Risky Business #763 – Microsoft un-patches critical bug

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:

• Russia’s disinformation peddlers face multifaceted sternness from the DoJ

• Telegram is now law enforcement’s bestest new pal, all of a sudden

• Iran’s banking industry arranges a payment plan for a ransom

• Columbia investigates how it sent private jets full of cash to pay for Pegasus

• Microsoft innovates with Un-Patch Tuesday

• And much, much more.

This week’s sponsor is Kroll Cyber, and one of their incident responders Paul Wells joins to discuss that one weird trick that actually helps - preparing for an incident before hand, rather than learning all those hard lessons in the middle of a crisis.

This week’s episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes Risky Biz News: Doppelganger gets a kick in the butt from Uncle Sam Russia focusing on American social media stars to covertly influence voters | Reuters Russian pro-democracy nonprofit investigates alleged data breach by Kremlin-backed hackers Biden administration hits Russia with sanctions over efforts to manipulate U.S. opinion ahead of the election US hits Chinese companies with new sanctions over Russia-Ukraine war Elon Musk’s Starlink backtracks to comply with Brazil’s ban on X | Elon Musk | The Guardian Why It's So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil | WIRED Durov says Telegram will tackle criticism of how it moderates content | Reuters Navalny allies accuse Telegram and other platforms of censorship | Economy News | Al Jazeera How India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship - The Washington Post 2 white supremacists tried to spark race war by soliciting murder and hate crimes on Telegram, feds say Matthew Garrett: "Why clone a yubikey when you c…" - Nondeterministic Computer Iran pays millions in ransom to end massive cyberattack on banks, officials say – POLITICO Four Delaware men charged in international sextortion scheme that netted nearly $2 million | CyberScoop Colombian president suggests prior administration illegally sent $11 million in cash to Israel for spyware Poland’s constitutional court finds commission investigating use of Pegasus spyware unconstitutional | Notes From Poland CISA says SonicWall bug being exploited as experts warn of ransomware gang use SonicWall SSLVPN access control flaw is now exploited in attacks Bug Left Some Windows PCs Dangerously Unpatched – Krebs on Security

Release date

Lydbog: 11. september 2024