This episode sponsored by Yubico.On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Taiwan tensions fail to conjure the cyber apocalypse
- Crypto bridge exploit results in $150m feeding frenzy
- Chainalysis evidence to be challenged in court
- Post-quantum NIST candidate algorithm gets smoked
- DSIRF’s Russia links
- Much, much more
This week’s sponsor interview is with Jerrod Chong from Yubico. He’s joining the show to talk about why consumer-focussed implementations of Webauthn like Apple’s Passkeys aren’t a great enterprise solution.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- Taiwanese websites hit with DDoS attacks as Pelosi begins visit
- 'Frenzied mob' steals more than $156 million from crypto platform Nomad - The Record by Recorded Future
- Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial | WIRED
- Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour | Ars Technica
- Federal court system suffered previously undisclosed breach, congressional committee says
- Australian police charge man with developing spyware used by more than 14,500 people - The Record by Recorded Future
- Risky Biz News: Microsoft puts the limelight on another spyware maker—DSIRF from Austria
- Eavesdropping probe finds Israeli police exceeded authority | AP News
- Hacker use of Microsoft macros plummeted after default block: report - The Record by Recorded Future
- On security researcher's newsletter, exposing cybercriminals behind ransomware
- Luxembourg energy companies struggling with alleged ransomware attack, data breach - The Record by Recorded Future
- At least 34 healthcare orgs affected by alleged ransomware attack on OneTouchPoint - The Record by Recorded Future
- American Dental Association says April cyberattack involved ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future
- Ransomware group demands £500,000 from British schools, citing cyber insurance policy - The Record by Recorded Future
- Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals | TechCrunch
- Experts warn of hacker claiming access to 50 U.S. companies through breached MSP - The Record by Recorded Future
- German prosecutors issue warrant for Russian government hacker over energy sector attacks - The Record by Recorded Future
- The commercial satellite boom is leaving space vulnerable to hackers - The Record by Recorded Future
- Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission - U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission - Google Books
- Spanish police arrest two accused of hacking radioactivity alert system - The Record by Recorded Future
