Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free

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:

  • Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free
  • USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates
  • Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom
  • Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue
  • We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free
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Show notes

Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says

US to ban Kaspersky Lab software nationwide later this year

Cyberattack on CDK Global stymies work at car dealerships across US

Almost 200 cancer operations postponed as ransomware group publishes London hospitals data

UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

South Africa’s national health lab hit with ransomware attack amid mpox outbreak

Ransomware victims are becoming less likely to pay up | Cybersecurity Dive

Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation | Reuters

Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag | TechCrunch

Two bluetooth vulnerabilities in Windows

Thread on reversing the patch

Basic concept for the latest windows wifi driver CVE