Podcasts

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why PHP2Shell failed to live up to its hype. A critical bug in a very widely used web scripting language amounted to… not much. The pair dissect the reasons why.

Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians and law enforcement personnel a Deepfake gang arrested on US charges, SonicWall patches a zero-day, and SSHole is being exploited in the wild.

In this Soap Box episode Patrick Gray chats to Push Security co-founder and CEO Adam Bateman about the benefits of taking a browser-centric approach to security.

By now most Risky Business listeners know that Push sells a browser extension-based product that can reliably prevent phishing, ClickFix and ConsentFix. But what’s next? Where to from here once you’re already in the browser?

Well, Push is expanding into the data loss prevention and secure web gateway product space. Why use a SWG based on 15-year-old technology when an extension can give you an even better security result? Especially when you can drop the drawbacks, like tromboning all your traffic into a random data centre…

This episode is also available on YouTube.

In this Risky Business sponsored interview Tom Uren talks to Airlock Digital’s CTO and CSO Peter Baussmann about how the Essential Eight is evolving into ASD’s Essentials framework.

The pair discuss why the change was needed and how Essentials is a broader framework that is less prescriptive and requires more judgement.

An OpenSSH authentication bypass bug hits Alpine Linux and OpenWRT, hackers attempt to raise fridge temperatures at French blood banks, a French bank gets hacked for $133 million, and the Thai opposition has been targeted with spyware.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about North Korea’s hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. Binance’s founder CZ says it is a wake up call for real banks, but he’s wrong. Even though they are probably just as hackable as crypto exchanges, real banks cooperate to reverse fraudulent transactions and it is far harder to get away with billions.

They also discuss the pressure being felt in tech firms everywhere to speed up software development using AI. From a security perspective, results will be mixed.

This episode is also available on YouTube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Ciaran Martin, former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• The $6.3 billion dollar Binance hack turned out to be pretty clunky, but it ain’t dumb if it works we guess
• Meanwhile Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin loses “millions”. Cute!
• A bit late to make the Word of the Year shortlist, but Google’s coined a new term with “LLMjacking”
• An infosec guy’s clankers hacked another infosec guy, everyone’s arguing about it, it’s funny Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. VP of Security Research Tod Beardsley joins Patrick Gray to chat about fear around the looming post-quantum cryptography crisis, and how CISOs can use it as an opportunity to clean up house and finally take all the end-of-life products out to pasture.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Hackers brick Chinese EVs in Russia, a second wave of hacks defrost European supermarket freezers, the US boots Acronis from government networks and the major distros patch a Linux kernel RCE.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss CISO’s expectations and priorities regarding budgets and what they will spend their money on. AI features heavily in 2027 priorities, but what will it deliver?

This episode is also available on YouTube.

The FBI links the Binance hack to North Korea, game developers are being extorted with game-cloning threats, the Belarusian CyberPartisans hack Russia’s statistics service and Apple sends new mercenary spyware notifications.