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Risky Biz Sponsor Interview with Jacob Torrey of Thinkst Labs

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Jacob Torrey, Thinkst’s Head of Labs. Jacob produces ThinkstScapes, a brilliant quarterly summary of the most interesting security research from around the world.

In this interview Jacob talks about his favourite research of this issue, why Thinkst invests the time and effort in producing ThinkstScapes and also talks about Thinkst Citation, a companion product that contains information about nearly 70,000 security talks going all the way back to 1993.

Risky Biz Sponsor Interview with Jacob Torrey of Thinkst Labs
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Risky Biz News: CSRB to investigate Microsoft hack

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: CSRB to investigate Microsoft hack
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Risky Biz News: Russia blocks OpenVPN and WireGuard VPN protocols

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: Russia blocks OpenVPN and WireGuard VPN protocols
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why Russia's Plan to Hide Spy Data Will Fail

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 the Russian government is planning to alter databases to hide their spies from open source investigations. It’s a nice try, but we don’t think it will work.

They also look at contrasting stories that illustrate how law enforcement agencies can facial recognition technology responsibly, but can also royally screw things up.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why Russia's Plan to Hide Spy Data Will Fail
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Risky Business #716 -- This ain't your grandma's cloud

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:

  • Tenable gives Microsoft a spray over Azure bug fix delay, quality
  • Lateral movement fun via Azure Active Directory Cross-Tenant Synchronization
  • Ransomware targets hospitals, special needs schools
  • Japan’s cybersecurity has some catching up to do
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight. Brian Dye, Corelight’s CEO, 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 #716 -- This ain't your grandma's cloud
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Risky Biz News: Sandworm hackers target Ukraine's military systems

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: Sandworm hackers target Ukraine's military systems
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Between Two Nerds: China's Changing Cyber Espionage Playbook

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 ask whether Chinese operations are becoming stealthier and why? Is it a top-down directive to be careful? Or do the operations themselves require more stealth?

Between Two Nerds: China's Changing Cyber Espionage Playbook
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Sponsored: Tines CEO Eoin Hinchy on burnout in SOC teams

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Tines co-founder and CEO Eoin Hinchy about how organisations can maximise the potential of their security teams during an economic downturn, with a concentration on why human error and burnout caused by excessive workloads on security teams can be a risk.

Sponsored: Tines CEO Eoin Hinchy on burnout in SOC teams
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Risky Biz News: Ransomware attack cripples hospitals across five US states

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: Ransomware attack cripples hospitals across five US states
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Risky Biz News: Microsoft botches Azure bug fix

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: Microsoft botches Azure bug fix
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