Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why governments have failed to protect the private sector from state-backed cyber espionage.

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 here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jimmy Mesta, CTO and Co-Founder of Rad Security (formerly KSOC). Jimmy explains how Rad Security has replaced signature-based detections with a new concept the company calls “behavioral fingerprints” or “verified runtime fingerprints,” which can detect malicious activity in cloud environments using a wider set of indicators.

This is a sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast.

Abhishek Agrawal is the CEO and co-founder of Material Security, an email security company that locks down cloud email archives. Attackers have been raiding mailspools since hacking has existed, and with those mailspools now in the cloud with services like o365 and Google Workspace, guess where the attackers are going?

Material built a product that helps you lock up your email data, to archive and redact sensitive information. The idea is to really just limit what an attacker can do with email data if they pop an account.

Abhishek joined me to talk about a few things, like how non phishing resistant MFA is basically dead, how email content is very useful to security programs, and about how the gen AI won’t really change much on the defensive control side.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how Optus’s 2022 data breach went down and how the company had been vulnerable for years.

They also look at the US government’s ban on Kaspersky products, why it makes sense and why the ban took a long time to arrive.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free
• USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates
• Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom
• Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue
• We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

On this week’s retreat special, the entire Risky Business team is together in a tropical paradise for the first time. The team takes a break from the infinity pool to discuss the week’s security news:

• Microsoft recalls Recall, but why did it have to be such a mess
• And a Windows kernel wifi code-exec, really?
• Passkeys and identity are hard
• Scattered Spider bigwig arrested in Spain
• The pentagon runs a deeply flawed info-op
• Is it time E2E crypto nerds accept their place in the world?
• And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight… Corelight’s CEO Brian Dye will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to make a really compelling case for something that shouldn’t exist… which is NDR in cloud environments.

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 here.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a new report that explores how China’s vulnerability discovery and research ecosystem is linked to state sponsored espionage. This research finds that a relatively small number of people are responsible for an outsize contribution to vulnerability discovery.

They also talk about difficulties at CISA’s Joint Cyber Defence Collaborative initiative and why it should be retired.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by long-time NSA boffin Rob Joyce. Now Rob’s left the government service, he’s hobnobbing with us pundits, talking through the week’s news:

• Apple announces a big leap for confidential cloud computing into the mass market
• While at the same time, letting you just mosey around your iPhone from your Mac
• Mandiant reports in about the Snowflake breach
• Moody’s say credit ratings might consider cyber incidents
• Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw with a… “comprehensive documentation update”
• And much, much more.

This week’s show is sponsored by Yubico, maker of the Yubikey hardware authentication token. Jerrod Chong, Yubico’s COO and President joins to talk about the challenges of the passkey and hardware authenticator ecosystem.