Risky Business Podcast

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.

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

• The latest on the Exchange tyre fire
• Lawmakers in the USA have had enough of Microsoft’s ridiculous licensing tiers
• White House mulls software security rating system
• Joseph Cox’s SMS adventures
• Things didn’t quite work out for APT6920 Arson Cats
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by VMRay. They asked us to interview one of their customers in this week’s sponsor segment so Brad Marr, the CISO of Life Fitness, pops in to walk through his VMRay use case.

This podcast was made possible thanks to the support of the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. They’ve provided us with grant funding so we can do feature podcasts that will be of interest to people working in policy roles. The idea is educate people working in policy about issues that they’re in a position to do something about.

In this interview we spoke with Kim Grauer, the head of research at Chainalysis.

Chainalysis makes software that cryptocurrency exchanges, regulators, law enforcement and intelligence services use to get insight into what’s happening in terms of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies moving around. You would have heard us talk about their reports in the news segment of Risky Biz a few times because they have a habit of publishing really interesting insights into things like the ransomware economy.

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

• All the Exchange boxes on the planet have pretty much been owned lol
• See above
• Someone’s hacking Russian crime forums
• The Accellion scandal keeps on truckin’
• Dependency confusion attacks are going berserk in the wild
• Gab got owned. Again.
• John McAfee is in all sorts of trouble
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Nucleus Security. Its director of APAC operations, Gil Azaria, joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how he became a Nucleus customer before he joined the vendor as its APAC guy.

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

• Chinese APT crew goes berserk with Exchange 0day
• Russia hacks Ukraine and USA, India hacks China, China hacks India
• The NYTimes got something big wrong again (shock horror)
• CANVAS exploit pack leaks, including their sweet, sweet Spectre exploit
• Atlantic Council report into offensive capability vendors/contractors
• Your vCentre gear it probably already on fire: find out why!
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Yubico, the makers of the Yubikey.

This is a sponsored podcast featuring ExtraHop’s co-founder and CTO Jesse Rothstein. ExtraHop is a Network Detection and Response (NDR) vendor that started out offering network health and monitoring tools before being pulled into the security space by its own customers.

Jesse joined host Patrick Gray to talk about the SolarWinds compromise from a Network Detection and Response vendor’s perspective, about cloud security and monitoring, some of ExtraHop’s backstory and more. Enjoy!

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

• USA floats new sanctions against Russia
• TikTok, WeChat get stay of execution
• Dependency confusion is ugh
• US indicts Lazarus crypto-thieves
• France ties Sandworm crew to Centreon intrusion
• MORE

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder Haroon Meer is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to have a very Haroon-style conversation. We talk about how security controls and detections often fall over when things happen that take place outside of our assumptions: trojaned software updates, attackers hiding in unconventional places like monitors, things like that. That’s a great conversation.