another Blue(x) to talk about and guess what? YES, YOU STILL NEED TO PATCH. We talk about RDP, the source of this vuln, an...
Shiny Happy Election Security (And Ninjas)
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 5/10/19 - Election security has been a dominant headline for some time, so itâs high time we take a look at what that landscape looks like ...
I Donât Trust You Because I Care
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 4/26/19 - Since Craig decided to skip the podcast today, we decided to invite one of Austinâs top actual security experts, Wendy Nather, to...
Sea Turtles Yeeting Packets
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 4/12/19 - Today we rip through a few other things to spend most of our time discussing Sea Turtle - the latest DNS hijacking campaign uncover...
Operating Under the Cover of⊠Nothing
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/29/19 - Matt and Joel are both on the road this week, and Omar Santos from Cisco PSIRT joins the crew to discuss malware posing as ransomwa...
POS Malware, RSA Highlights, and SOL OpSec Fails
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/15/19 - We recorded this after coming back from RSA, with some on-location highlights included! This EP opens a bit more thought provoking ...
Loaders or Trojans, and RSA preview
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/1/19 - This is a super short EP - we are trying to get it our for RSA and Matt is MIA today. We are covering the basics of loaders (and the...
Privacy, Underwear, and Arias
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 2/15/19 - We are joined by special guest Michelle Dennedy, VP and Chief Privacy Officer at Cisco. This is a long EP that is worth every minut...
Privacy Pwnd: ExileRAT and Collecting Bad Karma
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 2/1/19 - Today we discuss threats that bridge the gap between violating privacy and classic cybersecurity threats - malware and systems that ...
SoHo Attacks, IoT Devices, and the Cesspool Setting
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 1/18/19 - We have a extended roundtable today (even more than usual) because we accidentally discussed some relevant security topics in the m...
Fun with 2018âs Worst and Talks We Want to Hear
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 1/7/18 - Most of the EP (after an extended Roundtable - we all had a lot to get out after time off), we look back at the 2018 Year-in-Malware...
Espionage, Encryption, and CISO Square One
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 12/7/18 - Several of us are under the weather, but the show must go on. We did our best, as always. After running through some recent resear...
To the Moon, Everyone!
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 11/16/18 - Cyber moonshot, baby! Itâs just like that time the US raced everyone to the moon, except completely different and in-no-way rel...
BWT XL feat. SuperMicro, Giant Patches, and More Mobile Malware
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 10/19/18 - In celebration of EP40 and hitting over 1 million downloads(!!!), we go XL. This EP is a little long, we go a bit deeper than usu...
VB 2018 Rundown and Prevalent Problems with PDF
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 10/5/18 - Quick chat to get to know this weekâs special guests from the Talos Outreach team - Paul Rascagneres, Vanja Svajcer, and Warren M...
More Fun with VPNFilter, Getting Pwnd via Spreadsheet
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 9/21/18 - The whole crew is back together! On the agenda today - VPNFilter part III, now with more known third stage payloads! As much as w...
Snort 3 Beta Uses Multithreading. Itâs Super Effective!
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 9/7/18 - We have Joel back this week (and he is very happy to have himself back), but we lost Matt and weâre still wishing Nigel a speedy r...
There Are Few Shades in the Grey Market
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 8/24/18 - Weâre finally back in the studio after Hacker Summer Camp! Sadly, due to summer vacations and becoming bionic, we are missing Jo...
Live from the RiRa at Black Hat
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 8/8/18 - We decided to broadcast while we were all together at Black Hat - and invited everyone over for lunch and beers. Since we had a roo...
Click Here to Assign New Mobile Device Owner
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 7/20/18 - This week, we touch on several topics, but we spend the lionâs share of the EP discussing MDM. We are joined by Aaron Woland and ...
Live from Orlando Pt 2: Take All the Things Off the Internet
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 6/13/18 - Still live in Orlando, just this time from the lovely lobby bar at the convention center hotel. We are joined by Lurene Grenier to ...
Live from Cisco Live! - VPNFilter Update and Our First Summit Recap
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 6/12/18 - Special episode for two reasons! To start, we are recording one-take live from CiscoTV Studio B at Cisco Live in Orlando, FL. - whi...
VPNFilter, the Unfiltered Story
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 5/25/18 - As you can expect, this EP focuses on VPNFilter. We discuss how we got involved, why Talos made the decision to disclose when we di...
This is a PSA: Stop Clicking. There is No Prince.
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 5/11/18 - First and foremost, we recorded this EP one day before our âbirthdayâ. We want to thank everyone, especially you (the listeners...
APT, BGP, RCEs, and an Old RAT
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 4/27/18 - Special guest intro this week from Chippah. We chat about what defines an âAPTâ, the recent BGP attacks, and the progress of Gr...
Smart Install, Vuln Process Realities, and Professional Wrestling
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 4/13/18 - We just upgraded all our gear, so naturally we had a straight tech meltdown this week and we saved it the best we could. Matt will ...
Talos is Holding a Conference, and the Evolving Battle at the Edge
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/29/18 - Joel is sitting out this week and Bill Largent from the Outreach team fills in. We are pretty sure he was just wrong late trying to...
WEâLL DO IT LIVE!!
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/13/18 - LIVE from San Jose, CA. First of all - we still have a podcast and jobs, so ostensibly, we did okay hosting the meeting event we ta...
Reflections on DDoS and Bad Authentication Schemes
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 3/2/18 - Craig is out this week, but the rest of the crew goes through COINHORDER and Memcached and takes a deeper look at authentication and...
Eternal Fauxmance: Attribution Easter Eggs
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 2/16/18 - This week, Mitch learns about starting a show without Matt with no other plans to control Craig in place. The team discusses Olympi...
Forget the ASA, Rob Joyce Favorited Craigâs Tweet
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 2/2/18 - Guests two EPs in a row! We are joined by Omar Santos from Cisco PSIRT to discuss CVE-2018-0101, the Cisco ASA Remote Code Execution...
How to Hire the Best, Attribution Without Apaches is Useless
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It is a packed episode this time! We are joined by Edmund from the Talos Outreach Group to chat about Threat Modeling after we make our way through at...
Crypto, Vuln Disco, and the Spectre Meltdown
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is easily our best podcast of 2018 (so far). The crew discusses the recent spike in crypto-mania sweeping the globe and also goes in-depth on ho...
The "Best" of Beers with Talos 2017
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Quotes intended, we think you know why. Mitch takes control to present the best of the first (partial) year of the podcast. He covers some of our gues...
Kitties in My Blockchain, Obfuscating Pronunciations, and Other Security Stuff
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Itâs the last full episode of the year! Thanks to you and the diligent work of Mattâs loving mother, the first 17 EPs of Beers with Talos were do...
Greek Gods, Trojans, and the Spice Girls as Spirit Animals
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt hijacks the Roundtable to tell us which Spice Girl each host is, because where else does a PR gimmick from KFC lead? Also, whatâs worse than cl...
Strong Copy - Bad Rabbit and the Nyetya Connection
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The crew takes on Apache OpenOffice vulns and when you need one CVE versus one hundred. We spend a lot of time discussing signal to noise ratio and T...
Landing a Job, Phishing Midstream, and Paulâs IDA Palette
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this EP, we take on interviewing and finding a job with technical questions and tests (hint: donât oversell yourself, and make sure your mute but...
Ranking Threats and Avoiding Bush League Breach Response
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We havenât gone around the table and introduced ourselves in some time (about 50k downloads ago), so we take the time we usually complain about thin...
A Vast CCleanup, Strutting Your Stuff, and the Ex$ploit Economy
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Struts - when to patch and when to patch with a vengeance. In light of the Equifax breach, we discuss how patching can make you live better days, Neve...
IrmaGerd! The Internet Ate Our Podcast
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt runs the ship this week in Mitchâs absence. Craig and Nigel are joined by Bill Largent and Joel was⊠in a meeting? The crew discusses ambula...
This is How the Internet Ends, Not with a Whimper but with Cyber Mercenaries
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Off the top: Better late than never? On top of being distributed all around the planet this week, we had some technical issues with our recording plat...
Being FIRST and Conveying Doubt (That Itâs a Conference Hangover)
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The BlackHat/DEFCON recovery episode. This one may be a touch rough, with some great gems. We discuss why music in 1994 was so terrible, including a ...
The Doctor is In, Just in Time for Vegas
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode, we are joined by long-time friend of Talos, Dr. Adam J. OâDonnell, PhD. Adam is the founder/co-founder of many amazing te...
We'll Make Great Pet(ya)s
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nyetya, NotPetya, PetrWrap, ExPetr, whatever you want to call it - although Nyetya is clearly the most clever name, not that Warren and I came up with...
This Podcast is Clearly Fake News
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest and Talos team member Sean Baird comes by to discuss the Fake News Challenge - and the Talos team, Solat in the Swen, taking first place...
Enter the Talos, But Please Use a Unique Password
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The team discusses how to get into threat intel and join a team like Talos. There are many routes to enter the Talos, but no exits. Seriously, they ...
It Has Been 0-days Since this Term was Abused
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The crew talks about the potential of Samba echoing WannaCry and blocking SMB ports (but you already did that, RIGHT?). Also, get a history lesson an...
OMG I Just WannaCry
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Friday May 12 brought us the WannaCry/wcrypt ransomware worm. In this podcast dedicated entirely to WannaCry, Craig, Joel and Mitch are joined by Matt...
FCC SNAFU, ROKRAT, FUD, and Other Fun Acronyms (OFAs)
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion around whatâs real and whatâs not with recent FCC decisions, FUD in the security press, ROKRAT hitting selected targets in South Korea,...
Necurs (Predictably) Returns, Video Games are a Gateway Hack
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Craig, Nigel, Joel and Mitch discuss spam resurgence via Necurs waking up, vuln dev in niche spaces, Crypt010cker, and hacking video games as a gatewa...
If You Must Break the IoT, Please Do It Responsibly
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Four guys from Talos talking about breaking IoT, responsible vulnerability disclosure, and finding new malwareâŠwritten in Go.