Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free

Risky Biz

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free
• USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates
• Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom
• Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue
• We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

Show notes

• Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says
• US to ban Kaspersky Lab software nationwide later this year
• Cyberattack on CDK Global stymies work at car dealerships across US
• Almost 200 cancer operations postponed as ransomware group publishes London hospitals data
• UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft
• South Africa’s national health lab hit with ransomware attack amid mpox outbreak
• Ransomware victims are becoming less likely to pay up | Cybersecurity Dive
• Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation | Reuters
• Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag | TechCrunch
• Two bluetooth vulnerabilities in Windows
• Thread on reversing the patch
• Basic concept for the latest windows wifi driver CVE