Podcasts

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren asks Martin Cannard, VP of Product Strategy at Netwrix, how privileged access management can help defend organisations. ‘Advanced Persistent Teenagers’ regularly use social engineering techniques to compromise highly privileged accounts, but that doesn’t mean it’s instantly game over for defenders.

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.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the NSA’s creation of a new AI Security Center. One of it’s roles is to help protect AI intellectual property and so maintain the US’s AI advantage.

They also look at a new Mandiant report that looks at vulnerabilities that are exploited in the wild. This research finds a shift away from the top three vendors (Microsoft, Apple and Google) and there are rich pickings for threat actors at the network edge.

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

• Ransomware crews target WS_FTP and Jetbrains servers
• Global energy supply shapes up as big target
• The Dossier Center drops another banger
• Indian nationalists DDoS Canadian targets
• A look at the Exim drama
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Kroll Cyber. George Glass is this week’s sponsor guest.

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

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.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine whether offensive cyber operations against ransomware groups have succeeded or failed. And how would we even know?

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.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Selena Larson, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Proofpoint, about the state of play in the cybercrime ecosystem. People and organisations are getting better at protecting themselves from scams and compromises, but criminals will use every possible avenue to reach people and scam them.

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.

In this edition of Seriously Risky Business Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the possibility of diverting youths from a life of serious cybercrime. It’ll be tough.

They also talk about a Ukrainian government report into changes in Russian cyber activity.