Best Cult Hackers Podcasts (2025)

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Broadcom, LastPass, SEO Poisoning, QR codes, H1B visas, Distributed Computing... - PSW #893 1:03:06

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Broadcom, LastPass, Brickstone, SEO Poisoning, QR codes, H1B visas, Distributed Computing, and More... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-893

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Rearchitecting Systems for Privacy as AI Agents Force You to Rethink Security - Guillaume Jaulerry - BSW #414 1:02:20

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As AI and cloud-based services power our connected world, individuals are facing an unprecedented privacy crisis. With more than 2.3 billion people entrusting their data to the cloud and centralized servers, cyberattacks, data breaches, surveillance, identity theft, and privacy threats are now everyday risks. How do we protect against these threats…

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Uhura, Collins, Nimbus Manticore, Sonic Wall, Async Rat, Solar Winds, Aaran Leyland.. - SWN #514 29:42

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Uhura, Collins, Nimbus Manticore, Sonic Wall, Async Rat, Solar Winds, ShadowV2, H1B, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-514

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Design Errors in Entra ID, Design Defenses in iOS, Design Difficulties in DeepSeek - ASW #349 58:43

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In the news, Microsoft encounters a new cascade of avoidable errors with Entra ID, Apple improves iOS with hardware-backed memory safety, DeepSeek demonstrates the difficulty in reviewing models, curl reduces risk by eliminating code, preserving the context of code reviews, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episo…

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Disruption is Coming for the Vulnerability Management Market - Tod Beardsley - ESW #425 1:47:15

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Interview with Tod Beardsley This interview is sponsored by runZero. Legacy vulnerability management (VM) hasn't innovated alongside of attackers, and it shows. Let's talk about the state of VM. Check out https://securityweekly.com/runzero to learn more! Topic Segment: NPM Incidents In this week’s topic segment, we’re discussing all the NPM supply …

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CrowdStrike's AI Innovations in Cyber Defense - SWN #513 37:15

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In this episode of Security Weekly News, Joshua Marpet and Aaran Leyland discuss the latest trends in AI and cybersecurity, focusing on innovations from CrowdStrike, the implications of new cyber incident reporting rules, and the evolving landscape of ransomware. They explore the role of AI in enhancing security measures, the challenges posed by ma…

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Safes, Hackers, and Web Servers - PSW #892 2:12:25

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This week's technical segment is all about the T-Lora Pager from Lilygo, and really cool Meshtastic device that can also be used for some hacking tasks! In the security news: Your safe is not safe Cisco ASA devices are under attack VMScape HybridPetya and UEFI attacks in the wild Eveything is a Linux terminal Hackers turns 30 Hosting websites on di…

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Board Priority But Lack of Access & CISO Pressure, 360 Privacy and Pentera Interviews - Chuck Randolph, Tom Pore - BSW #413 1:10:10

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In the leadership and communications segment, Lack of board access: The No. 1 factor for CISO dissatisfaction, Pressure on CISOs to stay silent about security incidents growing, The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team, and more! Jackie McGuire sits down with Chuck Randolph, SVP of Strategic Intelligence & Security at 360 Privacy, for a grippi…

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AI Nuns, Steganography, You're fired, VoidProxy, C++, Carplay Apriso, Josh Marpet... - SWN #512 34:29

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AI Nuns, Steganography, You're fired, VoidProxy, C++, Carplay Apriso, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-512

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How OWASP's GenAI Security Project keeps up with the pace of AI/Agentic changes - Scott Clinton - ASW #348 1:08:00

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This week, we chat with Scott Clinton, board member and co-chain of the OWASP GenAI Security Project. This project has become a massive organization within OWASP with hundreds of volunteers and thousands of contributors. This team has been cranking out new tools, reports and guidance for practitioners month after month for over a year now. We start…

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Forrester's AEGIS Framework, the weekly news, and interviews with Fortra and Island - Jeff Pollard, Rohit Dhamankar, Michael Leland - ESW #424 1:40:37

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Segment 1 - Interview with Jeff Pollard Introducing Forrester’s AEGIS Framework: Agentic AI Enterprise Guardrails For Information Security For this episode’s interview, we’re talking to Forrester analyst Jeff Pollard. I’m pulling this segment’s description directly from the report’s executive summary, which I think says it best: As AI agents and ag…

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From Turning Point To The Point of No Return: The Ritual Sacrifice of Iryna Zarutska & Charlie Kirk 48:47

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! WARNING: We’re discussing the ugly intersection of politics, conspiracy and ritual occultism as they pertain to wildly polemical history-making events, so, make sure your tinfoil hat is affixed firmly to your head and your seat is in the upright and seated position because somebody is going to crash out…

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Diella, Texas, Movie Rip Offs, WAF, AdaptixC2, Nano11, and More... - SWN #511 33:44

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Diella, Texas, Movie Rip Offs, WAF, AdaptixC2, Nano11, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-511

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Americans Can't Hack It - PSW #891 2:09:32

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This week: Americans Can't Hack It Copy and paste to get malware Pixel 5 web servers - because you can How they got in and why security is hard Vulnerability management is failing - is it dead yet? Exploiting hacker tools Bluetooth spending spree! How to defend your car IoT security solutions and other such lies Exploiting IBM i (formerly AS/400) V…

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Forrester 2026 Budget Planning Guide and BlackHat 2025 Interviews - Jess Burn, Matt Muller, Danny Jenkins - BSW #412 1:11:11

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With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities. Where should they look? Jess Burn, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss Forrester's Budget Planning Guide 2026: Security And Risk. This data-and-insights-driven re…

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Hellhounds, Anthropic, iCloud, NPM, gitforked, notdoor, TOR, Signal, Josh Marpet - SWN #510 32:42

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AI Hellhounds, Anthropic, iCloud, NPM, gitforked, notdoor, TOR, Signal, WhatsApp, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-510

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Limitations and Liabilities of LLM Coding - Seemant Sehgal, Ted Shorter - ASW #347 1:17:09

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Up first, the ASW news of the week. At Black Hat 2025, Doug White interviews Ted Shorter, CTO of Keyfactor, about the quantum revolution already knocking on cybersecurity’s door. They discuss the terrifying reality of quantum computing’s power to break RSA and ECC encryption—the very foundations of modern digital life. With 2030 set as the deadline…

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Ransomware, Agentic AI, and Supply Chain Risks: Insights from Black Hat 2025 - HD Moore, Jason Passwaters, J.J. Guy, Theresa Lanowitz, Mickey Bresman, Yuval Wollman, Jawahar “Jawa” Sivasankaran - ESW ... 2:06:06

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Doug White sits down with Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist at LevelBlue, for a powerful and timely conversation about one of cybersecurity’s most pressing threats: the software supply chain. Theresa shares fresh insights from LevelBlue’s global research involving 1,500 cybersecurity professionals across 16 countries. Together, they unpack the rea…

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3I/ATLAS: Messengers From Beyond & The Spiritual Significance of Comets 56:04

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week’s episode we wrap our grey matter into a catcher’s mit to intercept the fastest known object to ever race through our solar system, 3i/Atlas, a comet of interstellar origin which is both currently on its way to Earth and causing no small handful of people on it to speculate if it is not jus…

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AI Trolley Problems, Rhode Island Drivers, and Kohlbergian Post Conventionalism - SWN #509 40:58

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Josh Marpet and Doug White talk about AI Ethics, Issues, and Compliance. AI Trolley problems, Rhode Island Drivers, and Post Conventionalism. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-509

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Lasagna DoS, AI Slop, Hacker Ultimatums - PSW #890 2:04:36

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In the secure news: Automakers respond to Flipper Zero attacks More on the unconfirmed Elastic EDR 0-Day When Secure Boot does its job too well Crazy authenitcation bypass Hacker ultimatums AI Slop Impatient hackers Linux ISOs are malware Attackers love drivers Hacking Amazon's Eero, the hard way Exploits will continue until security improves The S…

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Security Money: The Index Dips and 20 Years of Cybersecurity Consolidation - Ross Haleliuk - BSW #411 1:04:12

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The cybersecurity industry is undergoing a consolidation wave that is moving far faster than many realize. This isn’t at all about CISOs wanting fewer tools as much as some would like to think - the changes are happening at the macro level. Ross Haleliuk joins BSW to present the most comprehensive illustration ever made of how our industry has cons…

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Rinoa Poison, Scambaiter Extraordinaire - Rinoa Poison - SWN #508 33:29

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I talk to Rinoa Poison about scambaiting, identity, and all sorts of things. Check it out. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-508

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AI, APIs, and the Next Cyber Battleground: Black Hat 2025 - Chris Boehm, Idan Plotnik, Josh Lemos, Michael Callahan - ASW #346 1:08:11

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In this must-see BlackHat 2025 interview, Doug White sits down with Michael Callahan, CMO at Salt Security, for a high-stakes conversation about Agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and the massive API security risks reshaping the cyber landscape. Broadcast live from the CyberRisk TV studio at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, the discussion pu…

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Dave Lewis talks M&A due diligence, TBD topic, the weekly news - Dave Lewis - ESW #422 1:46:21

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Interview with Dave Lewis on Security's Role in M&A Due Diligence In this episode, Dave Lewis from 1Password discusses the critical importance of security in mergers and acquisitions, from due diligence through integration. He explores common pitfalls, essential security assessments, and practical strategies for security leaders to protect organiza…

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Vitamin Overdose With Edgar Cayce: "I Accidentally The Whole Qabbalah" 51:18

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week’s episode we break out the Edgar Cayce compendium to follow up on our discussion about the anatomy of the soul and somewhere along the way, trip, fall and accidentally the whole Qabbalah. In the free side of the show we discuss how Edgar Cayce’s description of the soul eerily matches with a…

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Astro Oblivion, FreePBX, GitHub, OWASP, Promptlock, Claude Aaran Leyland - SWN #507 35:51

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Porn bombing the celestial zoom room and Astro Oblivion, FreePBX, GitHub, OWASP, Promptlock, Claude Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-507

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Hackers Steal Your Car and Vulnerabilities - Rob Allen - PSW #889 2:10:12

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Rob Allen joins us to discuss the importance of security research teams, and some cool stuff they've worked on. Then, in the Security News: Flipper Zero, unlocking cars: The saga continues The one where they stole the vulnerabilities ESP32 Bus Pirates AI will weaponize everything, maybe What are in-the-wild exploits? Docker and security boundaries,…

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vCISO Benefits as the CISO Becomes Strategic and the Board's Responsible for Security - Brian Haugli - BSW #410 59:29

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Securing top-tier cybersecurity leadership is not just a necessity but a significant challenge, especially when working within budget constraints. Should you hire a full-time CISO or outsource to a vCISO provider? Brian Haugli, CEO at SideChannel, joins BSW to discuss how organizations can hire a Virtual CISO (vCISO) to benefit from their expertise…

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Naughty RBG, Docker, RDP, SBOMS, Kullback-Leibler, Oneflip, Youtube, Josh Marpet... - SWN #506 33:44

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Naughty RBG, Docker, RDP, SBOMS, Kullback-Leibler, Oneflip, Youtube, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-506

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Translating Security Regulations into Secure Projects - Roman Zhukov, Emily Fox - ASW #345 1:13:31

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The EU Cyber Resilience Act joins the long list of regulations intended to improve the security of software delivered to users. Emily Fox and Roman Zhukov share their experience education regulators on open source software and educating open source projects on security. They talk about creating a baseline for security that addresses technical items…

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LOVE HAS WON: The Cult of Amy Carlson w/ Tim Hacker 48:10

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! This week’s episode we dive into the wacky world of the live-streaming, colloidal silver selling cult, LoveHasWon whose central focus is the worship of an ex-McDonalds manager named Amy Carlson who they believe is God incarnate and preparing the world for our space brothers in the fifth dimension to rai…

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Oktane Preview with Harish Peri, Invisible Prompt Attacks, and the weekly news! - Harish Peri - ESW #421 1:49:28

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Interview with Harish Peri from Okta Oktane Preview: building frameworks to secure our Agentic AI future Like it or not, Agentic AI and protocols like MCP and A2A are getting pushed as the glue to take business process automation to the next level. Giving agents the power and access they need to accomplish these lofty goals is going to be challengi…

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Humans extinct: 2040, Okta, Elastic, Bad Bots, Berserk Bear, Siemens, Aaran Leyland.. - SWN #505 34:12

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Humans wiped out by 2040, Okta, Elastic, Bad Bots, Berserk Bear, Siemens, Philip K. Dick, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-505

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What We’ve Learned from LockBit and Black Basta Leaks (and News) - Ian Gray - PSW #888 2:15:17

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This segment is sponsored by Flashpoint. Visit https://securityweekly.com/flashpoint to learn more about them! Recent leaks tied to LockBit and Black Basta have exposed the inner workings of two of the most notorious ransomware groups—revealing their tactics, negotiation strategies, and operational infrastructure. For defenders, this rare window in…

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Misconfiguration, The Forgotten Vulnerability and the Power and Failure of "Yes" - Danny Jenkins - BSW #409 53:55

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The industry is obsessed with vulnerabilities. From vulnerability assessment to vulnerability management to exposure management and even zero days, we love to talk about vulnerabilities. But what about misconfiguration? By definition it's a vulnerability or weakness, but it doesn't have a CVE (common vulnerability enumeration). Should we ignore it?…

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The cult of Doug, Crime, Pipemagic, Clickfix, Cats in Space, Josh Marpet, and more... - SWN #504 34:06

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The cult of Doug, Crime, Pipemagic, Clickfix, Cats in Space, Uncle Silvio, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-504

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Managing the Minimization of a Container Attack Surface - Neil Carpenter - ASW #344 1:08:17

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A smaller attack surface should lead to a smaller list of CVEs to track, which in turn should lead to a smaller set of vulns that you should care about. But in practice, keeping something like a container image small has a lot of challenges in terms of what should be considered minimal. Neil Carpenter shares advice and anecdotes on what it takes to…

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The Hidden Origins of Common Phrases 43:01

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Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week’s episode we break out the military-grade thesaurus and embark down the long, winding road back to the shadowy origins from which some of our most common turns of phrase originate, illuminating their esoteric origins and what exactly they meant in the first place. On the free side of the sh…

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Rethinking risk based vulnerability management, Black Hat expo insights, and the news - Snehal Antani - ESW #420 1:55:35

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Interview with Snehal Antani - Rethinking Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Vulnerability management is broken. Organizations basically use math to turn a crappy list into a slightly less crappy list, and the hardest part of the job as a CIO is deciding what NOT to fix. There has to be a better way, and there is... Segment Resources: https://hori…

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Creepy chatbots, Fortinet, CISA, Agentic AI, FIDO, EDR, Aaran Leyland, and More... - SWN #503 35:09

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Creepy chatbots, Fortinet, CISA, Agentic AI, FIDO, EDR, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-503

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EP35. Alien: Earth First, Together, and Spoiler-filled Review of Weapons 1:58:20

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Mike and Angel are joined by guest host Raymond for a jam-packed episode of scares, shocks, and sci-fi. Mike kicks things off with his first impressions of the FX series Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley’s tense new chapter in the Alien saga. Then Angel and Raymond weigh in on Together, the twisted horror-thriller starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a …

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Hackberry PIs and Other Hacker Things - PSW #887 2:08:42

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We kick things off with a deep dive into the Hackberry PI and how to build one. Then in the security news: Will Perplexity buy Chrome? ESP32 Bus Pirates Poisoned telemetry Docker image security Fully Open Source Quantum Sensors Securing your car, Flippers, and show me the money Bringing your printer and desktop to Starbucks Paying a ransom? You nee…

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50 Years of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 2:29:08

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Originally released in 2023, we’re re-publishing this episode to celebrate the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW — the longest-running continuous theatrical release of all time and one of the most iconic cult films in cinema history. What began as a fringe stage production in a tiny experimental theater space in London evolved into …

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Defending Trust & Reputation as CISOs and Leaders Prepare Their AI Strategy - Santosh Nair - BSW #408 50:05

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As brands grow more digital, the threats grow more personal. Attackers impersonate executives, spin up fake websites, and leak sensitive data — hurting business reputations and breaking customer trust. How do you defend your organization's reputation and customers' trust? Santosh Nair, Co-Founder and CTO at Styx Intelligence, joins Business Securit…

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300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet... - SWN #502 34:14

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300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-502

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The Future of Supply Chain Security - Janet Worthington - ASW #343 42:13

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Open source software is a massive contribution that provides everything from foundational frameworks to tiny single-purpose libraries. We walk through the dimensions of trust and provenance in the software supply chain with Janet Worthington. And we discuss how even with new code generated by LLMs and new terms like slopsquatting, a lot of the most…

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ESW at BlackHat and the weekly enterprise security news - ESW #419 45:44

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Topic Segment - What's new at Black Hat? We're coming live from hacker summer camp 2025, so it seemed appropriate to share what we've seen and heard so far at this year's event. Adrian's on vacation, so this episode is featuring Jackie McGuire and Ayman Elsawah! News Segment Then, in the enterprise security news, Tons of funding! SentinelOne picks …

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SonicWall, Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity, GPT‑5, Josh Marpet–SWN #501 - SWN #501 34:23

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This week we have, SonicWall, Confidential Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity vs robots.txt, Microsoft’s Project Ire, Meta–Flo Jury Verdict, GPT‑5 Lands, TeaOnHer Data Leak, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-…

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STRANGE DAYS Pt 2: The Future No One Was Ready For | Virtual Insanity 1:12:07

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“Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason.” In the second half of our STRANGE DAYS deep dive, we pick up with the music—both on screen and behind the scenes—that gives the film its pulse. We explore how a soundtrack packed with industrial rock helps build the film’s atmosphere, and how composer Graeme Revell stepped in at …