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 podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss the Israeli government seizing documents from NSO Group so that they couldn’t be shared with opposition counsel in a US lawsuit during discovery. It’s a terrible look.

They also talk about foreign adversaries turning to commercial firms to buy election interference services in the lead up to the presidential election. Tom argues that is fundamentally good news.

A video version of this episode is available on YouTube.

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

• The insurance industry’s reaction to CrowdStrike’s mess
• Google’s Workspace email validation flaw and its consequences for OAuth’d applications
• Is the VMWare ESX group membership feature a CVE or an FYI?
• Secureboot continues to under-deliver
• North Korea’s revenue neutral intelligence services
• And much, much more

This episode is sponsored by allowlisting software vendor Airlock Digital. Airlock uses a kernel driver on Windows, so Chief Executive David Cottingham joined to discuss what the CrowdStrike kernel driver bug drama means for security vendors.

This episode is also available on Youtube. If you want to ruin the magic of radio and see the faces behind the show, well, now you can!

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 episode of Wide World of Cyber, Risky Business host Patrick Gray discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident and its implications for security software that operates in kernel space with Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos of SentinelOne, a CrowdStrike Competitor. The conversation also delves into Microsoft’s role in this whole disaster and the potential changes it could make to its operating system to prevent similar incidents in the future.

A video version of this episode is also available on Youtube!

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss what the widespread disruption caused by CrowdStrike’s faulty update tells us about how useful cyber operations are for war.

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 Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Thomas Kinsella, co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Tines about figuring out what AI is really good for and taking advantage of it in automating workflows.

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 podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss the wild story of a Chinese illegal gambling operation that involves human trafficking, shell companies, money laundering, hundreds of thousands of websites and sponsorship of European football teams.

They also talk about why a potential CSRB review of CrowdStrike’s disaster should focus… not on CrowdStrike, but instead on the legacy practice of security vendors having kernel-level access to Windows.

Finally, Tom is happy that the FTC is going to investigate ‘surveillance pricing’.