Podcasts

This is not an edition of the weekly news show, scroll back one episode in your podcast feed if you’re looking for that. Rhis is a wholly sponsored podcast brought to you by Bugcrowd.

Bugcrowd’s CEO Ashish Gupta joins us in this edition of the Soap Box. He’s been the CEO over there for about three years, taking the reins from our friend Casey Ellis who moved into the CTO position.

As you’re about to hear, the bug bounty companies have moved on from the days when they just provided the simple service of running bug bounty competitions for their clients. What’s emerging is a much more nuanced product mix designed to extract as much usefulness as possible out of the testers registered on their platforms.

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

• CISA director Chris Krebs fired
• Trump ramps up his disinformation campaign
• TikTok ban stalls
• BlackBerry discovers new hacker-for-hire crew
• DNS cache poisoning is back. But do we really care?
• Much, much more

Payment data is being pitched as another tool to help contact tracing professionals squash outbreaks of COVID-19.

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

• Zoom settles with FTC over misleading E2EE claim
• Some poor sod had to give up $1bn in Bitcoin
• Solaris SSH 0day? Let’s party like it’s 1999
• Samy Kamkar’s latest trick: NAT Slipstreaming
• Australia’s hardcore critical infrastructure protection bill
• Much, much more

Judging by what gets put on show, we can no longer safely assume US superiority in exploit development.

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has yielded to pressure from industry and state governments to publish an exposure draft of the bill that underpins its plan to directly intervene in the cyber security of the country’s critical infrastructure.

North Korea’s “Lazarus Group” gets through an impossibly prodigious amount of activity. That’s because this “group” is better understood as several distinct, connected clusters that together add up to North Korea’s formidable hacking operation.

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

• “Proud Boys” email campaign attributed to Iran in record time
• Sanctions for everyone!
• US doxes more adversary TTPs
• Katie Nickels and Chris Krebs join the show

This week’s show is brought to you by attack simulation platform company AttackIQ. Carl Wright from AttackIQ joins us this week to talk about the distinct possibility that large organisations are going to start slashing their security budgets in response to the changing economy.

CISA and the FBI are calling out Russian intrusions as they see them, while US Treasury imposes sanctions on the developers of Triton ICS malware and Iranian disinformation shops.

In this (wholly sponsored) edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors will drop by to pitch their sweet, sweet snake oil:

• Gravwell pitches its “structure on read” approach to SIEM
• Plextrac describes its red team/pentest reporting platform
• ITProTV’s Don Pezet talks about trends in online training