Patrick Gray
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It’s almost like the people who talk about racial biases in AI have a point or something. This thread is amazing.
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Eh, calm down... ransomware only poses a threat to our hospitals, schools, police, energy and food supply.
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FYI it’s 2021 in Australia and everything still sucks.
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New rule: Chris Krebs should never pay for a drink or meal at a security conference ever again. Who’s with me?
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Well holy shit. That's it. Kaspersky is 100% toast. Israelis owned them in 2014 and caught them in the act.
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If this checks out, it's incredible. Mother Jones claims Trump was totally flipped by Russia. Blackmail, everything.
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So here's a screengrab of my
#CensusFail
post that you barbarians are all trying to download.
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“The US President got owned by Nickelback” isn’t a phrase I ever expected to utter, but here we are.
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Jesus… can open, worms everywhere. You basically can’t find anyone more credible than
@dotMudge
in infosec so this is a massive deal
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The new Baby Biz! Mum and baby doing well... see you all in a few weeks...
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Next year’s show schedule is going to be a little bit all over the place... I want to give my son a good welcome.
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A big few days. Tomorrow’s show is possibly cancelled, or maybe just delayed... let’s see, eh?
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My dad had an operation to correct an aortic aneurysm this week. 10 days from diagnosis to surgery. All went well and he’s recovering. Public hospital, total out-of-pocket expense: $0
It’s hell living in this socialist dystopia. Hell I tell you.
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I did a thing on the Bloomberg "Big Hack" story.
@securelyfitz
, one of the story's only named sources, warned the publication that its central claim "didn't make any sense," prior to publication.
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Five Eyes officially warns the tech world: build interception capabilities voluntarily or we’ll legislate.
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The most annoying regular at the bar is trying to buy the joint
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The most hilarious thing Putin could do right now is ground all Embraer Legacy 600s pending the outcome of an investigation into the crash
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I have been informed by our three-year-old daughter that she now “likes” her newborn brother and no longer wishes to “throw him in the bin”. What a relief!
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Our baby has started sleeping all night and I just needed to tell everyone. Bonus photo:
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It really does look like Australia will record its first day of zero local cases countrywide since this thing kicked off. There will likely be clusters here and there but we are crushing this thing! 💪🏻
NSW has reported no new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
Four cases were reported in overseas travellers in hotel quarantine, bringing the total number of cases in NSW to 4,236.
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People have seen me tweet about how we have to crush white supremacists. Crush them. This is why. Do you get it yet? This is where it goes, always. This is why you see me giving shit to
@Cloudflare
for hosting neo Nazi sites like it ain’t no thing. Fuck that, seriously.
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Investigations are continuing. These baggage handlers did not see anything suspicious when they loaded Prigozhin's jet.
The mystery deepens.
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Can’t wait for these future Bloomberg headlines:
* Multifactor authentication useless against latest Struts vulnerabilities
* Firewalls failed to prevent insider breach
* Credential stuffing attacks render SSL useless
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I don’t think they should host large forums teeming with Nazis, personally. Even just one staffer doing a monthly review would solve this problem… the idea that critics expect them to do detailed moderation is 100% a strawman cf put together
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Obviously we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia, but I’m 100% happy to jump on the giving thanks bandwagon. This year I have one more wonderful thing to be thankful for. ❤️
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends and listeners!
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Best cybersecurity coverage this week is from Beef Central. Not even joking.
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Our threat intel cyber APT disruption hunt team worked VERY hard on this.
The quartered rhombus of cyber ownage:
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Hi everyone it is my pleasure to introduce you to cyber security and internet expert Rudy Giuliani.
Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message. The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen. Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers. Time Magazine also may fit that description. FAIRNESS PLEASE
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Maybe Uber can just find the guy, give him $100k in Bitcoin, get him to sign an NDA and everything will be okay?
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Is water really wet?
Tune in to Fox to hear both sides.
The Post has decided to simply call Trump’s comments racist on its news pages. Why not simply report what he said, report the reaction to it, and let the readers decide if the comments were racist?
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And people say it’s not realistic.
Mr. Robot doesn't have money to buy an IDA license, he uses the free 5.0
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So I go on break and we find out Russia hacked... <checks notes>... everyone.
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As an ad buyer this would make me feel very comfortable about continuing my business relationship with you.
I didn’t actually think he’d be able to kill Twitter but this is amazing. Just instant business seppuku.
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I've been publishing Risky Business weekly for over 15 years and I still feel a great deal of satisfaction when I publish a new episode. I'm very lucky.
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We're also stoked to announce that
@campuscodi
will be working with us from mid to late April. He's going to start a 2-3x weekly news digest newsletter and podcast and we're absolutely thrilled to have him on board. Woooooo!
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North Korea used an NSA exploit stolen by Russia to deploy malware that ransoms data in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Just saying it aloud.
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I just made the critical parenting error of not checking the oven for LEGO before turning it on.
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Me: “Hey, new baby! What are your plans for the weekend?”
New baby: “Screaming and crying continuously.”
Me: “Ummm, ok... why?”
New baby: “UNSPECIFIED GRIEVANCES.”
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The fact that so many elected US conservatives are indistinguishable from garden variety white supremacists does really complicate the moderation debate there.
NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians
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Americans are worried doctors will be "slaves" if healthcare becomes a "right" like it is here.
Here's a list of the best paid jobs in Oz:
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Don’t. Run. Electron. Apps.
Slack, used by millions and millions for mission-critical design chats, DevOps, security, mergers, and acquisitions, hell the list is endless.
The flaws found by this researcher result in the execution of arbitrary commands on user's computer.
The TL;DR is wow
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My fav parts of Mudge’s disclosure:
* When data is deleted they don’t know where it goes or if it’s actually been deleted 🤷🏼♂️
* If they lose a couple of key data centres temporarily there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to bring the site back up… like… at all
* Spies maybe 🤷🏼♂️
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I do not want your blockchain expert as a guest on my podcast.
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I can understand how
@DarknetDiaries
dominates the ratings given its broad appeal, but genuinely surprises me that Risky Business is more or less permanently in the top 100 tech podcasts in the USA these days, given how niche it is.
#humblebrag
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Today was just a regular show production day for me, but it’s lovely seeing people posting congratulatory tweets on our 500th episode. It never would have made it this far without
@Metlstorm
and he deserves a lot of credit for making the podcast what it is. So thanks, guy.
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A reminder: John McAfee was credibly accused of involvement in two murders and the rape of his former business partner Allison Adonizio.
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I can hear the unmistakable sound of a gigantic python moving through the space between the ceiling above me and the floor above that. I haven't seen one since we moved to this house in 2019, but yeah, it's there.
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Thrilled to announce that Risky Biz has received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation (
@Hewlett_Found
) to prepare a series of podcast conversations with heavy-hitters they fund in the area of cyber policy development. The idea is to promote sensible policy outcomes/development.
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Merry Christmas from Mrs Biz, Baby Biz, Droopy Tree and me!
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I convinced my two-year-old daughter the M&Ms I was just eating in front of her are “broccoli tablets”. She does not want any.
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Back in office and going through the news... I don't think we can cover everything in a weekly show anymore. I think we might need to launch a short, regular (2-3x weekly) news podcast just to cover what's happening day to day and just cover big stuff in the weekly. Good idea?
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Uhm… so… scripted, non-MFA enabled admin access to PAM solution lying around on a network share? Is this normal??? Tell me this isn’t normal… please
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And people worry about the Russians. Kiwis play the long game. Infiltration at the highest levels. 🐑
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been removed from parliament for being a New Zealander
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I know Twitter loves baby photos so here’s a nice photo of our son… what a little champion
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The fact this interview only got 1k views is pretty depressing. Hot takes about vulndev/exploits go viral, but when an expert-level guy like
@mdowd
spends 35 minutes talking about it in depth about the topic everyone ignores it.
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Don’t laugh, it’s true. I know his cousin, Copyright Reuters.
Absolutely losing it over the fact folks think this asshole’s name is “Via Getty”
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The secret deep state hand sign for a gun looks a lot like someone picking some salad out of their teeth. Deep state is sneaky like that.
At 13:48 yesterday police surveillance looks at me and makes a gun sign. Whether threatening to shoot me or shoot himself isn't clear.
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I mean this is just some research and I’m not trying to shade the researchers... it’s just such a great example of how things can go off the rails. Training sets are important.
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I think this is pretty significant. Think of AV attack surface as a rich vein of gold nobody has bothered to mine yet. A zillion highly privileged parsers. I know some red teamers who’ve used bugs like these but you don’t hear of them being used ITW much.
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I thought this was an advertisement not an attack graphic. I’m like... yeah! Look at these women! Married a single father, what a legend taking on that responsibility! Accepts her gay daughter, that’s ace! Made it to the top wearing a hijab in the USA, that’s determination!
New column - Immoral Democrat women misleading the young:
#AOC
#PelosiShutdown
#Trump
#Democrats
#MeToo
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Securing a work-from-home workforce
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I'm thrilled to announce that thanks to
@Hewlett_Found
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@breditor
will be joining full time in March to run our new written content arm. We're not launching a news service, per se, we're going to focus (mostly) on what we do best -- curation and analysis.
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Rumour mill wrt
@MalwareTechBlog
is spectacular. He's either totally innocent or he wrote WannaCry and was the gunman on the grassy knoll.
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The latest Zoom stuff is the tip of the iceberg. The researcher was close to finding a really bad RCE... others have found it. Details in this week's show, which is about five hours away. I won't spill the actual bug because it's absolutely trivial to exploit.
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Just a reminder that it's 18 months and four days until John McAfee eats his dick on live television when bitcoin fails to hit USD$1m.
Save the date!
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Happy first birthday to this guy.
And I just realised I need to put a new battery in that clock.
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The exchange losing millions because it was doing client side validation of balances is probably my favourite cryptocurrency fuckup to date.
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This tweet has never been so relevant
hey youtube welcome to my hacking tutorial, today we're gonna hack.... the nsa
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I’m about to put on some old clothes and a rubber glove and manually unclog our sewage overflow relief gully. I will probably wind up covered in buckets of shit, but at least I’m not a CSO, sysadmin or product security lead this weekend. Phew!
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I keep reading about everyone hoarding toilet paper because of Coronavirus. Make the switch, people... you’re only one step up from using leaves! It’s 2020 for chrissakes! WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!
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Just a reminder, there’s no Risky Biz weekly show this week or next. Mrs Biz, Baby biz and I are on a camping trip. Lovely sunset tonight!
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If I were American this would really, really piss me off.
Giuliani said he had exactly the same treatment as the president.
“Exactly the same. His doctor sent me here, talked me into it. I didn’t really want to go to the hospital and he said don’t be stupid, we can get it over in three days if we send you to the hospital.”
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This reminds me of how I felt in 2003 when the USA invaded Iraq, another pointless bloodbath designed to satiate one man's ego. Younger folk might not realise this, but plenty of people were skeptical about the WMD narrative before a single American set foot there.
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A writer has a conversation with a planned parenthood chatbot, doesn’t know it’s a bot, then writes it up as an “undercover” expose... then the comments go apeshit because it’s a all a satanic/communist plot. 😂😭
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It’s worth remembering that 99% of what most people read about the Snowden leaks was filtered through Glen Groonwerld’s galaxy brain first. You know, the good faith truth-teller who’s great at context.
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That's exactly what I thought when I saw this news. The USA has just designated gun stores as critical infrastructure, while we're here saying "You know what? Probably a bad time to be selling guns. No more guns. At all. Sorry."
The Victorian Government has introduced a ban on the sale of firearms and ammunition to recreational and sporting shooters.
This is going to make some people, who live across the Pacifc, quite upset.
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Someone just pointed out that in this week’s podcast I referred to
@Leakissner
as "she", when they are in fact a they. I actually knew that but my brain just failed me in the moment. My sincere apologies to Lea for the slip. It won't happen again.
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Just pulled the trigger on rooftop solar... 10kw, should be installed in a few weeks. It'll power our house and our new car... the one made by the annoying man. Feels good!
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The final tweet. I LOVE it that Chris went down swinging. I've gotten to know him a little over the last year and a half, and yeah, he takes his job and mission extremely seriously. The USA has lost a true public servant.
ICYMI: On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, "in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent."
#Protect2020
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This is my favourite story of the week, no doubt.
Someone owned one of those companies that offers "website trust seals" and used it to... deliver malware via js. Like.. via the seal widget thing.
Delicious.
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Merry Christmas everyone! I’ll confess to getting a bit emo watching my daughter hop on her first bicycle and ride it down the hallway. The house of biz wishes you all a safe and joyous day!
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