Risky Business #543 -- NYTimes blames NSA for Baltimore hacks, Assange faces espionage charges

Adam Boileau couldn’t make it this week, but that’s ok because we’ve got former Facebook CSO and current Stanford adjunct professor Alex Stamos filling in for him in today’s show. He’ll be talking through all the week’s security news, including: NYTimes report blames Baltimore ransomware attack on leaked NSA exploit Assange to face espionage charges, extradition fight looming SanboxEscaper just keeps dropping those 0days Fury over Facebook’s response to doctored Pelosi video Much, much more This week’s sponsor interview with David Warburton of F5 Networks. You know F5 as a blinky-light box manufacturer. Load balancers, SSL termination, that sort of stuff. Not exactly a growth industry at the moment, so they’re pivoting. They’ve dropped $670m on NGINX – f5 now owns the NGINX company – and they’re making all sorts of moves in the appsec space. That interview is mostly about F5’s business, but I found it interesting because what do you do when you’re an $8bn company that makes data-centre equipment and that industry starts going into decline? Links to everything discussed are below, and you can follow Patrick or Alex on Twitter if that’s your thing.