Risky Business #426 -- House Oversight Committee drops OPM breach report PLUS St Jude sues MedSec

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Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

In this week’s feature interview we chat with Stephen Ridley about all things IoT. Stephen is a researcher turned entrepreneur and he’ll be along to talk about the platform consolidation we’re going to see when it comes to “things”. Once that settles, he argues, we’ll get a better idea of the security risks we should really, actually be worried about. In this week’s sponsor interview we’re chatting with Simon Galbally at Senetas.

Senetas, of course, makes high assurance network encryptors and Simon joins us this week to talk about where certification schemes might be headed. Did you know there are no sunset clauses on many of the certification schemes out there? So yeah, you can be using a FIPS certified box that’s riddled with known bugs and yep, it’s still certified. Certifications could start moving towards more continuous models.

Insomnia Security’s Mark Piper is this week’s news guest.

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Risky Business #426 -- House Oversight Committee drops OPM breach report PLUS St Jude sues MedSec
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St Jude Medical - St. Jude Medical Brings Legal Action Against Muddy Waters and MedSec

Surprise! House Oversight report blames OPM leadership for breach of records | Ars Technica

OPM Hackers Used Marvel Superhero Nicknames to Hide Their Tracks | Motherboard

Feds pin brazen kernel.org intrusion on 27-year-old programmer | Ars Technica

Activists to FBI: Show Us Your Warrant for Mass Hack of TorMail Users | Motherboard

FBI Denies Making Dark Web Child Porn Site Run Faster | Motherboard

Dark Web Market Bans Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl After Recent Deaths | Motherboard

Porn Sites Feel Exposed by Flash, Get It on With HTML5 | Motherboard

Nearly 800,000 Brazzers Porn Site Accounts Exposed in Forum Hack | Motherboard

Over 40 million usernames, passwords from 2012 breach of Last.fm surface | Ars Technica

After Breaches At Other Services, Spotify Is Resetting Users' Passwords | Motherboard

More passwords, please: 98 million leaked from 2012 breach of “Russia’s Yahoo” | Ars Technica

Spoof an Ethernet adapter on USB, and you can sniff credentials from locked laptops • The Register

L0phtCrack's back! Crack hack app whacks Windows 10 trash hashes • The Register

So much for counter-phishing training: Half of people click anything sent to them | Ars Technica

George W Bush hacker Guccifer to spend 52 months in the big house • The Register

Golden State Warriors Android app constantly listens to nearby audio, fan says [Updated] | Ars Technica

OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down | Ars Technica

Number of Devices Sharing Private Crypto Keys Up Sharply | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Data Stealing Mac OS X Backdoor Uncovered | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Google Shuts Down Potentially Massive Android Bug | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

New OS X security updates patch same zero-days as iOS 9.3.5 | Ars Technica

Critical Flaws Found in Network Management Systems | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Chrome 53 Fixes Address Spoofing Vulnerability, 32 Other Bugs | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Hello, Fortinet? Could you patch these vulns please? • The Register

Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits | WIRED

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Jaggi paper highlights benefits of high-assurance encryption