Risky Business #674 -- "Free money" exploit spawns $150m blockchain feeding frenzy

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:


Taiwan tensions fail to conjure the cyber apocalypse
Crypto bridge exploit results in $150m feeding frenzy
Chainalysis evidence to be challenged in court
Post-quantum NIST candidate algorithm gets smoked
DSIRF’s Russia links
Much, much more


This week’s sponsor interview is with Jerrod Chong from Yubico. He’s joining the show to talk about why consumer-focussed implementations of Webauthn like Apple’s Passkeys aren’t a great enterprise solution. …

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