Risky Business Podcast
October 25, 2023
Risky Business #726 -- Okta owned while Cisco takes a massive L
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with Dmitri Alperovitch, NSA Cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and NSA CCC director Morgan Adamski. They discuss:
- The Okta breach
- 40-50k feral Ciscos
- Why the http/2 protocol flaw is a real headache
- The Ragnar Locker takedown
- What the NSA CCC has been thinking about
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Show notes
Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit – Krebs on Security
Almost 42K Cisco IOS XE devices exploited, no patch available | Cybersecurity Dive
Critical Atlassian Confluence CVE under exploit by prolific state-linked actor | Cybersecurity Dive
JetBrains vulnerability being exploited by North Korean gov’t hackers, Microsoft says
Citrix Netscaler patch for critical CVE bypassed by malicious hackers | Cybersecurity Dive
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years | WIRED
Europol: ‘Key target’ in Ragnar Locker ransomware operation arrested in Paris
Hacker accused of breaching Finnish psychotherapy center facing 30,000 counts
The US Congress Was Targeted With Predator Spyware
Lloyd’s of London finds hypothetical cyberattack could cost world economy $3.5 trillion