Risky Business Podcast

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Risky Business #716 -- This ain't your grandma's cloud

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Tenable gives Microsoft a spray over Azure bug fix delay, quality
  • Lateral movement fun via Azure Active Directory Cross-Tenant Synchronization
  • Ransomware targets hospitals, special needs schools
  • Japan’s cybersecurity has some catching up to do
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight. Brian Dye, Corelight’s CEO, is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #716 -- This ain't your grandma's cloud
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Risky Business #715 -- Pressure mounts on Microsoft to explain itself

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Ron Wyden’s “please explain” letter to Microsoft
  • Chinese APT crews prepositioning to disrupt US military logistics
  • China claims US hacked its seismology sensors
  • Ivanti/MobileIron exploitation going vertical
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Stairwell. Mike Wiacek, Stairwell’s founder and CEO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He’s joined by Eric Foster, Stairwell’s VP of Business Development.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #715 -- Pressure mounts on Microsoft to explain itself
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Feature interview: Australia's Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this interview Patrick Gray speaks to Australia’s Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil and NCSC founding director Ciaran Martin about the government’s upcoming cybersecurity strategy, releasing the hounds and more.

Feature interview: Australia's Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil
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Risky Business #714 -- Microsoft vs Wiz: pistols at dawn

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • The dust-up between Microsoft and Wiz
  • MobileIron/Ivanti 0day hoses Norwegian government agencies
  • That’ll do TETRA, that’ll do…
  • Microsoft finally agrees to offer decent logging without price gouging
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Resoucely. Travis McPeak, Resourcely’s co-founder and CEO, is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #714 -- Microsoft vs Wiz: pistols at dawn
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Risky Biz Soap Box: BEC actors embrace LLMs to attack Japan

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

This Soap Box edition of the podcast is sponsored by Proofpoint.

Proofpoint offers email security and DLP products and services, and they’re probably best known for being the biggest email security company on the planet.

That means they process a LOT of emails in the hopes of throttling the number of malicious emails that organisations have to deal with, whether that’s malware, phishing or BEC.

So, with that in mind, what role could large language models play in email security?

Now that the initial ChatGPT hype has died off a little, we spoke with Proofpoint’s VP of cybersecurity strategy Ryan Kalember about large language models and how they’re going to help defenders and attackers alike.

Risky Biz Soap Box: BEC actors embrace LLMs to attack Japan
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Risky Business #713 -- Microsoft activates PR weasels after State Department hack

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Microsoft’s weasel-word response to the State Department email hack
  • JumpCloud got owned, maybe by DPRK
  • Citrix 0day is getting stuff rekt
  • Two more spyware firms sanctioned by USA
  • Scammers list fake phone numbers for major airlines on Google Maps
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by security focussed enterprise browser maker Island. Dan Amiga, Island’s CTO and co-founder, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about why widespread enterprise browser deployment is inevitable.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #713 -- Microsoft activates PR weasels after State Department hack
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Risky Business #712 -- The 336,000 undead Fortigates of DOOM

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • The SEC is targeting SolarWinds executives
  • UK to make banks liable for fraud
  • NSA issues advice on UEFI trojan
  • Microsoft blocks 100+ dodgy drivers
  • The US IC knew what Prihozhin was up to. But what FSB doing?
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Netwrix. Martin Cannard, Netwrix’s VP of Product Strategy, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about why zero standing privilege is a worthy goal.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #712 -- The 336,000 undead Fortigates of DOOM
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Risky Biz Soap Box: Defeating Living of the Land

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of the Soap Box podcast we’re going to be talking about a great topic – living off the land.

The recent Volt Typhoon report out of Microsoft chronicled the adventures of a Chinese APT crew in US critical infrastructure. But one of the most fascinating aspects of the Volt Typhoon campaign was that the attackers almost exclusively used so-called living off the land techniques.

So the question becomes – what can you do about an attacker in your environment who has privilege and isn’t using malware?

Guests David Cottingham and Daniel Schell, the CEO and CTO of Airlock Digital, join the show to talk it through.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Defeating Living of the Land
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Risky Business #711 -- Albanian authorities raid MEK camp over Iran hacks

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Albanian authorities raid MEK over Iran hacks
  • Microsoft admits “Anonymous Sudan” took down its services
  • US Government puts $10m bounty on CL0P
  • A deeper look at the Barracuda hack campaign
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. We’ll be hearing from one of Material’s friends – Courtney Healey, senior manager of insider threat at Coinbase – in this week’s sponsor interview.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #711 -- Albanian authorities raid MEK camp over Iran hacks
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Risky Business #710 -- Why your corporate VPN will get you owned

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Fortinet 0day Groundhog Day
  • CISA’s new binding directive on exposed management interfaces
  • Confirmed: US intelligence buying commercially available data
  • MOVEit drama rolls on
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Red Canary. Chris Rothe is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to talk about how MDR providers are helping customers deal with cloud monitoring.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #710 -- Why your corporate VPN will get you owned
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