Podcasts

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’.

The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, including:

• Oh Crowdstrike, no, oh no, honey, no
• AT&T stored call records on Snowflake and you’ll never guess what happened next
• Squarespace buys Google Domains and makes a hash of it
• Some but not all of the SECs case against Solarwinds gets thrown out
• Pity the incident responders digging through a terabyte of Disney Slack dumps
• Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and it wants SHELLS RAAAAARGH SSHHEEELLLS
• And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security, a flexible and modern email security platform. If you’re sick of using a black box email security solution, Sublime is a terrific option for you.

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 Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of cloud computing has been a boon or a curse for cyber espionage agencies.

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 Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket about how open source repositories are riddled with horrible software. Feross explains why it makes a difference if a package is vulnerable, malicious or just unwanted and how current transparency mechanisms such as CVEs and the NVD just aren’t suitable for the challenge of open source repositories.

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 Adam Boileau talk about how countries are using cyber security reports and advisories to win friends and influence people; why having gaping holes in US federal government security is situation normal; and efforts to make up for the disappearance of Twitter’s trust and safety team.

This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell.

Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis.

If you find a dodgy file you can do all the usual malware analysis type stuff, but you can also do things like immediately find out where else that file is in your organisation, or even where else it was. From there you can identify other files that are similar – variants of those files – and search for those. And you can unpack all this very, very quickly.

This is the type of tool that EDR companies use internally to do threat hunting, but it’s just for you and your org – you can drive it. And as you’ll hear, the idea of a transparent, customisable and programmable security stack is something that’s on-trend at the moment. Mike lays out the case that doing this sort of file analysis in your organisation makes a whole lot of sense.

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.