Risky Business Podcast
July 27, 2022
Risky Business #673 -- When throwing computers into a woodchipper is standard IR
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Why Entrust being ransomwared is good news
- UEFI bootkits turn hardware into landfill
- Microsoft resumes macro blocking rollout
- Pat and Adam talk about why plugging your IDP into legacy apps is a dreadful idea
- Much, much more
This week’s sponsor guest is Paul “The Voice” Lanzi of Remediant. He’s popping along to talk about the emergence of a new product category – Identity Threat Detection and Response, or ITDR.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
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Show notes
Italy investigating ransomware attack on tax agency - The Record by Recorded Future
Microsoft resuming default block of Office VBA macros - The Record by Recorded Future
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica
Cyber Command shares bevy of new malware used against Ukraine - The Record by Recorded Future
Cyber criminals attack Ukrainian radio network, broadcast fake message about Zelensky's health
Congress goes after spyware purveyors. Will it make a difference?
Congress Might Actually Pass ADPPA, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act | WIRED
Federal privacy legislation progresses, but concerns about data brokers loom
Former Coinbase Manager Arrested by Feds for Alleged Insider Trading
Cisco patches dangerous bug trio in Nexus Dashboard | The Daily Swig
Atlassian patches batch of critical vulnerabilities across multiple products | The Daily Swig
Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter | Ars Technica