Podcasts

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.

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

• Israel Ministry of Defence is denying a lot of spyware export licences
• Private detective in New York pleads guilty over BellTroX shenanigans
• Scammers enrol stolen credit cards into Apple Pay
• The Blackcat ransomware crew is very active right now
• VirusTotal shells lol
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Okta’s Brett Winterford, who talks in detail about the company’s brush with the Lapsus$ hacking crew. It’s unusual for a sponsor interview to be a must listen, but here we are.

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

• Ukraine foils Russian ICS hack
• US Government burns someone’s ICS toolkit
• China gets all up in India’s energy gridz
• The Heroku/Hithub/Travis CI story is very confusing
• US DOJ removes GRU malware from Watchguard boxes under Rule 41
• North Korea behind $540m crypto hack
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Scott Kuffer, co-founder of Nucleus Security, and Jared Semrau of Mandiant. They’ll be joining us to talk about how you can now plug Mandiant data into the Nucleus vulnerability scan aggregator.

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers:

• Kevin Kennedy from Vectra talks about the company’s cloud native detection – it crunches stuff like CloudTrail and AzureAD logs and correlates it with network event information
• Paul McCarty from SecureStack on its software composition analysis and “SBOM plus” tool
• Google Cloud’s Anton Chuvakin talks about cloud-based SIEMs like Chronicle

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

• Why Spring4Shell isn’t all hype
• How Viasat actually got owned
• Russian war crimes likely extend to coercing sysadmis
• Why lighter fluid and a box of matches is more effective than cyber in Belarus
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Bernard Brantley, Corelight’s Chief Information Security Officer.

Corelight makes a network sensor you can use to plug in to your SIEM, among other things. It’s based on Zeek, the open source network sensor that Corelight maintains. Corelight is absolutely the industry standard for this sort of thing.

And they’ve just become the standard for something else, too: Microsoft Defender for IoT can now accept Corelight feeds. Bernard fills us in on that.

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers:

• Upskill your testers and developers with PentesterLab for US$20 a month
• Manage penetration tests and reporting with AttackForge
• How Sysdig can help herd your container cats (vuln management and detection for container environments)

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

• Some arrests of suspected Lapsus$ members in the UK
• Why the Okta incident is probably a fizzer
• Four FSB officers indicted over Triton/Trisis malware
• Kim Zetter interviewed Intrusion Truth
• Australian government to upsize ASD
• Wave bye bye to Finfisher
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Mike Wiacek from Stairwell.

Stairwell makes a product that catalogues the files in your environment and lets you slice and dice that data. That makes threat hunting pretty easy and Mike is joining the show this week to talk about why organisations of all stripes should be doing threat hunting.

Airlock Digital co-founders Daniel Schell and Dave Cottingham join host Patrick Gray to talk about:

• What an effective allowlisting program looks like
• Why the third party allowlisting industry failed the first time
• What you can achieve with Microsoft tooling versus specialist tools
• How much effort is involved to do this right

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

• Okta’s somewhat awful comms around its LAPSUS$ incident
• Inside Microsoft’s brush with the same group
• How Elon Musk’s Starlink service is being used to drop bombs on Russian tanks
• US, UK governments warn of impending Russian cyberdoom
• Much, much more…

This week’s sponsor interview is with Paul Lanzi, co-founder of Remediant. Paul joins the show this week to talk about cyber insurance. It’s a topic that has come up a lot for us lately – ransomware has borderline sunk the current cyber insurance model as payments ballooned and payouts made a lot of insurers adjust premiums to the. But all is not lost – Paul says this blowup means the insurance industry is actually adapting and could wind up being a driver of better security practices.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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

• Germany issues stark warning to Kaspersky users
• Ukraine SATCOM hack keeps getting more interesting
• Russia to spin up its own CA, but it’s not what it seems
• Why the ransomware threat could get worse, then better
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Fastly. Kelly Shortridge, Fastly’s Senior Principal Product Technologist, joins the show this week to tell us what modern security actually looks like. Kelly is always fascinating so we were thrilled she was in the sponsor chair this week.