Risky Bulletin

Apr 14 2025 100 ep. 13 mins 832
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Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...

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Between Two Nerds: Global critical infrastructure

Apr 14 2025 24 mins  
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at the idea of global critical infrastructure. One common example is submarine cables, which are globally important but are vulnerable because they are hard to defend. But what about services from tech giants? Are they global critical infrastructure? This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Bulletin: China privately admits to hacking US

Apr 13 2025 5 mins  
China privately admits to hacking American critical infrastructure, the US Treasury was compromised by password spraying, America will sign a global spyware agreement after all, and a Chinese APT is abusing the Windows Sandbox to hide its malware.

Sponsored: The foundations for modern defensible architecture

Apr 13 2025 13 mins  
In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview David Cottingham and Peter Baussman, Airlock Digital’s CEO and CTO, talk to Tom Uren about a new Australian Cyber Security Centre guidance about building defensible networks. The pair cover what they like about the document and where it could be improved.

Risky Bulletin: Trump orders investigation into former CISA director Chris Krebs

Apr 10 2025 6 mins  
Trump orders investigation into former CISA director Chris Krebs, the US DOJ disbands its crypto crime team, NSO hires a new lobby team, and researchers raise the alarm on something called “slopsquatting”.

Srsly Risky Biz: MAGA's NSA purge will get messy

Apr 09 2025 21 mins  
Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss Trump’s recent firing of General Timothy Haugh, the head of NSA and Cyber Command. Tom dives into the implications and thinks why this is not good news for the agencies. They also discuss Europe losing faith in the US intelligence commitments that underpin transatlantic data flows. That would be bad news for US tech companies. This episode is a

Risky Bulletin: Hackers leak data from major bulletproof hosting provider

Apr 08 2025 7 mins  
Hackers leak data from a major Russian bulletproof hosting provider, Australia deregisters 95 companies linked to cyber scams, the US Treasury gets hacked again, and Meta expands “teen accounts” to Facebook and Facebook Messenger.

Between Two Nerds: Feast or famine?

Apr 07 2025 27 mins  
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at the idea of ‘false scarcities’ in cyber security. Are bugs and talent rare? Or is our thinking blinkered? This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Bulletin: Trump fires CyberCom and NSA head

Apr 06 2025 6 mins  
Trump fires NSA and CyberCom leadership, CISA looks likely to be halved in size, hackers hit Australian pension funds, and NIST gives up on old CVEs in its backlog.

Risky Bulletin: Android looks set to get its own Lockdown Mode

Apr 03 2025 5 mins  
Android looks set to get its own Lockdown Mode, China overhauls cybersecurity and privacy laws, a crypto platform gets hacked for $70 million dollars, and Greece’s intel agency is set to hire more hackers.

Srsly Risky Biz: North Korean IT workers head to Europe

Apr 02 2025 23 mins  
Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how North Korean IT worker scam is shifting towards Europe and employing tactics that make it more dangerous. They also discuss why Signalgate was a massive security failure. We learnt this week that US cabinet members were in multiple Signal groups discussing different topics. Phone hacking is not uncommon, an adversary states will be able to tak