Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms
      
        August 06, 2024
      
      
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      On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little
 - Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer
 - Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap
 - Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy
 - Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement?
 - And much, much more.
 
This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to discuss the unfashionable choice they made in hosting their platform one-VM-per-customer.
Show notes
- CrowdStrike investors file class action suit following global IT outage | Cybersecurity Dive
 - CrowdStrike rebukes Delta’s negligence claims in fiery letter | Cybersecurity Dive
 - Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf
 - Sparks fly when lawyers meet a certificate revocation
 - crt.sh | Alegeus
 - U.S. releases Russian hackers in Evan Gershkovich prisoner swap
 - U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap – Krebs on Security
 - Who are the two major hackers Russia just received in a prisoner swap? | Ars Technica
 - Hackers remotely wipe 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks after breaching safety software
 - Mobile Guardian Device Management Application to be removed | MOE
 - Ford wants patent for tech allowing cars to surveil and report speeding drivers
 - I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding | WIRED
 - Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites | Ars Technica
 - Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms – Krebs on Security
 - Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say | TechCrunch
 - Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs – Thinkst Thoughts
 - Defending AI Model Files from Unauthorized Access with Canaries | NVIDIA Technical Blog