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Decipher Security Podcast

Decipher
Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence
Ransomware
Microsoft
Crowdstrike
Google
CISA
Social Engineering
Machine Learning
Sneakers
React2shell
Breach Reporting
Star Wars
Cloudflare
Apple
Phishing
Snowflake
Mandiant
Threat Actors
Data Feudalism

Every week, Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch, the editors of Decipher, bring you exclusive, in-depth conversations with security researchers, CISOs, founders, and security experts to hellp you understand the threat landscape and better protect your organizations.

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Unlike a lot of founders in the industry, Sravish Sridhar hasn't spent his career in the security world. He comes from a background in distributed computing and advanced math, and is a successful entrepreneur who's now bringing that experience to bea... more

Few people (if any) have spent more time thinking about and working on the hard problems in security and software than Gary McGraw, and he also happens to have a PhD in cognitive science and computer science and has been studying neural nets and AI s... more

Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, talks about the insane background behind the $285 million Drift Protocol crypto heist, how law enforcement agencies are investigating ransomware-linked cryptocurrency wallets, and how effective sanction... more

If we needed any more evidence that the internet was a mistake, this week provided it. We kick things off with a discussion of the Canvas breach that has affected thousands of schools worldwide, then we dig into the disclosure of two new vulnerabilit... more

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Recent Guests

Sravish Sridhar
CEO and co-founder of TrustCloud
TrustCloud
Episode: Solving Hard Security Problems With an Outsider's Perspective | Sravish Sridhar
Gary McGraw
Security researcher, co-founder of Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML)
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML)
Episode: AI Has a Security Measurement Problem | Gary McGraw
Ari Redbord
Global Head of Policy, TRM Labs
TRM Labs
Episode: Inside the $285M Drift Protocol Heist | Ari Redbord
Will Dixon
Intel 471 security researcher
Intel 471
Episode: Fighting Cybercrime With Global Intelligence | Will Dixon
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Security researcher; co-presenter of Fast16/Threat research
SentinelOne
Episode: The fast16 Mystery, Stuxnet, and the History of Cyber Espionage | Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Ariana Mirian
Founder of Beesafe, former Census researcher
Beesafe; Census (former)
Episode: Defeating Online Scams and Disrupting the Cybercrime Chain | Ariana Mirian
Tom Ptacek
Veteran vulnerability researcher; co-founder of Montesano and Latacora; principal at fly.io
fly.io
Episode: The Era of AI-Led Vulnerability Research With Tom Ptacek
Andrew Northern
Principal Security Researcher at Censys
Censys
Episode: Mapping the Cybercrime Ecosystem With Andrew Northern of Censys
Caitlin Condon
VP of Research at VulnCheck
VulnCheck
Episode: The Wild, Wild World of Exploits With Caitlin Condon

Hosts

Dennis Fisher
Host of the Decipher podcast network; seasoned cybersecurity journalist and interviewer.
Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch
Co-host and editor with a focus on interviews and episode production.

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4.2 out of 5 stars from 15 ratings
  • So so at best

    I had high hopes when I subscribed but that quickly went away when they entered into political opinion.

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    1
    Daryl Roades
    Canada4 years ago
  • Like it but HORRIBLE audio issues

    Particularly in ep12 there are multiple examples where there are people talking over one another and then periods of silence. There’s some very annoying background noise like someone has a TV or Radio on while recording.

    Dudes. Clean it up... 🙃

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    taroliw
    United States7 years ago

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Inside the $285M Drift Protocol Heist | Ari Redbord
Q: How has North Korea's approach to crypto crime evolved compared to traditional cybercrime?
North Korea has professionalized crypto theft as a state-supported activity, focusing on off-ramping funds quickly and laundering through complex networks, using cross-border flows and privacy techniques to avoid capture, essentially treating crypto theft as a strategic economic instrument.
Inside the $285M Drift Protocol Heist | Ari Redbord
Q: Can you explain what Drift Protocol is and why the attack was possible?
Drift Protocol is a decentralized exchange on Solana with a governance mechanism; the attackers spent months social engineering and physically meeting staff at conferences, gaining access to controls that let them approve major changes, which allowed them to unlock the exchange and steal 285 million dollars.
The fast16 Mystery, Stuxnet, and the History of Cyber Espionage | Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Q: What makes Fast16 particularly noteworthy?
Fast16 is a driver with a patching engine and state machine that could modify calculations, using high-precision math and FPU manipulation, indicating a far deeper and more nuanced capability than a typical rootkit, and suggesting it was part of a broader, modular platform.
The fast16 Mystery, Stuxnet, and the History of Cyber Espionage | Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade
Q: Where did the germ of this Fast16 research idea come from?
The idea grew out of an ongoing territorial dispute research project and a long-running effort to trace back on the Shadow Brokers data, driven by a search for any components or samples that could illuminate Fast16 and its context.
The Era of AI-Led Vulnerability Research With Tom Ptacek
Q: What changed in the past year to accelerate AI-enabled vulnerability research?
A combination of model improvements, better tool integration, and more capable multi-turn reasoning with code has shifted the landscape from theoretical to highly practical for many targets, making vulnerability discovery with AI more feasible and impactful.

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Hard-hitting security conversations pair weekly hosts as they interview researchers, founders, and practitioners about current threat trends, exploitation signals, vulnerability management, and incident response. Episodes often mix technical deep-dives with industry anecdotes, regulatory context, and real-world defense guidance, making it useful for security teams evaluating risk, vendors seeking technical credibility, and listeners who want practical takeaways for prioritization, patching, and threat intelligence. Noteworthy strengths include high-signal interviews with recognizable researchers and practitioners, a willingness to cover both cutting-edge topics and popular culture through security-adjacent discussions, and a candid, ribbing... more

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