Podcasts

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 discuss an Australian government effort to bridge the gap between online and real identity across the whole economy. It addresses a real need, but Tom doesn’t think it will go smoothly.

They also discuss ongoing Chinese cyber espionage focussed on Russian targets. They may have a ‘no limits’ friendship, but spying between allies is remarkably common.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA
• The three billion row National Public Data breach mess, courtesy Florida Man
• US govt confirms that it was Iran that hacked the Trump campaign
• Is TP-Link the next Huawei, or just not very good at computers?
• Major Chinese RFID card maker has hardcoded backdoors
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Specter Ops, makers of Bloodhound Enterprise. VP of Products Justin Kohler joins to talk about how they’ve joined their on-prem AD and cloud Entra attack path graphs, so you can map out that juicy, real-world attack surface.

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 Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine how the cybersecurity industry is very strange when compared to other professional fields such as doctors and accountants.

In this conversation Risky Business host Patrick Gray speaks with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about what sort of cyber enabled interference we can expect in the 2024 US presidential race.

Alex was the CISO at Facebook during the 2016 election, and Chris Krebs was responsible for US election security as the director of CISA in 2020.

Watch the video version of 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 Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Brian A. Coleman, Senior Director at Pfizer for Insider Risk, Information Security, Digital Forensics Expert. Brian goes over all the Island features that have made the browser a favorite tool to secure older corporate apps, either by blocking insecure features or adding logging capabilities where they didn’t exist.

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 a US government policy initiative to cover cyber insurance gaps while also improving security across the economy. Lofty goals, but Tom wonders if it is a difficult way to address security gaps.

They also talk about what appears to be a hack and leak operation targeting the Trump campaign and a recent US federal court decision which ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional.

You can watch the video version of this episode here.