Risky Business #671 -- The case for an American-owned NSO Group

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and guest cohost Dmitri Alperovitch discuss the week’s security news, including: Why an American defence contractor acquiring NSO Group would be a nonproliferation win A look at Microsoft’s botched macro measures iPhone’s Lockdown Mode Ukraine goes big on Yubikeys Aerojet Rocketdyne pays millions over poor security controls, CISO whistleblower gets bag of cash Much, much more This week’s show is sponsored by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy, joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about changes he’s observed in the criminal ecosystem. NOTE: This podcast contains an error. We say that iOS Lockdown Mode prevents users from using an MDM profile on their devices. It doesn’t, it just stops new MDM profiles from being loaded while in Lockdown Mode, so corporate users will be able to turn it on just fine. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Dmitri on Twitter if that’s your thing.