Risky Business Podcast

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

• US takes aim at China over vaccine hax
• ??? takes aim at Iranian port infrastructure over ???
• Iran attacks Gilead pharma
• Zoom acquires Keybase
• Thunderbolt research discussed
• US to drop more DPRK malware
• Ransomware targets European hospital group
• Australian flu vaccine distribution disrupted by ransomware
• More!

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

• Salt framework 1Day wreaks havoc
• Toll Group hit with ransomware attack. Again.
• Germans indict APT28 operator
• Ransomware a key word in SEC filings
• Much, much more!

Snake Oilers isn’t the regular Risky Business podcast, if you’re looking for that just scroll back to one of the numbered episodes in our podcast feed. Snake Oilers is the wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky.Biz where vendors give us money so they can come on to the show and pitch you their sweet, sweet Snake Oil.

In this edition of snake oilers we’ll hear from:

• David Cottingham of Airlock Digital pitches the Crowdstrike/Airlock two piece combo meal deal
• Marc Rogers of Okta talks passwordless authentication and pitches modern SSO generally
• John Emmitt of Kaseya pops in to pitch the VSA endpoint management agent

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

• Spy companies pitch ridiculously invasive approaches to contact tracing
• NSO Group busted running c2 boxes in USA according to WhatsApp lawsuit
• Australian government releases contact tracing app, no idea if it works
• Chinese telcos to get boot from USA
• Much, much more

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

• Czechs claim state-backed healthcare sector attack preparation
• Pompeo goes full cyber berserker
• New iOS exploit chain targets Uyghur diaspora
• Zoom 0day for $500k? Tell him he’s dreamin’

Snake Oilers is a wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their wonderful, wonderful, magical snake oil to you, the listeners.

In today’s podcast you’ll hear from:

• Kenn White from MongoDB talking about client-side field level encryption
• AlphaSOC’s Chris McNab talking about their latest – they’re not just doing DNS analytics anymore
• SecureStack are making developer-friendly cloud security, provisioning and visibility tooling

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

• Details about Apple and Google’s contact tracing API and OS changes
• Alex Stamos joins Zoom as outside consultant
• More Zoom news
• US government weighs China Telecom ban following BGP hijacking
• Travelex paid $2.3m to decrypt files in ransomware attack.

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

• ASD launches offensive action against criminals
• Bio-tech firms working on COVID-19 targeted by ransomware
• Iran targets WHO
• Did you hear there’s a security issue with Zoom? You might not have heard. Don’t worry we’ll tell you about it
• Much, much more
  

This podcast is brought to you by the Hewlett Foundation. They provided us with a grant to support us doing some podcasts about cybersecurity issues that touch on policy. Regular listeners would have heard some of these special podcasts already.

Today’s guest is Jennifer Morrell. She’s a partner with Elections Group and is a recognised expert on election audits.

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

• KSA uses SS7 to track its citizens in USA
• Governments begin virus tracking through personal devices
• FBI warns of Iran-linked crew in yer supply chains
• Voatz gets booted from HackerOne
• All the cloud and Zoom drama

This week’s show is brought to you by Signal Sciences. Instead of interviewing one of their people, they suggested we interview Andrew Becherer in this week’s sponsor interview.