Risky Bulletin

Germany seeks more hacking and surveillance powers for its intelligence service, Finland intends to criminalize the spreading of false information, patriotic “French” social media goes quiet during Iran’s internet outage, and hackers are extorting GrubHub. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Germany seeks more hacking and surveillance powers for its intel service

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Justin Kohler, Chief Product Officer at SpecterOps, about how attack paths exist in the seams between different identity or permissions management domains. In isolation, for example, both your Github and your AWS deployment could follow best practices. But bring them together and you’ve got problems. Bloodhound’s OpenGraph lets you find and fix these otherwise invisible attack paths. Show notes

China bans Israeli and US cybersecurity products, Sean Plankey is re-nominated for CISA Director, RAM price hikes are likely to impact the cost of firewalls, and Lumen sinkholes the Kimwolf DDoS botnet. Show notes Risky Bulletin: DRAM price hikes set to impact firewalls too

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the Chinese government’s reactive approach to tackling scam compounds. It’s driven by bad news on domestic media and therefore focusses on the compounds that are targeting Chinese citizens. Rather than eliminating the industry, that may instead be shaping the industry to focus on other countries and particularly Americans. They also discuss the role of disruptive cyber operations in the US’s raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Russia fines 33 telcos for surveillance non-compliance, AVCheck admin is arrested in Amsterdam, Poland repels an attack on its power grid, and voice cloning defenses can be bypassed. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Voice cloning defenses still weak, can be bypassed