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.

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In this Soap Box edition of the show, Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer joins us to talk about why the sudden pullback in venture funding in infosec is actually a good thing.

He thinks this will give founders licence to slow down and actually focus on making good products, instead of trying to build a company around vapourware or a minimum viable product.

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 edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq contrast between different cyber operations that occurred in 2016. In one, US Cyber Command used cyber operations to attack ISIS’ propaganda operations. In the other, Russian cyber operators interfered with US Presidential elections. US action was tightly scoped, measurable and an underwhelming success, whereas Russian activity was nebulous and hard to measure but could have changed the course of the election.

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.

Description: 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 talks to Tom Uren about the a thought bubble floated by military cyber professionals that the US armed forces needs a US Cyber Force. The justification is a bit light on and Tom doesn’t really think the proposal makes sense.

They also discuss US Cyber Command’s “Hunt Forward” operations. In these operations partner countries invite CYBERCOM in to hunt for adversary activity. Access to networks is touchy stuff, though, so CYBERCOM spends a lot of time and effort in diplomatic efforts convincing potential partner agencies. We think these types of activities are great but in some parts of the world — think Asia — a warmer and fuzzier branding might be the go.

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.

NOTE: Patrick’s audio is a bit degraded in a few parts of this episode. It’s still clear enough, but if you hear some degradation in parts then yes, it’s us, not you.

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

• The Biden White House’s executive order on spyware
• Why the infosec community writ large is wrong on TikTok
• Clop campaign: it’s time to ditch your file transfer gateways
• Major Android app booted from store because it was full of 0day privesc exploits lol
• More detail on the BreachForums admin arrest
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. HD Moore, co-founder of runZero, is this week’s sponsor guest.

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