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.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Snake Oilers: Truffle Security, KSOC and Snyk

If you are "extremely online" you'll like this edition...

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers:

  • Truffle Security talks secrets discovery
  • KSOC builds Kubernetes security tools
  • Snyk has a new product to better secure Infrastructure as Code

Between Two Nerds: Cyber Operations on the Battlefield

Can cyber operations be integrated with tactical conventional warfare?

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether destructive cyber effects can be integrated effectively with tactical conventional warfare. There are some wrinkles: how do soldiers on the ground know what cyber ops can be used for, can you execute them fast enough and what can they even do anyway?


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