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 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 Apple’s latest move to roll out end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups and how that plays into the lawful access debate. Pending legislation in the US, UK and EU is all about mitigating online harms and countering child exploitation, so they think the policy debate has moved on from lawful access. There are lots of measures that companies could take in this space that don’t compromise end-to-end encryption, and legislators are going to force companies to do more. They also look at the next move for North Korean hackers. They’ve had an absolute field day pillaging cryptocurrency ventures. What will their next move be as the “Crypto Winter” arrives?

You can find the newsletter post this podcast is based on here.

Description: A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and presented by Patrick Gray.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast click here.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq find that for most countries use of cyber capabilities makes sense. Except for the US. They are in a different position and the development of cyberspace as a domain of strategic competition is a net loss for them.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and presented by Patrick Gray, who’s filling in for Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast click here.

Description: A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and presented by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast click here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray talks to Tom Uren about how Microsoft continues to get important stuff wrong on Chinese vulnerability regulation and Russian cyber warfare. They also discuss how Cyber Safety Review Board’s decision to look at teenage hacking Lapsus$ is a good one, and how a Chinese APT group’s efforts to steal US Covid relief money will really annoy people. You can read the newsletter the podcast is based on here.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and presented 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 reader feedback about whether the Five Eyes engage in economic espionage and look at allegations that Australia spied on the East Timorese government to get an edge in negotiations regarding an oil and gas negotiation. In various hypothetical scenarios we examine the ethics of the situation and what would have to change for that spying to be morally justified.