Risky Business #673 -- When throwing computers into a woodchipper is standard IR
Risky Business #673 -- When throwing computers into a woodchipper is standard IR  
Podcast: Risky Business
Published On: Wed Jul 27 2022
Description: On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Why Entrust being ransomwared is good news UEFI bootkits turn hardware into landfill Microsoft resumes macro blocking rollout Pat and Adam talk about why plugging your IDP into legacy apps is a dreadful idea Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Paul “The Voice” Lanzi of Remediant. He’s popping along to talk about the emergence of a new product category – Identity Threat Detection and Response, or ITDR. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Italy investigating ransomware attack on tax agency - The Record by Recorded Future IT security giant Entrust says it's investigating alleged June data breach - The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft resuming default block of Office VBA macros - The Record by Recorded Future Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica China: Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken by Chinese actors | Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs Cyber Command shares bevy of new malware used against Ukraine - The Record by Recorded Future Cyber criminals attack Ukrainian radio network, broadcast fake message about Zelensky's health Congress goes after spyware purveyors. Will it make a difference? Report: Mercenary spyware exploited Google Chrome zero-day to target journalists - The Record by Recorded Future TSA unveils updated cybersecurity regulations of oil and gas pipelines - The Record by Recorded Future Congress Might Actually Pass ADPPA, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act | WIRED Federal privacy legislation progresses, but concerns about data brokers loom China cybersecurity agency fines ride-hailing giant Didi $1.2 billion for data issues - The Record by Recorded Future T-Mobile reaches historic $350 million settlement in 2021 data breach - The Record by Recorded Future Former Coinbase Manager Arrested by Feds for Alleged Insider Trading Cisco patches dangerous bug trio in Nexus Dashboard | The Daily Swig Atlassian patches batch of critical vulnerabilities across multiple products | The Daily Swig Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter | Ars Technica