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A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss the wild story of a Chinese illegal gambling operation that involves human trafficking, shell companies, money laundering, hundreds of thousands of websites and sponsorship of European football teams.

They also talk about why a potential CSRB review of CrowdStrike’s disaster should focus… not on CrowdStrike, but instead on the legacy practice of security vendors having kernel-level access to Windows.

Finally, Tom is happy that the FTC is going to investigate ‘surveillance pricing’.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Show notes

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether the rise of cloud computing has been a boon or a curse for cyber espionage agencies.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Show notes

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket about how open source repositories are riddled with horrible software. Feross explains why it makes a difference if a package is vulnerable, malicious or just unwanted and how current transparency mechanisms such as CVEs and the NVD just aren’t suitable for the challenge of open source repositories.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Show notes

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about how countries are using cyber security reports and advisories to win friends and influence people; why having gaping holes in US federal government security is situation normal; and efforts to make up for the disappearance of Twitter’s trust and safety team.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Show notes

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss Shashank Joshi’s notes from a recent Oxford Cyber forum. Topics include the role of 0days and who is ahead when it comes to offensive cyber operations.

The pair refer to observations made in this thread.