Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about security culture. The PHP foundation seems to have had a change of heart about security, but what are the chances that OpenAI or other frontier AI labs will start to take it seriously?

This episode is also available on YouTube.

While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3.

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats to Nebulock’s Head of Detection Strategy Alex Hurtado about the company’s threat hunting evaluation framework, GATES.

The pair talk through the five steps of Nebulock’s new acronym, and how they help remove gut feelings and guesswork when asking the question: “Should this threat hunt find be promoted to a detection rule”?

In this solo Risky Business Features episode, James Wilson looks at the string of recent AI benchmark cheating escapades and how they’ve reshaped his thinking about LLMs and vulnerability research.

He explores the current benchmarks and exactly how agents go about gaming the testing system to achieve their tasks. And why understanding that has changed the way he interacts with his agents.

A ransomware group used a supply chain compromise to hack around 40 shipping companies, the Pentagon assembles a technology sabotage unit, PHP2Shell exploitation gets underway and GoDaddy revokes 400,000 certs.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the weird bugging incident at OpenAI. It doesn’t look at all like it was normal state-backed espionage, but there are still  good reasons  the frontier labs should ensure that their crown jewels are safe.

They also discuss how cybercriminals are rapidly evolving their use of AI. The technology and harnesses available are getting better and the criminals are also discovering business models where they can sit back while AI automates most of the work.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host security engineer Mark El-Khoury to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The PHP foundation is about to release patches for a couple of critical bugs… We’re watching to see if the internet burns down
• 8 private keys underpinning some CA certs got compromised. The keys only had 8 bits of entropy!
• Is the breach-polcalypse upon us?
• OpenAI’s inside spy, Anthropic’s safety bill and election influence campaigns are coming for your chatbots
• Ukraine drone strikes hit more Russian data centres, this time VK’s in the firing line
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Trail of Bits. Principal Security Engineer Anish Naik joins James Wilson to chat about two agent skills plugins, Patching Bugs and Regression Hunt, that the company is releasing off the back of its joint initiative with Open AI, Patch the Planet.

This episode is also available on YouTube

A hacker hijacks more than 10% of Tor’s exit nodes, a second ransomware negotiator has been linked to ShinyHunters, a Chinese crime ring hacked Staples, and a hacker leaks emails from German far-right party AfD.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of AI coding will result in more or less bugs and whether it will ultimately make software more secure.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

A serious vulnerability lets attackers escape Kernel-based virtual machines, OpenCode users become collateral damage in a distillation attack, supply chain incidents hit AOMEI and ConnectWise and Intel will discontinue SGX.