Beers with Talos Podcast

Come for the Hacking, Stay for the Cheese

• Cisco Talos

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Talos' Ashley Shen joins Hazel, Dave, Bill and Joe to talk about investigating emerging threats and building security communities. 

Ashley shares her route into threat intelligence, as well as the stories behind co-founding HITCON GIRLS in Taiwan and Rhacklette in Switzerland and how she helps others find their way into security. We discuss her work investigating spyware and surveillance campaigns, investigating UAT-6275 with Recorded Future, how she builds an attribution case, and as a Black Hat board reviewer, what conference reviewers want from a CFP submission.

Plus, learn about how Ashley’s AI agents are working around the clock (but they’re all waiting for her). Dave investigates the team’s karaoke choices. And in 'Make Hazel a Hacker', a modest incident response budget meets some very old bidet-making equipment.

Link to Ashley's Talos research: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/author/ashley/

Rhacklette community: https://rhacklette41.github.io/

HITCON Girls: https://girls.hitcon.org/main/en.html

A production note: Technical difficulties during recording affected the audio quality in a few small places. We’ve cleaned it up as much as possible. Thanks for bearing with us.