Podcasts

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about Citizen Lab’s analysis of WeChat’s behaviour and its privacy policy. That report misses the point: WeChat is an integral part of the PRC’s architecture of censorship and repression, and the Chinese government isn’t constrained by WeChat’s privacy policy.

They also discuss a new report that proposes a human-centred framework for assessing client-side Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) detection technologies. It’s a step forward because it makes clearer the tradeoffs that are being made when these technologies are suggested.

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

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 SEC is targeting SolarWinds executives
• UK to make banks liable for fraud
• NSA issues advice on UEFI trojan
• Microsoft blocks 100+ dodgy drivers
• The US IC knew what Prihozhin was up to. But what FSB doing?
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Netwrix. Martin Cannard, Netwrix’s VP of Product Strategy, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about why zero standing privilege is a worthy goal.

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

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Scott Hanson, Head of Global Security Operations at Kroll, on how the company has adopted Detection-as-Code for its approach to writing, managing, and rolling out detection rules for its customers.

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

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 Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about the regular extradition battles that occur between the US and Russia whenever a Russian cybercriminal is arrested in a third country. It’s less about protecting cybercriminals and more about Russia trying to poke the USA in the eye.

They also discuss recent Ukrainian hacktivist operations that have been extremely successful, but also don’t seem to have had any really meaningful impact.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at the EU’s proposed media freedom act and how one of its goals is to protect journalists from spyware.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to RunZero’s CEO Chris Kirsch about how RunZero has evolved from an IT network active scanning product to one that can now discover assets on OT and cloud environments using both active and passive scanning approaches.