Listen to the Risky.Biz podcast on 'Stuxnet, the Snowden leaks, and how Infosec has matured'

I’m making an effort in 2024 to broaden my media format intake. I’m more of a reader. Articles go at your own pace. You can read faster than people talk, skip the boring bits, skim, search for the interesting bits, etc. Youtube is worse than I remember old fashioned terrestrial TV being when it comes to ads and not enough good content has found it’s way onto the likes of Peertube. Podcasts are all over the place, though, I more or lesss had my fill of BBC Radio 4 and Times Radio over the course of a pandemic lockdown and now a mostly WFH lifestyle.

A good podcast to have on the regular is Riskey.Biz, a long running online show hosted by Patrick Gray that’s covered cybersecurity from all the angles over the years. This latest episode is a good one to start on if you’ve never given it a go. In it, Tom Uren and The Grugq chat through the changes the information security industry has gone through over the years with my work colleague Martijn Grooten, who has been involved in InfoSec in one way or another for more than a decade, and has earned the description of “anti-virus veteran.” This episode covers huge shifts in atitude changes around malware investigation, disclosure and even development and how malware analysis hase moved into the more geopolitical realm (naming state actors responsible, etc.)

Martijn also ventured into e-newsletter territory, and you should check it out if you want to keep up with these things in a way that’s not just written for other nerds: Travels in Digital Security.