Podcasts

In this week’s sponsor interview, Tines’ Field CISO, Matt Muller, chats to Casey Ellis about the interesting and out-of-the-box ways they’ve seen people using the platform. Tines is a platform designed to automate repetitive tasks for IT and security teams. And, as it turns out, it can be used to … gamify shift handover?

In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Russia spies on local embassies via ISPs, a Canadian man jailed for stealing Internet Apes, Signal threatens to leave Australia, and Russian pharmacies go down after a cyberattack.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how recent SharePoint exploitation is a blow-by-blow repeat of the 2021 Microsoft Exchange mass compromise event. The international response to that clearly didn’t deter Chinese hackers, so it is time to try something different.

They also talk about recent cases where outsourcing IT services has come with increased risk. Convenient, cheap, secure, pick any two.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

• Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program?
• Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup
• The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse
• Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes
• Aeroflot gets hacked by the Cyber Partisans, disrupting flights

This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security. Daniel Cuthbert joins and explains how having telemetry about identity from inside the browser is a key pillar for investigating intrusions in the browser-centric future.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Russia’s national airline cancels more than 100 flights following a cyberattack, the FBI seizes $2.4 million from the Chaos ransomware, Kazakhstan arrests a ransomware suspect, and Kyrgyzstan nationalizes internet access.

Microsoft investigates a MAPP leak as the source of the SharePoint zero-day, US law enforcement takes down the BlackSuit ransomware portal, an Arizona woman is imprisoned for running a North Korean laptop farm, and Allianz life insurance suffers a security breach.

In this sponsored interview, Nucleus Security co-founder and COO, Scott Kuffer joins Casey Ellis to chat about how vulnerability management evolved into quite a lot more than just patch prioritization.

Microsoft rolls out better logging for incident responders, the SharePoint hacking spree hits major US agencies, Ukraine arrests the admin of a well-known hacking forum, and China launches a national Digital ID system.

Risky Biz returns after two weeks off, and there sure is cybersecurity news to catch up on. Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss:

• Microsoft tried to make outsourcing the Pentagon’s cloud maintenance to China okay (it was not)
• She shells Sharepoint by the sea-shore (by ‘she’ we mean ‘China’)
• Four (alleged) Scattered Spider members arrested (and bailed) in the UK
• Hackers spend $2700 to buy creds for a Brazilian payment system, steal $100M
• Fortinet has SQLI in the auth header, Citrix mem leak is weaponised, HP hardcodes creds and Sonicwalls get user-moderootkits. Just security vendor things!

This week’s episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital. CEO David Cottingham talks through what it takes to build a mature, resilient management platform for a security critical system.

This episode is also available on Youtube.