Risky Business News Podcast

Russia suspected of hacking a US Court system, researchers break the DarkBit ransomware’s encryption, a new attack can leak sensitive data from AMD processors, and a brute-force campaign targets Fortinet devices.

A security researcher scores $250,000 for a Chrome bug, WinRAR patches another zero-day, new vulnerabilities found in the Tetra communications protocol, and a researcher gains access to Microsoft’s internal network for fun… and no profit.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico’s Field CTO about making account recovery and onboarding for employees phishing-resistant. They also discuss the problems and opportunities of syncable passkeys.

Federal agencies told to patch a new Exchange flaw, millions of sites are vulnerable to HTTP desync attacks, Trend Micro patches a zero-day, and the Salesforce data breaches continue.

Russian companies must migrate to domestic ERP systems; A Thai hospital gets fined over the the dumbest data breach ever; Ohio’s public sector will have to approve ransom payments in public; …and Chanel and Cisco disclose data breaches.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dissect the Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack of Russian airline Aeroflot. Despite the short-term impact, the airline will likely bounce back quite quickly. But it is still a big win for the Cyber Partisans.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

China accuses the US of new cyberattacks, a $14.5b crypto hack discovered five years later, the US National Cyber Director is named, and Lovense considers legal action over a security flaw disclosure.

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?

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.