Risky Business News Podcast

A GitHub supply chain attack leaks secrets, the White House tells federal agencies to stop firing cyber staff, Germany exempts cybersecurity from debt limits, and the RCS standard adds support for end-to-end encryption.

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Matt Muller, field CISO of Tines, explains how governments are using carrots and sticks to improve the security of enterprise software. Matt discusses CISA’s ‘Secure by Design’ pledge and the UK NCSC’s effort to quantify ‘unforgivable bugs’

The FBI warns of online file converters that distribute malware, China backdoors Juniper router, a wave of ransomware hits Taiwan, and North Korean spyware slips into the Play Store.

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how X is actively engaging in political interference outside the US. The risks mirror those of TikTok. American legislators moved against TikTok because it could potentially be a powerful tool for the Chinese government to interfere with American political discourse. X is a realised threat, not a potential one, so we expect that foreign governments will start to consider a ban.

They also explore why mass firing of probationary employees in NSA and intelligence agencies is particularly damaging.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

A Pro Palestinian group claims credit for the X DDoS, CISA gets a new director as DOGE fires its red teams, and Asian scam compounds keep growing.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what Europe should do given that US security guarantees are evaporating. Should Europe grow its cyber capabilities, what it would get out of it and how should it go about doing it?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Mobile browsers patch a passkey phishing vector, researchers find undocumented commands in a common IoT chip, the US government cuts election security funding, and a hacker steals – and then returns – funds from DeFi platform 1inch.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew talks about the major trends in mass internet scanning and exploitation, as per GreyNoise’s yearly threat report.

The US indicts the i-Soon and APT27 hackers, the BADBOX botnet gets disrupted again,authorities seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and the FBI arrests hackers who stole Taylor Swift concert tickets.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems.

They also discuss how President Trump’s actions that favour Russia will make Five Eyes partners take stock, particularly when it comes to HUMINT intelligence sharing.

Finally they examine the did-it-happen-or-not stand-down of US Cyber Command’s Russian operations.

This episode is also available on Youtube.