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Risky Biz News: LastPass discloses second breach, Google exposes new spyware vendor

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: LastPass discloses second breach, Google exposes new spyware vendor
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Srsly Risky Biz: We Need a More Conscious Decoupling

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 US-China technological decoupling and the lack of an observable strategy so far. They also find that the use of geofence warrants in the Capital riot seems perfectly reasonable, and examine how Chinese twitter uses trying to find news about recent Covid protests are being deluged with spam. You can read the newsletter this podcast is based on here.

Srsly Risky Biz: We Need a More Conscious Decoupling
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Risky Biz News: Australia passes new privacy bill with huge data breach fines

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: Australia passes new privacy bill with huge data breach fines
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Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe

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:

  • UK, USA ban Chinese security cameras
  • What is the Boa webserver and why is it everywhere?
  • Vanuatu, Guadeloupe smashed by ransomware
  • REvil back with more dumps despite ASD attention
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Jake King from Elastic Security, who joins us to talk through the company’s most recent threat report. There’s a link to the report in our show notes.

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

Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe
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Between Two Nerds: Good News, Bad News

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 have some good news for a change — ransomware has peaked and they examine why criminals will look for different sources of income. Of course, every silver lining has a cloud, and ransomware will be replaced by other types of cyber crime.

Between Two Nerds: Good News, Bad News
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Risky Biz News: US and UK ban Chinese equipment on national security grounds

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: US and UK ban Chinese equipment on national security grounds
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Risky Biz News: Authorities seize iSpoof in major blow to fraudsters and cybercrime groups

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: Authorities seize iSpoof in major blow to fraudsters and cybercrime groups
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why TikTok is a genuine risk, inside the NSPM-13 changes

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 which national security concerns around TikTok are actually the “real ones” in light of Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony last week. They also talk about changes to NSPM-13, the rules governing Cyber Command operations and the looming Executive Order on commercial spyware. You can read the newsletter this podcast is based on here.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why TikTok is a genuine risk, inside the NSPM-13 changes
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Risky Biz News: Meta formally links pro-Western influence operation to US military

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: Meta formally links pro-Western influence operation to US military
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Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry

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:

  • Half of all UK COBRA meetings are ransomware related
  • Ransomware biggest risk to US port security
  • White House to move on spyware industry
  • EU to launch its own Starlink equivalent
  • Much, much more

AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber will be joining us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how companies and their boards are really moving towards outcomes-based security programs.

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

Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry
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