Coffee Talk with SURGe

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - SolarWinds says SEC investigation ‘progressing to charges’ - The potent cyber adversary threatening to further inflame Iranian politics - Siemens Energy, UCLA latest...

Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Alex Pinto, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence at Verizon for an interview about the key takeaways from the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). You can watch the livestream of this episode here . Read the DBIR report Follow Alex on Twitter    

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here . The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Fortinet fixes critical RCE flaw in Fortigate SSL-VPN devices, patch now - Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways - MOVEit...

Join Mick Baccio and special guest Scott Roberts, head of threat research at Interpres Security for an interview about Scott's career journey, how he's seen cybersecurity evolve over time, and his essay featured in the SURGe team's new book, Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium. You can watch the livestream of this episode here . 

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream here . The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques - COSMICENERGY: New OT Malware Possibly Related To Russian Emergency Response Exercises - Real-wor...

Join Audra Streetman and special guest Sydney Howard, Principal Threat Hunter at Splunk for an interview about her career journey, why she thinks purple teaming is so important, and her approach to threat hunting. Links: - Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework   - Hypothesis-Driven Hunting with the PEAK Framework  - Model-Assisted Threat Hunting (M-ATH) with the PEAK Framework   - SCYTHE P...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Software engineer publicly discloses Telegram vulnerability - Dallas says it 'will likely take weeks to get back to full functionality' after ransomware attack  -...

Join David Bianco and special guest Aaron Gee-Clough, Senior Data Engineer at DomainTools for an interview about their collaboration for a research project evaluating the trustworthiness of certificate authorities (CAs) by analyzing five billion TLS certificates using Splunk. Watch the livestream of this episode here .  Listen to the talk at RSA Conference 2023 RSA slides DomainTools 2021 report  

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here .   The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - The DOJ Detected the SolarWinds Hack 6 Months Earlier Than First Disclosed - US Marshals Service still recovering from February ransomware attack affe...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and special guests Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Jon DiMaggio for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe, live from RSA Conference in San Francisco. Guerrero-Saade and DiMaggio are both contributing authors for Bluenomicon , a new book by SURGe that features stories and advice from security leaders and practitioners. You don't want to miss it! You can...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here .   The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - Citizen Lab releases report on NSO Group's new zero-click exploit chains - LockBit ransomware encryptors found targeting Mac devices - Did someone rea...

Join Coffee Talk with SURGe for our bi-weekly interview series. This week, Audra Streetman interviews Michael Haag, Senior Threat Researcher at Splunk. They'll discuss his YouTube show, Atomics on a Friday, along with the Living off the Land Drivers project, which aims to consolidate vulnerable and malicious drivers into a centralized location.   Links: Episode livestream Splunk Threat Research Te...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  -T he Splunk Threat Research Team releases a blog with insights into the 3CX supply chain compromise - Medical device manufacturers in the US must soon provide...

Join Coffee Talk with SURGe for our bi-weekly interview series. This week, SURGe member Shannon Davis interviews Allan Liska, threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future and author of Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover. They'll talk about the threat of ransomware, including recent trends, the impact of hack-back operations, and how organizations can become more resilient against attacks. ...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Oakland could be dealing with a second ransomware attack in two months - Notorious hacking forum shuts down after administrator gets arrested - Google Pixel f...

Join us as we kick off our new bi-weekly 1-1 interview series, starting with Sergio Caltagirone. Sergio was formerly at NSA, Director of Threat Intelligence at Microsoft, VP of Threat Intelligence at Dragos, Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, now the founder and president of the Threat Intelligence Academy, and of course, co-author of The Diamond Model.  We will talk about all...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Kirsty Paine for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here . The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - Biden administration releases U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy   - PoC exploit for recently patched Microsoft Word RCE is public (CVE-2023-21716) - Ransomware...

Grab a cup of coffee and join David Bianco, Shannon Davis, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - Twitter plans to remove access to SMS 2FA for non-subscribing users https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter - Google TAG, Mandian...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Audra Streetman, and special guest David Bianco for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .   The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - VMware warns admins to patch ESXi servers, disable OpenSLP service - LockBit ransomware group threatens Royal Mail with data leak deadline - Ru...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .   The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - Ticketmaster says a cyberattack disrupted Taylor Swift ticket sales - Apple iOS 16.3 arrives with support for hardware security keys - Ukraine signs an agreem...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here . The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - LastPass , Slack , and CircleCI notify customers of security incidents. - Chick-fil-A investigates reports of hacked customer accounts - CyberScoop reports: Insi...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Kirsty Paine for a special episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe, live in Washington, DC for GovSummit. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - NIS2 is coming… What does it mean? - NDAA requires intelligence agencies to study creation of cyber collaboration program...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - ESET Research identifies a wave of ransomware attacks targeting organizations in Ukraine that they're calling #RansomBoggs - Cincinnati State College is added...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - CISA reminds voters that there is no credible threat to voting equipment for the U.S. midterm elections. - Splunk released a blog last week about the OpenSSL...

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here .    The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:  - The DOJ announces charges against two Chinese intelligence officers accused of trying to subvert a U.S. criminal investigation involving a China-based teleco...