Risky Business Podcast

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

• Trump’s war on TikTok (featuring guest Alex Stamos)
• Twitter hackers caught. Pretty embarrassing stuff, really.
• NSO implants target Easter Bunny
• Garmin may need a good OFAC lawyer (featuring comment from Dmitri Alperovitch)
• Blackberry cracked after five years leads to multiple arrests in Australia
• Much, much more

Soap Box is the wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky.Biz. That means everyone you hear on this podcast paid to be here. In this podcast you’re going to hear my latest interview with Jerrod Chong, Yubico’s Chief Solutions Officer.

Hardware security keys like Yubikeys have come a long way, even over the last couple of years. The biggest change is that the support for hardware keys is borderline ubiquitous now. FIDO2 support is in all the major browsers. You can even use Yubikeys with Google apps on an iPhone. The plumbing is here, it’s arrived.

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

• Two Chinese nationals charged with freelancing for MSS
• Russia, China hacking COVID-19 research
• The world dodged a bullet on the Windows DNS bug
• Twitter blue tick pwnapalooza
• Much, much more.

Normally these Soap Box podcasts – which are wholly sponsored – feature vendors trying to sell you stuff. But this time we’re doing something different: an interview with two of Facebook’s most senior engineers.

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

• The latest on the EncroChat hack-related arrests
• Details about the fresh F5 and Citrix bugs
• Natanz go boom
• Paying Wastedlocker ransoms violates Treasury sanctions
• North Korea embraces Magecart (lol)
• Much, much more…

This edition of the Soap Box podcast is brought to you by Proofpoint.

Today’s guest is Proofpoint’s EVP of Cybersecurity Strategy, Ryan Kalember, and the topic is business email compromise, or BEC.

BEC is a big deal, generating billions of dollars in losses every year across basically all industry verticals and levels of government. Until recently, there haven’t been many technical controls that help to mitigate it.

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

• Inside the new American “e2ee busting” bill
• Julian Assange hit with (another) superseding indictment
• Trustwave uncovers sneaky Chinese accounting software backdoor
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Okta. They are, of course, the identity and auth giant and one of the few sponsors we actually approached last year for 2020 because, well, they are very good at what they do. This week Marc will be joining us to talk about a privacy-related topic. The discussion is nuanced, but it’s basically about how the public perception of privacy risks has diverged from the reality/ Further, that the COVID-19 crisis and the advent of digital contact tracing apps have actually brought general concerns around digital privacy to the fore.

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

• Australia “under attack” - a wrap
• Microsoft releases more security protections for E5 customers
• US to introduce “anti encryption” bill
• Shady encrypted phone company owned by the cops
• NSA to offer filtered DNS services to defence industry
• MORE

Today we’re chatting with Citizen Lab Senior Researcher John Scott-Railton about the work they did investigating the Indian hacker-for-hire firm BellTrox.

For those of you who didn’t catch the news, The Citizen Lab, which operates out of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, dropped a huge report a couple of weeks back that lays Belltrox’s operations bare. As you’ll hear this company attempted to hack tens of thousands of email accounts belonging to everyone from government officials to hedge fund managers and activists.

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

• Facebook commissioned custom 0day to de-cloak child sex predator
• IP stack bugs to plague IoT, ICS for years
• Sandworm was doxxed by the NSA and hardly anyone noticed
• Congress demands answers on 2015 Juniper NetScreen back door investigation
• Amazon, Microsoft join moratorium on sale of facial recognition to police
• Much, much more