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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell Academic research supports your gut-reaction; phishing training doesn’t work And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. The always excitable Andrew Morris joins to remind us that the edge-device vulnerabilities Pat and Adam complain about on the show are in fact actually even worse than we make them out to be. Andrew also tells us about a zero-day Greynoise’ AI system truffle-pigged out of their data set.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Windows security and resiliency: Protecting your business | Windows Experience Blog Microsoft revamps how it will disclose vulnerabilities | Cybersecurity Dive NIST says exploited vulnerability backlog cleared but end-of-year goal for full list unlikely Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 Palo Alto Networks customers grapple with another actively exploited zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive Unpatched zero-days in Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks software Palo Alto Networks’ customer migration tool hit by trio of CVE exploits | Cybersecurity Dive Readout of President Joe Biden’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China | The White House Easterly to step down from CISA director role on Inauguration Day | Cybersecurity Dive Top White House cyber official urges Trump to focus on ransomware, China Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims’ data in one day Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz 1,400 Pegasus spyware infections detailed in WhatsApp’s lawsuit filings NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents | TechCrunch Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims’ data in one day Ohio man behind Helix cryptocurrency mixer gets 3-year sentence O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - Virgin Media O2 Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice Bunnings facial recognition cameras breach Privacy Act, retailer to challenge ruling | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site Nudity, punches in newly released Bunnings CCTV as company found to breach Privacy Act | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site Bitfinex Hack Launderer Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison -
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware Regular users can create mailboxes in M365? Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints And much, much more.This week’s feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
This episode is sponsored by software supply chain security firm Socket.dev. Founder Feross Aboukhadijeh thinks that we need a CVE-like catalogue for supply-chain attacks, and he makes a solid argument.
The show is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Jason Koebler: "New: We’ve confirmed Apple quietly introduced a feature in the new iOS that is preventing cops from hacking iPhones that they have confiscated as evidence. Apple really did say ACAB www.404media.co/apple-quietl..." — Bluesky Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops Exclusive | U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack - WSJ Surge in exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities is ‘new normal’ warns Five Eyes alliance The Elusive GoblinRAT: How a Linux Backdoor Infiltrated Government Infrastructures Microsoft Bookings – Facilitating Impersonation | Cyberis Limited TrustedSec | EKUwu: Not just another AD CS ESC Russia’s internet watchdog blocks thousands of websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor | The Tor Project Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide - Ars Technica Press Conference - Parliament House, Canberra | Prime Minister of Australia DHS nominee Kristi Noem stood alone for rejecting department cyber grants to state, local governments | CyberScoop Patrick Gray: "Allies will feel comfortable until these guys get fired in their first 100 days for opposing Trump’s proposed annexation of Iceland or something. People have forgotten… Trump is out of his gourd" — Bluesky -
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In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou.
Email security is one of the oldest product categories in security, but as you’ll hear, Josh thinks the incumbents are just doing it wrong. He joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray for this interview about Sublime’s origin story and its new approach to email security.
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs Microsoft workshops better just-in-time Windows admin privileges Snowflake hacker arrested in Canada Okta has a fun, but not very impactful auth-bypass bug Russians bring dumb-but-smart RDP client attacks And much, much more.Special guest Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar joined us to talk about its “hacking back” campaign. The full interview isavailable on Youtube for those who want to really live vicariously through Sophos doing what every vendor probably wants to do.
This week’s episode is sponsored by attack surface mapping vendor runZero. Founder and CEO HD Moore joins to talk about marrying up the outside and inside views of your network.
You can also watch this episode on Youtube
Show notes Okta AD/LDAP Delegated Authentication - Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory Does bcrypt have a maximum password length? - Information Security Stack Exchange Local Administrator Protection | Privilege Protection Inside Sophos' 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices | WIRED A Deeper Look at FortiJump (FortiManager CVE-2024-47575) | Bishop Fox Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition | WIRED Google uses large language model to discover real-world vulnerability GreyNoise Intelligence Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Live Streaming Cameras with the Help of AI Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in yearslong account takeover attacks - Ars Technica CISA warns of foreign threat group launching spearphishing campaign using malicious RDP files | Cybersecurity Dive Chinese state-backed hackers breached 20 Canadian government networks over four years, agency warns India-Canada row: Canadian officials confess to leaking 'intel' against India to Washington Post - India Today Amid diplomatic row, Canada names India in ‘cyberthreat adversary’ list, accuses it of ‘likely spying’ | World News - The Indian Express The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President | WIRED Risky Biz News: The mystery at Mango Park North Korean hackers seen collaborating with Play ransomware group, researchers say -
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
CSRB to investigate China’s telco-wiretapping hacks Euro law enforcement takes down the Redline infostealer Someone steals Fed crypto… and then tries to quietly sneak it back in Russia sentences REvil guys to … jail? Really? Apple private cloud compute gets a proper bug bounty program And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Material Security, who help navigate the mess of cloud productivity data security. Daniel Ayala - Chief Security and Trust Officer at Dotmatics - is a Material customer, and joins Pat and Material Security’s Rajan Kapoor to talk about how to wrangle securing data that ends up in corporate cloud email and file stores.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Apple 10 day certificates Chinese hackers said to have collected audio of American calls U.S. Panel to Probe Cyber Failures in Massive Chinese Hack of Telecoms How a series of opsec failures led US authorities to the alleged developer of the Redline password-stealing malware Operation Magnus Hacker Returns $19.3 Million to Drained US Government Crypto Wallet Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts | WIRED Radar systems in Iran breached prior to Israel's Saturday counter-strike - report Delta sues CrowdStrike after widespread IT outage that caused thousands of cancellations Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds Microsoft CEO asked board to cut pay in connection with security overhaul | Cybersecurity Dive Four REvil members sentenced to more than four years in prison Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers Nigerian court drops charges against detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan Apple will pay security researchers up to $1 million to hack its private AI cloud | TechCrunch SonicWall firewalls the common access point in spreading ransomware campaign | Cybersecurity Dive Fortinet zero-day attack spree hits at least 50 customers | Cybersecurity Dive Cisco warns actively exploited CVE can lead to DoS attacks against VPN services | Cybersecurity Dive Chinese influence operation targets US down-ballot races, Microsoft says | Reuters Exclusive: Accused Iranian hackers successfully peddle stolen Trump emails | Reuters Viral video of ripped-up Pennsylvania ballots is fake and Russian-made, intelligence agencies say Product Demo: Securing M365 and Google Workspace with Material Security -
In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer about his “decade of deception”, including:
A history of Thinkst Canary including a recap of what they actually do A look at why they’re still really the only major player in the deception game A look at what companies like Microsoft are doing with deception Why security startups should have conference booths -
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
SEC fines tech firms for downplaying the Solarwinds hacks Anonymous Sudan still looks and quacks like a Russian duck Apple proposes max 10 day TLS certificate life Oopsie! Microsoft loses a bunch of cloud logs Veeam and Fortinet are bad and should feel bad North Koreans are good (at hacking) And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Proofpoint. Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember joins to talk about their work keeping up with prolific threat actor SocGholish.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Four cyber companies fined for SolarWinds disclosure failures U.S. charges Sudanese men with running powerful cyberattack-for-hire gang Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals | WIRED Risky Biz News: Anonymous Sudan's Russia Links Are (Still) Obvious Microsoft confirms partial loss of security log data on multiple platforms | Cybersecurity Dive Risky Biz News: Apple wants to reduce the lifespan of TLS certificates to 10 days Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police Crypto platform Radiant Capital says $50 million in digital coins stolen following account compromises North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs - Ars Technica Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach – Krebs on Security Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked - Ars Technica Critical Veeam CVE actively exploited in ransomware attacks | Cybersecurity Dive FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking. - Ars Technica Hackers reportedly impersonate cyber firm ESET to target organizations in Israel The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers -
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including:
Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by detection-as-code vendor Panther. Casey Hill, Panther’s Director Product Management joins to discuss why the old “just bung it all in a data lake and… ???… “ approach hasn’t worked out, and what smart teams do to handle their logs.
This episode is also available on [Youtube].(https://youtu.be/86zy6DcwtbE)
Show notes White House forms emergency team to deal with China espionage hack - The Washington Post DDoS attacks on Internet Archive continue after data breach impacting 31 million Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 Ransomware encryption down amid surge of attacks, Microsoft says | CyberScoop Russian court websites down after breach claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers Ukrainian anti-corruption agency reportedly finds no violations in disclosures of top cyber official Trump campaign turns to secure hardware after hacking incident | Reuters FBI creates its own crypto token to nab suspects in alleged fraud scheme District of Massachusetts | Eighteen Individuals and Entities Charged in International Operation Targeting Widespread Fraud and Manipulation in the Cryptocurrency Markets | United States Department of Justice Critical CVE in 4 Fortinet products actively exploited | Cybersecurity Dive Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024 Palo Alto Expedition: From N-Day to Full Compromise Ivanti up against another attack spree as hackers target its endpoint manager | Cybersecurity Dive 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies · GitHub Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices - Ars Technica A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots – Krebs on Security Opinion | The Cyber Sleuth - Washington Post -
In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors:
Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool Permiso: An identity security platform founded by ex FireEye folks Wiz: The cloud security giant is getting in on code security scanningYou can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.
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Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news with everyone’s favourite ex-NSA big-brain, Rob Joyce. They talk through:
Musk and Durov bow to government pressure Tiktok rushes to ban authoritarian propagandists The US doesn’t want Chinese software in its cars Kaspersky replaces itself with an AV no one has ever heard of Aussie police chalk up another crimephone takedown Press Win-R Ctrl-V to prove you’re human And much, much more.This week’s show is brought to you by Stairwell, and Stairwell’s founder Mike Wiacek will be along to talk about how people are using their platform to hunt down detection resistant malware.
A video version of this episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X | Elon Musk | The Guardian Telegram says it will share phone numbers and IP addresses of ‘bad actors’ to authorities Jane Lytvynenko on X: "Ukrainian cybersecurity officials are limiting the use of Telegram for military, critical infrastructure, and other authorities. Budanov said he has “substantiated data” on Ru authorities having access to personal messages on TG, including removed ones. https://t.co/xOcnf7am9R" / X TikTok blocks dozens of Kremlin-backed media accounts Biden administration proposes rule banning Chinese, Russian connected vehicles and parts Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software | TechCrunch Russian cyber firm Dr.Web says services are restored after ‘targeted cyberattack’ Police announce takedown and arrest mastermind behind criminal comms platform 'Ghost' Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog Iranian-linked election interference operation shows signs of recent access | CyberScoop Republicans demand FBI hearing on Iran theft of Trump documents Ermittlungen im Darknet: Strafverfolger hebeln Tor-Anonymisierung aus | tagesschau.de DOJ charges hackers for stealing $230 million in crypto from individual This Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential – Krebs on Security You can now use Apple’s best iPhone Mirroring feature on your Mac and iPhone | TechRadar -
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
Hezbollah’s attempts to avoid SIGINT with pagers ends in explosions The US shines many bright lights on RT’s disinfo role Australia counters Chinese bullying in the Pacific Valid accounts are the most prevalent entry point, says CISA’s data Ivanti and Fortinet vie for worst vendor of the week Krebs writes up the shift towards charging The Com with terrorism And much, much more…This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security, who bring security visibility to where it needs to be these days – the browser. Luke Jennings joins this week’s show to discuss how phish-kit crews are driving the arms race forward, and how detection has to adapt and go where the users are.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, sources say | Reuters How Hezbollah used pagers and couriers to counter Israel's high tech surveillance | Reuters Biden administration unveils new evidence of RT’s key role in Russian intelligence operations globally | CNN Politics Meta bans RT days after U.S. accused Russian outlet of disinformation U.S. to file charges in Trump campaign hacking case, officials say China suspected of hacking diplomatic body for Pacific islands region Chinese-made port cranes in US included 'backdoor' modems, House report says Stolen account info still chief risk for federal agencies, annual CISA audit finds Notice of Recent Security Incident | Fortinet Blog WordPress.org to require two-factor authentication for plugin developers | CyberScoop Multiple attacks force CISA to order agencies to upgrade or remove end-of-life Ivanti appliance Ivanti Endpoint Manager and Ivanti Endpoint Manager Security Suite and Ivanti Cloud Service Application (CSA) - End Of Life (EOL) The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security Feds sentence 12 crypto thieves behind SIM swaps, home invasions Ex-CrowdStrike employees detail rising technical errors before July outage | Semafor Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel - SecurityWeek Apple seeks dismissal of its NSO Group lawsuit, citing risk of exposing ‘vital security information’ US hits Intellexa spyware maker with more sanctions (1) BolivarCucuta on X: "Encuentran muerto al ciudadano israelí Yariv Bokor en Medellín En un apartamento de El Poblado, Medellín, fue encontrado sin vida el ciudadano israelí Yariv Bokor, con aparentes signos de violencia. Bokor estaba vinculado a la empresa Sandvine, la cual tiene relación con NSO https://t.co/EeY1os1omW" / X Instagram to bolster privacy and safety features for millions of teen users Mastercard buys Recorded Future for $2.65 billion | CyberScoop -
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
Russia’s disinformation peddlers face multifaceted sternness from the DoJ Telegram is now law enforcement’s bestest new pal, all of a sudden Iran’s banking industry arranges a payment plan for a ransom Columbia investigates how it sent private jets full of cash to pay for Pegasus Microsoft innovates with Un-Patch Tuesday And much, much more.This week’s sponsor is Kroll Cyber, and one of their incident responders Paul Wells joins to discuss that one weird trick that actually helps - preparing for an incident before hand, rather than learning all those hard lessons in the middle of a crisis.
This week’s episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes Risky Biz News: Doppelganger gets a kick in the butt from Uncle Sam Russia focusing on American social media stars to covertly influence voters | Reuters Russian pro-democracy nonprofit investigates alleged data breach by Kremlin-backed hackers Biden administration hits Russia with sanctions over efforts to manipulate U.S. opinion ahead of the election US hits Chinese companies with new sanctions over Russia-Ukraine war Elon Musk’s Starlink backtracks to comply with Brazil’s ban on X | Elon Musk | The Guardian Why It's So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil | WIRED Durov says Telegram will tackle criticism of how it moderates content | Reuters Navalny allies accuse Telegram and other platforms of censorship | Economy News | Al Jazeera How India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship - The Washington Post 2 white supremacists tried to spark race war by soliciting murder and hate crimes on Telegram, feds say Matthew Garrett: "Why clone a yubikey when you c…" - Nondeterministic Computer Iran pays millions in ransom to end massive cyberattack on banks, officials say – POLITICO Four Delaware men charged in international sextortion scheme that netted nearly $2 million | CyberScoop Colombian president suggests prior administration illegally sent $11 million in cash to Israel for spyware Poland’s constitutional court finds commission investigating use of Pegasus spyware unconstitutional | Notes From Poland CISA says SonicWall bug being exploited as experts warn of ransomware gang use SonicWall SSLVPN access control flaw is now exploited in attacks Bug Left Some Windows PCs Dangerously Unpatched – Krebs on Security -
In this edition of Snake Oilers Patrick Gray gets pitches from three cybersecurity companies:
Authentik, an open source identity provider that a lot of large organisations are deploying on prem as an alternative to cloud-based IDPs Dropzone AI, an LLM-based agent that can do the work of a Tier 1 SOC analyst SlashID, an identity security company that can crunch your logs to find attackersYou can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.
Show notes Welcome | authentik Dropzone AI: Reinforce your SOC with AI Analysts The identity stack to protect users and non-human identities | SlashID -
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
Brazil’s supreme court bans X-formerly-Twitter, Iranian cyber teams cooperate with ransomware crews While North Koreans wield chrome-windows 0-day Yubikey cloning attack is impressive, but doesn’t have us binning our keys quite yet The White House is coming for your unsigned BGP announcements And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Okta, and specifically their Identity Security Posture Management product. Okta recently acquired Spera Security, and co-founder Ariel Kadyshevitch joins to talk through the messy reality of modern identity. Pat even gets the giggles at how terrible everything is!
You can also watch this episode on Youtube.
Show notes Brazil X ban: Top court judges uphold block of Musk's platform Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations | CISA Malicious North Korean packages appear again in open source code repository North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day | Microsoft Security Blog SEC.gov | SEC Charges Transfer Agent Equiniti Trust Co. with Failing to Protect Client Funds Against Cyber Intrusions Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ operatives are mimicking disillusioned Americans online Researchers uncover ‘SlowTempest’ espionage campaign within China City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack | Ars Technica Bypassing airport security via SQL injection Cyberattack hits agency responsible for London’s transport network German air traffic control agency confirms cyberattack, says operations unaffected White House calls attention to ‘hard problem’ of securing internet traffic routing Cambodian scam giant handled $49 billion in crypto transactions since 2021, researchers say YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel | Ars Technica CrowdStrike takes a revenue hit as global IT outage reckoning lingers | Cybersecurity Dive Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty – Krebs on Security -
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discusses the week’s security news, including:
Telegram founder’s arrest in France Volt Typhoon 0days some SD-WAN gear Russia frets about Ukraine all up in Kursk’s webcams Cybercriminals social engineer payment card NFC relay attacks in the wild The slow burn of Active Directory name collisions And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to discuss how vulnerability management starts out easy, but gets serious very quickly.
You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube.
Show notes Pavel Durov: Telegram CEO's arrest part of larger investigation Keep Pavel Durov LOCKED UP Internet mogul Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US, NZ justice minister says New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’ – Krebs on Security Oil industry giant Halliburton confirms 'issue' following reported cyberattack Seattle airport confronts 4th day of cyberattack outages | Cybersecurity Dive Russia calls for restrictions on surveillance cameras, dating apps in cities under attack from Ukraine In a Kyiv hangar, Ukraine launches a cyber range for everyone U.S. military, on Tinder, says to swipe left on Iran-backed militants - The Washington Post CISA officials credit Microsoft security log expansion for improved threat visibility | Cybersecurity Dive Suspect in $14 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme extradited to China Android malware used to steal ATM info from customers at three European banks Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails | Ars Technica Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide – Krebs on Security Attack tool update impairs Windows computers SonicWall pushes patch for critical vulnerability in SonicOS platform | CyberScoop “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction -
Mike Burgess is the director general of ASIO. But the thing about Mike is he’s actually a cybersecurity guy. He joined ASD, Australia’s NSA, back in 1995 when it was still the Defence Signals Directorate. He was there for 18 years before he bounced out to the private sector for a while to work as the CISO for Australia’s largest telco, Telstra. In 2017 he returned to ASD to run it, and in 2019 he was appointed director general of ASIO.
Back in April, Burgess made a series of comments on the topic of encrypted messaging during a Press Club speech in Canberra. Our right to privacy, he said, is not absolute, and he implied that if certain providers didn’t start helping Australian authorities out a little more, he’d use some of the provisions in Australia’s Assistance and Access bill to force them to provide access to certain content.
So I reached out to organise this interview to get some more detail from him about exactly what sort of cooperation he’s seeking and why.
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news including:
Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA The three billion row National Public Data breach mess, courtesy Florida Man US govt confirms that it was Iran that hacked the Trump campaign Is TP-Link the next Huawei, or just not very good at computers? Major Chinese RFID card maker has hardcoded backdoors And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Specter Ops, makers of Bloodhound Enterprise. VP of Products Justin Kohler joins to talk about how they’ve joined their on-prem AD and cloud Entra attack path graphs, so you can map out that juicy, real-world attack surface.
Show notes Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in | Microsoft Azure Blog phishing resistant mfa - Google Search Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data – Krebs on Security National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security Bloomberg Law How the government's proposed 'Trust Exchange' digital ID scheme would work - ABC News German Cyber Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products After Tech Outage - WSJ Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement on Iranian Election Influence Efforts — FBI Crypto firm says hacker locked all employees out of Google products for four days ZachXBT on X: "Seven hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 4064 BTC ($238M)" / X Bitcoin News Today: $238 Million Bitcoin Heist Linked to Genesis Global Trading Routers from China-based TP-Link a national security threat, US lawmakers claim Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards Unmasking Styx Stealer: How a Hacker's Slip Led to an Intelligence Treasure Trove - Check Point Research Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards Man who hacked Hawaii state registry to forge his own death certificate sentenced to 81 months -
In this conversation Risky Business host Patrick Gray speaks with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about what sort of cyber enabled interference we can expect in the 2024 US presidential race.
Alex was the CISO at Facebook during the 2016 election, and Chris Krebs was responsible for US election security as the director of CISA in 2020.
Watch the video version of this episode on Youtube.
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover:
Iran tries an election hack’n’leak like its still 2016 Crowdstrike takes home the Pwnie for Epic Fail at DEF CON UK healthcare SaaS faces six million pound fine for lack of MFA US circuit courts disagree on geofence warrants Our roundup of juicy Blackhat/DEF CON research And much, much more.This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO Dan Guido is fresh back from the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON, where the Trail of Bits team moved through into the finals. Dan talks through the challenge of finding, reporting and fixing bugs with AI systems.
You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube.
Show notes Trump campaign points finger at Iranian hackers for documents leak FBI says it's investigating efforts to hack Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns Iranian hackers ramping up US election interference, Microsoft warns State Dept puts $10 million bounty on IRGC-CEC hackers CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says | Cybersecurity Dive Dominic White 👾 on X: "CrowdStrike accepting the @PwnieAwards for “most epic fail” at @defcon. Class act. https://t.co/e7IgYosHAE" / X Russia's Kursk region suffers 'massive' DDoS attack amid Ukraine offensive Elon Musk on X: "@markpinc Yeah" / X Progress Software says SEC declines to pursue action related to MOVEit exploitation spree | Cybersecurity Dive NHS software supplier Advanced faces £6m fine over ransomware attack failings Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms | TechCrunch 5th Circuit rules geofence warrants illegal in win for phone users’ privacy | Ars Technica Customs and Border Protection agents need a warrant to search your phone - The Verge Hackers could spy on cell phone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say | TechCrunch ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections | WIRED Downgrade Attacks Using Windows Updates | SafeBreach Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work | PortSwigger Research Bucket Monopoly: Breaching AWS Accounts Through Shadow Resources Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server! | DEVCORE Trail of Bits Advances to AIxCC Finals | Trail of Bits Blog -
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric.
We often talk about how we can use signals from users to drive some of our security tech. But what about using our security tech to drive user behaviour?
Ryan thinks there are some opportunities here, particularly around identity security.
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