This edition of the show features Adam Boileau and Patrick Gray discussing the week’s security news:

Citizen Lab drops NSO Group report

“Weaponised Stuxnet” claims are idiotic

Another State Department email breach! Drink!

Dutch foil planned attack against Swiss Novichok lab

Mirai botnet authors working for FBI

US telcos want to be consumer auth brokers

US fails to extradite “Mr Bitcoin”

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Remediant. They make a just-in-time access solution for privileged account management (PAM), and we’re doing something a little different in this week’s sponsor interview.

Paul Lanzi of Remediant will be along, but so will Harry Perper of MITRE corporation. Harry’s pay-cheques say MITRE, but he’s been working on a NIST project. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST has been working on a project to provide guidance on the secure usage and management of privileged accounts. The so-called 1800-18 document is a practical guide and reference architecture for privileged account management and we’ll talk to both Harry and Paul about that after the news.

Links to everything that we discussed are below, including the discussions that were edited out. (That’s why there are extras.) You can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.