Best Cisco Trust Center Podcasts (2025)

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HN798: Fortinet Offers a SOC Every Org Can Grow Into (Sponsored) 44:00

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On today’s Heavy Networking: the Security Operations Center, or SOC. When I think of a SOC, I picture a miniature version of NASA’s mission control: lots of computers, lots of people, some big boards with lines and arrows and telemetry scrolling across the screens. I also think of SOCs as requiring a lot of gear,... Read more »…

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TNO043: Under the Manhole Cover: The Architecture of an Internet Exchange 1:11:02

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In an IT world full of abstraction, overlays, and virtualization, it’s important to remember the physical infrastructure that supports all those things. So let’s get inside Mass IX, the Massachusetts Internet Exchange, to get a holistic view of the logical architecture and protocol mechanics of peering and Internet exchanges, as well as the iron, s…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 26th, 2025: Webshells in .well-known; Critical Cisco Vulns Exploited; XCSSET Update; GoAnywhere MFT Exploit Details (#) 5:25

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 26th, 2025: Webshells in .well-known; Critical Cisco Vulns Exploited; XCSSET Update; GoAnywhere MFT Exploit Details Webshells Hiding in .well-known Places Our honeypots registered an increase in scans for URLs in the .well-known directory, which appears to be looking for webshells. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Webshel…

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IPB184: IPv6 Basics: Dual-Stack 25:30

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We’re diving into another IPv6 Basics today with the topic of dual-stack, which means running the IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks simultaneously. We get many questions about the implications of running dual-stack, and in this episode we’ll provide answers. We start by getting a little finicky about the definition of dual-stack, and then talk about...…

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N4N039: Configuring an IPsec Tunnel 1:01:20

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We dive back into the world of IPsec with an episode dedicated to configuring IPsec tunnels. After discussing a listener comment regarding transport mode in IPsec tunnels, Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky work through topics such as multi-vendor IPsec configuration, licensing, and the details of configuration and routing. Bonus material: MTU size an…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 25th, 2025: Hikvision Exploits; Cisco Patches; Sonicawall Anit-Rootkit Patch; Windows 10 Support (#) 5:33

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 25th, 2025: Hikvision Exploits; Cisco Patches; Sonicawall Anit-Rootkit Patch; Windows 10 Support Exploit Attempts Against Older Hikvision Camera Vulnerability Out honeypots observed an increase in attacks against some older Hikvision issues. A big part of the problem is weak passwords, and the ability to send cred…

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D2DO283: Lessons Learned When a Startup Doesn’t Take Wing 34:10

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Today we talk to Elad Ben-Israel about his former startup Wing Cloud, and the language that was built along with it, Winglang. We discuss why Eland started Wing Cloud, lessons learned about founding a start up, and what the future holds for the Winglang language. Ad Spot: Faddom Faddom helps you discover and map your... Read more »…

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NAN101: Scaling Intel’s Data Centers with Network Automation (Sponsored) 52:21

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Transforming over 5,000 network devices across 56 data centers is no small feat. Doing that with a very small team is even more impressive. On today’s episode, sponsored by Network To Code, we talk to Greg Botts from Intel, who with his team accomplished just that. They started with YAML files and DNS records and... Read more »…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 24th, 2025: DoS against the Analyst; GitHub Improvements; Solarwinds and Supermicro BMC vulnerabilities (#) 7:23

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 24th, 2025: DoS against the Analyst; GitHub Improvements; Solarwinds and Supermicro BMC vulnerabilities Distracting the Analyst for Fun and Profit Our undergraduate intern, Tyler House analyzed what may have been a small DoS attack that was likely more meant to distract than to actually cause a denial of service …

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HW061: Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul 22:36

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As automation of machinery in industrial environments grows, there is a need for reliable wireless technologies to connect and control mobile assets. Mobile assets cannot tolerate dropped connections or network latency, which could jeopardize safety among other problems. Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul is one such product that promises to …

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PP079: Rethinking the Architecture of Microsegmentation 57:41

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Microsegmentation is a complex topic. We did an overview episode earlier this year, and we invited listeners to reach out to keep the microsegmentation conversation going. Today’s guest did just that. Philip Griffiths is Head of Strategic Sales at Netfoundry. However, this isn’t a sponsored show about NetFoundry. Philip is also involved in a workin…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: Ivanti EPMM Exploit; GitHub Impersonation (#) 4:50

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: Ivanti EPMM Exploit; GitHub Impersonation CISA Reports Ivanti EPMM Exploit Sightings Two different organizations submitted backdoors to CISA, which are believed to have been installed using Ivanti vulnerabilities patched in May. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/analysis-reports/ar25-261a Lastpass Observ…

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NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation 26:32

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It’s big-money deals and ever-more AI on this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert from NVIDIA, which has rolled out a software upgrade to patch multiple bugs in its Triton Inference Server, one of which is a dangerous remote code execution vulnerability. On the news front, NVIDIA pledges a $5 billion investment... Read more »…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 22nd, 2025: Odd HTTP Reuqest; GoAnywhere MFT Bug; EDR Freeze (#) 9:03

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 22nd, 2025: Odd HTTP Reuqest; GoAnywhere MFT Bug; EDR Freeze Help Wanted: What are these odd requests about? An odd request is hitting a number of our honeypots with a somewhat unusual HTTP request header. Please let me know if you no what the request is about. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Help+Wanted+What+are+…

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TNO042: Building a Network Digital Twin for Automation and AI (Sponsored) 1:01:17

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The digital twin is an evolving technology in the networking space. On today’s sponsored episode of Total Network Operations, we dig into details and definitions of the digital twin, how it ties into network automation and autonomy, and the power of abstraction layers. We’ll also talk about how the concepts in today’s show might influence... Read m…

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HN797: What To Do When The Business Asks for “AI” 1:07:25

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When someone from the executive suite starts an AI initiative, what does that mean to you, the network engineer? The executive suite probably doesn’t know what their AI idea might mean for infrastructure. They might only have a vague idea of what they’re even trying to accomplish with an AI initiative. Regardless, that initiative puts... Read more …

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 19th, 2025: Honeypot File Analysis (@sans_edu); SonicWall Breach; DeepSeek Bias; Chrome 0-day (#) 7:15

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 19th, 2025: Honeypot File Analysis (@sans_edu); SonicWall Breach; DeepSeek Bias; Chrome 0-day Exploring Uploads in a Dshield Honeypot Environment This guest diary by one of our SANS.edu undergraduate interns shows how to analyze files uploaded to Cowrie https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Uploads%20in%20a%20Dshie…

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LIU000: Announcing Life In Uptime, a New Podcast to Get You Started on Your IT Journey 19:28

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Life In Uptime is a brand-new podcast that explores the real journeys of the people who build and run enterprise IT. Each episode dives into the personal and professional paths that got each guest to where they are today—because the road to a career in technology isn’t one-size-fits-all. This show is for anyone wondering how... Read more »…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 18th, 2025: DLL Hooking; Entra ID Actor Tokens; Watchguard and NVidia Patches (#) 6:32

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 18th, 2025: DLL Hooking; Entra ID Actor Tokens; Watchguard and NVidia Patches CTRL-Z DLL Hooking Attackers may use a simple reload trick to overwrite breakpoints left by analysts to reverse malicious binaries. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/CTRL-Z%20DLL%20Hooking/32294 Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor t…

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TCG058: Creating the Internet Layer That Should Have Been With Avery Pennarun 51:49

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In this deep dive episode, we explore the evolution of networking with Avery Pennarun, Co-Founder and CEO of Tailscale. Avery shares his extensive journey through VPN technologies, from writing his first mesh VPN protocol in 1997 called “Tunnel Vision” to building Tailscale, a zero-trust networking solution. We discuss how Tailscale reimagines the …

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NAN100: A Retrospective On 100 Episodes of Network Automation Nerds 1:02:56

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Network Automation Nerds has reached a special milestone: episode 100! Eric Chou looks back on 5 years of conversations with network automation pioneers, practitioners, and visionaries. Drew Conry-Murray from the Packet Pushers joins Eric, along with online guest Ioannis Theodoridis, to find out why Eric started the podcast, his goals for all these…

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IPB183: Measuring IPv6 and IPv6 Statistics 27:21

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Today we talk about measuring IPv6 and IPv6 statistics. We talk about why it’s useful to measure IPv6, how to track v6 deployment initiatives, and tools to help with your measurements. Episode Links: Google IPv6 – Google IPv6 Global Statistics Dashboard IPv6 Enabled – Hexabuild Episode Transcript: This episode was transcribed by AI and lightly... R…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 17th, 2025: Phishing Resistants; More npm Attacks; ChatGPT MCP abuse (#) 8:48

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 17th, 2025: Phishing Resistants; More npm Attacks; ChatGPT MCP abuse Why You Need Phishing-Resistant Authentication NOW. The recent compromise of a number of high-profile npmjs.com accounts has yet again shown how dangerous a “simple” phishing email can be. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Why%20You%20Need%20Phishing%2…

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PP078: Using Free Tools for Detection Engineering 49:25

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You can build effective, scalable detection pipelines using free and open-source tools like Zeek, Suricata, YARA, and Security Onion. Today on Packet Protector we welcome Matt Gracie, Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions — the team behind the open-source platform used for detection engineering, network security monitoring, and log management…

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HS112: Standardizing NaaS Service Definitions 38:12

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Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) promises enterprises the ability to set up and configure connectivity and network security with a couple of clicks. But for NaaS to truly transform enterprise networking, one thing has been missing: standards. Enter Mplify (formerly the Metro Ethernet Forum), a non-profit focused on standardizing NaaS service definitions…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 16th, 2025: Apple Updates; Rust Phishing; Samsung 0-day (#) 6:43

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 16th, 2025: Apple Updates; Rust Phishing; Samsung 0-day Apple Updates Apple released major updates for all of its operating systems. In addition to new features, these updates patch 33 different vulnerabilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Updates%20Everything%20-%20iOS%20macOS%2026%20Edition/32286 Microsoft…

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N4N038: Well Actually 02 – OSPF Multi-Area and LSA Types 49:57

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We got some interesting listener feedback from our series on OSPF, so today’s N Is for Networking is another “Well actually” episode where we dig into that feedback. In particular, we’ll cover a defense of OSPF multi-area deployments, and dig into OSPF LSA types. Episode Links: OSPF Basics – N Is For Networking Episode 38... Read more »…

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NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok 29:41

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Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on Microsoft Defender and a backdoor in Outlook. On the news front, Cisco announces new AI agents and SoC packages for Splunk; F5 spends $180 million to buy an AI security... Read more »…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 15th, 2025: More Archives; Salesforce Attacks; White Cobra; BSides Augusta (#) 6:06

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 15th, 2025: More Archives; Salesforce Attacks; White Cobra; BSides Augusta Web Searches For Archives Didier observed additional file types being searched for as attackers continue to focus on archive files as they spider web pages https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Web%20Searches%20For%20Archives/32282 FBI Flash Alert: Sale…

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TNO041: From Ansible to AI: Jeremy Schulman on the Evolution of Network Automation 1:12:38

12d ago1:12:38

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Jeremy Schulman has been working at network automation for much of his professional life. On today’s Total Network Operations, host Scott Robohn talks with Jeremy about his ongoing quest to get the network engineering bottleneck out of production. They discuss the early days of network automation when engineers tried to adopt tools from the compute…

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HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored) 53:33

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Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography overhaul is now. But this is likely to be a daunting project because it touches everything: clients, servers, apps, network devices, middleboxes, and so on. Daunting, but doable. We talk with Richu…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 12th, 2025: DShield SIEM Update; Another Sonicwall Warning; Website Keystroke Logging (#) 6:39

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 12th, 2025: DShield SIEM Update; Another Sonicwall Warning; Website Keystroke Logging DShield SIEM Docker Updates Guy updated the “DShield SIEM” which graphically summarizes what is happening inside your honeypot. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/DShield%20SIEM%20Docker%20Updates/32276 Again: Sonicwall SSL VPN Compromises…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 11th, 2025: BASE64 in DNS; Google Chrome, Ivantii and Sophos Patches; Apple Memory Integrity Feature (#) 7:12

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 11th, 2025: BASE64 in DNS; Google Chrome, Ivantii and Sophos Patches; Apple Memory Integrity Feature BASE64 Over DNS The base64 character set exceeds what is allowable in DNS. However, some implementations will work even with these “invalid” characters. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/BASE64%20Over%20DNS/32274 Google C…

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D2DO282: Simplifying Complex Kubernetes Deployments With kro 30:16

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Kubernetes is flexible and customizable, but it can also be notoriously complex and difficult to deploy to. On today’s Day Two DevOps we learn about kro (Kube Resource Operator), an open-source tool that helps simplify complex application deployments. Our guest is Islam Mahgoub, a Solutions Architect at AWS focused on building kro. We talk about...…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 10th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; (#) 8:26

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 10th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Microsoft Patch Tuesday As part of its September patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed 177 different vulnerabilities, 86 of which affect Microsoft products. None of the vulnerabilities has been exploited before today. Two of the vulnerabilities were already made public. Microsoft…

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HW060: CNAE – A New Wired Networking Certification From the CWNP 26:13

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The CWNP offers vendor-neutral certifications for wireless networking professionals. This summer, the organization rolled out a wired certification, the Certified Network Administrator and Engineer (CNAE). This cert is aimed at wired and wireless network engineers to ensure they have a solid grounding in switching, routing, cabling, and wired proto…

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PP077: News Roundup–Drift Breach Has Long Reach; FCC Investigates Its Own IoT Security Program 37:20

15d ago37:20

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Is any publicity good publicity? On today’s News Roundup we talk about how Salesloft, which makes the Drift chat agent that’s been used as a jumping-off point for credential harvesting and data breach attacks against a bunch of big-name companies, is testing that proposition. We also discuss bugs affecting industrial refrigeration controllers, and …

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 9th, 2025: Major npm compromise; HTTP Request Signature (#) 8:44

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 9th, 2025: Major npm compromise; HTTP Request Signature Major npm compromise A number of high-profile npm libraries were compromised after developers fell for a phishing email. This compromise affected libraries with a total of hundreds of millions of downloads a week. https://bsky.app/profile/bad-at-computer.bsky.…

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NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks 24:57

16d ago24:57

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Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase of AI security startup AIM, Microsoft researchers tout hollow core fiber tests that out-perform glass core fiber optics, and Wi-Fi 7 helps drive up... R…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 8th, 2025: YARA to Debugger Offsets; SVG JavaScript Phishing; FreePBX Patches; (#) 5:35

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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 8th, 2025: YARA to Debugger Offsets; SVG JavaScript Phishing; FreePBX Patches; From YARA Offsets to Virtual Addresses Xavier explains how to convert offsets reported by YARA into offsets suitable for the use with debuggers. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/From%20YARA%20Offsets%20to%20Virtual%20Addresses/32262 Phishing vi…

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HN795: Adventures In Latency 57:36

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Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If it’s in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox somewhere on the WAN? If it’s the application, can you, the network engineer, bring receipts to the app team? And what if you need to build and operate a network that’s... Read more »…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 5th, 2025: Cloudflare Response to 1.1.1.1 Certificate; AI Modem Namespace Reuse; macOS Vulnerability Allowed Keychain Decryption (#) 8:19

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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 5th, 2025: Cloudflare Response to 1.1.1.1 Certificate; AI Modem Namespace Reuse; macOS Vulnerability Allowed Keychain Decryption Unauthorized Issuance of Certificate for 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare published a blog post with more details regarding the bad 1.1.1.1 certificate that was issued by Fina. https://blog.cloudflare.c…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 4th, 2025: Dassault DELMIA Apriso Exploit Attempts; Android Updates; 1.1.1.1 Certificate Issued (#) 6:22

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 4th, 2025: Dassault DELMIA Apriso Exploit Attempts; Android Updates; 1.1.1.1 Certificate Issued Exploit Attempts for Dassault DELMIA Apriso. CVE-2025-5086 Our honeypots detected attacks against the manufacturing management system DELMIA Apriso. The deserialization vulnerability was patched in June and is one of a …

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TCG057: Following the Progress of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) With John Capobianco 57:43

21d ago57:43

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John Capobianco is back! Just months after our first Model Context Protocol (MCP) discussion, John returns to showcase how this “USB-C of software” has transformed from experimental technology to an enterprise-ready solutions. We explore the game-changing OAuth 2.1 security updates, witness live demonstrations of packet analysis through natural lan…

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NAN099: Bridging the Gap Between Innovative Tech and Everyday Users 53:29

23d ago53:29

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New technologies, tools, and innovations help move IT forward, but it can be hard for users to keep up. Network Automation Nerds welcomes guest William Collins, a dynamic force in the world of technology. As a passionate tech evangelist, he helps to bridge the gap between emerging technologies such as AI and everyday users with... Read more »…

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D2DO281: Faddom: Providing a Unified Source of Truth for Security and IT Operations (Sponsored) 45:13

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Faddom is re-envisioning what application dependency mapping and infrastructure inventory can be in the era of cloud and hybrid IT. Join us today on this sponsored episode as we speak with Faddom’s Itamar Rotem, CPO and Ofer Regev, CTO, about how Faddom’s discovery process can help to improve migrations for any size organization and help... Read mo…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches (#) 5:30

22d ago5:30

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches A Quick Look at Sextortion at Scale Jan analyzed 1900 different sextortion messages using 205 different Bitcoin addresses to look at the success rate, lifetime, and other metrics defining these campaigns. htt…

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PP076: RF Risks and How to See Unseen Threats 59:58

22d ago59:58

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Our airwaves are alive with radio frequencies (RF). Right now billions of devices around the world are chattering invisibly over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and other protocols you might not have heard of. On today’s show we peer into the invisible world to better understand the RF threat environment. Our guest is Brett Walkenhorst, CTO of... Read mo…

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HS111: When Someone Makes Your Cloud Service Go Poof! 38:29

22d ago38:29

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The modern enterprise is built on cloud, with most organizations using SaaS for their “horizontal” work horse layers, such as communications, conferencing, HR, and payroll. That makes the enterprise entirely dependent on the good-faith execution and good-will delivery of the cloud providers. Those providers have a huge economic incentive to reliabl…

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NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing? 29:30

22d ago29:30

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Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups regarding the 7-year-old Cisco bug, risks of AI agents, and Anthropic forcing you to opt out or have your chats saved for five years. Then we highlight a serious vulnerability (which is being exploited in the wild) in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway systems. On the... Read more »…