Risky Business Media

Apr 10 2025 10 ep. 21 mins 6.9k
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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 Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound

Apr 08 2025 53 mins  
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn’t matter NSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enough US Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn’t found China in yet, looked, found China in them …which is a great time to discuss sl

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

Risky Business #786 -- Oracle is lying

Apr 01 2025 55 mins  
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hacked The fallout from Signalgate continues North Korean IT workers pivot to Europe Honeypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNs Canadian Anon gets arrested for hacking Texas GOP This week’s episode is sponsored by Trai

Risky Bulletin: North Korean IT worker scams expand to Europe

Apr 01 2025 6 mins  
A North Korean IT worker scheme pivots to Europe after a US crackdown, 24,000 IPs are looking for Palo Alto Networks VPNs, Gmail rolls out end-to-end encrypted emails for enterprise users, and hackers steal over $100 million via Coinbase phishing.