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Back to EpisodesRisky Business #840 -- Microsoft walks back researcher threats
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution.
They cover:
- Adversaries are tracking US troop locations with commercially available location data
- A new Signal phishing campaign is going after message backups
- 404 Media is suing ICE to get its spyware contract with REDLattice (lol)
- Microsoft’s tone-deaf response to ‘never justifiable’ zero-day disclosures
- Mini Shai-Hulud pops up again just as Glassworm gets shattered
- Much, much more
This week’s episode is sponsored by Authentik, an open source identity platform that you can host yourself. In this week’s sponsor interview Authentik’s CEO Fletcher Heisler joins Patrick Gray to talk about how they’re keeping up with the bugpocalypse, and also the work they’re doing to support identities for AI agents.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
- The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are | wired.com
- U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’ | TechCrunch Security
- DOD location data attachment (Wyden) |
- Risky Business #830 -- LiteLLM and security scanner supply chains compromised | Risky Business Media
- US has seized nearly $1 billion in crypto from Iran, Bessent says |
- Russia claims foreign spy agencies hacked officials' phones | therecord.media
- Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks | TechCrunch Security
- We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything | Social Signals
- Microsoft calls zero-day releases ‘never justifiable’ as researcher threatens to drop more | therecord.media
- A shared responsibility: Protecting customers through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure | Social Signals
- Microsoft says it will not pursue security researchers after zero-day backlash | therecord.medi