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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how changing circumstances change the risk/reward balance and change whether effects operations are worthwhile.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Airlock Digital founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham about the recent Microsoft Digital Defense Report and the problems that come with trying to properly secure PowerShell.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast guest host Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about research that discovered that EU-based spyware was being used to target EU and US officials. Will that encourage EU governments to take action against spyware?

They also discuss Belgian concerns that the PRC will take advantage of a Chinese logistics firm with a hub in Liège for espionage.

Finally, they discuss whether hacktivists will follow International Humanitarian Law (IHL or the Rules of Law) rules about hactivism in wartime. Almost certainly not, but Tom still thinks its worth talking about and promoting responsible behaviour.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine the opportunities that ransomware gangs and business email compromise/romance scammers have to collaborate.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren asks Martin Cannard, VP of Product Strategy at Netwrix, how privileged access management can help defend organisations. ‘Advanced Persistent Teenagers’ regularly use social engineering techniques to compromise highly privileged accounts, but that doesn’t mean it’s instantly game over for defenders.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the NSA’s creation of a new AI Security Center. One of it’s roles is to help protect AI intellectual property and so maintain the US’s AI advantage.

They also look at a new Mandiant report that looks at vulnerabilities that are exploited in the wild. This research finds a shift away from the top three vendors (Microsoft, Apple and Google) and there are rich pickings for threat actors at the network edge.