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Risky Biz News: Twitter's CISO and head of trust and safety both resign

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 presented by Claire Aird.You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Twitter's CISO and head of trust and safety both resign
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RBTALKS: Google's VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins Talks Aurora

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

In this podcast Tom Uren interviews Google’s VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins about what changed at Google after the infamous 2009 Aurora attacks.

RBTALKS: Google's VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins Talks Aurora
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Risky Biz News: The spyware industry has found a cozy home in the EU

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 presented by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: The spyware industry has found a cozy home in the EU
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Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin

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, including:

  • DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief
  • Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked
  • Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation
  • EU Parliament report into spyware lands
  • SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence.

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

Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin
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Risky Biz News: Chinese APTs used more zero-days last year

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 presented by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Chinese APTs used more zero-days last year
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Between Two Nerds: Why does Europe suck?

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

What’s the point of having military cyber capability? It seems that states in the European Union don’t know either. In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss why states in the EU are no good at military cyber operations.

Between Two Nerds: Why does Europe suck?
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Risky Biz News: OPERA1ER group hits African banks for $30 million

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 presented by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: OPERA1ER group hits African banks for $30 million
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Srsly Risky Biz: The Liz Truss hack and securing politcians' comms

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this podcast Patrick Gray talks to Tom Uren about the alleged hack of former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s smartphone by Russian intelligence services and what governments might be able to do to better protect politicians against similar hacks.

Srsly Risky Biz: The Liz Truss hack and securing politcians' comms
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REPOST: Risky Biz News: Internal chats for Yanluowang ransomware gang leaked

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

REPOST: This podcast initially went out linking to the wrong audio recording. Apologies for the inconvenience.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and presented by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

REPOST: Risky Biz News: Internal chats for Yanluowang ransomware gang leaked
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Risky Business #683 -- OpenSSL bug is a fizzer, ASD responds to Medibank hack

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, including:

  • Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage
  • Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response
  • Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired
  • OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper
  • Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka.

Risky Business #683 -- OpenSSL bug is a fizzer, ASD responds to Medibank hack
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