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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why the world is destined to be perpetually insecure.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Google’s cyber disruption unit taking aim at the IPIDEA residential proxy network. The network was a cybercrime enabler that was used by hundreds of threat actors for crime and espionage. More of this kind of disruption please.

They also discuss SpaceX’s rapid action to stop the Russian military using Starlink terminals to guide drones deep into Ukrainian territory.

Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by the newest guy on the Risky Business Media team, James WIlson. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Notepad++ update supply chain attack has been attributed to China
• The AI agent future is even more stupid than expected; behold the OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbook mess
• The Epstein files claim he had a personal hacker?
• Microsoft is finally getting ready to (think about starting to begin to) disable NTLM by default
• The usual bugs in the usual things! Ivanti, Fortinet, and Solarwinds. Again.
• Telco hides a free trip in its privacy policy, someone actually reads it and wins!…

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the recent Russian attack on Polish electricity infrastructure.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the Pall Mall Process, an international effort to reign in abusive spyware. Tom thinks the US has already stumbled into a viable carrots and sticks style strategy that will shape the industry more than coming up with standards will.

The pair also discuss news that Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers compromised the calls of senior UK officials in Downing Street. The UK has extensive telecommunications security regulations and the incident makes us wonder what that legislation is actually good for.

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

• La France is tres sérieux about ditching US productivity software
• China’s Salt Typhoon was snooping on Downing Street
• Trump wields the mighty DISCOMBOBULATOR
• ESET says the Polish power grid wiper was Russia’s GRU Sandworm crew
• US cyber institutions CISA and NIST are struggling
• Voice phishing for MFA bypass is getting even more polished

This episode is sponsored by Sublime Security. Brian Baskin is one of the team behind Sublime’s 2026 Email Threat Research report. He joins to talk through what they see of attackers’ use of AI, as well as the other trends of the year….

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how getting pinged hurts state hackers by introducing uncertainty. Publishing technical reports on the hack can actually improve the situation by removing uncertainty about how attackers were detected.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the rise of technologies that can undermine internet blackouts such as Starlink and its relatively new direct-to-cell service. Authoritarian internet shutdowns and disasters happen often enough that governments should think about how to take advantage of these new technologies rather than just reacting when crises arise.

They also discuss the nomination of General Joshua Rudd as head of NSA and US Cyber Command.

In this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, joined by a special guest. BBC World Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy is a long time listener and he pops in for a ride-along in the news segment plus a chat about his new book.

This week news includes:

• Did the US cyber Venezuela’s power grid, or do they just want us to think they coulda?
• US govt might boycott the RSAC Conference ‘cause Jen Easterly being CEO makes them mad
• MS Patch Tuesday fixes CVSS5.5 bug and … stops you shutting down
• Wiz pulls off cloud stunt hack that ends with control of everyone’s AWS console…

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what information warfare even is, revisit a 30-year-old paper and examine why Western governments struggle with the concept.