Tom Uren

Author of the Seriously Risky Business cyber security newsletter. Podcasts with @thegrugq and @riskybusiness. Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Law Enforcement Is Finally Making Progress on Ransomware

3 days ago | risky.biz | Tom Uren

Law Enforcement Is Finally Making Progress on Ransomware Written by Tom Uren Policy & Intelligence Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray . It's supported by Lawfare with help from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This week's edition is sponsored by runZero .
Russia's Cybercriminals and Spies Are Officially in Cahoots

1 week ago | news.risky.biz | Tom Uren

Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray. It's supported by Lawfare with help from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This week's edition is sponsored by Sublime Security. You can hear a podcast discussion of this newsletter by searching for "Risky Business News" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed.
Telegram Is Cooperating with Authorities, for Now

2 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tom Uren

Telegram Is Cooperating With Authorities, for NowTelegram's moderation policies have improved markedly, but the jury is out on whether its pivot to more responsible practices will be an enduring one. This week the messaging app shut down Huione Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee, two massive Telegram-based criminal marketplaces that connected Southeast Asian fraudsters with criminal services.
Telegram Is Cooperating With Authorities, For Now

2 weeks ago | news.risky.biz | Tom Uren

Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray. It's supported by Lawfare with help from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This week's edition is sponsored by SpecterOps. You can hear a podcast discussion of this newsletter by searching for "Risky Business News" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed.
Sponsored: Securing identity is like building a house while blindfolded

2 weeks ago | risky.biz | Tom Uren

Sponsored: Securing identity is like building a house while blindfolded Presented by Tom Uren Policy & Intelligence In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Justin Kohler, Chief Product Officer at SpecterOps talks to Tom Uren about the impossible challenge of managing identity directory services securely. Organisations try to implement the principle of least privilege but have no idea if they have done a good job.
Chinese Mobile App Encryption is Suspiciously Awful

3 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tom Uren

Chinese Mobile App Encryption Is Suspiciously Awful A new paper, from researchers at Princeton and the Citizen Lab, has found that apps from the Xiaomi's Mi Store, which services mainland China, are an encryption horror show. Compared to apps found in Google's Play Store, Mi Store apps send significantly more unencrypted traffic. And the encrypted traffic they do send is typically vulnerable to decryption by eavesdroppers.
Chinese Mobile App Encryption is Suspiciously Awful

3 weeks ago | news.risky.biz | Tom Uren

Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray. It's supported by Lawfare with help from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This week's edition is sponsored by Corelight. You can hear a podcast discussion of this newsletter by searching for "Risky Business News" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed.
Sponsored: What really goes down on Blackhat wifi networks

3 weeks ago | risky.biz | Tom Uren

Sponsored: What really goes down on Blackhat wifi networks Presented by Tom Uren Policy & Intelligence In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview James Pope, Director of Technical Enablement, talks to Tom Uren about his experience running networks and security centres at Black Hat conferences around the world.
It's Like Signal, but Dumb

1 month ago | news.risky.biz | Tom Uren

Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray. It's supported by Lawfare with help from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This week's edition is sponsored by Stairwell. You can hear a podcast discussion of this newsletter by searching for "Risky Business News" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed. The use of encrypted messaging apps by senior Trump officials has become a rolling security disaster.
Sponsored: Why security is a data search problem

1 month ago | risky.biz | Tom Uren

Sponsored: Why security is a data search problem Presented by Tom Uren Policy & Intelligence In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Mike Wiaceck, CEO and founder of Stairwell, explains why he believes security is really a data storage and retrieval problem. He demonstrates how that pays off with in the analysis of new malware. Your browser does not support the audio element. Sponsored: Why security is a data search problem 0:00 / 13:12