On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discusses the week’s security news, including: Telegram founder’s arrest in France Volt Typhoon 0days some SD-WAN gear Russia frets about Ukraine all up in Kursk’s webcams Cybercriminals social engineer payment card NFC relay attacks in the wild The slow burn of Active Directory name collisions And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to discuss how vulnerability management starts out eas...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Mike Burgess is the director general of ASIO. But the thing about Mike is he’s actually a cybersecurity guy. He joined ASD, Australia’s NSA, back in 1995 when it was still the Defence Signals Directorate. He was there for 18 years before he bounced out to the private sector for a while to work as the CISO for Australia’s largest telco, Telstra. In 2017 he returned to ASD to run it, and in 2019 he was appointed director general of ASIO. Back in April, Burgess made a series of comments on the topi...
Aug 26, 2024•30 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news including: Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA The three billion row National Public Data breach mess, courtesy Florida Man US govt confirms that it was Iran that hacked the Trump campaign Is TP-Link the next Huawei, or just not very good at computers? Major Chinese RFID card maker has hardcoded backdoors And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Specter Ops, makers o...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min
In this conversation Risky Business host Patrick Gray speaks with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about what sort of cyber enabled interference we can expect in the 2024 US presidential race. Alex was the CISO at Facebook during the 2016 election, and Chris Krebs was responsible for US election security as the director of CISA in 2020. Watch the video version of this episode on Youtube ....
Aug 19, 2024•36 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover: Iran tries an election hack’n’leak like its still 2016 Crowdstrike takes home the Pwnie for Epic Fail at DEF CON UK healthcare SaaS faces six million pound fine for lack of MFA US circuit courts disagree on geofence warrants Our roundup of juicy Blackhat/DEF CON research And much, much more. This week’s episode is s...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric. We often talk about how we can use signals from users to drive some of our security tech. But what about using our security tech to drive user behaviour? Ryan thinks there are some opportunities here, particularly around identity security....
Aug 12, 2024•35 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement? And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to disc...
Aug 07, 2024•53 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: The insurance industry’s reaction to CrowdStrike’s mess Google’s Workspace email validation flaw and its consequences for OAuth’d applications Is the VMWare ESX group membership feature a CVE or an FYI? Secureboot continues to under-deliver North Korea’s revenue neutral intelligence services And much, much more This episode is sponsored by allowlisting software vendor Airlock Digital. Airlock uses a k...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min
In this episode of Wide World of Cyber, Risky Business host Patrick Gray discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident and its implications for security software that operates in kernel space with Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos of SentinelOne, a CrowdStrike Competitor. The conversation also delves into Microsoft’s role in this whole disaster and the potential changes it could make to its operating system to prevent similar incidents in the future. A video version of this episode is also available on Yo...
Jul 30, 2024•45 min
The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, including: Oh Crowdstrike, no, oh no, honey, no AT&T stored call records on Snowflake and you’ll never guess what happened next Squarespace buys Google Domains and makes a hash of it Some but not all of the SECs case against Solarwinds gets thrown out Pity the incident responders digging through a...
Jul 24, 2024•59 min
This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell. Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis. If you find a dodgy file you can d...
Jul 17, 2024•31 min
In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be. While the US Government and its allies fight the scourge of ransomware, other governments are using it to either raise revenue or irritate their foes. North Korea sees ransomware as a money spinner, while the Kremlin enjoys poking the west in the eye with it. Join us for a breakdown of the relationships between governments who sho...
Jul 10, 2024•40 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Widely used polyfill javascript gets hijacked by its new owners MacOS supply chain disaster bullet dodged That OpenSSH remote code exec OH MY <3 Entrust gets its CA business kicked to the kerb by Google South Korean telco intentionally viruses 600k customers Microsoft continues to deeply underwhelm And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to ta...
Jul 03, 2024•59 min
This is a sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast. Abhishek Agrawal is the CEO and co-founder of Material Security, an email security company that locks down cloud email archives. Attackers have been raiding mailspools since hacking has existed, and with those mailspools now in the cloud with services like o365 and Google Workspace, guess where the attackers are going? Material built a product that helps you lock up your email data, to archive and redact sensitive information. T...
Jun 28, 2024•35 min
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an...
Jun 26, 2024•57 min
On this week’s retreat special, the entire Risky Business team is together in a tropical paradise for the first time. The team takes a break from the infinity pool to discuss the week’s security news: Microsoft recalls Recall, but why did it have to be such a mess And a Windows kernel wifi code-exec, really? Passkeys and identity are hard Scattered Spider bigwig arrested in Spain The pentagon runs a deeply flawed info-op Is it time E2E crypto nerds accept their place in the world? And much, much...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by long-time NSA boffin Rob Joyce. Now Rob’s left the government service, he’s hobnobbing with us pundits, talking through the week’s news: Apple announces a big leap for confidential cloud computing into the mass market While at the same time, letting you just mosey around your iPhone from your Mac Mandiant reports in about the Snowflake breach Moody’s say credit ratings might consider cyber incidents Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw wit...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 4 min
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Mark Piper discuss the week’s security news, including: What on earth happened at Snowflake? A look at operation Endgame Check Point’s hilarious adventures with dot dot slash Report says the FTC is looking at Microsoft’s security product bundling More ransomware hits Russia Much, much more 404 Media co-founder Joseph Cox is this week’s feature guest. He joins us to talk about his new book, Dark Wire, which is all about the FBI’s Anom sting. This week’s show i...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Russian delivery company gets ransomware-wiper’d A supply-chain attack targets video software used in US courts Checkpoint firewalls get hacked, details as clear as mud Microsoft Recall delights hackers Aussie telco Optus gets told its IR report isn’t legal advice Cyber insurer says you’re 5x more likely to get rekt if you have a Cisco ASA And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Kroll Cyber. Alex C...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min
This week’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at AusCERT’s 2024 conference. Pat and Adam talked through: Google starts using security as a marketing tool against Microsoft, along with steep discounts Microsoft announces a creepy desktop recording AI UK govt proposes ransom payment controls Arizona woman runs a laptop farm for North Korea Julian Assange just keeps on with his malarky And much, much more This week’s episode is sponsored by Tines. Its CEO Eoin Hinchy joins the show t...
May 23, 2024•54 min
In this podcast SentinelOne’s Chief Trust officer Alex Stamos and its Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs join Patrick Gray to talk all about AI. It’s been a year and a half since ChatGPT landed and freaked everyone out. Since then, AI has really entrenched itself as the next big thing. It’s popping up everywhere, and the use cases for cybersecurity are starting to come into focus. Threat actors and defenders are using this stuff already, but it’s early days and as you’ll he...
May 17, 2024•45 min
This week Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau along special guest Lina Lau discuss the week’s news, including: The ongoing Ascension healthcare disruption, and Whether its reasonable for healthcare orgs to be pushing back Platforming cybercriminals for interviews Own the libs by… not using E2EE messaging? CISA’s secure by design, we want to believe! The $64billion scale of indusrialised fraud And much, much more. This week’s sponsor is network discovery specialist, Run Zero. Director of research Rob K...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Patrick dials in from RSA in San Francisco to discuss the week’s security news with Adam, including: The west doxxes LockbitSupp, who must now hide his hundred million dollars Revil hacker behind Kasaya breach gets 14 years Microsoft makes some positive sounding* noises on security A fun flaw in nearly all VPN clients Gitlab admins continue their never-ending incident response And much, much more. This week’s sponsor is Stairwell. Long time infosec researcher Silas Cutler joins us to talk throug...
May 08, 2024•55 min
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Microsoft reassures* us that they take security very seriously* Cisco ASA firewalls get sneakily backdoored, but no one’s quite sure how Change Healthcare was 1FA Citrix all along The FTC, FCC and other government sticks get waved at tech Lizard Squad Finn who hacked the Vastaamo therapy chain gets sentenced And much, much more. This week’s sponsor is Zero Networks, who make a network micro-segmentation product tha...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min
In this edition of Snake Oilers we’ll be hearing from: Push Security : A browser plugin-based security company that combats identity-based attacks. (Much more compelling that it sounds in this description.) Knocknoc : The tool Risky Business uses to protect our own applications and services. (Restrict network/port access to users who are authenticated via SSO.) iVerify : Mobile security and threat hunting for iOS and Android. (Caught Pegasus in the wild!)...
Apr 29, 2024•42 min
In this special edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos and founding CISA director Chris Krebs about sovereignty and technology. China and Russia are doing their level best to yeet American tech from their supply chains – hardware, software and cloud services. They’ll be rebuilding these supply chains – for government systems, at least – from components that they have complete visibility into, and control over. Meanwhile, America’s government...
Apr 24, 2024•45 min
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over United Healthcare draws the ire of congress FISA 702 reauthorisation finally moves forward Apple warns about “mercenary exploitation” but what’s the India link? And much, much, more This week’s sponsor is Panther, a platform that does detection as code on massive amounts of data. Panther’s founder Jack Naglieri is this week’s s...
Apr 17, 2024•58 min
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Ransomware: down but not out Zero day prices on the rise… … and what it means for enterprise software Geopolitical conflict comes to computers in Palau Ukraine cyber chief Illia Vitiuk suspended More x86 microarchitectural bad times And much much more Proofpoint’s chief strategy officer Ryan Kalember is this week’s sponsor guest. He takes aim at some recent vendor trends, like security companies describing themselv...
Apr 10, 2024
In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear pitches from three companies: Kodex : Makes a platform companies can use to interact with law enforcement (Solves the law enforcement impersonator problem, among others.) ClearVector : Cloud security startup from former FireEye/Mandiant SVP/CTO John Laliberte Censys : Scans the entire internet, identifies assets you didn’t know were yours, helps you track attacker infrastructure like C2...
Apr 04, 2024•42 min
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: The SSH backdoor that dreams (or nightmares) are made of Microsoft gets a solid spanking from the CSRB Ukraine uses an old Russian WinRAR bug to hack Russia Push-notifications and social-engineering combined-arms vs Apple And much, much more. We have a special guest in this week’s show, Andres Freund, the Postgres developer who discovered the backdoor in the xz Linux compression library. This week’s show is brought...
Apr 03, 2024•58 min
