Risky Bulletin

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about FBI Director Kash Patel admitting to Congress that the Bureau is buying American’s location data and using it to generate valuable intelligence. That’s concerning, because commercially available information can be used in tremendously invasive ways and the FBI can buy it without needing a warrant.

They also discuss the FCC’s surprising move to ban foreign-made consumer routers. It’s not about security, it is just about reshoring manufacturing.

And finally they discuss the Trump administration’s plan for unleashing the private sector.

This episode is also available on Youtube.



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Intellexa’s CEO is angry with Greek authorities, the FTC bans new foreign-made routers, Google launches a threat disruption unit, and German police warned companies about software bugs… in the middle of the night.



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Risky Bulletin: The Intellexa CEO is pissed!!!

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how Google just keeps on finding iOS exploit kits. Is iPhone security busted? And why are Russian state hackers after crypto?

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Google on Coruna


Google on DarkSword


iVerify on DarkSword


Lookout on DarkSword


Coruna deep dive

Russian intelligence services compromised thousands of Signal accounts, the Trivy vulnerability scanner is abused in a supply chain attack, Oracle issues an out-of-band patch for its Fusion Middleware, and the FBI takes down the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets.



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Risky Bulletin: GitHub is starting to have a real malware problem

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats to Fletcher Heisler, founder and CEO of open source identity provider, Authentik. They chat about Extended Identity Access Management (XIAM), the company’s new acronym that has been seven years in the making.



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