Risky Business

This week we’ll be chatting with Andy Greenberg from Wired about his cover story for that magazine. He travelled to Ukraine back in March to research his story on Russian attacks against the Ukrainian power network. He joins us this week to share the insights he gleaned during his travels.

This week’s show is brought to you by SensePost.

SensePost are based in South Africa and England, but they are very well known for offering training courses at Black Hat. This year will be the 17th year they’ve run training courses there… as can be expected their brand new devops security course has gone absolutely gangbusters in terms of registrations this year, but they’re also offering a bunch of other courses. They’ll be joining us to chat about trends in training in this week’s sponsor interview.

Adam Boileau, as always, drops by for the week’s news segment. You can add Patrick, or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes are below…

Show notes Complex Petya-Like Ransomware Outbreak Worse than WannaCry | Threatpost | The first stop for security news A new ransomware outbreak similar to WCry is shutting down computers worldwide | Ars Technica Pnyetya: Yet Another Ransomware Outbreak – the grugq – Medium Hacker Behind Massive Ransomware Outbreak Can't Get Emails from Victims Who Paid - Motherboard Is This Ukrainian Company The Source Of The 'NotPetya' Ransomware Explosion? Petya Ransomware Attack – What’s Known | MalwareTech Maersk says global IT breakdown caused by cyber attack | Reuters Honda shuts down factory after finding NSA-derived Wcry in its networks | Ars Technica Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware | Ars Technica Obama reportedly ordered implants to be deployed in key Russian networks | Ars Technica Russia struck at election systems and data of 39 US states | Ars Technica Republican Data Broker Exposes 198M Voter Records | Threatpost | The first stop for security news Al Jazeera Says It’s Under a Massive 'Cyber Attack' - Motherboard Mexican Journalists, Lawyers Focus of Government Spyware | Threatpost | The first stop for security news Russia's Cyberwar on Ukraine Is a Blueprint For What's to Come | WIRED Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting | Ars Technica U.S. Cyberweapons, Used Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against ISIS - The New York Times AES-256 keys sniffed in seconds using €200 of kit a few inches away • The Register How the CIA infects air-gapped networks | Ars Technica Check Point says Fireball malware hit 250 million; Microsoft says no | Ars Technica Conviction for LA Times Hacking Helper Upheld British Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking US Military Satellite Phone And Messaging System - Motherboard Some beers, anger at former employer, and root access add up to a year in prison | Ars Technica Microsoft bringing EMET back as a built-in part of Windows 10 | Ars Technica Ohio Gov. Kasich’s website, dozens of others defaced using year-old exploit | Ars Technica China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens’ Faces - WSJ SensePost | Events | Blackhat USA - July 2017