I saw Trump is considering replicating Australia’s superannuation scheme in the USA… that would be a massive win for Americans. It’s a terrific scheme and you’d be nuts not to copy it. America’s current social security scheme is insane

I am currently fixated on the idea of trading in my Supra for a Toyota Century... this is concerning

@zkorman.com I’m watching your reviews drop on the other site… feels a bit like this

Great to be in Melbourne for the day!

@patrick.risky.biz Loved the show last Wed. Quick update on the WSUS situation, a lot of business networks (most?) use Intune / 3P MDM for Windows updates, not WSUS. Win Update for Business, now Autopatch lets you create rings / groups etc. with the binaries coming from MS, not WSUS.

A very good Risky.biz podcast this week on Peter Williams, the former Trenchant employee accused of stealing trade secrets (👀). @patrick.risky.biz says Williams is ex-ASD (Australian NSA), which declined to comment to us when we reached out as it was a "matter for law enforcement." risky.biz/RB812/

Got a "on background and not for attribution no comment" reply from an Australian government media spokesperson today. That's a new one! The OFFICIAL stamp at the top of the email just makes it funnier. #yourtaxesatwork

Yup! Timeline as I understand it: 9th August 2025: compromise detected internally, per [0] 19th August 2025: announcement that BIG-IP NEXT EOL [0] www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

I published a Wide World of Cyber edition today about the f5 incident with @stamos.org and @thekrebscycle.bsky.social No video for this episode… our video platform is AWS dependent 🤦‍♂️ risky.biz/WWC11/

Commander Cheeseman can eat ass. His March for Australia angels spent at least a part of the morning staring down my (tiny, brown) wife at a train station in Brisbane today. I’m not defending the rock chuckers in Melbourne but give me a break… praise for white Australia rally participants? 🤮

If you're at the cybercon thingy in Melbourne today or tomorrow the KnocKnoc folks have a little babby booth... drop in and say hi! Tell 'em Pat sent you!

Whoops! Fixing now, sorry everyone

I traded in my Prado for an eight year old fancy Land Cruiser (Lexus LX). I’m using it as god intended, not as a mall crawler Time off was fun, back in the office today!

Australia!

I think we're gonna need another podcast feed/channel -- demand for sponsorship is far, far outstripping supply. From good companies/vendors, too. I'm thinking a features channel with a CISO focus could work nicely. Does anyone have feelings about this idea?

Mrs Business is out with her friends tonight so our daughter scheduled tonight’s activities

Land of the free!* *conditions apply

We feel guilty about it, but we do enjoy a bit of chaos

This week's show is up! We talk about the Shai-Hulud npm worm, the Great Firewall of China leak, Trump's TikTok TACO, Land Rover's cyberpocalypse and a US senator crashing out over Kerberoasting (?!) AUDIO: risky.biz/RB807/ VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCR...

We are so sorry

If anyone is looking for a cheap business class ticket from Australia to the USA and back, I still have my ticket from my aborted RSA trip in April and I can do a name change... let's MAKE A DEAL!

Someone is using AI to make these videos of well known Australian neo Nazis and it’s very funny

Really enjoyed this (sponsored) chat between Casey Ellis and Keith Hoodlet (Trail of Bits) about why prompt injection is an intractable problem. Published into the Risky Bulletin podcast feed: risky.biz/RBNEWSS198/

Decent likeness!

WOW the resemblance is uncanny

I'm having an extremely wholesome midlife crisis (learning how to sail boats)

Hesgarth...

The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back, featuring @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, @stamos.org and yours truly! AUDIO: risky.biz/WWC10/ VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8B7...

Today’s Risky Bulletin podcast is up: (We publish these 3x a week, take a listen if you haven’t already) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

VFS Global is by a huge margin the most comically incompetent organisation I have ever dealt with. The mind boggles.

This week’s show is up! Mary Ann Davidson is out as Oracle CSO, Russia is degrading WhatsApp and Telegram voice calls, the USA claims the UK backed down on Apple crypto, and someone made a bad knockoff of the Tea app, for men, that also leaked data: risky.biz/RB803 youtu.be/1oGbizhqV28

MAGA be like...

Congrats to all the CyberCX folks who are getting paid… it’s great to see a happy ending on this one. Stoked for you all!

@patrick.risky.biz @metlstorm.risky.biz You've been talking about SVGs in recent episodes, years ago I wrote this blog post and created a lab to play with the various ways you could use them. digi.ninja/blog/svg_xss... svg.digi.ninja

Giving my 4yo a cuddle last night and told him he's a great kid. He says "thanks dad, you're a great adult"

The discourse around AI reminds me a bit of when Wikipedia was the new thing that was going to fill children’s heads with rubbish and bad info. Wikipedia isn’t perfect, but things didn’t pan out the way the doomsayers said it would. I suspect AI will be similar

The new deep state is just Laura Loomer’s Twitter account

The situation in Gaza is indefensible... absolutely awful

@patrick.risky.biz I know I'm late to the meme post. But you went on vacation and SharePoint collapsed and the National Guard got hacked, it's every single time at this point. Next time Risky Biz goes on vacation I'm just turning off all electronics.

Risky Business is back! In today's show we talk about everyone's Sharepoints getting owned, Microsoft's using Chinese support techs in classified US DoD systems (wut) and more I also explain why Crowdstrike can "gargle my coconuts" VID: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3q... AUDIO: risky.biz/RB799

I'm back on deck after a lovely trip to Fiji. On the way home I sat next to a guy in his 50s who'd never flown on a jet before. He was so blown away... we forget that jet travel is magical. I helped him fill in his arrival card. His last name is Whippy. Mr Whippy! From Fiji! On a jet!

This is the same guy who unilaterally announced a review of AUKUS without consulting anyone first. He also wrote a lengthy diatribe in 2022 about how the United States and Europe don’t share the same values when Europeans were horrified by the Dobbs decision

-Hafnium APT member arrested in Italy -VenusTech and Salt Typhoon leaks -Russian drone volunteer group gets hacked -Satanlock shuts down and leaks all victim data. -Browser extensions hijacked for web scraping botnet Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS449/ Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...

A flurry of nonsensical tariff announcements right after BBB passes. A $45b budget for building detention camps? Forget about that! Look at my 50% copper tariff and poorly written letter to Japan instead! He’s good at this

As a lot of you know I've been doing a lot of work with Knocknoc... we published a demo of their tech to our YouTube channel yesterday. It's a simple overview that also shows off the new (very simple) identity aware reverse proxy feature... it's very cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnNX...

I don’t post to Twitter and haven’t for a while, but still go there sometimes. It is absolutely swimming with Nazis. And yeah, if I have any followers on here from Wiz, is this really how you want your ads presented?

Well, yeah. We're going to let our "kernel bug" description of Crowdstrike's mass murder of Windows systems stand

A Crowdstrike PR exec has written to us (twice) to demand we change some phrasing in one of our newsletters. We said a bug in their kernel driver caused their meltdown when it was actually a bad update file that caused a kernel panic. Huge mistake!

How long before Apple introduces a border crossing mode into its products? (All data pushed to cloud, restore after crossing.)

I am pleased to inform you all of the VERY IMPORTANT NEWS that my 7yo daughter won first prize for her year level in her school’s talent show. It was her MAGNIFICENT gymnastics routine that did it. Thank you for your attention in this matter!