Risky Business #732 — We are CRUSHED

On this week’s SURPRISE edition, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• Their disappointment over last week’s SEC Twitter hack
• China rainbow-tables Airdrop
• Enterprise bugs galore…
• … and why patching fast is hard when there isn’t even a patch yet
• UEFI flaws get trad-BIOS-era vendor response
• and much, much more…

This week’s show is unsponsored, we’re just here for the fun of it.

Show notes

• The SEC’s Official X Account Was ‘Compromised’ and Used to Post Fake Bitcoin News | WIRED
• Apple AirDrop leaks user data like a sieve. Chinese authorities say they’re scooping it up. | Ars Technica
• FireChat – the messaging app that’s powering the Hong Kong protests
• End-of-life Cisco routers targeted by China’s Volt Typhoon group
• Ivanti Connect Secure attacks part of deliberate espionage operation | Cybersecurity Dive
• Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Exploitation Goes Global
• NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2023-6548 and CVE-2023-6549
• Aria Automation Missing Access Control Vulnerability (CVE-2023-34063)
• Security Bulletin - January 16 2024
• Stable Channel Update for Desktop
• “MyFlaw” — Cross Platform 0-Day RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Opera’s Browser
• PixieFail: Nine vulnerabilities in Tianocore's EDK II IPv6 network stack.
• LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
• Bigpanzi TV Botnet
• Southeast Asian casino industry supercharging cyber fraud, UN says