Risky Bulletin

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why PHP2Shell failed to live up to its hype. A critical bug in a very widely used web scripting language amounted to… not much. The pair dissect the reasons why.



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Zack Korman on PHP


Marcus Hutchins on hacking as a business


Brian in Pittsburgh on memory corruption

Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians and law enforcement personnel a Deepfake gang arrested on US charges, SonicWall patches a zero-day, and SSHole is being exploited in the wild.



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Risky Bulletin: Pro-Kremlin hacktivists dox EU politicians, law enforcement

In this Risky Business sponsored interview Tom Uren talks to Airlock Digital’s CTO and CSO Peter Baussmann about how the Essential Eight is evolving into ASD’s Essentials framework.

The pair discuss why the change was needed and how Essentials is a broader framework that is less prescriptive and requires more judgement.



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From the Essential Eight to ASD's Essentials

An OpenSSH authentication bypass bug hits Alpine Linux and OpenWRT, hackers attempt to raise fridge temperatures at French blood banks, a French bank gets hacked for $133 million, and the Thai opposition has been targeted with spyware.



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Risky Bulletin: Some OpenSSH instances take any password longer than 256 characters

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about North Korea’s hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. Binance’s founder CZ says it is a wake up call for real banks, but he’s wrong. Even though they are probably just as hackable as crypto exchanges, real banks cooperate to reverse fraudulent transactions and it is far harder to get away with billions.

They also discuss the pressure being felt in tech firms everywhere to speed up software development using AI. From a security perspective, results will be mixed.

This episode is also available on YouTube.



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