Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms

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:

  • Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little
  • Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer
  • Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap
  • Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy
  • Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement?
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to discuss the unfashionable choice they made in hosting their platform one-VM-per-customer.

Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms
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Show notes

CrowdStrike investors file class action suit following global IT outage | Cybersecurity Dive

CrowdStrike rebukes Delta’s negligence claims in fiery letter | Cybersecurity Dive

Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

Sparks fly when lawyers meet a certificate revocation

crt.sh | Alegeus

U.S. releases Russian hackers in Evan Gershkovich prisoner swap

U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap – Krebs on Security

Who are the two major hackers Russia just received in a prisoner swap? | Ars Technica

Hackers remotely wipe 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks after breaching safety software

Mobile Guardian Device Management Application to be removed | MOE

Ford wants patent for tech allowing cars to surveil and report speeding drivers

I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding | WIRED

Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites | Ars Technica

Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms – Krebs on Security

Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say | TechCrunch

Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs – Thinkst Thoughts

Defending AI Model Files from Unauthorized Access with Canaries | NVIDIA Technical Blog