Podcasts

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this edition of Snake Oilers Patrick Gray gets pitches from three cybersecurity companies:

• Authentik, an open source identity provider that a lot of large organisations are deploying on prem as an alternative to cloud-based IDPs
• Dropzone AI, an LLM-based agent that can do the work of a Tier 1 SOC analyst
• SlashID, an identity security company that can crunch your logs to find attackers

You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss Russia’s use of exploits from commercial spyware vendors. Bought through a front, or stolen with other bugs?

The also discuss Iran’s counter-intelligence innovations - if you apply for a job thats very clearly an Israeli front, then perhaps you’re not that trustworthy after all?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• Brazil’s supreme court bans X-formerly-Twitter,
• Iranian cyber teams cooperate with ransomware crews
• While North Koreans wield chrome-windows 0-day
• Yubikey cloning attack is impressive, but doesn’t have us binning our keys quite yet
• The White House is coming for your unsigned BGP announcements
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Okta, and specifically their Identity Security Posture Management product. Okta recently acquired Spera Security, and co-founder Ariel Kadyshevitch joins to talk through the messy reality of modern identity. Pat even gets the giggles at how terrible everything is!

You can also watch this episode on Youtube.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this edition of Between Three Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk to Alex Joske, author of a book about how the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) has shaped Western perceptions of China. They discuss the MSS’s position in the Chinese bureaucracy, its increasing role in cyber espionage, its use of contractors and the PRC’s vulnerability disclosure laws.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew introduces Plasma, a new GreyNoise product that can allow customers to deploy custom GreyNoise sensors anywhere they want—on perimeters, on internal networks, on DMZs, or anywhere else.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov being bailed. They dive into the backstory behind the charges he’s facing and what it all might mean for other messaging platforms.

They also discuss a very handy list of straightforward ways to detect North Korean’s trying to sneak into remote work jobs.