Podcasts

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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:

• 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.

In this podcast we speak with Randall Degges who leads the Developer Relations & Community team at Snyk. He’s here to talk to us about how to get developers enthusiastic about security, how to get them to use the right tooling, and how this tooling will evolve in the future to actually help developers fix bugs in their code.

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 examine some recommendations in a recent draft report from a European Parliament inquiry into the use of Pegasus and similar spyware. The report contains an interesting overview of the European spyware market but makes some recommendations that are not just ineffective but positively counterproductive — they’ll actually make the world a less safe place.