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

• LockBit has been taken down by law enforcement
• Some mega-juicy leaks out of Chinese offsec/APT contractor I-SOON
• GRU gets its Moobot network shutdown
• Signal adding usernames is… complicated
• Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview Devicie’s Tom Plant joins the show to talk about problems orgs run into when it comes to Windows policies. There’s an expectation out there that Windows policies are set and forget, but sadly, this is not so.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine Russian cyber doctrine and how it was applied in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine. They mention this Human Rights Watch report which examined how international humanitarian law was applied in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The need to properly secure Entra ID tenants has been made pretty obvious this year thanks to a large-scale attack on them by Russia’s SVR intelligence agency. In this interview Andy Robbins from SpecterOps, the maker of Bloodhound Enterprise, talks through how he thinks those attacks actually went down, about how if you’re an o365 customer you’re using Entra ID whether you like it or not, and about how you can lock down your Entra ID tenant.

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Rob King, runZero’s Director of security research. The pair talk about the world of Operational Technology protocols and how Rob dissects these protocols to be sure that active discovery of OT devices is safe.

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 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.