Podcasts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss why some states seem to favour small dispersed groups that are contractors rather than large centralised organisations like the NSA and GCHQ. Do they see positive benefits in that approach? Or do they use contractors out of necessity?

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.