Risky Business #685 -- Australia releases the hounds, and it might just work

Why the Australian government's announcement is more than bluster...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one)
  • Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling
  • Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion
  • Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah
  • Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program.

Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin

PLUS: WaPo details root CA's shady links with surveillance industry…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief
  • Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked
  • Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation
  • EU Parliament report into spyware lands
  • SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Between Two Nerds: Why does Europe suck?

Why do European states suck at military cyber operations?

What’s the point of having military cyber capability? It seems that states in the European Union don’t know either. In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss why states in the EU are no good at military cyber operations.

Risky Business #683 -- OpenSSL bug is a fizzer, ASD responds to Medibank hack

We're back, and there's plenty to cover…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage
  • Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response
  • Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired
  • OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper
  • Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka.

Between Two Nerds: When Small is Beautiful

Why do some states use small separate dispersed groups such as contractors?

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss why some states seem to favour small dispersed groups that are contractors rather than large centralised organisations like the NSA and GCHQ. Do they see positive benefits in that approach? Or do they use contractors out of necessity?

Risky Biz News: GitHub aflood with fake and malicious PoCs

PLUS: Iran nuclear agency hacked; $60 million ransom demanded from UK car dealership Pendragon; and DormantColors spreads malicious Chrome and Edge extensions.

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

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