Podcasts

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren about proposed changes to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. Some pundits are saying the changes will clear the way for the government to prevent tech companies from rolling out security patches. They’re wrong.

They also look at a new Mandiant report that dives deeper into a recent Chinese group’s campaign that compromised Barracuda Email Security Gateways. The report provides a wonderful overview of the campaign.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

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

• The FBI takes down Qakbot, steals operators’ bitcoins ha ha
• Danish hosting provider completely destroyed in ransomware attack
• Sophisticated Russian cyber attack on Polish trains. Well. Not really.
• Microsoft revokes cert then revokes its revocation
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of cybersecurity strategy Ryan Kalember is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at how asset inventory tools aren’t a substitute for knowing what a business values.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about how Ukraine has countered Russia’s cyber operations.

They also look at various initiatives the US government is taking to secure open source software and ask whether it is getting serious about FOSS.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Kaitlyn Sawrey.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

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

(NOTE: This podcast was initially pushed out into the Risky Business News podcast feed in error. Sorry about that!)

• US Government warnings to private space sector on cyber risk
• Ukrainian hackers dump the inbox of Russian Duma deputy chair
• Absentee voting in Ecuador’s election disrupted by DDoS attack
• South Korea warns of Chinese “spy chips”
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join this week’s show to talk about Powershell Constrained Language mode.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine the history of CCTV hacking and what different groups they get out of these hacks.