Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free

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

• Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free

• USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates

• Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom

• Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue

• We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth

• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

Show notes Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says US to ban Kaspersky Lab software nationwide later this year Cyberattack on CDK Global stymies work at car dealerships across US Almost 200 cancer operations postponed as ransomware group publishes London hospitals data UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft South Africa’s national health lab hit with ransomware attack amid mpox outbreak Ransomware victims are becoming less likely to pay up | Cybersecurity Dive Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation | Reuters Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag | TechCrunch Two bluetooth vulnerabilities in Windows Thread on reversing the patch Basic concept for the latest windows wifi driver CVE