Risky Business Podcast

In this podcast we’ll be hearing from an Australian politician, Tim Watts. He’s a member of our federal parliament and serves as our shadow minister for communications and cybersecurity. For our overseas listeners, the “shadow” part of his title is there because he’s a member of the opposition party, so he’s not in government. But, of course, if the Labor party wins the next election he’ll be our communications and cybersecurity minister.

Anyway, Tim is a bit of an anomaly in politics because he has a genuine, nerd-like interest in the field we so love. Tim and I chat pretty regularly, and I can say that yes, 100%, his interest in this field is genuine and he has a firm grasp on the issues that matter.

I thought now would be a great time to run an interview on the politics of infosec. While it’s true that policymakers spend time thinking about this stuff, cybersecurity hasn’t yet crossed over into being what they call a “retail politics” issue. But thanks to the Colonial pipeline ransomware incident, that might be about to change.

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

• The aftermath of the Colonial ransomware attack
• Biden signs cybersecurity EO
• DarkSide crew hounded off the Internet. For now.
• Ransomware campaigns continue, hitting health, insurance targets globally
• IIS PoC released
• Rapid7 discloses Codecov-related source code breach
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by AttackIQ. Its VP of Product Mark Bagley and Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy Jonathan Reiber are this week’s sponsor guests.

As regular listeners would know, Snake OIlers is a wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky Biz HQ where vendors give us money so they can come on and pitch their products to you, our dear, dear listeners.

And we have three vendors along today to pitch you:

• Google Cloud Security is in the top slot pitching their Zero Trust product suite BeyondCorp Zero Trust for Enterprise.

• Devicie, an Australian startup, that developed a solution that makes Microsoft Intune useable.

• Trend Micro joins the show to talk about its latest XDR features

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

• An analysis of the Colonial pipeline ransomware attack
• More ransomware news
• UK and US expose APT29’s preferred exploits (again)
• IntrusionTruth drops a new post
• 128m Apple devices were hit by XCodeGhost
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Aaron Parecki, a Senior Security Architect at Okta. He’s also been a spec editor and member of the oath working group at IETF for nearly 11 years, so he knows a thing or two about OAuth. He’ll be joining me after the week’s news to talk through the latest OAuth guidance the IETF is going to release.

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

• GitHub weighs banning exploits
• Ransomware galore
• Belgian government crippled in DDoS attack
• Intrusion Truth Twitter account suspended
• More Pulsesecure victims identified
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by ExtraHop networks, and they’ll pop along in this week’s sponsor interview to float a really, really good idea. The Biden administration EO on cybersecurity will mandate software is shipped with a so-called software bill of materials so customers will actually know what’s in their supply chain. Ben Higgins and Ted Driggs from Extrahop will join us today to argue they should also supply a bill of behaviours; data in a standardised form that will tell you things like what domains and IPs the software will connect to.

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

• USA imposes sanctions over SolarWinds campaign
• Enterprise border devices being attacked everywhere by all and sundry
• Malvertising is coming back
• Ultra professional criminal attackers are ascendant
• All the latest ransomware, supply chain and other infosec news

This week’s sponsor interview is with Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight. We speak to him about what he’s calling “Open NDR”. A lot of the big SOCs have settled on their preferred ways of sharing threat information, and Brian drops by to talk all about those trends.

In this edition of Snake Oilers we’ll be hearing from three very different vendors who’ve all been doing interesting stuff.

Greynoise: An infosec startup darling, Greynoise can tell you when an attack you’ve detected is internet-wide, automated activity. Very useful for de-prioritising entire alert sets.

MergeBase: Software Composition Analisys (SCA) with two key differentiators. MergeBase says it gives users MUCH better remediation advice than competitors, and also offers a “in prod” dynamic SCA product that feeds Java app telemetry back to app/security teams. Very cool, and getting popular.

Votiro: Regular listeners would know about CDR company Votiro. They’ve spent the last little while updating their product to better deal with macro-based threats. There’s some site-specific machine learning pixie dust as well as some more generic static detections and re-writes.

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

• Ubiquiti insider blows whistle on breach
• Cyber insurer ransomwared
• Project Zero burned a Western counterterrorism operation
• Australian parliament, media, politicians all under attack
• Executive Order would require vendors to notify US government of incidents
• Much, much more…

This week’s sponsor guest is a special one. Metasploit creator and Rumble.run founder HD Moore will join us to talk all about his new venture, the Rumble asset discovery tool. It’s an absolutely fantastic interview, as you’d expect from HD.

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

• REvil demands US$50m from Acer in ransomware attack
• Shell added to Accellion victim list
• Governments banding together to tackle ransomware
• BEC theft hits $1.8bn in 2021: FBI
• Exchange tyre fire is, surprisingly, almost under control
• MORE

Remediant’s Paul Lanzi will pop along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how they’ve integrated their PAM solution with Carbon Black. It’s an integration that is actually somewhat obvious in hindsight: if a box has been popped then some accounts have, too, so tying these things together does make sense.

This is a wholly sponsored podcast brought to you by Okta.

In this interview we chat with Marc Rogers, the executive director of Cybersecurity at Okta.

The question that we’re exploring in this interview is whether or not we’ve managed to move the infosec needle since the Chinese government hacked Google back during the Operation Aurora attacks of 2009.