Risky Business #742 -- China bans AMD and Intel, pivots to Linux on the desktop
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by Patrick Gray
2d ago
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: FVEY protests China’s widespread hacking of western politicians China bans western CPUs, Windows and databases Apple’s leaky M-chip prefetcher Nigeria holds ex-IRS investigator hostage in Binance stoush Researchers bring Rowhammer to AMD Zen and DDR5 And much, much more. This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Its founder Haroon Meer joins this week’s show to make a passionate case that security vendors don’t all have to go for explosive growth. Slow and steady with a focus on excellent and releva ..read more
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Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Azure vulns should get CVEs
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by Patrick Gray
6d ago
In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray talks to Nucleus Security co-founder Scott Kuffer about whether or not cloud service vulnerabilities should get CVEs, what on earth is happening with NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and more ..read more
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Risky Business #740 -- Midnight Blizzard's Microsoft hack isn't over
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by Patrick Gray
2w ago
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Weather forecast in Redmond is still for blizzards at midnight Maybe Change Healthcare wasn’t just crying nation-state wolf Hackers abuse e-prescription systems to sell drugs CISA goes above and beyond to relate to its constituency by getting its Ivantis owned VMware drinks from the Tianfu Cup Much, much more This week’s feature guest is John P Carlin. He was principal associate deputy attorney general under Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco for about 18 months in 2021 and 2022, and also served as Robert Muel ..read more
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Risky Business #739 -- ALPHV exit scams while Change Healthcare burns
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by Patrick Gray
3w ago
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: The serious consequences from the Change Healthcare ransomware, and the need for a … nastier response Predator spyware maker getting a stern sanctioning A German military WebEx meeting gets snooped Mem-corrpution is still king And much, much more In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray speaks to Karl McGuinness, Okta’s chief architect, about some new security improvements they’ve built into their IDP. Show notes U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to wo ..read more
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Risky Business #738 -- LockBit is down but not out. Yet.
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: LockBit gets back up after takedown Russia arrests Medibank hacker… for something else ConnectWise gives out free updates, but customers aren’t happy Microsoft gives in to demands for more logs Sandvine gets entity-listed And much much more. Dmitri Alperovitch also joins the show to discuss Starlink, Starshield and a row with Congress about its availability in Taiwan. In this week’s sponsor interview, Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell talks about his adventures with WDAC, and Dave Cottingham pr ..read more
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Risky Business #737 -- LockBit gets absolutely rekt
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: LockBit has been taken down by law enforcement Some mega-juicy leaks out of Chinese offsec/APT contractor I-SOON GRU gets its Moobot network shutdown Signal adding usernames is… complicated Much, much more In this week’s sponsor interview Devicie’s Tom Plant joins the show to talk about problems orgs run into when it comes to Windows policies. There’s an expectation out there that Windows policies are set and forget, but sadly, this is not so. Show notes Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websi ..read more
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Soap Box: A deep dive on how Russia's SVR is hacking Microsoft 365 tenants
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
The need to properly secure Entra ID tenants has been made pretty obvious this year thanks to a large-scale attack on them by Russia’s SVR intelligence agency. In this interview Andy Robbins from SpecterOps, the maker of Bloodhound Enterprise, talks through how he thinks those attacks actually went down, about how if you’re an o365 customer you’re using Entra ID whether you like it or not, and about how you can lock down your Entra ID tenant ..read more
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Risky Business #736 -- Azure misconfigurations are 2024's looming threat
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: Somehow there are still more Ivanti and Fortinet exploits Volt Typhoon have been at it for years Starlink in Ukraine gets complicated Canadians hate poor Flipper Much, much more… In this week’s sponsor interview Feross Aboukhadijeh from Socket joins the show to talk about the sheer volume of malicious packages being committed to code repositories and why older SCA tools aren’t well equipped to deal with them. Show notes Microsoft Azure customers hit by phishing, account takeover attacks ..read more
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Soap Box: How to dismantle Volt Typhoon-style relay networks
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
In this Soap Box interview Greynoise founder and absolute legend Andrew Morris joins the show to talk about: Why Greynoise hasn’t seen a substantial drop off in Volt Typhoon’s network of compromised routers after the US Government’s takedown action How vendors are using Greynoise as an early warning system to identify exploitation of their products How he’s using large language models to reverse exploitation attempts into actual exploits It truly is a great conversation, we hope you enjoy it ..read more
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Risky Business #735 -- AnyDesk fails the transparency test
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by Patrick Gray
1M ago
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: Thought eels were slippery? Check out AnyDesk’s PR! Why Microsoft’s 365 is a nightmare to secure Cloudflare’s needlessly hostile blog post US Government introduces “Disneyland ban” for spyware peddlers Much, much more… This week’s feature guest is Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA. He’s joining the show to talk about CISA’s demand that US government agencies unplug their Ivanti appliances. He also chimes in on why the US government is so rattled by Vol ..read more
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