This episode sponsored by Gigamon.On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one)
- Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling
- Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion
- Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah
- Much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- Risky Biz News: Australia to hack the hackers
- Australia to consider banning ransomware payments - The Record by Recorded Future
- Two enormous cyberattacks convince Australia to 'hack the hackers' - The Washington Post
- Australian Federal Police say cybercriminals in Russia behind Medibank hack - The Record by Recorded Future
- The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun | WIRED
- US reissues sanctions on Tornado Cash, tying it to North Korea's nuclear weapons program - The Record by Recorded Future
- Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED
- Is it safe to use Twitter? Security fears rise after Elon Musk drives off staff
- Twitter’s Security And Privacy Leaders Quit Amidst Musk’s Chaotic Takeover
- FTC tracking developments at Twitter with 'deep concern' after CISO resigns - The Record by Recorded Future
- Mastodon users vulnerable to password-stealing attacks | The Daily Swig
- Risky Biz News: Major hack-and-leak info-op unfolding in Moldova
- All Day DevOps: Third of Log4j downloads still pull vulnerable version despite threat of supply chain attacks | The Daily Swig
- Billbug: State-sponsored Actor Targets Cert Authority, Government Agencies in Multiple Asian Countries | Symantec Enterprise Blogs
- Lenovo driver goof poses security risk for users of 25 notebook models | Ars Technica
- Cisco: InterPlanetary File System seeing ‘widespread’ abuse by hackers - The Record by Recorded Future
- Project Zero: A Very Powerful Clipboard: Analysis of a Samsung in-the-wild exploit chain
- Google Pixel screen-lock hack earns researcher $70k | The Daily Swig
- DJ Zavala & DMNTED - Welcome to Ukraine - YouTube
