Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • Half of all UK COBRA meetings are ransomware related
  • Ransomware biggest risk to US port security
  • White House to move on spyware industry
  • EU to launch its own Starlink equivalent
  • Much, much more

AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber will be joining us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how companies and their boards are really moving towards outcomes-based security programs.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry
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Show notes

Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings - The Record by Recorded Future

DHS Secretary: Cyberattacks are the most significant threat to port infrastructure - The Record by Recorded Future

Michigan school districts reopen after three-day closure due to ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future

Microsoft: Royal ransomware group using Google Ads in campaign - The Record by Recorded Future

Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security

Risky Biz News: Cyber Partisans hack and disrupt Kremlin censor

US, Estonian authorities arrest two over $575 million cryptocurrency fraud - The Record by Recorded Future

New FTX CEO details 'complete failure of corporate controls' at crypto platform

OpenSSL Usage in UEFI Firmware Exposes Weakness in SBOMs

EU reaches agreement on new satellite constellation - The Record by Recorded Future

Ukraine’s Engineers Dodged Russian Mines To Get Kherson Back Online–With A Little Help From Elon Musk’s Satellites

Senate Democrats call on FTC to investigate Twitter's data security

11.17.22 - FTC - Twitter Letter

Twitter has a lot of your data. Here's what you can do about it.

Mastodon vulnerable to multiple system configuration problems | The Daily Swig

System misconfiguration is the number one vulnerability, at least for Mastodon

White House expected to issue executive order reining in spyware

H20220930-005_Himes-Speier cc's - DocumentCloud

A Leak Details Apple's Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup | WIRED

Risky Biz News: Iranian state hackers breached US government agency and deployed a cryptominer, out of all things

India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed - The Record by Recorded Future

Amazon addresses vulnerability affecting AWS AppSync - The Record by Recorded Future

CVE-2022-41924 - RCE in Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities for Data Extortion and Disk Encryption for Ransom Operations | CISA

Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization | CISA