Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. 

The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including:

- CISA reminds voters that there is no credible threat to voting equipment for the U.S. midterm elections.

- Splunk released a blog last week about the OpenSSL vulnerabilities, which were downgraded from critical to high severity.

- Medibank says it will not pay the ransom after data for 9.7 million customers was compromised. 

- Azov ransomware is observed destroying data instead of encrypting it.

- The White House creates an International Counter Ransomware Task Force following a two-day summit. 

Mick and Audra also competes in a 60 second charity challenge to share their takes on a proposal from the Red Cross to create digital emblems to deter cyberattacks during conflict targeting systems belonging to hospitals and humanitarian organizations.