Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Co-host at large

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