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.

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dive further into deterrence based on both reader feedback and recent news about Iranian destructive operations. One of the requirements for effective deterrence is transparency and people sometimes assume that states have good information about what their cyber operators are doing. But we discuss the universal incentives that encourage state actors to exaggerate their current operations. If this is happening deterrence won’t work because leaders will think they are already getting away with murder.

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 click here.

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 click here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray talks to Tom Uren about North Korea’s “double” or “threaded” supply chain attack via Trading Technologies and 3CX. This type of “access begets access” approach makes total sense and Tom thinks it will likely be a standard approach for North Korea. Microsoft has released a couple of reports over the month that indicate Iran is increasingly willing to launch destructive cyber attacks. One Iranian group, Mango Sandstorm, has been destroying on-prem and cloud environments. Another, Mint Sandstorm, has been targeting a wide swathe of US critical infrastructure. It’s a worry.

Finally, Tom and Pat discuss cyber security company Team Cyrmu’s sale of netflow to US government agencies, which has been controversial in the press because of potential privacy violations. Tom spoke to the company and based on what we learnt there isn’t a privacy concern here. But the broader principle that data purchases be examined for privacy risks still stands.

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 click here.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether cyber operations are any good at deterrence. Tom thinks that attributes of the domain mean that it is just no good for deterrence. The Grugq, however, thinks that it can be, although perhaps not in a state vs state context.

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 click here.

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 click here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray talks to Tom Uren about a report by CSC 2.0 that recommends the US government designate space systems as critical infrastructure. Lots of satellites systems are already covered under other critical infrastructure sectors such as communication or defence, but Tom agrees that there are some good reasons to carve out a space-specific critical infrastructure sector.

They also talk about the US State Department working on developing a portfolio of cyber diplomacy “offerings”, ranging from disaster relief funding, to technical capacity building, through to policy-level cyber education. This seems like a great idea.