Three Buddy Problem
The Three Buddy Problem is a popular Security Conversations podcast that goes beyond industry talking points to discuss what others won’t -- nation-state malware, attribution, cyberwar, ethics, privacy, and the messy realities of securing computers and corporate networks.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Jul 4, 2026
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AI Doomers, Death Cults, and a Million-Dollar WeChat Worm Exploit (opens the original)
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( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 113 : On the show this week, the buddies dig into an Anthropic researcher quitting with a warning that AI could kill us all, the San Francisco "death cult" and their motives, and agent swarms leaving junk on public wikis and university URL shorteners. Plus, a high-quality Anthropic's threat r
Three Secret AI Civilizations Rose and Fell. Nobody Checked the Logs. (opens the original)
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( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 112 : The 'OpenAI hacks Hugging Face' fallout has turned into a story about AI civilizations rising from the ashes, politicians calling for super-intelligence bans, and the emergence of well-funding non-profits doing AI safety work. Who are these people and what's their security expertise? Pl
A Thousand Agents Walk Into Hugging Face (opens the original)
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( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 111 : OpenAI finally published a technical Hugging Face post-mortem, and Costin's verdict is blunt. He reads it as a document written for policymakers rather than for the blue teams who have to survive a thousand-agent swarm. We also dig into NVIDIA's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face
Inside the EncroChat law-enforcement implant, Irregular's AI sandbox failure (opens the original)
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( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 110 : We dig into Computer Weekly's scoop on the EncroChat hack and news that the French law enforcement implant was cobbled together from GitHub. Plus, Irregular, the $450M startup running sandboxes for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, drones over Romania's gas platforms, OpenAI's two-week traini
A tiny 12 KB Windows backdoor, one victim, and a dead domain (opens the original)
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( Presented by State of Statecraft : A security and intelligence conference that brings together multiple disciplines, backgrounds, and nationalities to share research into the covert activities of nation-states and other malign actors. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 109 : The buddies dig into a new White House memo handing vetted private companies real offensive cyber authorities, and Costin explains why a stack of ransomware takedown cases has been sitting on a shelf waiting for exactly this.
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