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Risky Business #723 -- MGM and Caesars: Western youths are working with ransomware gangs

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • How western youths are working with Russian ransomware crews
  • Russia has changed its targeting in Ukraine
  • A massive breach of historical Russian flight information is god’s gift to OSINT orgs
  • Cisco buys Splunk for $28bn
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Panther. Its field CISO Ken Westin is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below.

Risky Business #723 -- MGM and Caesars: Western youths are working with ransomware gangs
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Risky Biz News: CISA publishes HBOM framework

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: CISA publishes HBOM framework
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Risky Biz News: China admits NSA hacked Huawei

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: China admits NSA hacked Huawei
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Between Two Nerds: Why the UK and US Cyber Strategies are Mirror Images

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 how US and UK strategies to use cyber power differ but are in some ways mirror images of each other.

Between Two Nerds: Why the UK and US Cyber Strategies are Mirror Images
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Sponsored: Stairwell's Silas Cutler on the Akira leak and attacker infrastructure

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Stairwell Principal Reverse Engineer Silas Cutler about Akira’s recent server leak and attacker infrastructure.

Sponsored: Stairwell's Silas Cutler on the Akira leak and attacker infrastructure
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Snake Oilers: Sublime Security, VulnCheck and Devicie

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear product pitches from:

  • Sublime Security: e-mail security for people who want to tune their detections
  • VulnCheck: Provides vulnerability intelligence to governments, large enterprises and vendors
  • Devicie: Manage your devices with Intune without pulling your hair out
Snake Oilers: Sublime Security, VulnCheck and Devicie
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Risky Business #722 -- Microsoft embraces Zero Trust... Authentication?

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • Microsoft’s 38TB oopsie
  • MGM’s Okta compromised, was this what Okta was warning us about?
  • Why we need a cyber knife fight
  • Google Authenticator sync abused in the wild
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Co-founder Adam Bateman 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.

Risky Business #722 -- Microsoft embraces Zero Trust... Authentication?
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Risky Biz News: North Korea steals $54 million from CoinEx

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: North Korea steals $54 million from CoinEx
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Srsly Risky Biz: Microsoft's security culture sucks

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of Seriously Risky Biz guest host Adam Boileau talks with Tom Uren about what Microsoft’s recent breach by a Chinese-based threat actor tells us about the company’s security culture. There were several serious governance failures that allowed this incident to happen.

They also look at a new UK government effort to reassure companies that they won’t be punished (as much) for seeking help from the NCSC.

Srsly Risky Biz: Microsoft's security culture sucks
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Risky Biz News: Won't someone think of the... casinos?!

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: Won't someone think of the... casinos?!
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