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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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Between Two Nerds: How Ukraine Could Actually Use Its "IT Army"

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 Ukraine could make better use of its so-called “IT Army”.

Between Two Nerds: How Ukraine Could Actually Use Its "IT Army"
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Risky Biz News: EU data supervisor sues the EU and Europol for skirting data protection rules

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: EU data supervisor sues the EU and Europol for skirting data protection rules
0:00 / 11:09

Seriously Risky Biz: Chaos Is the New Normal

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this week’s edition of Seriously Risky Biz Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the new chaotic normal. Should policymakers abandon efforts to wind back the cyber chaos or should they start focussing more on how to adapt to it? They also talk about some research from the Atlantic Council into Chinese vulnerability disclosure rules and their effect on the pipeline of vuln information from China to other countries.

Seriously Risky Biz: Chaos Is the New Normal
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Risky Biz News: US Ransomware Task Force to go after ransomware top dogs

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: US Ransomware Task Force to go after ransomware top dogs
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Risky Business #679 -- A look at Uber's very bad week

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:

  • A look at how Uber got owned so hard
  • Why cleartext cookie storage in Microsoft Teams’ Electron-based app is actually a big deal
  • Russian official: Starlink is a legitimate military target
  • Wagner mercs get doxxed
  • Kiwi Farms having a bad time
  • Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview we’ll be chatting to Nucleus’s CEO Steve Carter about CISA’s KEV list. He has feelings about the KEV list – they’re mostly positive, but he also has a few reasonable gripes and he joins me to talk about them.

Risky Business #679 -- A look at Uber's very bad week
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Risky Biz News: KiwiFarms discloses security breach, says user data may have been stolen

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: KiwiFarms discloses security breach, says user data may have been stolen
0:00 / 7:57

Between Two Nerds: On culture and SIGINT agencies

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 talk about how SIGINT agencies in different regions have different cultures, and how these differences are rooted in the military traditions and hacker cultures of various countries.

Between Two Nerds: On culture and SIGINT agencies
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