Risky Business

In this sponsored podcast Patrick Gray and Ryan Kalember talk about Proofpoint’s acquisition of Illusive, a company that started off in the “deception” space and then moved towards doing attack path analysis and management. Show notes Proofpoint Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Illusive

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Samsung, LG Android signing keys pinched LastPass gets owned again APT41 steal covid relief money Amnesty International hacked in Canada Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its CEO and CTO join host Patrick Gray this week to talk about admin to kernel as a security boundary, and the limitations of kernel driver blocklists. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Samsung, MediaTek, and other Android platform certs were leaked and used to sign malware Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users | Rapid7 Blog

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: UK, USA ban Chinese security cameras What is the Boa webserver and why is it everywhere? Vanuatu, Guadeloupe smashed by ransomware REvil back with more dumps despite ASD attention Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Jake King from Elastic Security, who joins us to talk through the company’s most recent threat report. There’s a link to the report in our show notes. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes British government bans Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive locations - The Record by Recorded Future US government bans Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision tech over ‘una

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Half of all UK COBRA meetings are ransomware related Ransomware biggest risk to US port security White House to move on spyware industry EU to launch its own Starlink equivalent Much, much more AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber will be joining us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how companies and their boards are really moving towards outcomes-based security programs. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings - The Record by Recorded Future DHS Secretary: Cyberattacks are the m

In this podcast we speak with Randall Degges who leads the Developer Relations & Community team at Snyk. He’s here to talk to us about how to get developers enthusiastic about security, how to get them to use the right tooling, and how this tooling will evolve in the future to actually help developers fix bugs in their code. Show notes The Big Fix | Snyk

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one) Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Australia to hack the hackers Australia to consider ba

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation EU Parliament report into spyware lands SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes DOJ says it seized billions in Bitcoin stolen by hacker from Silk Road darknet marketplace - The Record by Recorded Future U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Bill

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Twitter’s verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem | TechCrunch Unco

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here. We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers: Truffle Security talks secrets discovery KSOC builds Kubernetes security tools Snyk has a new product to better secure Infrastructure as Code Show notes Unearth Your Secrets - Truffle Security KSOC: Kubernetes Security Operations Center Cloud Security across the SDLC with Policy as Code | Snyk

Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here. We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers: Tines, the no code security automation solution that people are going absolutely nuts over Code42, the insider threat detection solution maker Kroll talks about its MDR offering

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Why former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan’s guilty verdict shouldn’t worry you United States puts chipmaking restrictions on China, APT activity is coming Elon blinks and Starlink goes dark on Ukraine’s front line Master cyber criminal arrested in Australia Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by runZero, the asset inventory and network visibility solution. runZero’s founding CTO and industry legend HD Moore is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Good news for the Capital One hacker, bad news for the former Uber CSO Joe Sulliva

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: More Exchange 0days cause more havoc A look at some earlier Exchange hack incidents How the CIA got its agents killed with its truly awful online opsec Ex NSA staffer arrested for espionage Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of cybersecurity strategy, joins the show this week to talk about some overlooked detection opportunities – some simple stuff you can look for in your environment that should raise gigantic flashing red flags. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Microsoft confirms two Exchange Server zero days are being used in cybera

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray interviews Airlock Digital CTO Daniel Schell and CEO David Cottingham about Microsoft’s new Smart Application Control feature, why controlling browser extensions via endpoint instrumentation is really hard and why PAM solutions don’t actually do allowlisting, even if they claim they do.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Lapsus$’s Teapot arrested by UK police Optus hacker issues grovelling apology after feeling AFP and ASD heat Ukraine claims Russia is planning massive attacks on its infrastructure RSOCKS bot herder begs for extradition to USA Russians scammed when seeking military service exemptions Much, much more This week’s show is sponsored by Votiro. Ravi Srinivasan, Votiro’s CEO, joins the show this week to talk about how people are using content disarm and reconstruction. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes British teen arrested in hacking case Australian cybersecurity minister lam

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: A look at how Uber got owned so hard Why cleartext cookie storage in Microsoft Teams’ Electron-based app is actually a big deal Russian official: Starlink is a legitimate military target Wagner mercs get doxxed Kiwi Farms having a bad time Much, much more In this week’s sponsor interview we’ll be chatting to Nucleus’s CEO Steve Carter about CISA’s KEV list. He has feelings about the KEV list – they’re mostly positive, but he also has a few reasonable gripes and he joins me to talk about them. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Uber attributes hack to Lapsus$, working with FBI and DOJ on investigati

In this edition of the Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray talks to Haroon Meer about Thinkst Canary’s new sensitive command token. It’s a great way to detect intruders on your Windows systems. Haroon also talks about how to use canaries strategically. Show notes Canaries as Network Motion Sensors Sensitive Command Token - So much offense in my defense

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Albania suffers under another crippling Iranian attack Iran’s APT42 using clever, multi-persona phishing State Department cyber snitching program paying off Former NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander sued over alleged IronNet pump and dump Mudge fronts US Senate Judiciary Committee Much, much more… This week’s show is brought to you by Stairwell. Mike Wiacek, Stairwell’s founder and CEO is this week’s sponsor guest and he talks about why they’ve pushed their Inception platform beyond YARA hunting. You can see a demo of Inception on our YouTube product demo page. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Ris

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: China’s super spies figure out Rob Joyce ran TAO ops FBI, French authorities fly to Montenegro to investigate ransomware attack NEWSFLASH: Cloudflare are still a bunch of Nazi cuddlers SIM swap drama spills into real world shootings, firebombings Yandex Taxi hack clogs Moscow streets The TikTok breach that wasn’t Project Raven veterans get wings clipped Why recent BGP hijacks are getting a bit concerning Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight, the company that maintains Zeek. Corleight’s Federal CTO Jean Schaffer joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about whether or not the White House’s executive order on Zero Trust is actually changing anything. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: The Twilio breach was actually a big deal How a Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack burned a GRU illegal Who wants 25m hashed passwords from Russia? An NFT we can get behind How attackers are using game anti-cheat drivers to defeat EDR Much, much more This week’s sponsor interview is with Mike Benjamin, the VP of security research at Fastly. He pops in to argue that your red team needs to actually consider how your apps will cope with bot-driven attacks. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep | WIRED Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 1

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: A deep look at Mudge’s sensational whistleblower complaint against Twitter Brazilian Federal Police raid Lapsus$ crew NSO CEO to stand down (again), 100 staff to be let go Signal users impacted in Twilio incident Tornado Cash OFACs around and finds out Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Greynoise. Its founder, Andrew Morris, joins the show with a stinging critique of the wider threat intelligence industry. Don’t miss that one. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Patrick Gray on Twitter: "Jesus… can open, worms everywhere. You basically can’t find anyone more credible than @d