Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists - Pascal Geenens - ESW #351

Pascal Geenens from Radware joins us to discuss the latest research findings relating to hacktivists an other actors using volumetric and other network-based attacks. We'll discuss everything from the current state of DDoS attacks to use in the military and even the impact of cyberattacks on popular culture!

You can find the report Pascal mentions here, on Radware's website: https://www.radware.com/threat-analysis-report/

In this week's news segment, we discuss the lack of funding announcements, and the potential effect RSA could have on the timing of all sorts of press releases. We also discuss 1Password's potential future with its sizable customer base and the $620M it raised a few years back.

Some other topics we discuss:

• NIST CSF 2.0
• insider threats
• Ivanti Pulse Secure's appliance software found to be running positively ancient software (11 year old Linux distro, 5-20+ year old libraries & components)
• Nevada AG trying to get messaging decrypted for children, to "protect them"
• Kelly Shortridge's response to CISA's secure development RFI
• OpenAI's new GenAI video product, Sora and the potential impact it could have on cybersecurity
• Instacart spews out crappy AI recipes and photos

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-351