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Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about different ways foreign intelligence services are finding to recruit local proxies. These methods could be too risky for Western intelligence agencies, but for some state’s services they just make sense.

They also discuss a report into DOGE and how speed was prioritised over robust governance.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story?
• A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too
• Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs while bemoaning Fortra
• Academics pick apart Tile trackers and find them lacking
• CISA tells agencies to patch their damn Cisco gear

Show Notes:

‘You’ll never need to work again’: Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5n903447o…

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the power of cyber.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how the funnel that turns kids into cyber criminals has evolved over the last decade. Cybercrime’s reach has broadened, it is more lucrative and more violent.

They also talk about new thinking about deterring America’s cyber adversaries.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York
• MI6 launches a dark web portal
• Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance?
• Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover
• GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm

This week’s episode is sponsored by Sublime Security. In this week’s sponsor interview, Sublime founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins host Patrick Gray to chat about the pros and cons of using agentic AI in an email security platform. …

In this sponsored product demo Sublime Security co-founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins Risky Business podcast host Patrick Gray to show off the company’s email security platform, including its latest agentic AI bells and whistles.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report A Playbook for Winning the Cyber War

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about why it is good news that US investment in spyware vendors has skyrocketed.

They also discuss the in-principle agreement for TikTok to remain in the US. It’s a win-win: a win for China and a win for TikTok, but not so much a win for US national security.

In this product demo Patrick Gray hosts Ali Cheikh while he shows off how you can use runZero to scan for and manage vulnerabilities in your environment.

Thanks to the recent integration of the Nuclei vulnerability scanner, runZero is no longer just an asset discovery tool.

Check out runZero at: https://runzero.com

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

• Shai-Hulud worm propagates via npm and steals credentials
• Jaguar Land Rover attack may put smaller suppliers out of business
• Leaked data emerges from the vendor behind the Great Firewall of China
• Vastaamo hacker walks free while appeal is underway
• Why is a senator so mad about Kerberos?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Knocknoc. Chief exec Adam Pointon joins to talk through the surprising number of customers that are using Knocknoc’s identity-to-firewall glue to protect internal services and networks. …