Risky Business Podcast

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

• Microsoft honks its clown car horn
• Australia’s hounds, released, catch their man
• The beginning of the end for Scattered Spider
• SEC was SIM swapped but had MFA off any way
• Ivanti learns a lesson…
• … while Progress does not
• and much more

DHS undersecretary for policy and Cyber Safety Review Board head Rob Silvers is this week’s feature guest. He joins the show to talk about how the CSRB handles possible conflicts of interests from board members with industry day jobs.

In this week’s sponsor interview Resourcely’s founder Travis McPeak talks about why we need to help developers with “paved roads” instead of relying on dashboard products to tell us when things have gone wrong.

On this week’s SURPRISE edition, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• Their disappointment over last week’s SEC Twitter hack
• China rainbow-tables Airdrop
• Enterprise bugs galore…
• … and why patching fast is hard when there isn’t even a patch yet
• UEFI flaws get trad-BIOS-era vendor response
• and much, much more…

This week’s show is unsponsored, we’re just here for the fun of it.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• SEC Twitter account hack moves bitcoin price
• Kaspersky admires Triangulation hackers’ fine work
• Telcos hacked all over
• Israel hacks Iranian gasoline pumps again
• Iran up in Albania, Sudan, Egypt and Tanzania
• and much, much more…

This week’s show is brought to you by Nucleus Security. Co-founder Scott Kuffer joins us to talk about why patch management is more nuanced than just “patch fast!”

In this week’s edition of the show Patrick Gray and guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch discuss:

• Major telco in Ukraine taken down by Russia
• Apple and Facebook go all in on e2ee
• Why 702 reauthorisation is looking a bit sketchy
• The USG wants your push notifications
• The year in review, plus some predictions for 2024

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Haroon Meer, Thinkst’s founder, is this week’s sponsor guest. He joins us to talk about APT groups pivoting to living-off-the-land techniques.

In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray talks to Island’s Bradon Rogers about security-focussed, enterprise browsers.

You can use Island to do stuff like grant third parties access to corporate applications on unmanaged devices in a not insane way – that’s a huge pain point for a lot of CISOs, and something that is bringing a lot of new customers through Island’s doors. Obviously for devices you do manage, you can roll Island out as your default enterprise browser. There are a lot of security benefits to doing that.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• Iran-linked attacks on US water infrastructure
• Why the ownCloud bug isn’t the end of the world
• The D-Link 0day that… never existed?
• In defence of Okta
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of Cybersecurity Strategy, is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• The Citrixbleed ransomware crisis
• Why the FBI hasn’t arrested Scattered Spider members
• DPRK is in your supply chains
• Microsoft has a brainwave and buys a HSM
• When civil war meets pig butchering
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. David Cottingham and Daniel Schell are this week’s sponsor guests.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray talks to Material Security’s CEO and co-founder Abhishek Agrawal about the security problems inherent to modern productivity suites.

Does it make sense that threat actors can authenticate to o365 and Workspace accounts and clean them out entirely? Years of mail, years of files?

Material Security has built a product that tackles this issue. It can lock up email archives behind MFA challenges, redact PII from inboxes, better control files share via Google Drive and OneDrive, and just generally limit the damage a threat actor can inflict when they compromise a cloud productivity account.

Even if you’re not interested in buying a product to tackle this, we think this one is a great listen.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with Chris Krebs and Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss:

• The SEC enforcement action against Solarwinds’ CISO
• The White House AI Executive Order
• CitrixBleed exploitation goes wide
• How Kaspersky captured some (likely) Five Eyes iOS 0day
• Elon Musk’s Gaza Strip adventures
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Greynoise. Andrew Morris, Greynoise’s founder and CEO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about how Greynoise is using large language models to help them analyse massive quantities of malicious internet traffic.

In this edition of the Soap Box we hear from Mike Wiacek and Eric Foster from Stairwell.

Stairwell makes a product that collects and analyses every executable file in your environment. You deploy file collectors to your systems and they forward all new files to Stairwell for manual and automated analysis. You can do a lot of really cool analysis once you have all that stuff in the same place.

But as you’ll hear, Stairwell is broadening out the use cases for its platform. You don’t want to forward files from every system? You don’t have to. It’s still very useful as an analysis platform. It’s sort of like VirusTotal, but private and with a bunch more bells and whistles. There’s also a bunch of sharing tools in the platform, which gives it a “social network for CTI nerds” flavour.