Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about new reports saying that Russia is creating new cyber groups made up of cyber criminals.

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 sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Resourcely co-founder and CEO Travis McPeak about some of the hard and uncomfortable truths about the role of security teams inside a company.

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.

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

• Hezbollah’s attempts to avoid SIGINT with pagers ends in explosions
• The US shines many bright lights on RT’s disinfo role
• Australia counters Chinese bullying in the Pacific
• Valid accounts are the most prevalent entry point, says CISA’s data
• Ivanti and Fortinet vie for worst vendor of the week
• Krebs writes up the shift towards charging The Com with terrorism
• And much, much more…

This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security, who bring security visibility to where it needs to be these days – the browser. Luke Jennings joins this week’s show to discuss how phish-kit crews are driving the arms race forward, and how detection has to adapt and go where the users are.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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.

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.

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 talk about the structure of the spyware ecosystem. It’s concentrated, with lots of vendors in India, Israel and Italy. And its a small pool of talent, with many companies being founded by just a few individuals.

They also talk about the US government’s actions against Russia’s disinformation ecosystem. The US very clearly linked different ‘layers’ of that ecosystem directly to the Russian government. Employing influencers via cutouts also shows how Russian disinformation has responded as social media platforms have countered interference efforts.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• Russia’s disinformation peddlers face multifaceted sternness from the DoJ
• Telegram is now law enforcement’s bestest new pal, all of a sudden
• Iran’s banking industry arranges a payment plan for a ransom
• Columbia investigates how it sent private jets full of cash to pay for Pegasus
• Microsoft innovates with Un-Patch Tuesday
• And much, much more.

This week’s sponsor is Kroll Cyber, and one of their incident responders Paul Wells joins to discuss that one weird trick that actually helps - preparing for an incident before hand, rather than learning all those hard lessons in the middle of a crisis.

This week’s episode is also available on Youtube.