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  This week Ed Bellis joins the show to talk about risk based vulnerability management. My 3 main takeaways were 1) which factors you should take into consideration when prioritizing vulnerability remediation 2) the effects that public exploit code has on remediation efforts 3) how organizations can improve their threat prioritization by using their own threat intel in their risk assessments For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

        This week John Strand joins the show to talk about pen testing in the age of Corona, bypassing multi-factor authentication, dealing with ransomware and starting a security business. My 3 main takeaways were 1) why 0-days don't matter 2) how to bypass identity services like Okta and 3) the one guiding rule for creating a security business For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

      This week Tanya Janca hangs out to talk about secure coding,  supply chain security and her new book 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security'. My 3 main takeaways were 1) how to choose the right language to develop in when starting a project 2) why we should get rid of as many different JavaScript frameworks as possible within our code base and 3) what drives someone to write a computer security book For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

  This week Or Katz joins us to shares his research into novel phishing evasion techniques seen in the wild. My 3 main takeaways were 1) What the most popular methods to propagate phishing attacks are 2) what signals can help determine if complicated code is malicious or not and 3) How to handle potentially malicious users when we don’t have enough information to understand their true intentions For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

  This week Chris Rock shares his story as well as some techniques he's used as a cyber mercenary. My 3 main takeaways were 1) why 0-days are rarely needed 2) Spear-phishing as the most efficient technique for the initial compromise 3) why the easiest path to your target may be by hacking someone else, like their accountant For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

    This week Hakluke shares some mindset tweaks and tactical advice on how to improve your bug bounty hunting. My 3 main takeaways were 1) why the abundance mindset is so important 2) what we can learn from the similarities between the music industry and bounty hunting and 3) why collaboration is so important. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

  This week Katie Moussouris hangs out to talk about both the advantages as well as challenges in running bug bounty programs. My 3 main takeaways were when companies should choose a bounty as opposed to a pen test, where a company should be at operationally before launching a program and how companies should prepare before launching their bug bounty program. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week STÖK joins us to talk about how he approaches bug bounties. My 3 main takeaways were why you should specialize in a couple of specific bug types. Why you should constantly scan a multitude of bounty programs and why you should hack with a team. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week Joona Hoikkala joins us to talk about some of the advanced features of ffuf. My 3 main takeaways were why you should use a VPS for running scans and how to integrate an external ffuf scan into your local Burp instance. Why you should use filters instead of the default pattern matcher to remove false positives as well as what cool functionality he's working on to enhance ffuf's capabilities. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week James Kettle joins the show to talk about the methodology he uses to find really novel widespread vulnerabilities that break the internet. My 3 main takeaways were what techniques he uses to decide what research topics are worth pursuing. Second, what behavior traits are needed to become a successful security researcher and third why the HTTPOnly cookie flag is useless and a complete joke. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week Jeremiah Grossman hangs out talk InfoSec, ransomware and asset inventory. My 3 main takeaways were how we can use metadata to corrolate assets to an entity. Second, why cyber insurance will dictate what security tests are run and third Jeremiah's 3 super powers that aren't related to Jiu-jitsu For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week Ira Winkler joins the show to talk about social engineering & protecting your network against the human element. My 3 main takeaways were how we need to integrate lessons from industrial safety programs into our security policies. Second, what procedures Twitter should've had in place to prevent their recent hack against high profile users as well as what the most important skill for social engineering is. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week Samy Kamkar hung out to talk about some of his adventures creating worms and zombie drone armies with a focus on his process for reverse engineering both software and hardware. My three main takeaways were how he created cheats on Counter-Strike, how he created one of the fasting spreading viruses of all time and why he finds the physical access control problem interesting. For more information, including the show notes check out https://breachsense.io/podcast

This week Chris Kubecka joins the show. We focused on leveraging OSINT in security research. My three main takeaways were how she used OSINT to find Boeing's dev systems. As well how she uses code search engines to find a systems running a piece of known vulnerable code and why its worthwhile doing security research out of the Netherlands when your target likes to sue you into silence.

This week HD Moore is on the show. We focused on asset identification. The three main takeaways are how to figure out relationships between domains, meaning how to correlate domain ownership without relying on whois information (which in our GDPR world is no longer available). We also talked about moving beyond fingerprints to figure out what a device actual is and not just the OS it runs. Finally, why local networks are only growing and getting denser even when the trend is to move everything to the cloud.

This week Robert Baptiste, aka Elliot Anderson (@fs0c131y) joins us to chat about his research into TikTok, how he bypassed limitations in the Indian government’s Covid tracing app to figure out how many sick people were in their parliament building as well as his new endeavor fighting disinformation with Predicta Lab.  

This week Dawgyg (Tommy DeVoss) hangs out to chat about his approach to bug bounty hunting, which led him to be one of eight million dollar hackers on the HackerOne platform. We discuss his approach to recon, how he finds unique bugs, how to get into bug hunting and more.

  This week Simon Bennetts joins me to talk about how to automate web app scanning via ZAP. We discuss API integration, headless scanning, Github action scans, the HUD and more.

    This week Matthias Wilson joins me to discuss how he uses various OSINT techniques to track down Nigerian advance payment scammers while having a bit of fun. Matthias also shares how he's combined OSINT and social engineering techniques during physical engagements.

              This week Ty Miller of Threat Intelligence fame joins us to talk about security automation. Whether you're tasked with incident response, pen testing or gathering threat intelligence, automation can enable you to scale and maximize resources. We talk about chaining various open source tools together to give you an initial baseline level of information as well as Evolve, their commercial alternative.