Risky Business News Podcast

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 Jimmy Mesta, CTO and Co-Founder of Rad Security (formerly KSOC). Jimmy explains how Rad Security has replaced signature-based detections with a new concept the company calls “behavioral fingerprints” or “verified runtime fingerprints,” which can detect malicious activity in cloud environments using a wider set of indicators.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how Optus’s 2022 data breach went down and how the company had been vulnerable for years.

They also look at the US government’s ban on Kaspersky products, why it makes sense and why the ban took a long time to arrive.

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 a new report that explores how China’s vulnerability discovery and research ecosystem is linked to state sponsored espionage. This research finds that a relatively small number of people are responsible for an outsize contribution to vulnerability discovery.

They also talk about difficulties at CISA’s Joint Cyber Defence Collaborative initiative and why it should be retired.

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 use of cyber operations in Ukraine is informative but information is incomplete. Rather than clarifying the role of cyber operations in conventional warfare there is still a lot of room for confirmation bias.

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 Panther Senior Engineering Manager Nicholas Hakmiller on how the IT market is adapting to the cybersecurity skill shortage by training regular software talent in detection engineering, how AI is not there yet, and how Panther excels at spotting initial account compromise.

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.