Risky Business

Feb 20 2025 10 ep. 23 mins 15.1k
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Wide World of Cyber: DeepSeek lobs an AI hand grenade

Feb 20 2025 41 mins  
In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation. From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone’s freaking out over this new model. But should they be? Pat, Alex and Chris

Risky Bulletin: BlackBasta implodes, internal chats leak online

Feb 20 2025 6 mins  
The BlackBasta ransomware group implodes, Russian military hackers target Signal with QR codes, Microsoft patches a Power Pages zero-day, and Meta sues a man who hacked accounts and extorted users.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why America needs its own Salt Typhoon

Feb 19 2025 21 mins  
In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the idea of launching a retaliatory campaign to hack Chinese telcos in response to Salt Typhoon’s targeting of US ones. US Senator Mark Warner floated the idea as a way to persuade the Chinese government to pull back Salt Typhoon, but we think that kind of campaign has merit regardless. They also discuss how Samoa’s CERT cal

Risky Business #780 -- ASD torched Zservers data while admins were drunk

Feb 18 2025 60 mins  
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football? Palo Alto has yet ano

Risky Bulletin: Insight Partners discloses security breach

Feb 18 2025 4 mins  
VC giant Insight Partners gets social engineered, OpenSSH patches an attacker-in-the-middle bug, Ecuador’s parliament hit by cyberattacks, and a Monero zero-day awaits a patch.

Between Two Nerds: Is 39 vulnerabilities a lot?

Feb 17 2025 30 mins  
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the United State’s Vulnerabilities Equities Program, which balances the need for intelligence collection with the need to protect the public. The government recently revealed that in 2023 it released 39 vulnerabilities, but what does this really tell us? This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Bulletin: Sandworm deploys Tor nodes on hacked networks

Feb 16 2025 7 mins  
Sandworm deploys Tor nodes on hacked networks, the UK drops military training for cyber staff, Salt Typhoon’s hacking spree continues, and Russian APTs adopt device code phishing.

Sponsored: Rad Security on new AI adoption risks for enterprises

Feb 16 2025 12 mins  
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jimmy Mesta, CTO and Co-Founder of Rad Security (formerly KSOC). Jimmy talks about how companies adopting new AI-based technologies may accidentally expose their infrastructure and data to new threats.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Run your own open source IDP with Authentik

Feb 13 2025 38 mins  
In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik. The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it’s extremely flexible, and if you’re running it yourself, you get to decide where your IDP should sit in your ar

Srsly Risky Biz: Governments are losing the crypto wars

Feb 12 2025 18 mins  
In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Apple’s refusal to obey a UK government order to provide the capability to access to encrypted iCloud data. Its the latest round in the ongoing government vs technology fights over warrant-proof encryption, and again it looks like governments will lose. They also talk about good news in the fight against ransomware. Government