Risky Business News Podcast

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at what the real problems with TikTok are. Many people are focussing on risks we think are irrelevant or overblown, but it is a massively influential app under Chinese Communist Party control.

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.

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 look at the natural advantages that network defenders have. Despite this “home ground advantage” hackers still have a great deal of success and Tom and The Grugq look at what does work in favour of attackers.

Description: 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 the RESTRICT Act, proposed US legislation that tries to deal with the problems posed by technologies from foreign adversaries. RESTRICT gives the US government powers to deal with companies like Kaspersky, Huawei and now TikTok on an ongoing basis, rather than muddling through in an ad hoc way each time a problem company pops up. It also requires that the Secretary of Commerce come up with processes and procedures to deal with and mitigate these types of threats, rather than the current whack-a-mole approach.

They also discuss a draft Cambodian cyber security law and experts’ concerns that it could be abused by the Cambodian government to maintain its grip on power. This law has many similarities to Australian critical infrastructure law and Tom and Pat discuss the reasons behind the law in Australia. There’s a straight line between a serious ransomware incident in Australia and the resulting law, but still, Cambodia’s government remains authoritarian.

Finally, they look at a Carnegie report on Chinese manipulation of international standards setting organisations. It’s a good report and explains what is going on — Chinese manipulation does happen occasionally, but it is “largely unsuccessful”.

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 look at how different countries take different approaches to talent identification and recruitment. How much of a difference does it make? And why do countries have these different approaches?