Risky Business Podcast

Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss:

• The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB
• Biden’s last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it
• China’s breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration
• Ross Ulbricht - the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame - gets his Trump pardon
• New year, same shameful comedy Forti- and Ivanti- bugs
• US soldier behind the Snowflake hacks faces charges after a solid Krebs-ing
• And much, much (much! after a month off) more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security, who make a Linux EDR solution. Founder Craig Rowland joins to talk about how the Linux ecosystem struggles with its lack of standardised approaches to detection and response. If you’ve got a telco full of unix, and people are asking how much Salt Typhoon you’ve got in there… Sandfly’s tools are probably what you’re looking for.

If you like your Business like us… - Risky - then we’re hiring! We’re looking for someone to help with audio and video production for our work, manage our socials, and if you’re also into the Cybers… even better. Position is remote, with a preference for timezones amenable to Australia/NZ. Drop us a line: editorial at risky.biz.

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many compliance boxes, and not just cybersecurity boxes.

This is largely a conversation about compliance, but it’s actually interesting and fun. These are words we never thought we’d type!

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The SEC’s cyber incident reporting isn’t very exciting after all
• China Telecom on the way to being thrown out of the US
• The NSA/Cybercom might get two separate hats
• The Cl0p ransomware crew are back and taking responsibility for the Cleo hacks
• (Yet another) File upload bug in Struts makes Java admins weep
• And much, much more.

This episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, who run a pretty top notch offsec/pentest team when they’re not busy making the Bloodhound Enterprise identity attack path enumeration software. SpecterOps’ Robby Winchester joins to talk about how pentest has changed, and how their customers get value from their testing.

This episode is also available Youtube.

In this edition of the Wild World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray sits down with SentinelOne’s Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs to talk all about Chinese cyber operations.

They look at the Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon campaigns, the last 20 years of Chinese operations, and the evolution of the cyber roles of China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army.

It’s a very dense hour of conversation!

This podcast was recorded in front of an audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
• Snowflake phases out password-based auth
• Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
• Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
• AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
• Some cool OpenWRT research
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico’s COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration.

You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don’t need to rely on your staff to enrol them. They’ve achieved this with really slick Okta and Entra ID integrations.

Jerrod also talks about a recent trip to Singapore and concerns he has about the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in the energy sector.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft
• Exxon’s opponents targeted by hackers
• Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us
• The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain’t gonna happen
• A South Korean set-top-box manufacturer shipped a DDoS client for corpo-combat
• And much, much more.

This week’s sponsor interview with Vijit Nair from Corelight. We talk to him about doing detection in cloud environments, and how the varied nature of cloud systems makes the old ways - network monitoring - useful in new and interesting ways.

If you’re in Sydney, Pat is recording a live episode of the Wide World of Cyber with Chris Krebs on 5 December. There might still be tickets left!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder
• Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn’t seem surprising?
• Salt Typhoon’s attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact
• China’s surveillance state workers sell their access at home
• Palo Alto is bad and should feel bad
• And much, much more.

In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray chats with Matt Muller from Tines about Gartner’s “spicy take” that the SOAR category is dead. SOAR is dead! Long live SOAR!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes
• Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp
• CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives
• AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell
• Academic research supports your gut-reaction; phishing training doesn’t work
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. The always excitable Andrew Morris joins to remind us that the edge-device vulnerabilities Pat and Adam complain about on the show are in fact actually even worse than we make them out to be. Andrew also tells us about a zero-day Greynoise’ AI system truffle-pigged out of their data set.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot
• CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days
• Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware
• Regular users can create mailboxes in M365?
• Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints
• And much, much more.

This week’s feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

This episode is sponsored by software supply chain security firm Socket.dev. Founder Feross Aboukhadijeh thinks that we need a CVE-like catalogue for supply-chain attacks, and he makes a solid argument.

The show is also available on Youtube.