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

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