Brian A. Coleman, Senior Director for Insider Risk, Information Security, and Digital Forensics at Pfizer, talks to us about how his security team is experimenting with AI to improve their insider risk detection systems. The system Brian and his team put together can detect sensitive information or documents handled by unauthorized accounts, but can also spot documents moving around and ending up where they shouldn’t be - either by accident, malice, or as a result of a security breach.

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A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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• Risky Bulletin: The growing influencer problem to national security

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the likelihood that the incoming Trump administration will end the ‘dual-hat’ arrangement where a single officer leads both US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. This would result in Cyber Command outranking NSA and could prioritise cyber disruption operations over intelligence collection. That would be a bad outcome.

They also talk about how changes to SEC disclosure rules have led to an outpouring of corporate drivel and how WhatsApp became an everything app.

This episode is also availble on Youtube.

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A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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• Risky Bulletin: CISA sent 2,100+ pre-ransomware alerts this year

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the evolution of Russian cyber operations during its invasion of Ukraine.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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• Risky Bulletin: Secret ransomware campaign targeted DrayTek routers for a year

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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• Risky Bulletin: Germany's BSI sinkhole BADBOX malware traffic

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the US Federal Communications Commission effort to get US telcos to lift their security game and compares it to UK and Australian efforts. The US is very late to the game, and improving security is a huge job.

They also talk about Chinese cyber actors continuing to pointlessly sow chaos and how an influence campaign in Romania is an absolute disaster for TikTok.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

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• Risky Biz News: Improperly patched Cleo bug exploited in the wild

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how states have very different approaches to controlling cyber operations.

At the very beginning they refer to this Microsoft Threat Intelligence post.

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• Frequent freeloader part I: Secret Blizzard compromising Storm-0156 infrastructure for espionage

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

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• Risky Biz News: Greece is close to burying its Predatorgate scandal