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Coffee Talk with SURGe: Ukraine War, GRU Hactivist Coordination, Network Monitoring, Optus Breach

Grab a cup of coffee and join Audra Streetman and special guests David Bianco and Haylee Mills for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The trio will discuss the latest cybersecurity news, including: Haylee and David competed in a 60 second charity challenge to explain the concept of domain shadowing. The team also discussed the Uber hack as it relates to general security practices at companies.

Coffee Talk with SURGe: Twitter Whistleblower, Roasting Oktapus, Montenegro Cyberattack

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news including: Mick and Ryan competed in a 60 second charity challenge to explain why they think password managers are still your best option for password security. The team also discussed data privacy after the FTC announced it is suing a data broker for selling geolocation data. Meanwhile, the FCC is launching an investigation into mobile carriers' geolocation data practices.

Introduction to Splunk Common Information Model

Security and IT analysts need to be able to find threats and issues without having to write complex search queries. The Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) delivers a common lexicon of field names and event types across different vendor data sources making them consistent so that analysts can write clearer queries and get better results with more true positives and fewer false positives.

Coffee Talk with SURGe: Signal Numbers Exposed, FTC Data Privacy Rules, Conti Ransomware, E2EE

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. This week they discussed Signal's response to the Twilio breach, the FTC's effort to create new data privacy rules, and a $10 million reward for information about a suspected Conti ransomware operator.

Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-MAY-31 Follina MSDT zero day, ransomware roundup, supply chain risk

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk broke down the Follina/MSDT zero day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190), rounded up the latest ransomware activity, and discussed supply chain risk related to Python and PHP libraries. Mick and Ryan competed in a 60 second charity challenge to explain LOLBins before taking a deep dive into the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-MAY-17 Conti Hits Costa Rica, Cardiologist Ransomware, CISA MSP Alert

Coffee Talk with SURGe! Grab a cup of coffee and join Audra Streetman, Mick Baccio, and special guest Haylee Mills for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk discussed a ransomware attack that prompted Costa Rica to issue a state of emergency, a cardiologist in Venezuela accused of building ransomware tools, and an alert from CISA warning about cyber threats to MSPs. This week Audra and Haylee competed in a 60 second charity challenge on "certs vs. degrees" in cybersecurity before taking a deep dive into Splunk Risk-Based Alerting.