Risky Business Podcast

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover:

• Iran tries an election hack’n’leak like its still 2016
• Crowdstrike takes home the Pwnie for Epic Fail at DEF CON
• UK healthcare SaaS faces six million pound fine for lack of MFA
• US circuit courts disagree on geofence warrants
• Our roundup of juicy Blackhat/DEF CON research
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO Dan Guido is fresh back from the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON, where the Trail of Bits team moved through into the finals. Dan talks through the challenge of finding, reporting and fixing bugs with AI systems.

You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube.

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric.

We often talk about how we can use signals from users to drive some of our security tech. But what about using our security tech to drive user behaviour?

Ryan thinks there are some opportunities here, particularly around identity security.

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

• Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little
• Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer
• Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap
• Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy
• Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement?
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to discuss the unfashionable choice they made in hosting their platform one-VM-per-customer.

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

• The insurance industry’s reaction to CrowdStrike’s mess
• Google’s Workspace email validation flaw and its consequences for OAuth’d applications
• Is the VMWare ESX group membership feature a CVE or an FYI?
• Secureboot continues to under-deliver
• North Korea’s revenue neutral intelligence services
• And much, much more

This episode is sponsored by allowlisting software vendor Airlock Digital. Airlock uses a kernel driver on Windows, so Chief Executive David Cottingham joined to discuss what the CrowdStrike kernel driver bug drama means for security vendors.

This episode is also available on Youtube. If you want to ruin the magic of radio and see the faces behind the show, well, now you can!

In this episode of Wide World of Cyber, Risky Business host Patrick Gray discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident and its implications for security software that operates in kernel space with Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos of SentinelOne, a CrowdStrike Competitor. The conversation also delves into Microsoft’s role in this whole disaster and the potential changes it could make to its operating system to prevent similar incidents in the future.

A video version of this episode is also available on Youtube!

The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, including:

• Oh Crowdstrike, no, oh no, honey, no
• AT&T stored call records on Snowflake and you’ll never guess what happened next
• Squarespace buys Google Domains and makes a hash of it
• Some but not all of the SECs case against Solarwinds gets thrown out
• Pity the incident responders digging through a terabyte of Disney Slack dumps
• Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and it wants SHELLS RAAAAARGH SSHHEEELLLS
• And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security, a flexible and modern email security platform. If you’re sick of using a black box email security solution, Sublime is a terrific option for you.

This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell.

Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis.

If you find a dodgy file you can do all the usual malware analysis type stuff, but you can also do things like immediately find out where else that file is in your organisation, or even where else it was. From there you can identify other files that are similar – variants of those files – and search for those. And you can unpack all this very, very quickly.

This is the type of tool that EDR companies use internally to do threat hunting, but it’s just for you and your org – you can drive it. And as you’ll hear, the idea of a transparent, customisable and programmable security stack is something that’s on-trend at the moment. Mike lays out the case that doing this sort of file analysis in your organisation makes a whole lot of sense.

In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be.

While the US Government and its allies fight the scourge of ransomware, other governments are using it to either raise revenue or irritate their foes. North Korea sees ransomware as a money spinner, while the Kremlin enjoys poking the west in the eye with it.

Join us for a breakdown of the relationships between governments who should know better and the worst types of people on the planet.

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

• Widely used polyfill javascript gets hijacked by its new owners
• MacOS supply chain disaster bullet dodged
• That OpenSSH remote code exec OH MY <3
• Entrust gets its CA business kicked to the kerb by Google
• South Korean telco intentionally viruses 600k customers
• Microsoft continues to deeply underwhelm
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about ways to track attackers across NAT and VPNs, as well as how you can join in the fun of running an internet-scale honeypot network.

This is a sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast.

Abhishek Agrawal is the CEO and co-founder of Material Security, an email security company that locks down cloud email archives. Attackers have been raiding mailspools since hacking has existed, and with those mailspools now in the cloud with services like o365 and Google Workspace, guess where the attackers are going?

Material built a product that helps you lock up your email data, to archive and redact sensitive information. The idea is to really just limit what an attacker can do with email data if they pop an account.

Abhishek joined me to talk about a few things, like how non phishing resistant MFA is basically dead, how email content is very useful to security programs, and about how the gen AI won’t really change much on the defensive control side.