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In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the US Federal Communications Commission effort to get US telcos to lift their security game and compares it to UK and Australian efforts. The US is very late to the game, and improving security is a huge job.

They also talk about Chinese cyber actors continuing to pointlessly sow chaos and how an influence campaign in Romania is an absolute disaster for TikTok.

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

• Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
• Snowflake phases out password-based auth
• Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
• Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
• AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
• And much, much more…

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!…

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how states have very different approaches to controlling cyber operations.

At the very beginning they refer to this Microsoft Threat Intelligence post here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/12/04/frequent-freeloader-part-i-secret-blizzard-compromising-storm-0156-infrastructure-for-espionage/

In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico’s COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration.

You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don’t need to rely on your staff to enrol them. They’ve achieved this with really slick Okta and Entra ID integrations.

Jerrod also talks about a recent trip to Singapore and concerns he has about the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in the energy sector.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about the continued importance of hack and leak operations. They didn’t really affect the recent US presidential election, but they are still a powerful tool for vested interests to influence public policy.

They also discuss the police bust of MATRIX, yet another encrypted messenger that is marketed to criminals and designed to resist police surveillance. The crimephone landscape is splintering due to the constant drumbeat of police success.

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

• The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft
• Exxon’s opponents targeted by hackers
• Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us
• The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain’t gonna happen
• A South Korean set-top-box manufacturer shipped a DDoS client for corpo-combat
• And much, much more.

This week’s sponsor interview with Vijit Nair from Corelight. We talk to him about doing detection in cloud environments, and how the varied nature of cloud systems makes the old ways - network monitoring - useful in new and interesting ways. …

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the Australian Government’s extraordinary legislation that will retrospectively ensure that warrants used for the An0m crimephone sting operation are valid.

They also discuss a sterling CISA red team report and the naiveté of Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith.

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

• A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder
• Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn’t seem surprising?
• Salt Typhoon’s attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact
• China’s surveillance state workers sell their access at home
• Palo Alto is bad and should feel bad
• And much, much more.

In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray chats with Matt Muller from Tines about Gartner’s “spicy take” that the SOAR category is dead. SOAR is dead! Long live SOAR!…

This is a one minute demo that will show you what Knocknoc is – an access control platform that lets you tie network controls to SSO. Default deny is the new black!

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about what the People’s Liberation Army cyber operators have been up to. They used to be China’s most visible cyber operators but have since disappeared.

They also discuss the shift towards widespread exploitation of 0days, particularly in enterprise perimeter devices.