Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about hacking and scams. While hacking is disappearing as a threat for most people, it is a new golden age for scammers. Even Tom has been scammed!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Apple adds a ClickFix warning to macOS, Handala hacks Kash Patel’s personal email, Balancer crypto platform shuts down after last year’s hack, and the EU proposes a ban on AI nudify apps.

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc, about how AI is making old school security controls and paradigms like deny-by-default cool again.

Today, patches are being reversed by AI systems into exploits in a matter of hours. The days of being able to rely on timely patching as a primary control are over. James talks to Adam about this new reality and how Knocknoc can help.

Russia will use a custom crypto-algorithm for its 5G network, the Hungarian opposition accuses the government of using spyware, Kaspersky says it tied Coruna to the “Operation Triangulation” attacks, and malware was deployed on thousands of Luxembourg government phones.

In this interview you’ll hear former NSA executive Rob Joyce and former CIA cyber intelligence leader Andy Boyd talk to host Patrick Gray about how AI is changing the state of art in offensive security.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Decibel Oasis side event next door to the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the trio also talk about why a series of iOS exploit chain leaks don’t seem to be stirring up a scandal.

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson talk about red teaming AI systems with Russel Van Tuyl, Vice President of Services at elite penetration testing firm SpecterOps.

SpecterOps is the company behind attack path enumeration tool Bloodhound and Bloodhound Enterprise, but they’re also a pentest and red teaming shop with world class expertise in popping shells on all sorts of interesting systems in all sorts of interesting places.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about FBI Director Kash Patel admitting to Congress that the Bureau is buying American’s location data and using it to generate valuable intelligence. That’s concerning, because commercially available information can be used in tremendously invasive ways and the FBI can buy it without needing a warrant.

They also discuss the FCC’s surprising move to ban foreign-made consumer routers. It’s not about security, it is just about reshoring manufacturing.

And finally they discuss the Trump administration’s plan for unleashing the private sector.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:

• TeamPCP’s supply chain attack on Github, and they threw in an anti-Iran wiper, because why not?!
• Anthropic hooks up its models to just… use your whole computer
• After Stryker’s Very Bad Day, CISA says maybe add some more controls around your Intune?
• Another iOS exploit kit shows up in the cyber bargain-bin
• The FTC decides to ban… all new home routers?! U wot m8?!
• Supermicro founder was personally sanction-busting Nvidia GPUs into China?!

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker, Island. Chief Customer Officer Bradon Rogers joins Pat to explain how its customers are using Island to control the use of personal AI services in regulated industries.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Intellexa’s CEO is angry with Greek authorities, the FTC bans new foreign-made routers, Google launches a threat disruption unit, and German police warned companies about software bugs… in the middle of the night.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how Google just keeps on finding iOS exploit kits. Is iPhone security busted? And why are Russian state hackers after crypto?

This episode is also available on Youtube.