Videos

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.

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. …

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.

Feross Aboukhadijeh demos the Socket platform, a software security tool that prevents dangerous packages from ending up in your software projects.

This week’s feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau also discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot
• CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days
• Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware
• Regular users can create mailboxes in M365?
• Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints…

In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou.

Email security is one of the oldest product categories in security, but as you’ll hear, Josh thinks the incumbents are just doing it wrong. He joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray for this interview about Sublime’s origin story and its new approach to email security.

https://sublime.security/