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Risky Business #749 -- Google answer to Microsoft's insecurity? Buy Google stuff!


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This week’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at AusCERT’s 2024 conference. Pat and Adam talked through:

  • Google starts using security as a marketing tool against Microsoft, along with steep discounts
  • Microsoft announces a creepy desktop recording AI
  • UK govt proposes ransom payment controls
  • Arizona woman runs a laptop farm for North Korea
  • Julian Assange just keeps on with his malarky
  • And much, much more
  • This week’s episode is sponsored by Tines. Its CEO Eoin Hinchy joins the show to talk about how AI can be genuinely useful in automation.

    Show notes
    • (1) Dina Bass on X: "Google is offering deep discounts to government and corporate customers to entice them to switch from Microsoft Office as it attacks Microsoft's cybersecurity over recent breaches, citing US gov't cybersecurity review board report https://t.co/43sIJmBWi5" / X
    • Microsoft president set to testify before Congress on ‘security shortcomings’ | Cybersecurity Dive
    • Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson Announce Microsoft President Will Testify on Company’s Security Shortcomings Following Hack of Government Accounts – Committee on Homeland Security
    • Google leverages Microsoft’s cyber gaps to woo Workspace customers | Cybersecurity Dive
    • CSRB report highlights the need for a new approach to security
    • (1) vx-underground on X: "tl;dr Microsoft introduces 24/7 surveillance functionality for the NSA and/or CIA but markets it as a feature that you'll like" / X
    • Everything You Need to Know About Windows 11's Recall Feature
    • Australian government warns of 'large-scale ransomware data breach'
    • (1) National Cyber Security Coordinator on X: "The Australian Government continues to assist MediSecure, an electronic prescriptions provider, respond to a cyber incident. We are still working to build a picture of the size and nature of the data that has been impacted by this data breach impacting MediSecure. This https://t.co/oyNeRonurZ" / X
    • HHS offering $50 million for proposals to improve hospital cybersecurity
    • Remote-access tools the intrusion point to blame for most ransomware attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
    • UK insurance industry begins to acknowledge role in tackling ransomware
    • Exclusive: UK to propose mandatory reporting for ransomware attacks and licensing regime for all payments
    • Hacktivists turn to ransomware in attacks on Philippines government
    • Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies | Ars Technica
    • US offers $5 million for info on North Korean IT workers involved in job fraud
    • FCC might require telecoms to report on securing internet's BGP technology
    • FCC to probe ‘grave’ weaknesses in phone network infrastructure
    • EPA says it will step up enforcement to address ‘critical’ vulnerabilities within water sector
    • EPA takes steps to address cybersecurity weaknesses at water utilities
    • British signals agency to protect election candidates’ phones from cyberattacks
    • Feds seize BreachForums platform, Telegram page
    • Dark web narcotics market’s alleged leader arrested and charged in New York
    • WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says | WIRED
    • ...more
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