Srsly Risky Biz: Death by a thousand cuts

PLUS: Ransomware's latest troll

NOTE: We have removed this podcast audio from our feed due to a legal action against the Reuters article on which this discussion is based.

In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk the rise of the Indian hack-for-hire industry. It doesn’t get the same attention that high-profile iPhone ‘zero-click’ hacking does, but its a global scourge that undermines legal processes.

They also discuss the AlphV ransomware group reporting a company to the SEC for not disclosing a breach that it caused.

Risky Biz News: Fastly to block domain fronting in 2024

PLUS: Windows Hello authentication bypassed; Pegasus spyware found in Serbia; and 21 Chinese anti-censorship tools disappeared overnight.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Why o365 and Google Workspace are a security liability

How Material Security uses API magic to tackle Google Workspace and o365 security challenges...

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray talks to Material Security’s CEO and co-founder Abhishek Agrawal about the security problems inherent to modern productivity suites.

Does it make sense that threat actors can authenticate to o365 and Workspace accounts and clean them out entirely? Years of mail, years of files?

Material Security has built a product that tackles this issue. It can lock up email archives behind MFA challenges, redact PII from inboxes, better control files share via Google Drive and OneDrive, and just generally limit the damage a threat actor can inflict when they compromise a cloud productivity account.

Even if you’re not interested in buying a product to tackle this, we think this one is a great listen.

Srsly Risky Biz: LockBit's disastrous success

PLUS: How to sneak by without regulation

In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk about two very significant cyber incidents. In the first, LockBit attacked the US arm of China’s biggest bank and the disruption left the bank owing USD$9bn at the end of the day. The other disrupted 40% of Australia’s port traffic.

They also examine the reasons why it makes sense for banks to do more regarding fraud.

Between Two Nerds: The Rules of War in cyberspace

Why talking about International Humanitarian Law is both pointless yet still worthwhile

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about International Humanitarian Law aka the Rules of War in cyberspace. These rules don’t really make sense in cyberspace, but despite that we think talking about them (and other norms of behaviour) is still worthwhile

Risky Biz News: Malay officials take down BulletProftLink

PLUS: UAE tricks and arrests BEC scam group; Australian ports crippled by a cyber attack, and Windows Server 2012 gets paid security updates.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Clop is coming for your SysAid servers

PLUS: OCCRP's Indian reporters targeted with Pegasus; China hacks 24 Cambodian government agencies; and Nokoyawa ransomware gang retires.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Srsly Risky Biz: Microsoft's Future Security Initiative disappoints

PLUS: How the EncroChat interception operation was blown

In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk about Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative. It’s been likened to the company’s 2002 Trustworthy Computing initiative, but compared to that it is a massive disappointment.

They also discuss how the European-wide police operation against EncroChat unravelled when a UK intelligence analyst warned her friends with criminal links that the service had been compromised.

Between Two Nerds: The Morris Worm

The age of the internet destroying worm

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the internet-melting 1988 Morris Worm and how cyber security has changed since then.


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