Risky Business Podcast

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• The UHS ransomware attack
• Someone is messing with TrickBot: Did the USA release the hounds?
• US Treasury issues final warning on sanctioned ransomware crews
• Azerbaijan and Armenia going at it
• Fancy Bear owns US government department

In this podcast you’ll hear an interview with former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. He joins Risky Business to talk through a bunch of issues from Huawei’s exclusion from Australia’s NBN and 5G builds, to political accountability and leadership in cybersecurity.

Okta’s director of technology strategy Sami Laine joins the show to talk about identity in 2020.

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Russia, China, Iran having a red hot go at US political orgs
• Crowdstrike drops report, telcos having a bad time
• MSS owning US government with dumb bugs
• DoJ indicts Iranian script kiddie because reasons
• Proposed TikTok-Oracle deal barely makes sense
• The mother of all Microsoft auth bugs, wow
• Much, much more…

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Why integrity and availability are key to developing a COVID vaccine
• China closing the “cyber gap” with USA
• ASPI publishes research on TikTok, WeChat censorship
• Belarusian “news app” was tracking activists
• Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition
• Much, much more

This is a sponsored podcast.

Today we’re chatting with a very special guest, Haroon Meer.

Haroon is the founder of Thinkst Canary. Some call it a deception company, but he doesn’t, as you’ll hear. He says Canary is a detection company and the distinction is important.

On this week’s show Patrick and Alex discuss the week’s security news, including:

• NZ stock exchange felled by DDoS attack
• DNI cancels in-person election security briefings for Democats
• Russians didn’t hack Michigan voter data
• Sendgrid having a bad time of its own making
• US to doxes historical DPRK crypto laundering infrastructure, processes

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice
• Whitehouse to concede WeChat carveouts for US operations in China
• A bunch of news that sounds like it’s from 1997

On this week’s show Patrick, Adam and Sherrod DeGrippo discuss the week’s security news, including:

• NSA and FBI doxx GRU malware. Lol.
• Malicious Azure app snags SANS staffer
• Oracle to acquire TikTok?
• Trump weighs Snowden pardon
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. They make allowlist/safelist software that is actually manageable at scale! David Cottingham, an Airlock co-founder, joins the show this week to talk through a few product updates.

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• WeChat joins TikTok in the naughty corner
• TLS 1.3 with ESNI will have a massive impact on censorship AND security
• Belarus goes dark after dodgy election
• Capital One fined $80m
• Much, much more