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Risky Biz Soapbox: Enterprise Yubikeys can now be pre-registered

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

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.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why hack and leak is still a big deal

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

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.

Risky Business Weekly (773): Cybercriminals are dropping like flies in Russia

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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. …

Srsly Risky Biz: The Australian government will shut down AN0M evidence appeals

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

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.

Risky Business Weekly (772): Salt Typhoon is a true national security disaster

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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!…

A 60 second product demo of Knocknoc.io

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

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!

Srsly Risky Biz: The PLA's cyber operations go dark

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

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.

Risky Business Weekly (771): Palo Alto's firewall 0days are very, very stupid

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes
  • Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp
  • CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives
  • AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell
  • Academic research supports your gut-reaction; phishing training doesn’t work
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. The always excitable Andrew Morris joins to remind us that the edge-device vulnerabilities Pat and Adam complain about on the show are in fact actually even worse than we make them out to be. Andrew also tells us about a zero-day Greynoise’ AI system truffle-pigged out of their data set. …

Srsly Risky Biz: How Trump will drive covert operations

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about what to expect from President Trump’s second term. Trump is an activist president who believes in using state power, so intelligence agencies will be pushed to conduct more audacious or even outrageous covert operations.

They also discuss concerns about a new UN cybercrime treaty that is set for a vote at the General Assembly and the Canadian government’s curious decision to force the closure of TikTok’s local offices.