On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over United Healthcare draws the ire of congress FISA 702 reauthorisation finally moves forward Apple warns about “mercenary exploitation” but what’s the India link? And much, much, mo…

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Ransomware: down but not out Zero day prices on the rise… … and what it means for enterprise software Geopolitical conflict comes to computers in Palau Ukraine cyber chief Illia Vitiuk suspended More x86 microarchitectural bad times And much much more Proofpoint’s chi…

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear pitches from three companies: Kodex: Makes a platform companies can use to interact with law enforcement (Solves the law enforcement impersonator problem, among others.) ClearVector: Cloud security startup from former FireEye/Mandiant SVP/CTO John Laliberte Censys: Scans the entire internet, identifies as…

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: The SSH backdoor that dreams (or nightmares) are made of Microsoft gets a solid spanking from the CSRB Ukraine uses an old Russian WinRAR bug to hack Russia Push-notifications and social-engineering combined-arms vs Apple And much, much more. We have a special guest i…

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 mo…

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.

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: Turns out AI is still bad code review after all, Mintlify loses a bunch of Github tokens, Everything old is new again with the UDP loop DoS, Know-your-(recon satellite)-customer is hard, Microsoft takes away Russia’s powershell, solving living off the land, And much, …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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 E…

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about: More details on sanctioned Medibank hacker Aleksandr Ermakov More details on alleged Scattered Spider hacker Noah Michael Urban RUMINT that the number of Microsoft customers impacted by the SVR oauth/365 campaign is huge Ron Wyden did something usef…

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. Microsoft honks its clown car horn Australia’s hounds, released, catch their man The beginning of the end for Scattered Spider SEC was SIM swapped but had MFA off any way Ivanti learns a lesson… … while Progress does not and much more DHS undersecretary for policy a…

On this week’s SURPRISE edition, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Their disappointment over last week’s SEC Twitter hack China rainbow-tables Airdrop Enterprise bugs galore… … and why patching fast is hard when there isn’t even a patch yet UEFI flaws get trad-BIOS-era vendor response and much, much more… T…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: SEC Twitter account hack moves bitcoin price Kaspersky admires Triangulation hackers’ fine work Telcos hacked all over Israel hacks Iranian gasoline pumps again Iran up in Albania, Sudan, Egypt and Tanzania and much, much more… This week’s show is brough…

In this week’s edition of the show Patrick Gray and guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch discuss: Major telco in Ukraine taken down by Russia Apple and Facebook go all in on e2ee Why 702 reauthorisation is looking a bit sketchy The USG wants your push notifications The year in review, plus some predictions for 2024 This week’s show is brought to you by…

In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray talks to Island’s Bradon Rogers about security-focussed, enterprise browsers. You can use Island to do stuff like grant third parties access to corporate applications on unmanaged devices in a not insane way – that’s a huge pain point for a lot of CISOs, and something that is bring…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Iran-linked attacks on US water infrastructure Why the ownCloud bug isn’t the end of the world The D-Link 0day that… never existed? In defence of Okta Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of Cy…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The Citrixbleed ransomware crisis Why the FBI hasn’t arrested Scattered Spider members DPRK is in your supply chains Microsoft has a brainwave and buys a HSM When civil war meets pig butchering Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Airloc…

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray talks to Material Security’s CEO and co-founder Abhishek Agrawal about the security problems inherent to modern productivity suites. Does it make sense that threat actors can authenticate to o365 and Workspace accounts and clean them out entirely? Years of mail, years of files? Material Security has built a pro…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with Chris Krebs and Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss: The SEC enforcement action against Solarwinds’ CISO The White House AI Executive Order CitrixBleed exploitation goes wide How Kaspersky captured some (likely) Five Eyes iOS 0day Elon Musk’s Gaza Strip adventures Much, much more This week’s…

In this edition of the Soap Box we hear from Mike Wiacek and Eric Foster from Stairwell. Stairwell makes a product that collects and analyses every executable file in your environment. You deploy file collectors to your systems and they forward all new files to Stairwell for manual and automated analysis. You can do a lot of really cool analysis on…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with DmitriAlperovitch, NSA Cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and NSA CCC directorMorgan Adamski. They discuss: The Okta breach 40-50k feral Ciscos Why the http/2 protocol flaw is a real headache The Ragnar Locker takedown What the NSA CCC has been thinking about This week’s show is brought to …

Patrick Gray speaks to Yubico’s Jerrod Chong about how organisations can better verify the identities of users when performing MFA resets. In other words, how to not get MGM’d. He also talks about the chain-of-trust issues inherent to synchronisable passkey implementations.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Lina Lau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Microsoft has killed VBScript Google to make passkeys the new default sign-in method MGM losses to exceed $100m Clorox has a bad quarter Why a bug in cURL could be really bad news Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by KSOC. Jimmy Mesta, KSOC’…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Ransomware crews target WS_FTP and Jetbrains servers Global energy supply shapes up as big target The Dossier Center drops another banger Indian nationalists DDoS Canadian targets A look at the Exim drama Much, much more This week’s show is brought to yo…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch discuss the week’s security news. They cover: How western youths are working with Russian ransomware crews Russia has changed its targeting in Ukraine A massive breach of historical Russian flight information is god’s gift to OSINT orgs Cisco buys Splunk for $28bn Much, much more This week’s s…

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear product pitches from: Sublime Security: e-mail security for people who want to tune their detections VulnCheck: Provides vulnerability intelligence to governments, large enterprises and vendors Devicie: Manage your devices with Intune without pulling your hair out Show notes sublime.security VulnCheck - O…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and Lina Lau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Microsoft’s 38TB oopsie MGM’s Okta compromised, was this what Okta was warning us about? Why we need a cyber knife fight Google Authenticator sync abused in the wild Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Co-founde…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: How Storm-0558 stole Microsoft’s signing key Cisco 0day being used by ransomware crews We were right about Elon stumbling into the Ukraine war Someone’s amazing image library 0day just got crushed Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Nu…

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear product pitches from: ConductorOne: PAM, account cycle management and access auditing for cloud and SaaS accounts Bloodhound Enterprise: Enumerate attack paths in your environment and shut them down Zero Networks: Agentless: heavily automated microsegmentation and a VPN product that won’t get you insta-ow…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Why everyone should pay attention to some recent attacks on Okta customers Why third party comms apps are risky af Why are Russian espionage opps using Tor for C2? Surveillance firms abuse Fiji Telco Digicel’s SS7 access Much, much more! This week’s show…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The FBI takes down Qakbot, steals operators’ bitcoins ha ha Danish hosting provider completely destroyed in ransomware attack Sophisticated Russian cyber attack on Polish trains. Well. Not really. Microsoft revokes cert then revokes its revocation Much, …

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: (NOTE: This podcast was initially pushed out into the Risky Business News podcast feed in error. Sorry about that!) US Government warnings to private space sector on cyber risk Ukrainian hackers dump the inbox of Russian Duma deputy chair Absentee voting…

In this joint Risky Business and Geopolitics Decanted feature interview, Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch talk to Illia Vitiuk, the Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) about the cyber dimension to Russia’s invasion. From turning off Ukraine’s power grid with a cyber attack in 2015 to …

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: More victims identified in Chinese breach of Microsoft email accounts Cyber Safety Review Board to investigate Microsoft We got some stuff wrong last week More details on Viasat hack revealed Special guest Heather Adkins talks about the CSRB’s Lapsus$ re…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Tenable gives Microsoft a spray over Azure bug fix delay, quality Lateral movement fun via Azure Active Directory Cross-Tenant Synchronization Ransomware targets hospitals, special needs schools Japan’s cybersecurity has some catching up to do Much, much…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Ron Wyden’s “please explain” letter to Microsoft Chinese APT crews prepositioning to disrupt US military logistics China claims US hacked its seismology sensors Ivanti/MobileIron exploitation going vertical Much, much more This week’s show is brought to …

In this interview Patrick Gray speaks to Australia’s Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil and NCSC founding director Ciaran Martin about the government’s upcoming cybersecurity strategy, releasing the hounds and more.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The dust-up between Microsoft and Wiz MobileIron/Ivanti 0day hoses Norwegian government agencies That’ll do TETRA, that’ll do… Microsoft finally agrees to offer decent logging without price gouging Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Re…

This Soap Box edition of the podcast is sponsored by Proofpoint. Proofpoint offers email security and DLP products and services, and they’re probably best known for being the biggest email security company on the planet. That means they process a LOT of emails in the hopes of throttling the number of malicious emails that organisations have to deal…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Microsoft’s weasel-word response to the State Department email hack JumpCloud got owned, maybe by DPRK Citrix 0day is getting stuff rekt Two more spyware firms sanctioned by USA Scammers list fake phone numbers for major airlines on Google Maps Much, muc…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The SEC is targeting SolarWinds executives UK to make banks liable for fraud NSA issues advice on UEFI trojan Microsoft blocks 100+ dodgy drivers The US IC knew what Prihozhin was up to. But what FSB doing? Much, much more This week’s show is brought to …

In this edition of the Soap Box podcast we’re going to be talking about a great topic – living off the land. The recent Volt Typhoon report out of Microsoft chronicled the adventures of a Chinese APT crew in US critical infrastructure. But one of the most fascinating aspects of the Volt Typhoon campaign was that the attackers almost exclusively use…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Albanian authorities raid MEK over Iran hacks Microsoft admits “Anonymous Sudan” took down its services US Government puts $10m bounty on CL0P A deeper look at the Barracuda hack campaign Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Material Sec…

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Fortinet 0day Groundhog Day CISA’s new binding directive on exposed management interfaces Confirmed: US intelligence buying commercially available data MOVEit drama rolls on Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Red Canary. Chris Rothe is…