Risky Business Podcast

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

• Why an American defence contractor acquiring NSO Group would be a nonproliferation win
• A look at Microsoft’s botched macro measures
• iPhone’s Lockdown Mode
• Ukraine goes big on Yubikeys
• Aerojet Rocketdyne pays millions over poor security controls, CISO whistleblower gets bag of cash
• Much, much more

This week’s show is sponsored by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy, joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about changes he’s observed in the criminal ecosystem.

Today’s soap box is brought to you by Nucleus Security.

Nucleus makes a platform that ingests vulnerability scan information from all your vuln scanning tech so that you can do things like assign different vulnerabilities to different teams to manage and remediate. Send these ones to infrastructure, send these ones to app teams, send everything up and down this stack to this department etc.

If you want to see Nucleus in action I have recorded a demo and it’s on our YouTube product demos page, I’ve linked through to it in the show notes for this podcast.

Our guest in this episode is Scott Kuffer, co-founder of Nucleus, and the topic is running a vulnerability management program in a very large enterprise.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and guest cohost Mark Piper discuss the week’s security news, including:

• A billion records leaked in China
• China to develop desktop operating system
• HackerOne fires insider for stealing hackers’ work and bounties
• FSB officer charged with stealing hacker’s bitcoin
• Why Microsoft is wrong on Russia and Ukraine
• Much, much more

Red Canary’s Adam Mashinchi and Brian Donohue will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about Atomic Red Team, the open source adversary emulation framework they help to maintain.

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

• Activists who are totally not Israeli military hackers make Iranian steel mills firebally
• Chinese APT crews use ransomware to muddy attribution
• Attackers are now ransoming cloud access
• Chinese APTs using building control systems for persistence and stealth
• USA, UK and NZ govts issue PowerShell advice
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. JJ Agha, CISO at Compass, joins the show to talk about how he’s using it to make phishing triage and automation less traumatic.

Today’s Soap Box guest is an industry legend – Metasploit creator HD Moore. He’s here to tell us more about what’s happening with his latest creation, Rumble Network Discovery.

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

• Paige Thompson guilty of Capital One hack
• Microsoft is hiding serious Azure security issues
• New Australian government lobbying for Julian Assange
• How to ransomware documents in the cloud
• Microsoft stops Windows 10/11 downloads in Russia
• Belarusian cyber partisans obtain spy agency’s audio recordings
• Much, much more

This week’s edition of the show is brought to you by Gigamon. Josh Day, Gigamon’s Director of applied threat research team, will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about detecting badness on your network in encrypted traffic.

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

• “Shields Up” advice is now provably meaningless
• Russia to ditch offshore comms apps like WhatsApp
• Evil Corp’s Lockbit sanctions evasion attempt backfires
• Binance is a cesspit of shady financial dealings
• Apple’s passkey release foreshadows FIDO mass adoption
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is about Elastic’s teardown on some really interesting APT linux malware called BPFdoor. Jake King and Colson Wilhoit joined the show for that interview.

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

• The msdt/office lolbinapalooza
• Microsoft to introduce sensible defaults to Azure
• Twitter fined $150m for sms 2fa spam
• It turns out npm got owned in that Heroku/Travis CI thing
• AWS cred-stealing supply chain attack was research your honour, I swear!
• Much, much more

We’ll be chatting with Airlock Digital co-founder and CTO Daniel Schell in this week’s sponsor interview. He’ll be walking us through some of his own research into how to own Microsoft boxes via document-embedded office add-ins.

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

• Conti’s war against Costa Rica
• DoJ revises CFAA guidance
• Naughty kids get access to DEA portal
• A look at a Russian disinfo tool
• PyPI and PHP supply chain drama
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Its founder Haroon Meer will join us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about what might happen to infosec programs now the world economy is getting all funky.

The following is a sample of our latest podcast, Risky Business News, which is published into a new RSS feed. It’s a short podcast published three times a week that updates listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared and presented by Catalin Cimpanu. You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.