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 click here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about what to do about commercial spyware. A new Google TAG report is a great primer on the ecosystem.

They also talk about Ukraine’s shift in cyber strategy. It is now carrying out and publicising that it is launching destructive cyber operations.

Finally, they look at all the reasons why banning ransomware payments is a bad idea.

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 click here.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• Somehow there are still more Ivanti and Fortinet exploits
• Volt Typhoon have been at it for years
• Starlink in Ukraine gets complicated
• Canadians hate poor Flipper
• Much, much more…

In this week’s sponsor interview Feross Aboukhadijeh from Socket joins the show to talk about the sheer volume of malicious packages being committed to code repositories and why older SCA tools aren’t well equipped to deal with them.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why military doctrine in authoritarian states has an emphasis on cyber and information supremacy.

In this Soap Box interview Greynoise founder and absolute legend Andrew Morris joins the show to talk about:

• Why Greynoise hasn’t seen a substantial drop off in Volt Typhoon’s network of compromised routers after the US Government’s takedown action
• How vendors are using Greynoise as an early warning system to identify exploitation of their products
• How he’s using large language models to reverse exploitation attempts into actual exploits

It truly is a great conversation, we hope you enjoy it!

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher Greg Lesnewich. Greg explains how a North Korean group is using DMARC spoofing in its efforts to gather strategic intelligence.

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 click 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 click here.

In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk about how the US has kicked off a campaign to combat Volt Typhoon, a PRC group that is positioning itself in US critical infrastructure to be able to disrupt it in the event of conflict.

They also discuss how changing attacker behaviour has led to CISA’s emergency directive to disconnect Ivanti Connect Secure devices.