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Risky Biz News: Hardware backdoors found in Chinese key card

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: Hardware backdoors found in Chinese key card
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Sponsored: How Pfizer uses Island's enterprise browser

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

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.

Sponsored: How Pfizer uses Island's enterprise browser
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Risky Biz News: Ransom campaign hits cloud servers

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: Ransom campaign hits cloud servers
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Srsly Risky Biz: The US Government's cyber insurance plans are silly

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

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.

Srsly Risky Biz: The US Government's cyber insurance plans are silly
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Risky Business #759 – Why Iran's hack and leak will amount to naught

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 security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover:

  • Iran tries an election hack’n’leak like its still 2016
  • Crowdstrike takes home the Pwnie for Epic Fail at DEF CON
  • UK healthcare SaaS faces six million pound fine for lack of MFA
  • US circuit courts disagree on geofence warrants
  • Our roundup of juicy Blackhat/DEF CON research
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO Dan Guido is fresh back from the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON, where the Trail of Bits team moved through into the finals. Dan talks through the challenge of finding, reporting and fixing bugs with AI systems.

You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube.

Risky Business #759 – Why Iran's hack and leak will amount to naught
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Risky Biz News: FBI seizes Dispossessor ransomware servers

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: FBI seizes Dispossessor ransomware servers
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Between Two Nerds: The golden age of OSINT

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 it would mean to be in a golden age of OSINT and whether we are in one.

Between Two Nerds: The golden age of OSINT
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Soap Box: Making security tech more people friendly

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric.

We often talk about how we can use signals from users to drive some of our security tech. But what about using our security tech to drive user behaviour?

Ryan thinks there are some opportunities here, particularly around identity security.

Soap Box: Making security tech more people friendly
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Risky Biz News: Trump campaign points finger at Iran for hack-and-leak

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: Trump campaign points finger at Iran for hack-and-leak
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Sponsored: What CISA's advisories really mean for defenders

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight about a string of recent CISA advisories. These advisories address specific technical issues, but when examined together Brian says there is an underlying message about addressing security holistically.

Sponsored: What CISA's advisories really mean for defenders
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