Risky Business #627 -- USG claws back Colonial pipeline ransom money

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: US Government claws back Colonial ransom bitcoin. We don’t think the FBI acted alone. Meet an0m, the cute little app for planning crimes that drinks milkshakes. Ransomware stuff, duh. Trickbot developer arrested in Florida Supreme court upends CFAA “exceed authorised access” element Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Datadog. Michael Yamnitsky will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about cloud security posture management. DataDog is launching a product in that space, so we’ll be hearing about the types of issues CSPM products can help to unearth. If you book a demo of their product they’ll send you a free Datadog tee-shirt. The link is in the show notes. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.