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Peter House from Deep Tree talks with Mike Chmielewski about the newest threat firewalls. SonicWall is investigating this after a surge in Akira ransomware attacks targeting its Gen7 firewalls. If you use Gen7 SonicWall, please check or have your IT manager check to ensure SSLVPN is turned off. They also discussed hackers who use a long game compared to hackers who move in and out, looking for qui...

Peter House and David Shield discuss threat actors

Peter House, Mike Chmielewski, and David Shield discuss the potential hazards of browser extensions, and more.

Peter House just returned from a trip to Chicago. He was there for a "Hacker Mini-Camp," basically a week of presentations and learning. There were two presentations that he thought were relatable to us here in the valley. One was that three hundred North Korean citizens were employed as remote IT workers using only 70 stolen US identities. These workers used their salaries to send back money trac...

Peter House from Deep Tree talks about current cybersecurity threats. Up to 6 gigabytes of data is gathered about everyone daily. These are found on your phone, the internet, and in your car.

Peter and Mike continue their cyber security discussion.

Peter explains how Signal works and security issues with your phone; talks about the health data issues with Oracle Health; and more.

Peter and Mike talk about the auctioning of Social Security numbers; ransomeware exploits of Fortinet flaw; Apache Tomcat vulnerability; and BeyoneTrust admin access being auctioned on the Dark Web. 

Peter House and Mike discuss tracking dangers of Air Tags, the Zero Day show, and more

Peter and Mike discuss the ins and outs of how AI can be leveraged for malicious offensive operations and how the Trump administration's changes to agency staffing and missions impact national cybersecurity levels.

In this episode, Peter and Mike cover the new patch for Netgear router vulnerabilities; VPN and remote access services and how to choose the right one; and the Trump administration removal of the Cyber Safety Review Board.

On today’s episode, Peter and Mike discuss the Alaska Retirement Fund hack; Allstate being sued by Texas for tracking drivers; the FBI deleting PlugX from 4,000 computers; and some vulnerability announcements.

Mike and Peter discuss a real life intrusion attempt from a home network, the new iPhone and AI, and touch upon the Chinese intrusion into US telecom networks.