Podcasts

European users will get free Windows 10 extended security updates, Cisco patches three zero-days, Microsoft drops an Israeli intel surveillance contract and a UK man is arrested for the EU airport disruptions.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how the funnel that turns kids into cyber criminals has evolved over the last decade. Cybercrime’s reach has broadened, it is more lucrative and more violent.

They also talk about new thinking about deterring America’s cyber adversaries.

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York
• MI6 launches a dark web portal
• Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance?
• Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover
• GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm

This week’s episode is sponsored by Sublime Security. In this week’s sponsor interview, Sublime founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins host Patrick Gray to chat about the pros and cons of using agentic AI in an email security platform.

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The US Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York, EU airport disruptions were caused by ransomware, thieves steal gold nuggets from a French museum after a cyberattack and SonicWall releases a firmware update to remove SMA rootkits.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report: A Playbook for Winning the Cyber War.

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A cyberattack disrupts European airports, a Scattered Spider member turns himself in to US authorities, the Pentagon hires a new cyber policy leader and two Russian APTs work together for the first time.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jared Atkinson, CTO at SpecterOps. They discuss how SpecterOps is using classifying identities under two categories, identities at rest and identities in transit, what they are and how they should be treated differently.

America’s Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon employs more than 70,000 cyber personnel, hackers steal SonicWall firewall configs, DeepSeek returns insecure code for groups China doesn’t like, and two Scattered Spider members arrested in the UK.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about why it is good news that US investment in spyware vendors has skyrocketed.

They also discuss the in-principle agreement for TikTok to remain in the US. It’s a win-win: a win for China and a win for TikTok, but not so much a win for US national security.

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

• Shai-Hulud worm propagates via npm and steals credentials
• Jaguar Land Rover attack may put smaller suppliers out of business
• Leaked data emerges from the vendor behind the Great Firewall of China
• Vastaamo hacker walks free while appeal is underway
• Why is a senator so mad about Kerberos?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Knocknoc. Chief exec Adam Pointon joins to talk through the surprising number of customers that are using Knocknoc’s identity-to-firewall glue to protect internal services and networks.

This week’s episode is also available on Youtube.