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Risky Biz News: China blocks several protocols used to bypass the Great Firewall

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: China blocks several protocols used to bypass the Great Firewall
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Risky Business #681 -- It's Exchangehog Day

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:

  • More Exchange 0days cause more havoc
  • A look at some earlier Exchange hack incidents
  • How the CIA got its agents killed with its truly awful online opsec
  • Ex NSA staffer arrested for espionage
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of cybersecurity strategy, joins the show this week to talk about some overlooked detection opportunities – some simple stuff you can look for in your environment that should raise gigantic flashing red flags.

Risky Business #681 -- It's Exchangehog Day
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Risky Biz News: Interpol arrests scammers linked to Nigerian "Air Lords" crime syndicate

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Interpol arrests scammers linked to Nigerian "Air Lords" crime syndicate
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Between Two Nerds: How cyber agencies are constrained

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this episode of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren talks to The Grugq about how large SIGINT organisations like NSA have limitations and are constrained in all sorts of ways.

Between Two Nerds: How cyber agencies are constrained
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Seriously Risky Biz #12 -- Why Huawei is Germany's next Nordstream

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this week’s edition of Seriously Risky Business Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the Australian government’s response to the Optus hack, why Viasat was a massively significant attack despite a lack of clarity on how it affected battlefield communications, and how Germany’s late warning on Kaspersky software betrays larger problems with its strategic thinking.

Seriously Risky Biz #12 -- Why Huawei is Germany's next Nordstream
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Risky Biz News: Twitch limits browser logins as it deals with massive bot attack

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Twitch limits browser logins as it deals with massive bot attack
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Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Microsoft's Smart Application Control is very strange

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray interviews Airlock Digital CTO Daniel Schell and CEO David Cottingham about Microsoft’s new Smart Application Control feature, why controlling browser extensions via endpoint instrumentation is really hard and why PAM solutions don’t actually do allowlisting, even if they claim they do.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Microsoft's Smart Application Control is very strange
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Risky Biz News: Facebook takes down large network of (low quality) fake news sites pushing Russian propaganda

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Facebook takes down large network of (low quality) fake news sites pushing Russian propaganda
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Risky Business #680 -- Uber, Rockstar Games hacker arrested

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:

  • Lapsus$’s Teapot arrested by UK police
  • Optus hacker issues grovelling apology after feeling AFP and ASD heat
  • Ukraine claims Russia is planning massive attacks on its infrastructure
  • RSOCKS bot herder begs for extradition to USA
  • Russians scammed when seeking military service exemptions
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is sponsored by Votiro. Ravi Srinivasan, Votiro’s CEO, joins the show this week to talk about how people are using content disarm and reconstruction.

Risky Business #680 -- Uber, Rockstar Games hacker arrested
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Risky Biz News: XakNet "hacktivists" linked to APT28 and Russia's GRU intelligence service

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: XakNet "hacktivists" linked to APT28 and Russia's GRU intelligence service
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