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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dissect a recent Chinese CERT report that the NSA had hacked China’s national time keeping service.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 MSS Weixin post 
 
 CN-CERT technical analysis
 
 Global Times on X
 
 BTN110: The NSA's nine to five hacking campaign

Between Two Nerds: NSA gets its mojo back!

A bug in Microsoft WSUS is under attack, Thailand revokes the citizenship of scam-linked businessman, the US charges high tech poker cheat, and Iran’s top hacking school is breached.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Russian bill would require researchers to report bugs to the FSB

Risky Bulletin: WSUS bug under attack

In this sponsored podcast Patrick Gray chats with Knocknoc CEO Adam Pointon about why true Zero Trust architectures never really got there. Spinning up ZTNA access to core applications and slapping SSO prompts on everything else is great, but if we’re honest, it’s not really Zero Trust. So, how and why did we get here?

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: iOS 26 change deletes clues of old spyware infections

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how America can better use its private sector to scale up offensive cyber activities, including espionage and disruption operations. Involving it to tackle ransomware and cryptocurrency scammers makes a lot of sense.

They also talk about how the ransomware ecosystem is splintering, and one operator’s relatively quick journey from being an affiliate to a platform operator.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 From Chaos to Capability: Building the US Market for Offensive Cyber
 
 Devman's RaaS Launch

Srsly Risky Biz: Hacking for Godot

A worm hits VS Code users, F5 was breached via its own devices back in 2023, Korea Telecom’s CEO says he’ll resign following a recent security breach, and the Boy Scouts will award cybersecurity merit badges.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Clever worm hits the DevOps scene

Risky Bulletin: Clever worm hits the VS Code scene

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk to Joe Devanny, senior lecturer from King’s College London, all about India’s missing cyber power. It has all the ingredients to become a cyber superpower, but so far, hasn’t shown the motivation.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 Interpreting India's Cyber Statecraft by Joe Devanny and Arthur Laudrain
 
 Dr Joeseph Devanny
 
 Sponsor interview: How AI turbocharges SOC analysts h

Between Three Nerds: India, the sleeping cyber superpower

A Romanian inmate hacks his prison’s IT system, hackers leak the data of DHS and DOJ employees, classified material was stolen from John Bolton’s AOL account and authorities seize a SIM farm in Latvia.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Prisoner hacks prison IT system, goes wild!

Risky Bulletin: Prisoner hacks his prison IT system, goes wild!

In this sponsor interview, Edward Wu, CEO and founder of Dropzone AI talks to Tom Uren about a study that measured how AI practically helps SOC analysts triage real-world problems. Analysts were faster, more accurate and got less tired with AI assistance. Edward thinks the technology won’t replace human analysts, but will speed their skill development.

 
 
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 The Cloud Security Alliance AI SOC study

Risky Bulletin: F5 says an APT stole source code, vulnerability reports

In this edition of Between Two Nerds, Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how the teenage hacking groups Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and Shiny Hunters are collaborating. They examine whether this is bad news and what will it take to slow these wrecking crews down. Plus, how teenage hackers are like goldfish.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 The Register, Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating
 
 Between Two Nerds episode 103
 
 Sponsor interview with Brett Winterford from Okta

Between Two Nerds: Teenage hackers are like goldfish

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