Podcasts

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about the continued importance of hack and leak operations. They didn’t really affect the recent US presidential election, but they are still a powerful tool for vested interests to influence public policy.

They also discuss the police bust of MATRIX, yet another encrypted messenger that is marketed to criminals and designed to resist police surveillance. The crimephone landscape is splintering due to the constant drumbeat of police success.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft
• Exxon’s opponents targeted by hackers
• Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us
• The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain’t gonna happen
• A South Korean set-top-box manufacturer shipped a DDoS client for corpo-combat
• And much, much more.

This week’s sponsor interview with Vijit Nair from Corelight. We talk to him about doing detection in cloud environments, and how the varied nature of cloud systems makes the old ways - network monitoring - useful in new and interesting ways.

If you’re in Sydney, Pat is recording a live episode of the Wide World of Cyber with Chris Krebs on 5 December. There might still be tickets left!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read 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 talk about how the opportunities for hackers have changed and how that has altered the pipelines that turn kids into criminals.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jacques Louw, co-founder and chief product officer at Push Security, on the company’s new stolen credentials detection feature, how AitM phishing can be spotted in the browser, and how Push deals with customers needing help with MFA.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the Australian Government’s extraordinary legislation that will retrospectively ensure that warrants used for the An0m crimephone sting operation are valid.

They also discuss a sterling CISA red team report and the naiveté of Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder
• Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn’t seem surprising?
• Salt Typhoon’s attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact
• China’s surveillance state workers sell their access at home
• Palo Alto is bad and should feel bad
• And much, much more.

In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray chats with Matt Muller from Tines about Gartner’s “spicy take” that the SOAR category is dead. SOAR is dead! Long live SOAR!

This episode is also available on Youtube.