A special mailbag episode with book recommendations

(Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials — the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.)

Three Buddy Problem – Episode 79: We cover MongoBleed (CVE‑2025‑14847), exposed MongoDB deployments, and the sad realization that zero-day attacks are a normal, everyday occurrence. Plus, AI’s expanding role and misuse across products and workflows, proximity attacks against Bluetooth audio devices, spyware sanctions de-listings, and ransomware economics.

In a special mailbag segment, we give our book recommendations and respond to common questions from the listeners.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Links:

• Transcript (unedited, AI-generated)
• Sponsored by Material Security
• MongoDB Server Security Update (Dec 2025)
• CVE Record: CVE-2025-14847
• Censys on MongoBleed
• European Space Agency hit by cyberattack
• Security pros plead guilty to ransomware
• US removes sanctions for three execs tied to spyware maker Intellexa
• Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone
• Dan Geer Black Hat 2015 keynote
• Book Review: Infected – A Candid Look at VirusTotal’s Birth and Legacy
• Infected: From Side Project to Google: The Journey Behind VirusTotal
• The Human Factor (Inside the CIA’s dysfunctional intelligence culture)
• A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do
• Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
• Cult of the Dead Cow (by Joseph Menn)
• The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story
• Thinking in Systems (PDF)
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• The Denial of Death: Ernest Becker
• Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
• DeepLearning.AI