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Risky Biz News: White House bars federal agencies from using rogue commercial spyware

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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 click here.

Risky Biz News: White House bars federal agencies from using rogue commercial spyware
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Risky Business #701 -- Why infosec is wrong about TikTok

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

NOTE: Patrick’s audio is a bit degraded in a few parts of this episode. It’s still clear enough, but if you hear some degradation in parts then yes, it’s us, not you.

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

  • The Biden White House’s executive order on spyware
  • Why the infosec community writ large is wrong on TikTok
  • Clop campaign: it’s time to ditch your file transfer gateways
  • Major Android app booted from store because it was full of 0day privesc exploits lol
  • More detail on the BreachForums admin arrest
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by runZero. HD Moore, co-founder of runZero, is this week’s sponsor guest.

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

Risky Business #701 -- Why infosec is wrong about TikTok
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Between Two Nerds: The Real Problem with TikTok

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at what the real problems with TikTok are. Many people are focussing on risks we think are irrelevant or overblown, but it is a massively influential app under Chinese Communist Party control.

Between Two Nerds: The Real Problem with TikTok
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Risky Biz News: CISA rolls out pre-ransomware notification system

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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 click here.

Risky Biz News: CISA rolls out pre-ransomware notification system
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Risky Biz News: FTC to scrutinize cloud providers' business practices

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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 click here.

Risky Biz News: FTC to scrutinize cloud providers' business practices
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Risky Biz News: BreachForums shuts down for good

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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 click here.

Risky Biz News: BreachForums shuts down for good
0:00 / 7:43

Risky Business #700 -- Yevgeny Prigozhin's empire gets owned

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news in front of a live audience at AISA’s CyberCon in Canberra.

They cover:

  • Yevgeny Prigozhin’s entire enterprise got majorly owned
  • Kremlin bans iPhones among President’s staff
  • A look at those Android handset baseband bugs (woof)
  • A discussion of the acropalypse issue
  • Why you need to sort out your egress filtering in light of the latest Outlook bug
  • Shanna Daly joins us on stage to talk about why the infosec industry sucks
  • Plus much much more

This week’s show is sponsored by Stairwell. Mike Wiacek, Stairwell’s founder, 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.

Risky Business #700 -- Yevgeny Prigozhin's empire gets owned
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Between Two Nerds: The Balance between Offence and Defence

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at the natural advantages that network defenders have. Despite this “home ground advantage” hackers still have a great deal of success and Tom and The Grugq look at what does work in favour of attackers.

Between Two Nerds: The Balance between Offence and Defence
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Risky Biz News: Horror show 0days hit Samsung smartphones

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

Description: 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 click here.

Risky Biz News: Horror show 0days hit Samsung smartphones
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Risky Biz News: Google wants to reduce lifespan of TLS certificates to 90 days

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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 click here.

Risky Biz News: Google wants to reduce lifespan of TLS certificates to 90 days
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