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 US’s National Counterintelligence strategy and that it highlights the risk that foreign intelligence entities will use personal information to target and blackmail individuals.

They also talk about the recent international prisoner swap. Although two cybercriminals were exchanged in the swap, there is still no strong evidence that they were working for the state.

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

• Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little
• Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer
• Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap
• Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy
• Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement?
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to discuss the unfashionable choice they made in hosting their platform one-VM-per-customer.

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 recent changes in a Chinese APTs tactics and how cyber security agencies have responded.

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 Rajan Kapoor, VP of Customer Experience at Material Security, on how threat actors view email inboxes as the targets of their attacks, and not just an entry point into organizations.

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!