Risky Business Podcast

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

• Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day
• Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over
• United Healthcare draws the ire of congress
• FISA 702 reauthorisation finally moves forward
• Apple warns about “mercenary exploitation” but what’s the India link?
• And much, much, more

This week’s sponsor is Panther, a platform that does detection as code on massive amounts of data. Panther’s founder Jack Naglieri is this week’s sponsor guest, and we spoke with him about some common detection-as-code approaches.

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

• Ransomware: down but not out
• Zero day prices on the rise…
• … and what it means for enterprise software
• Geopolitical conflict comes to computers in Palau
• Ukraine cyber chief Illia Vitiuk suspended
• More x86 microarchitectural bad times
• And much much more

Proofpoint’s chief strategy officer Ryan Kalember is this week’s sponsor guest. He takes aim at some recent vendor trends, like security companies describing themselves as “platforms”.

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear pitches from three companies:

• Kodex: Makes a platform companies can use to interact with law enforcement (Solves the law enforcement impersonator problem, among others.)
• ClearVector: Cloud security startup from former FireEye/Mandiant SVP/CTO John Laliberte
• Censys: Scans the entire internet, identifies assets you didn’t know were yours, helps you track attacker infrastructure like C2

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

• The SSH backdoor that dreams (or nightmares) are made of
• Microsoft gets a solid spanking from the CSRB
• Ukraine uses an old Russian WinRAR bug to hack Russia
• Push-notifications and social-engineering combined-arms vs Apple
• And much, much more.

We have a special guest in this week’s show, Andres Freund, the Postgres developer who discovered the backdoor in the xz Linux compression library.

This week’s show is brought to you by Island, a company that makes a security-focussed enterprise browser. Island’s Bradon Rogers is this week’s sponsor guest and he’ll be joining us to talk about how people are swapping out their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for enterprise-focussed browsers like theirs.

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

• FVEY protests China’s widespread hacking of western politicians
• China bans western CPUs, Windows and databases
• Apple’s leaky M-chip prefetcher
• Nigeria holds ex-IRS investigator hostage in Binance stoush
• Researchers bring Rowhammer to AMD Zen and DDR5
• And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Its founder Haroon Meer joins this week’s show to make a passionate case that security vendors don’t all have to go for explosive growth. Slow and steady with a focus on excellent and relevant products will win the race, he says.

In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray talks to Nucleus Security co-founder Scott Kuffer about whether or not cloud service vulnerabilities should get CVEs, what on earth is happening with NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and more.

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

• Turns out AI is still bad code review after all,
• Mintlify loses a bunch of Github tokens,
• Everything old is new again with the UDP loop DoS,
• Know-your-(recon satellite)-customer is hard,
• Microsoft takes away Russia’s powershell, solving living off the land,
• And much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. In this week’s sponsor interview we speak with Material’s Rajan Kapoor, VP of Customer Experience at Material. We’re also joined by Chaim Sanders, who heads Security and Privacy at Lyft.

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

• Weather forecast in Redmond is still for blizzards at midnight
• Maybe Change Healthcare wasn’t just crying nation-state wolf
• Hackers abuse e-prescription systems to sell drugs
• CISA goes above and beyond to relate to its constituency by getting its Ivantis owned
• VMware drinks from the Tianfu Cup
• Much, much more

This week’s feature guest is John P Carlin. He was principal associate deputy attorney general under Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco for about 18 months in 2021 and 2022, and also served as Robert Mueller’s chief of staff when he was FBI director.

John is joining us this week to talk about all things SEC. He wrote the recent Amicus Brief that says the SEC needs to be careful in its action against Solarwinds. He’ll also be talking to us more generally about these new SEC disclosure requirements, which are in full swing.

Rad founder Jimmy Mesta will along in this week’s sponsor segment to talk about some really interesting work they’ve done in baselining cloud workloads. It’s the sort of thing that sounds simple that really, really isn’t.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• The serious consequences from the Change Healthcare ransomware, and the need for a … nastier response
• Predator spyware maker getting a stern sanctioning
• A German military WebEx meeting gets snooped
• Mem-corrpution is still king
• And much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray speaks to Karl McGuinness, Okta’s chief architect, about some new security improvements they’ve built into their IDP.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• LockBit gets back up after takedown
• Russia arrests Medibank hacker… for something else
• ConnectWise gives out free updates, but customers aren’t happy
• Microsoft gives in to demands for more logs
• Sandvine gets entity-listed
• And much much more.

Dmitri Alperovitch also joins the show to discuss Starlink, Starshield and a row with Congress about its availability in Taiwan.

In this week’s sponsor interview, Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell talks about his adventures with WDAC, and Dave Cottingham predicts Windows 12 will go all in on signed code.