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Risky Biz News: iPhones are auto-rebooting to defeat law enforcement

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: iPhones are auto-rebooting to defeat law enforcement
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Risky Biz News: Russia blocks Cloudflare ECH connections

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: Russia blocks Cloudflare ECH connections
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Srsly Risky Biz: How Telegram makes criminal enterprise easy

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the Snowflake hack after the person allegedly responsible was arrested in Canada. Telegram is involved at all sorts of levels and Tom wonders if this crime would have occurred if Telegram didn’t exist.

They also discuss the impact of the Chinese hack of US telcos and Sophos’ five-year cyber knife fight with Chinese APT crews.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Srsly Risky Biz: How Telegram makes criminal enterprise easy
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Risky Business #769 -- Sophos drops implants on Chinese exploit devs

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs
  • Microsoft workshops better just-in-time Windows admin privileges
  • Snowflake hacker arrested in Canada
  • Okta has a fun, but not very impactful auth-bypass bug
  • Russians bring dumb-but-smart RDP client attacks
  • And much, much more.

Special guest Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar joined us to talk about its “hacking back” campaign. The full interview is available on Youtube for those who want to really live vicariously through Sophos doing what every vendor probably wants to do.

This week’s episode is sponsored by attack surface mapping vendor runZero. Founder and CEO HD Moore joins to talk about marrying up the outside and inside views of your network.

You can also watch this episode on Youtube

Risky Business #769 -- Sophos drops implants on Chinese exploit devs
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Risky Biz News: Big changes coming to Windows 11 admin accounts

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: Big changes coming to Windows 11 admin accounts
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Between Two Nerds: The grand strategy of ransomware

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss what the Russian state gains and loses from hosting a ransomware ecosystem.

Between Two Nerds: The grand strategy of ransomware
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Risky Biz News: 1,000 detained in scam compound raid

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: 1,000 detained in scam compound raid
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Sponsored: Nucleus Security on partners and integrations

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Adam Dudley, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives & Alliances at Nucleus Security, on how the company works with partners and customers to constantly improve its service. Adam also touches on how executives are now inquiring about vulnerability management more than low-level practitioners.

Sponsored: Nucleus Security on partners and integrations
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Risky Biz News: Sophos doxes Chinese exploit development centers

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: Sophos doxes Chinese exploit development centers
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Risky Business #768 -- CSRB will investigate China's Wiretap Hacks

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • CSRB to investigate China’s telco-wiretapping hacks
  • Euro law enforcement takes down the Redline infostealer
  • Someone steals Fed crypto… and then tries to quietly sneak it back in
  • Russia sentences REvil guys to … jail? Really?
  • Apple private cloud compute gets a proper bug bounty program
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Material Security, who help navigate the mess of cloud productivity data security. Daniel Ayala - Chief Security and Trust Officer at Dotmatics - is a Material customer, and joins Pat and Material Security’s Rajan Kapoor to talk about how to wrangle securing data that ends up in corporate cloud email and file stores.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #768 -- CSRB will investigate China's Wiretap Hacks
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