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Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about recent US and UK action including indictments and sanctions levied on PRC Ministry of State Security related hackers. In contrast to previous indictments, this one focuses a lot on the...
A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird. You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Josh Kamdjou, co-founder and CEO of Sublime Security. Josh describes how Sublime implemented the concept of attack surface reduction to email security last year, how it works, and what...
Normal Seriously Risky Biz correspondent Tom Uren is on leave this week, so there’s some lunatics-running-the-asylum energy in the episode. Patrick Gray wrote this week’s newsletter, and Adam Boileau asks him what exactly we are to do with Microsoft? They’re...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at Russia’s recent leak of an intercepted German military discussion. From an intelligence point of view the content of the discussion is only moderately interesting, but Russia...
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with George Glass, Senior Vice-President for Kroll’s Cyber Risk business. George covers the company’s latest report, a Kimsuky attack on ConnectWise ScreenConnect devices with a new malware strain named ToddlerShark.
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about ‘Document 79’, a PRC government document that calls for the Chinese companies in finance, energy and other sectors, to remove foreign software from their IT systems by 2027. They also talk...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at recent efforts to disrupt ransomware gangs and discuss what could make these efforts more effective.
In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico’s VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances. Derek covers the different reasons organisations are investing in Passkeys, what organisations need to know to deploy them successfully, and...
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the recent kerfuffle in Germany after a WebEx discussion between senior air force officials was leaked by Russian propagandists. Its interesting to see Russia using raw intelligence to try and...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at the shift that has taken place in Ukraine’s cyber strategy as it has gone on the front foot and its cyber forces have launched multiple cyber...
In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Vijit Nair, Corelight’s VP of Product, about how cloud security was once an afterthought but is now on the improve.
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the White House’s push for memory safe programming languages and software measurability. They also discuss Nevada’s moves against end to end encryption for children and the national security concerns with...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq apologise for repeating a quote that is purported to be Russian cyber doctrine, but is not. They also wonder why this phenomena has happened before with the so-called...
A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird. You can find the newsletter version of this podcast click here.
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Tines co-founder and CEO Eoin Hinchy about how the unique features of AI and ML algorithms are more suited to blue teamers and defending networks rather than attackers.
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about a recent leak from a PRC cyber espionage contractor i-SOON. The leak sheds light on China’s cyber salt mines and the system’s hyper-capitalist, pay-for-results, approach to stealing secrets.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine Russian cyber doctrine and how it was applied in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine. They mention this Human Rights Watch report which examined how...
In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Rob King, runZero’s Director of security research. The pair talk about the world of Operational Technology protocols and how Rob dissects these protocols to be sure that active discovery...
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about what to do about commercial spyware. A new Google TAG report is a great primer on the ecosystem. They also talk about Ukraine’s shift in cyber strategy. It is now carrying...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why military doctrine in authoritarian states has an emphasis on cyber and information supremacy.
In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher Greg Lesnewich. Greg explains how a North Korean group is using DMARC spoofing in its efforts to gather strategic intelligence.
In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk about how the US has kicked off a campaign to combat Volt Typhoon, a PRC group that is positioning itself in US critical infrastructure to be able to disrupt it in...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what up and coming countries should expect from a cyber command and whether they should invest in them.
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Haroon Meer of Thinkst Canary. They discuss how network attackers win, how their tactics have changed over time and what this means for network defenders.
In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about how the NSA suffered collateral damage from the US’s lax data privacy environment. They also discuss how to respond to aggressive adversaries, how the current SEC cyber security disclosure regime is...
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how the war in Ukraine is showing how useful mobile devices are in war. Using them is risky, but those risks need to be managed. They refer...