Risky Business #838 -- GitHub investigates possible breach

About this episode

The episode discusses recent cybersecurity news including a possible GitHub breach and vulnerabilities in Bitlocker.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: GitHub announced a possible breach CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN So. Many. Patches. Polish Government urges officials to ditch Signal for mSzyfr Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder, Haroon Meer, is this week’s sponsor guest. He joined James Wilson to talk about how doing “the basics” in security isn’t trivially easy. This episode is also available on YouTube.

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau, James Wilson

Guest: Haroon Meer

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• data breach
• vulnerabilities
• patch management
• government security

Keywords

• GitHub
• CISA
• Bitlocker
• vulnerabilities
• security patches
• mSzyfr
• Thinkst Canary

Sponsors

Thinkst Canary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub, CISA, Polish Government

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