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Between Two Nerds: Know thyself

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at how asset inventory tools aren’t a substitute for knowing what a business values.

Between Two Nerds: Know thyself
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Risky Biz News: Kroll SIM-swapped in attack targeting crypto platforms

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Kroll SIM-swapped in attack targeting crypto platforms
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why did Russia deploy hackers to war zones?

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about how Ukraine has countered Russia’s cyber operations.

They also look at various initiatives the US government is taking to secure open source software and ask whether it is getting serious about FOSS.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why did Russia deploy hackers to war zones?
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Risky Biz News: WinRAR zero-day used to hack stock and crypto traders

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: WinRAR zero-day used to hack stock and crypto traders
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Risky Biz News: South Korea investigates Chinese "spy chips"

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: South Korea investigates Chinese "spy chips"
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Risky Business #718 -- Chaos and carnage, business as usual

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

(NOTE: This podcast was initially pushed out into the Risky Business News podcast feed in error. Sorry about that!)

  • US Government warnings to private space sector on cyber risk
  • Ukrainian hackers dump the inbox of Russian Duma deputy chair
  • Absentee voting in Ecuador’s election disrupted by DDoS attack
  • South Korea warns of Chinese “spy chips”
  • Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join this week’s show to talk about Powershell Constrained Language mode.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #718 -- Chaos and carnage, business as usual
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Between Two Nerds: Hacking CCTV cameras for fun and profit

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine the history of CCTV hacking and what different groups they get out of these hacks.

Between Two Nerds: Hacking CCTV cameras for fun and profit
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Feature Interview: How Sandworm prepared Ukraine for a cyber war

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this joint Risky Business and Geopolitics Decanted feature interview, Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch talk to Illia Vitiuk, the Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) about the cyber dimension to Russia’s invasion.

From turning off Ukraine’s power grid with a cyber attack in 2015 to the Viasat hack in 2022, Russia’s intelligence services are world renowned for executing creative destructive cyber campaigns. Despite this, after a year and a half of Russia waging war on Ukraine its power grid is up, its telcos are functioning and its banks are still processing transactions.

How has Ukraine been able to withstand Russia’s onslaught in the cyber domain? Vitiuk joins us to reveal insights into how Russian intelligence services are operating in Ukraine, and how the SBU is countering them.

Feature Interview: How Sandworm prepared Ukraine for a cyber war
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Risky Biz Sponsor Interview: Using AI to do security research

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits, about AI. Dan thinks AI technologies will be a “game changer”. But he also thinks the conversation around AI is not very sophisticated just yet.

Risky Biz Sponsor Interview: Using AI to do security research
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Risky Biz News: Foreign intelligence services are targeting the US space sector

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Foreign intelligence services are targeting the US space sector
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