Risky Business Podcast

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

• Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one)
• Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling
• Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion
• Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program.

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

• DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief
• Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked
• Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation
• EU Parliament report into spyware lands
• SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence.

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

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

• Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage
• Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response
• Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired
• OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper
• Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka.

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers:

• Truffle Security talks secrets discovery
• KSOC builds Kubernetes security tools
• Snyk has a new product to better secure Infrastructure as Code

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers:

• Tines, the no code security automation solution that people are going absolutely nuts over
• Code42, the insider threat detection solution maker
• Kroll talks about its MDR offering

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

• Why former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan’s guilty verdict shouldn’t worry you
• United States puts chipmaking restrictions on China, APT activity is coming
• Elon blinks and Starlink goes dark on Ukraine’s front line
• Master cyber criminal arrested in Australia
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by runZero, the asset inventory and network visibility solution. runZero’s founding CTO and industry legend HD Moore is this week’s sponsor guest.

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

• More Exchange 0days cause more havoc
• A look at some earlier Exchange hack incidents
• How the CIA got its agents killed with its truly awful online opsec
• Ex NSA staffer arrested for espionage
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of cybersecurity strategy, joins the show this week to talk about some overlooked detection opportunities – some simple stuff you can look for in your environment that should raise gigantic flashing red flags.

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray interviews Airlock Digital CTO Daniel Schell and CEO David Cottingham about Microsoft’s new Smart Application Control feature, why controlling browser extensions via endpoint instrumentation is really hard and why PAM solutions don’t actually do allowlisting, even if they claim they do.

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

• Lapsus$’s Teapot arrested by UK police
• Optus hacker issues grovelling apology after feeling AFP and ASD heat
• Ukraine claims Russia is planning massive attacks on its infrastructure
• RSOCKS bot herder begs for extradition to USA
• Russians scammed when seeking military service exemptions
• Much, much more

This week’s show is sponsored by Votiro. Ravi Srinivasan, Votiro’s CEO, joins the show this week to talk about how people are using content disarm and reconstruction.

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

• A look at how Uber got owned so hard
• Why cleartext cookie storage in Microsoft Teams’ Electron-based app is actually a big deal
• Russian official: Starlink is a legitimate military target
• Wagner mercs get doxxed
• Kiwi Farms having a bad time
• Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview we’ll be chatting to Nucleus’s CEO Steve Carter about CISA’s KEV list. He has feelings about the KEV list – they’re mostly positive, but he also has a few reasonable gripes and he joins me to talk about them.