Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at Russia’s recent leak of an intercepted German military discussion. From an intelligence point of view the content of the discussion is only moderately interesting, but Russia decided to leak it in an attempt to influence European attitudes towards providing military aid to Ukraine.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with George Glass, Senior Vice-President for Kroll’s Cyber Risk business. George covers the company’s latest report, a Kimsuky attack on ConnectWise ScreenConnect devices with a new malware strain named ToddlerShark.

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.

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 Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about ‘Document 79’, a PRC government document that calls for the Chinese companies in finance, energy and other sectors, to remove foreign software from their IT systems by 2027.

They also talk about the difficulties that Microsoft is facing in permanently removing SVR hackers from its systems.

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.

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

• Weather forecast in Redmond is still for blizzards at midnight
• Maybe Change Healthcare wasn’t just crying nation-state wolf
• Hackers abuse e-prescription systems to sell drugs
• CISA goes above and beyond to relate to its constituency by getting its Ivantis owned
• VMware drinks from the Tianfu Cup
• Much, much more

This week’s feature guest is John P Carlin. He was principal associate deputy attorney general under Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco for about 18 months in 2021 and 2022, and also served as Robert Mueller’s chief of staff when he was FBI director.

John is joining us this week to talk about all things SEC. He wrote the recent Amicus Brief that says the SEC needs to be careful in its action against Solarwinds. He’ll also be talking to us more generally about these new SEC disclosure requirements, which are in full swing.

Rad founder Jimmy Mesta will along in this week’s sponsor segment to talk about some really interesting work they’ve done in baselining cloud workloads. It’s the sort of thing that sounds simple that really, really isn’t.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at recent efforts to disrupt ransomware gangs and discuss what could make these efforts more effective.

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico’s VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances. Derek covers the different reasons organisations are investing in Passkeys, what organisations need to know to deploy them successfully, and warns that too often current deployments are too focused on authorisation rather than looking at the end user holistically.

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.